HAIL SKITLANDIA FOR "CHILDREN IN NEED"

I consider the "Time Crash" episode of 'Doctor Who' to be canon; it adhered to the mythology of its parent series. However, there were a couple of other visits to TV shows during the 'Children In Need' telethon that I would relegate to Skitlandia, the sketch comedy dimension of the TV Universe.

There were of course some shows which just "donated" some of their stars to come out on stage and sing (or in the horrible case of the 'HollyOaks' boys, lip-synch) or to be presenters, like 'Holby City'.

But others provided filmed bits that would have to be relegated to Skitlandia to become the representatives of the original shows there. (Or, in the case of the 'EastEnders' musical number, add to its already existing collection.)

The 'Hotel Babylon' sketch was reminiscent of the "crossover" between 'Alias' and 'Columbo' during the celebration for ABC's fiftieth anniversary. It used the original actors, on established sets, but it was all played for laughs.

The segment featured the cast of 'Hotel Babylon' as they awaited the new manager of the hotel. And this is why the segment now resides in Skitlandia: the new manager was Sybil Fawlty of 'Fawlty Towers'!

Sybil proceed to sack the established staff (Charlie Edwards, Tony Casemore, Anna Thornton-Wilton, etc.) and replaced them with her hand-picked choices - all from classic TV sitcoms like hers:

Captain Peacock of 'Are you Being Served?'

Yvette Carte-Blanche from 'Allo! Allo!' (A bit of time-travel there?)
Dorian Green from 'Birds Of A Feather'
Ted Bovis, back from Camp Maplins in 'Hi-De-Hi'
and
June Medford of 'Terry And June'
(Although I would have preferred seeing June Whitfield as Edina's mother from 'Absolutely Fabulous'.)

I've been looking for a video of the sketch online, and the nearest I came had already seen it removed from YouTube. The 'Children in Need' website offers it for a limited time, but only to visitors from the UK, apparently.

But I did find this archeaological treasure of a frame grab:

For the contribution from 'Robin Hood', the scene took us back to Nottingham Castle in 1192, just after tea-time. Maid Marian bravely faced off against Guy of Gisbourne to save the life of one whom she loved. And the object of their contention?

Pudsey, the bandaged yellow teddy bear who's the mascot/symbol of the Children in Need cause.

Within the context of Toobworld, Pudsey must have fallen through a time warp from 2007. And in Skitlandia, Maid Marian held the power of serlinguism - able to talk through the dimensional veil to the audience at home in the Trueniverse.

This latest edition of 'Robin Hood' doesn't even appear in Earth Prime-Time, by the way. It had to be shipped off to some alternate dimension - like the Michael Praed and Dick Gautier versions before it - because the 'Robin Hood' of Toobworld is the 1950s version starring Richard Greene.

Even so, there is only one Skitlandia - no matter from what dimension a sketch is spoofing a show, it ends up in the same world. The splainin for changes in appearance in particular characters who are popular in comedy sketches - American Presidents, for example - is that the DNA for Skitlandians is highly unstable and malleable. But that's over-analyzing what are just comic goofs all dumped into the same world.....

From 'Robin Hood' - Guy of Gisbourne, Maid Marian... and Pudsey

The cast of 'EastEnders' revisited the Beatles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was about nine minutes worth of the various residents near Albert Square to sing various numbers while acting out 1960s psychedelic fantasies. Not only does it belong in Skitlandia, but I think they may have been visited by the musical demon Mr. Sweet from 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer'!
See it here!

And then there was a blipvert featuring the cast from the 'Life On Mars' sequel, 'Ashes To Ashes'. (I haven't seen this yet, as it won't be coming to BBC-America for a bit, so I can't say for certain it was supposed to be taking place after 'Ashes To Ashes'. I recognized the three blokes, including the great Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt, but I know the black girl in the car wasn't in the original series.)

