Our Cartoon President

Name: Our Cartoon President
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Released: February 11, 2018
Rating: 42

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Series Details & Credits

SHOWTIME | Release Date: February 11, 2018

Summary: The animated comedy about the 45th president and his White House was executive produced by Stephen Colbert, R.J. Fried, and Chris Licht.

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation

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S3:E18. Election Day
Air Date: November 8, 2020
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S3:E18. Election Day
Air Date: November 8, 2020
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S3:E17. Closing Arguments
Air Date: November 1, 2020

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Feb 7, 2018

Season 1 Review: The first two episodes hit some comedic sweet spots, both visually and verbally. But if the government again shuts down over DACA, Colbert and his writers will be increasingly hard-pressed to find the funny. Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Feb 9, 2018

Season 1 Review: Our Cartoon President excels at mocking media--be it “Fox & Friends” or Rachel Maddow--and offers brilliant glimpses of the inner turmoil and moral compromise of the people around Trump. ... But the show has no idea what to do with Trump himself. Read full review

Rob Owen

Feb 9, 2018

Season 1 Review: The series, a purported behind-the-scenes look at the Trump administration, has its intermittent funny moments, and the character designs of the people who populate Trump’s cabinet are entertaining. But the story that’s grafted onto the first episode — Trump has to find an anniversary gift for Melania — is sitcom-trite and reminiscent of the old Comedy Central series “That’s My Bush.” Read full review

Jen Chaney

Feb 8, 2018

Season 1 Review: “It’s like everyone is you,” cartoon Melania says. “They’re like, ‘Bigly!’ ‘Tremendous!’” That comment describes precisely what’s wrong with Our Cartoon President, a depiction of what goes on inside the White House that’s exaggerated a tad for laughs, yet still feels remarkably tepid compared to what we’ve already read in Fire and Fury. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Feb 13, 2018

Season 1 Review: In ordinary times a person could argue that there’s always room for another comedian to skewer our nation’s top windbag, but these are not ordinary times. And this makes Trump character’s joke about people “kinda [wanting] to see what was going to happen” with his presidency seeing that “it’s happening more than you could have ever imagined” simultaneously bland and depressing. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Feb 9, 2018

Season 1 Review: Our Cartoon President is a fuzzy and facile animated sitcom composed of reductive, occasionally lightly amusing, characterizations of the bumbling ineptitude associated with the Trump White House. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Jan 29, 2018

Season 1 Review: Much like the Cheeto-in-Chief himself, Showtime’s edgeless animated comedy pays lip service to its most troubling issue before dodging the problem in favor of inane gibberish. Read full review

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noNmae

May 21, 2019

Fun to watch, but nothing outstanding.
Show doesn't really take itself seriously but does a great job at keeping you entertained. Don't expect it to be something like southpark...it's more similar to American Dad(but American Dad is better :D).

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LuciusMcGibbon

May 12, 2019

It's no wonder the metascore is so low for this show considering maybe 40% of the American viewing public is going to hate it on principle. So don't let the numbers fool you. I'm a Canadian watching this administration from the outside through the lens of common sense; there's plenty ofIt's no wonder the metascore is so low for this show considering maybe 40% of the American viewing public is going to hate it on principle. So don't let the numbers fool you. I'm a Canadian watching this administration from the outside through the lens of common sense; there's plenty of absurdity watching your actual president in action, and this show nails it down more often than not.

Basically, most of the jokes land simply by highlight the unusually short distance between the source material and the cartoonishly surreal. It's ham-fisted at times, and the caricatures, like Colbert's monologues, are not loving at all. But it also doesn't feel too overboard, if only because the real president is kind of overboard by default.

Every goofy thing the cartoon president (and all the other familiar faces) says and does just sounds like the real thing only turned up to 11. It's just Donald J Trump meets Homer J Simpson. And it works, generally by making you shake your head and chortle at the fact that real life isn't too far off. Lines like "I've lost two wives, so if you think about it, I've been twice as devastated as you." You almost feel like the real guy just hasn't said them *yet.*

If you're a Trump devotee, the only good news here is that a) the Democrats aren't exactly spared, albeit barely ever showing up, and b) cartoon T never crosses over into abject evil (the show actually steers clear of overly negative imagery.) But there's no way those two things will get you to sit through this show for more than 2 minutes. You'll write it off as some sort of hateful mindlessness, but unfortunately that's because you've desensitized yourself to the objective absurdity of this presidency.

This show is obviously written by people with no interest in making him look good, but the thing is a chunk of this show could easily have come from the mind of unbiased observers with an eye for the completely ludicrous. Which we have no shortage of these days, sorry to say.

And cartoon Hannity is uproarious.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

42

Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: January 26, 2020
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  S3:E18. Election Day
  Air Date: November 8, 2020
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  S3:E18. Election Day
  Air Date: November 8, 2020
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  S3:E17. Closing Arguments
  Air Date: November 1, 2020
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  S3:E17. Closing Arguments
  Air Date: November 1, 2020
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  S3:E16. Senate Control
  Air Date: October 25, 2020
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  S3:E16. Senate Control
  Air Date: October 25, 2020
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  S3:E15. Wartime President
  Air Date: October 18, 2020
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  S3:E15. Wartime President
  Air Date: October 18, 2020
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  S3:E14. Hiding Joe Biden
  Air Date: October 11, 2020
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  S3:E14. Hiding Joe Biden
  Air Date: October 11, 2020
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  S3:E13. Madam Vice President
  Air Date: October 4, 2020
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  S3:E13. Madam Vice President
  Air Date: October 4, 2020
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  S3:E12. Debate Prep
  Air Date: September 27, 2020
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  S3:E12. Debate Prep
  Air Date: September 27, 2020
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  S3:E11. Party Unity
  Air Date: September 20, 2020
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  S3:E11. Party Unity
  Air Date: September 20, 2020
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  S3:E10. Coronavirus
  Air Date: September 13, 2020
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  S3:E10. Coronavirus
  Air Date: September 13, 2020
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  S3:E9. Secret Money
  Air Date: March 22, 2020
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  S3:E8. G-7
  Air Date: March 15, 2020
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  S3:E7. Warren vs. Facebook
  Air Date: March 8, 2020
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  S3:E6. The Endorsement
  Air Date: March 1, 2020
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  S3:E5. Hillary 2020
  Air Date: February 23, 2020
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  S3:E4. Fox News
  Air Date: February 16, 2020
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  S3:E3. Election Security
  Air Date: February 9, 2020
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  S3:E2. The Economy
  Air Date: February 2, 2020
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  S3:E1. Impeachment
  Air Date: January 26, 2020
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: May 12, 2019
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 11, 2018