How Would Our Favourite Cartoons React to Trump’s Presidency?

For many of us, our ultimate insight into American culture is through film and television. In particular, cartoons. These timeless and often stateless concepts reflect and adapt to their international viewership often over a long period of time. The classic the Simpsons is the longest running American sitcom ever, and as such has offered its own alternative history and commentary on many world events.

Many of these have made hard-punching and entertaining episodes directed at Donald Trump. In addition to this, we consider in slight fan-fiction style just what those writers might be considering for the animated reaction.

Family Guy

“As long as we’re voting for dumb loudmouths, can I get an Emmy?” This was part of a caption accompanying this graphic distributed to voters last May.

But now that efforts have failed – “This sucks more than that time when..” At least Carter Pewterschmidt is happy having had a significant stake in Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. While Quagmire is pleased about the loss of women’s rights, Cleveland and Joe have become marginalised.

Peter voted for Trump and still insists on justifying every executive order. Meg is concerned about the controls on abortion but no one listens. Stewie is fuming that he was more than capable of winning the election seeing as Trump did. Brian is writing a dystopian play. He worries if he’ll get to finish it.

The Simpsons

This iconic series has been suggested as a conspiracy predicting Trump in a 2000 episode ‘Bart to the Future’. Networks have picked up on Youtubers’ versions of a 2015 short ‘Trumptastic Voyage’ spliced into the episode. The original episode was more to do with Trump’s earlier 2000 candidacy.

Now though, Lisa has been in tears. Lenny and Karl have come to the agreement that they probably shouldn’t spend so much time together in case people get the wrong idea. Homer may have fallen for the campaign messages but now realises he was dependent on Obamacare.

Monty Burns is understandably thrilled, although he can no longer outsource labour abroad.

Futurama

Having last screened in 2013, Futurama hasn’t had much of a say in the campaign. However, Billy West – voice actor of a number of the cast – did compellingly read a lengthy catalogue of Trump’s quotes as the caricature Zapp Brannigan!

But what do we think is going on in a thousand years?

To quote Bender Rodriguez ‘I’m Mexican and I find that offensive!’ On the other hand, he sees the overall situation as beneficial to his ultimate aim of killing all humans. Nevertheless, it is clear that his days as the ‘Gender Bender’ are long past.

Professor Farnsworth is folding his delivery company now that the market for doomsday devices has rocketed. Zapp Brannigan is in an ecstasy of chauvinistic misogyny and nationalism. Kif has been roped into serving two velour-clad masters now as they hype up each others’ egos. Whatever happened to Nixon?

South Park

South Park sparked controversy (as if!?) in September 2015 when a Canadian Donald Trump, building a wall to keep out the Americans, was violently murdered.

Since then, the latest season has closely followed the campaign with candidates ‘Giant Douche’ and ‘Turd Sandwich’. Allegedly, Stone and Parker had to rewrite the episode anticipating a Hillary victory to the aired reality entitled ‘Oh Jeez’.

Are we due a remake of creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s iconic ‘Team America- World Police’? This Blair-Bush era satire captures the precise intervention policy Theresa May and Donald Trump have committed to end. However, given how little seems to have changed in the thirteen years since the film’s release we can only hope the strings don’t get tangled now.

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