The Gene Genie subjected the poor girl to a lot of white-knuckle driving through Manchester, although his two detectives in the back seat didn't seem to mind; they were used to it. And then he pulled over to hit up other drivers to make a donation into his Children in Need bucket. Once again, a time warp was involved, but it looks like Gene Hunt and his compatriots were catapulted forward into the present of Skitlandia from their past in the 1980s.

You can catch the blipvert here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4lvy1CEgKq0

And so it goes. The telethon raised more than 19 million pounds for the Children in Need charity, so those sketches went a long way in drumming up the pledges.

BCnU!
Toby OB

AS SEEN ON TV - THE MAD KING GEORGE

'JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL'

"ALL THE MIRRORS IN THE WORLD"

AS SEEN ON TV:

King George III

AS PORTRAYED BY:

Edward Petherbridge

LOCATION:

A BookWorld/Toobworld Borderland

From Wikipedia:

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738[a] – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empireuntil his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American Revolutionary War. Further wars against revolutionaryand Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

In the later part of his life, George III suffered from recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Although it has since been suggested that he suffered from the blood disease porphyria, the cause of his illness remains unknown. After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. On George III's death, the Prince Regent succeeded his father as George IV.

On television, George has been portrayed by:

TV MOVIES
Albert Lieven in the British drama "Rake's Progress" (1939) - As this was a TV movie, it can be relegated to any one of the many TV dimensions created for housing so many historical recastaways (like JFK, Lincoln, and Princess Di.)

EARTH PRIME-TIME
Eric Pohlmann in the drama 'The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh' (1963), part of the 'Disneyland' series, based on the novel by Russell Thorndike - This mini-series can stand on its own, and Pohlmann's King George III is the preception of the Mad King by other characters in the drama.  As such, it doesn't have to be relegated to a Borderland overlapping with BookWorld.  

Mark Hadlow in the comedy/action series 'Jack of All Trades', in the episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Opera" (2000) - This never actually took place.  The series was a dramatization of the ravings of a syphilitic old Jack Styles.

FRENCH TOOBWORLD
Jean Muselli in the French children's drama 'Le matelot de nulle part', based on the novel Israel Potter by Herman Melville - This takes place in an alternate Toobworld, one of the French Toobworlds.

SKITLANDIA
Graham Chapman in the BBC comedy series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus', in the episode "The Golden Age of Ballooning" (1974) - This is definitely set in Skitlandia.

Simon Farnaby in the British children's sketch show 'Horrible Histories' (2009 - 2015) - This is also located in Skitlandia, which has no alternate dimensions.  Everything in Skitlandia changes with every new comedy sketch broadcast.

MINI-SERIES

Many mini-series can be situated in the main Toobworld.  But when they are focused on the recastaways of historical figures without interaction with established TV characters, then they should be sent off to other TV dimensions which they can share with other such mini-series......

John Tillinger in the American drama series 'The Adams Chronicles' (1976) 

Nigel Davenport in the BBC drama series 'Prince Regent' (1979) 

Rhys McConnochie in the ABC miniseries 'Captain James Cook' (1987)

Nicholas Rowe in the miniseries 'Longitude' (2000)

Anthony Cochrane in the miniseries 'Benjamin Franklin' (2002)

Tom Hollander in the HBO miniseries 'John Adams' (2008)

DOOFUS TOOBWORLD
Gertan Klauber as a complete madman with a German accent in the final episode of the BBC comedy series 'Blackadder the Third' (1987) - This series takes place in the Doofus Toobworld, where historical figures suffer from a diminished intelligence.  Other series in ths dimension are 'The Secret Files Of Desmond Pfeiffer' and 'That's My Bush!'.

DOCU-TOOB
David Warner in the drama documentary 'The American Revolution' (1994) - As with Skitlandia, documentaries share the same dimension with the unseen characters voices ever changing.

THE TOONIVERSE

Charles Shaughnessy (voice) in the animated series Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (2002) - O'Bviously located in the Tooniverse.

