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First, before there was Election, there was a Peanuts election.
You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
I love this so much, and there are so many familiar political themes. Voter intimidation, polling data, campaign gaffes, the risk of bringing matters of faith into your rhetoric, etc. And the ending is classic, where the newly-elected class president goes to tell the principal how he's going to run the school, only to find out that he's subordinate who must run everything by her first.
This was a landmark short in a couple of ways, marking the first television appearance of Woodstock and the first appearance of Snoopy as Joe Cool (with an awesome theme song!).
And, in case you haven't had enough of Richard Nixon :P ...
Dick
When this arrived in my mailbox via Netflix, I couldn't resist saying, "I've got Dick in my box!" :P
*ahem*
Not the most intellectual movie in the world, but it's fun, especially if you've just watched one of the other Nixon-era movies and know some of the names and details ("You've been talking for eighteen and a half minutes!"). I concur with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
divinemum that the most hilarious bits are the Woodward and Bernstein scenes. Woodward is the "straight man" to Bernstein's short, elaborately coifed, faux ladies' man. And their strut through the Washington Post office is perfect.
You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown
I love this so much, and there are so many familiar political themes. Voter intimidation, polling data, campaign gaffes, the risk of bringing matters of faith into your rhetoric, etc. And the ending is classic, where the newly-elected class president goes to tell the principal how he's going to run the school, only to find out that he's subordinate who must run everything by her first.
This was a landmark short in a couple of ways, marking the first television appearance of Woodstock and the first appearance of Snoopy as Joe Cool (with an awesome theme song!).
And, in case you haven't had enough of Richard Nixon :P ...
Dick
When this arrived in my mailbox via Netflix, I couldn't resist saying, "I've got Dick in my box!" :P
*ahem*
Not the most intellectual movie in the world, but it's fun, especially if you've just watched one of the other Nixon-era movies and know some of the names and details ("You've been talking for eighteen and a half minutes!"). I concur with
divinemum that the most hilarious bits are the Woodward and Bernstein scenes. Woodward is the "straight man" to Bernstein's short, elaborately coifed, faux ladies' man. And their strut through the Washington Post office is perfect.