THE BORDERLANDS
Edward Petherbridge in 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell', a TV adaptation of the novel of the same name (2015) - as mentioned above, this is a Borderland in which denizens of BookWorld appear in an alternate dimension of the TV Universe.

BCnU!

FRIDAY HALL OF FAMER, 10/26/18 - HERMAN MUNSTER (AGAIN)

We’re celebrating Halloween with our last two Friday Hall of Famers for the month.  Last week it was Barnabas Collins as a multi-dimensional and now we have perhaps one of the most prominent of TV characters connected to horror fiction, albeit in a twisted version.

Technically, Herman Munster is already a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  The Hall was “founded” in 1999, but before that I did write extensively about certain iconic characters who were certainly qualified to have already been in the Hall if it existed.

And among those were all of the Frankenstein creatures, including Herman Munster.  But unlike the others who were mostly one-shot appearances (and still growing!), Herman had quite the body of work. 

But before we get into that, let’s take a look at the “life” of Herman Munster in the main Toobworld:

From Wikipedia:
Herman Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom ‘The Munsters’, originally played by Fred Gwynne. The patriarch of the Munster household, Herman is an entity much like Frankenstein's monster, comparable to Lurch on the show's competitor, ‘The Addams Family’.

 In the context of the series, Herman was created in 1815 at the University of Heidelberg by Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Work on him was finally completed around 1850 (neither Lily nor Grandpa is quite sure when) along with his twin brother Charlie. Leaving (Germany) for Great Britain at a young age, Herman was adopted by the Munsters of Munster Hall, a noble family living in the fictitious Shroudshire, England.

At some point Herman moved to Transylvania (a region in Hungary, from 1920 part of Romania), where he met Lily Dracula. In 1865 (technically at the age of 15, but physically older) Herman married Lily, and eventually the couple and Grandpa (Lily's father) moved to America, where Herman joined the U.S. Army, fighting in World War II.  In episode 34, Grandpa says that it was thanks to Herman that he was able to leave Transylvania and have a better life in America.

Here are the credits which cemented Herman’s claims to be in the TVXOHOF as a citizen of Earth Prime-Time:

‘The Munsters’ 
72 episodes

“Munster, Go Home!” 
The Munsters travel to England after Herman discovers he's the new Lord of the Munster Hall.  

“The Munsters' Revenge” 
When a wax museum owner attempts to frame the Munsters for pulling a jewelry heist, they must both prove their innocence and find out the true thieves.

Two of those qualifications were movies and only one of them, “The Munsters’ Revenge”, is a TV movie.  “Munsters Go Home!” was a theatrical release which, like several other movies, has been absorbed into the greater TV Universe out of the Cineverse.

With that hefty amount of credits, and still being so popular that he commands a two-hour block of programming on the COZI-TV retro network, Herman Munster does deserve to have a listing for himself, apart from his many “brothers” and “cousins” (those created by Frankenstein cousins.)
  
But as I said, he is already a member of the Hall; I just wanted to salute his contribution to the main Toobworld first.

Herman Munster is a multidimensional as well as a multiversal.  And so today we’re celebrating Herman Munster – but the one to be found in Skitlandia. 

Hopefully you know that Skitlandia is the sketch comedy TV dimension in which all of those comedy skits over the years share the same world – characters from ‘Saturday Night Live’, ‘Fridays’, ‘MadTV’, ‘The Carol Burnett Show’, ‘The Dean Martin Show’, ‘The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour’ and the many late-night talk shows; where Miss Swan could rub shoulders with the Coneheads, for example, or Norma Desmond could make a movie with Master Thespian.

So Herman Munster is one of those comedy sketch characters and luckily he covers the minimum requirements for membership in the Hall:

‘The Red Skelton Hour’ 
- Ta-Ra-Ra-Bum-Today (1965) 
Fred Gwynne appears as Herman Munster in a 'Freddie the Freeloader' comedy sketch.

From Hal Erickson:
Fred Gwynne, then starring in the sitcom ‘The Munsters’, is Red Skelton's guest on this episode from April 27, 1965. In a "Freddie the Freeloader" comedy sketch, hobo Freddie (Red) camps out in the spooky domicile of Herman Munster (Fred, of course). 

‘The Danny Kaye Show’
- Episode #3.30 (1966) 
Spoofing Gwynne's role on ‘The Munsters’ and NBC newscasters Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, the cast performs a sketch with Danny as 'David Dracula' and Fred as 'Chet Munster' as the broadcast team behind "The Munster-Dracula Report" with Edie as Fred's neglected wife 'Lily'.   

“Salute to Stan Laurel” 
A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel.

O’Bservation: Fred Gwynne’s contribution as Herman Munster was that he burst through a door while playing a violin in a sketch about making a silent movie.  Nothing to do with Stan Laurel, and it’s pretty grim viewing.  (Others in the sketch include Cesar Romero, Tina Louise, Louis Nye, and Leonid Kinsky.) But nevertheless it counts towards Herman’s tally.

I doubt there’s anybody out there who writes Skitlandia fanfic, specifically, but there you go – Herman Munster is part of that TV dimension.  So you could have a teenaged Eddie Munster bringing home a classmate – Ed Grimley, which would freak the kid out, I must say.  Or any combination with other sketch comedy characters.  That's up to you.  But if you do write Herman of Skitlandia fan fiction, let me know where I can read it.

So now we have two Herman Munsters in the Hall.  When it comes to fictional TV characters, that may be a first.  (We already have Adam West, a member of the League of Themselves, included for both the main Toobworld and for the Tooniverse.)

Welcome to the Hall, Herman.  Again….

TWO FOR TUESDAY TVXOHOF TRIBUTES #2 - RICHARD SIMMONS

From ABC News:

FITNESS GURU RICHARD SIMMONS DEAD AT 76
He just celebrated his birthday on Friday.
By Mark Osborne and Alex Stone
July 13, 2024, 5:52 PM

Eccentric fitness guru Richard Simmons, known for his unrelenting positivity, has died, according to his representative.

Simmons just celebrated his 76th birthday on Friday.

The Los Angeles Police Department responded to his home after a 911 call from his housekeeper and found Simmons dead, according to police sources. He appears to have died of natural causes, and no foul play is suspected, the sources said.

Simmons had more than enough credits which qualified him to be a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as a member of the League of Themselves in Toobworld.  Plus he was a multidimensional with counterparts in Skitlandia and The Tooniverse.  I just didn’t think I’d have to do so this quickly….

RICHARD SIMMONS

From Wikipedia:
Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons (July 12, 1948 – July 13, 2024) was an American fitness personality and public figure. He was a promoter of weight-loss programs, most prominently through his Sweatin' to the Oldies line of aerobics videos.

Simmons began his weight-loss career by opening his gym Slimmons in Beverly Hills, California, catering to the overweight, and he became widely known through exposure on television and through the popularity of his consumer products. He was often parodied and was a frequent guest of late-night television and radio talk shows, such as the Late Show with David Letterman and The Howard Stern Show.

He continued to promote health and exercise through a decades-long career, and later broadened his activities to include political activism, such as in 2008 in support of a bill mandating noncompetitive physical education in public schools as a part of the No Child Left Behind Act.

GENERAL HOSPITAL

72 EPISODES (1979-2013)

From sheknows.com:

From 1979-82, Simmons recurred on the soap and taught exercise classes, first at the Campus Disco, then at the Community Sports Center. More than 20 years later, he returned to Port Charles for the Nurses Ball — and, of course, to continue to get under the skin of frenemy Lucy Coe.

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON
10 EPISODES (1981-1986)

O'Bservation:

So far, I have yet to find a picture of Simmons with fellow TVXOHOF member Johnny Carson.  I have faith, though.  Ten episodes, there must be one out there, or a video I can get a framegrab from.  But at least there are pics of him with guest host and another TVXOHOF member, Joan Rivers.

CHiPs

MEET THE NEW GUY (1982)
Ponch has to break in a new rookie partner, while searching for a runaway girl and her newborn baby.

O’Bservation:

It looks like robbers struck one of his Slimmons franchise gyms while he was there.

FAME

TEACHERS (1982)
Lydia takes a part time job teaching aerobics at Richard Simmons club.

From a ‘Fame’ site:

Ms. Grant runs afoul of Richard Simmons when she takes a second job as an exercise instructor in his health club and verbally abuses the women taking her class.

"In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have put Ms. Grant in charge of the suburban moms' Flabby to Fit exercise group."

Richard Simmons hears Ms. Grant's barking from his nearby office and steps into the exercise room and watches with dismay as she humiliates the aerobicizers. Ms. Grant spots the 'fro sporting exercise guru watching her and snaps, "What do you want? I'm very busy right now" then realizes she just stepped in it, 'cause not only is he Richard Simmons, he's also the owner of the health club. She gets over her sheepishness pretty quick, though, and tells him that being an exercise instructor isn't her life's dream...and he says it's pretty clear she doesn't take this seriously, which is a shame 'cause getting into shape is a serious thing for these women. Ms. Grant shrugs indifferently and says she's not going to be around long enough to worry about the morale of a bunch of flabby, middle aged housewives. Richard Simmons scrunches his face concernedly and sounds hopeful as he says, "Deep down you're probably a nice person" then scampers back to the safety of his office.

AMAZING STORIES
REMOTE CONTROL MAN (1985)

A meek, unhappy and frustrated husband with a nagging wife and incorrigible sons finally finds solace in his new TV set that "comes alive" with the use of a magic remote control and gives him the chance to replace his family with various TV characters. But then reality hits.

Walter's remote control accidentally brings Richard Simmons to life.

O'Bservation:
The Richard Simmons who showed up in Walter's living room was a cathode phantom, a manifestation of the Richard Simmons on the TV screen.  That is the main Toobworld's televersion who is going into the TVXOHOF.  

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
THE WARMTH EPISODE (1992)

After market research shows that audience members don't find him likable, Larry goes out of his way to be nice to everyone and asks Artie to run the show by focus groups.  Simmons was Larry’s guest on the show.

EVENING SHADE
HARLAN DEALS A MEAL (1992)

Harlon goes on a diet, whilst Nub goes on a date

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO
24 EPISODES

O'Bservation:

Both 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno are in the Hall.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
S19 E10 (1994)
Jason Patric & Blind Melon
Simmons was in the Cofee Talk sketch, which means he has a presence in Skitlandia

From the “One SNL A Day” website:  

— (*sigh*) Fourth appearance of this sketch in just ten episodes so far this season…
— Hmm, a Richard Simmons appearance. At least he’s providing a distraction from the typical Coffee Talk dullness.
— Simmons is adding a fairly fun vibe to this. His energy is welcome, considering the lethargic atmosphere throughout tonight’s episode.
— Another positive thing about this Coffee Talk sketch is that it has thankfully cut down on the use of Linda Richman’s catchphrases that never make me laugh.
STARS: **½

Speaking of Skitlandia….
In the sketch comedy TV dimension, it’s not unusual for various characters, mostly celebrities or historical figures, to look like different people while still being themselves… in a manner of speaking.  

The same holds true for Richard Simmons in Skitlandia.  While he did portray himself on ‘Saturday Night Live’, he also looked like talk show host Jimmy Fallon as well.  And then, thanks to ‘In Living Color’, Simmons looked more like Jim Carrey.

O’Bservation:
So a guy who owns a couple of gyms was played by a couple of Jims.

Hey… it’s late at night and I have no shame.

ALL MY CHILDREN
June 21, 1995 episode

HOLLYWOOD SQUARES

20 EPISODES 1999-2003

O’Bservation:

At least for that week of his appearances on ‘Hollywood Squares’, he was in good company with other members of the TVXOHOF – Don Rickles, Jerry Springer, and Martin Mull.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
BRINGING UP BUSTER (2003)
Simmons appeared as himself in a commercial with George Bluth for the Cornballer. George burns himself and attacks Richard out of anger.

THE ONE WHERE THEY BUILD A HOUSE (2004)

The same commercial is later revealed to be shown in Mexico, dubbed in Spanish.

87th MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE 2013  

O'Bservation:

Simmons rode the Rocking Turtle (1979-1998, 2013-2016, 2019-) when it returned to the parade in 2013, and was apparently the last celebrity to do so.  (At least that’s how it looks in the Thanksgiving Day Parade fan page wiki.)

And as for the final version of Richard Simmons in the greater TV Universe….

THE TOONIVERSE

JOHNNY BRAVO
T IS FOR TROUBLE (2004)

Mr. T helps Johnny confront his childhood tormentor.

For all of the silliness in the way he presented himself, he really did help a lot of people.  But I've always felt there had to be some sadness behind the facade; it could be just something that I'm imagining.  Still, it is sad that he died the day right after his birthday... not that there's any good day to die.

I'm sorry I didn't take care of this sooner while he was alive, on the slim chance he might have seen it; I'm always thinking there's plenty of prime-time....

But he's here now in the Hall and he'll find a lot of people there he knows already.... 

Welcome to the Television Crossover Hall of Fame, Richard Simmons.

"DOCTOR WHO" IN SKITLANDIA

I'm still celebrating my god-daughter's ninth birthday.....

One TV show that I have in common with Rhiannon is 'Doctor Who'. And while I may have made a half-way acceptable victim in an alien invasion, I think Rhiannon - teamed up with her older brother Eli - would have made great companions in the TARDIS for the Doctor!

Now, I ask you, what would an Inner Toob Video Weekend be without some 'Doctor Who'?

In Skitlandia, they have gone through far more Time Lords than in the other TV dimensions. (Currently, in case you didn't know, the Doctor is into his eleventh incarnation - his tenth regeneration - in the universe of Earth Prime-Time.)

Here are a couple of those other Doctors from Skitlandia, including the comic variations of the originals:

Happy birthday, Rhiannon!

MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE 2 - BARBARA BUSH

BARBARA BUSH

Mrs. Bush passed away in April of this past year and I think it’s only right that she should be inducted into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame on the same day her husband, the late, former President of the United States, George H.W. Bush.  Although she has some appearances as herself (mostly in archival footage) for inclusion in the main Toobworld, her strength for inclusion is by being a multi-dimensional.  She appeared, played by others, in Skitlandia, the Tooniverse, and Doofus Toobworld.

EARTH PRIME-TIME

Saturday Night Live:
Presidential Bash 2000

O’Bservation – As I pointed out in the earlier post today, the sketches in ‘Saturday Night Live’ belong in Skitlandia, but the show itself is accepted in Toobworld as a TV show within a TV show.

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)
(as a serlinguist)

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire- Episode #12.69 (2013)
(voice only)

Archival footage:

Saved by the Bell- Beauty and the Screech (1989)

Ferris Bueller- Behind Every Dirtbag (1990)

Temps de silenci- Miracles (2002)

Hap and Leonard- The Dive (2016)

SKITLANDIA

Saturday Night Live
(Portrayed by Phil Hartman and Nora Dunn)

MADTV

THE TOONIVERSE

‘The Simpsons’
“Two Bad Neighbors”

Mrs. Bush was seen as a Martha Wilson type of character in this spoof of ‘Dennis the Menace’

DOOFUS TOOBWORLD

‘That’s My Bush!’
“Mom ‘E’ D.E.A. Arrest’

From the IMDb:
George decides to get tough on drugs. The plan is to make an example of the one millionth drug offender by arresting him on national television. Dowager First Lady Barbara Bush is on hand to participate in the event and make her daughter-in-law's life miserable. Looking to escape the tension between the two women in his life George drops ecstasy, mistaking it for aspirin, and the anti-drug event turns into a rave.

Good night and may God bless Barbara Bush....