November 5th, 2012
06:00 PM ET
How your favorite TV characters are votingWith the race between Mitt Romney and President Obama being neck-and-neck, even fictional characters have weighed in on the "who are you voting for?" conversation. While we're used to seeing political humor on shows like "Saturday Night Live" in an election year, the coverage of the road to November 6 has spilled over into lighthearted but timely plotlines on a number of TV sitcoms.
"30 Rock" has spent the past few episodes zeroing in on the election, showing the divide between Tina Fey's Liz Lemon and Alec Baldwin's Jack Donaghy. In the October 25 episode, the politically polar opposite pair each tried different tactics to support their candidate of choice: Republican Jack Donaghy paid Don Cheadle and Jazz from "Transformers" to get them to do a pro-Romney ad, while the liberal Liz Lemon attempted to get a celebrity endorsement from "Twilight" star Kellan Lutz ... which didn't quite work the way she planned. In the end, they realized they'd need to sway the undecided vote, through Jenna Maroney, no less. NBC's "The New Normal," which centers on a single mother (Georgia King) and a gay couple (Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells) who select her to be their surrogate, also tackled the election in its September 25 episode, "Obama Mama." Ellen Barkin portrays King's conservative mother, and she gets into a lengthy, terse discussion with Bartha and Rannells' characters over her support of Mitt Romney. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP-wUQjOIXM&w=560&h=315%5D "You have two clearly gay liberal guys at the heart of the show, but we thought it would be great to do an episode where you presented the conservative point of view in a way that hopefully was as eloquent and certainly was given equal time," co-creator Ryan Murphy explained to TVGuide. ABC's "Last Man Standing" took the same approach with its premiere on Friday, having Tim Allen's character, Mike Baxter, try to sway his daughter to cast her first vote for Romney, while her older sister tries to get her to vote for Obama. Allen's Baxter, of course, has shown his conservative side throughout the series: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBW8dPJpgqw&w=560&h=315%5D Actress Alexandra Krosney, whose character squared off against Allen's as the Obama supporter in the house, told "Entertainment Tonight" that she thinks a political storyline helps rather than hurts. "I'm really proud of us for doing this," she said. "I think it's the easy way out to just kind of like, keep things ambiguous. I think the fact that we're just speaking up and having a voice about it, and we're trying to do it in a way that's unbiased and raising a dialogue ... I hope it gets people to go out there and vote." Animated characters are no exception, as even Mr. Burns and Homer Simpson have revealed which candidate wins their vote. It turns out, they're both Romney supporters (although they definitely have varying reasons): [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCIEbLMaQg&w=560&h=315%5D [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArC7XarwnWI&w=560&h=315%5D The surprise with many of these examples isn't which candidate the character supported, but rather how it impacted their relationships - played, of course, for our amusement. Do you think it's effective for a sitcom or comedy to write-in a political arc during election year, or do you prefer they leave politics out of it?
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i hope he heads into politics someday. He's a man in my eyes. He speaks his mind – he has his own projects going on even with marriage..he's not stuck with the same boring faces everyday yet able to hopefully keep this marriage working for him.
He is permitted to talk to others...he is not a puppet ( not that alec would tolerate some b-tch anyway) he's a gutsy guy. He's a good actor he wins awards for this show every single year. Good for you Alec. Keep Plugging
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I'll say it again
i hope he heads into politics someday. He's a man in my eyes. He speaks his mind – he has his own projects going on even with marriage..he's not stuck with the same boring faces everyday yet able to hopefully keep this marriage working for him.
He is permitted to talk to others...he is not a puppet ( not that alec would tolerate some b-tch anyway) he's a gutsy guy. He's a good actor he wins awards for this show every single year. Good for you Alec. Keep Plugging
I'll say it again
love Alec Baldwin
i hope he heads into politics someday. He's a man in my eyes. He speaks his mind – he has his own projects going on even with marriage..he's not stuck with the same boring faces everyday yet able to hopefully keep this marriage working for him.
He is permitted to talk to others...he is not a puppet ( not that alec would tolerate some b-tch anyway) he's a gutsy guy. He's a good actor he wins awards for this show every single year. Good for you Alec. Keep Plugging
love Alec Baldwin
i hope he heads into politics someday. He's a man in my eyes. He speaks his mind – he has his own projects going on even with marriage..he's not stuck with the same boring faces everyday yet able to hopefully keep this marriage working for him.
He is permitted to talk to others...he is not a puppet ( not that alec would tolerate some b-tch anyway) he's a gutsy guy. He's a good actor he wins awards for this show every single year. Good for you Alec. Keep Plugging
alec baldwin is important to us–
Correction: The part of the oldest daughter in "Last Man Standing" is played by Amanda Fuller. Alexandra Krosney played the role in season 1 but was replaced by Fuller starting with the episode mentioned in the article. .
TV actors are all communist, mostly. They will all vote for Obama.
Here is another fact about "Liberal" Americans. Most 76% of all college graduates are Democrats or vote for a more moderate politician. Which is a shocker since education seems to make smarter choices over all. The MBA's all who run our companies into the ground. Which sucks for you and me but hell Mitt Romney pockets millions from bankrupting a company Bain and Capital thats all they did. Buy a company sell its patients and assets and move on to next victim.
Geachte klant,
is gross–sorry there is nothing attractive about her at all.
I would absolutely love to poop on Tina Fey's face and then spread it around. Give her a facial with it.
What a classy remark. You must be the pride of your charm school class.
And what a lame retort on your part. I imagine you must have been the stupidest person in your special education classes. Here's some poop for you retard!!!
thats the way uh huh uh huh I like it–uh huh uh huh
You seem to have a fixation about poop. Why is that?
If you knew the character i'm named after you might get the joke there.
Stupidest isn't a word. Time to beat your back side into oblivion and feed you to the Asians.
i hope he heads into politics someday. He's a man in my eyes. He speaks his mind - he has his own projects going on even with marriage..he's not stuck with the same boring faces everyday yet able to hopefully keep this marriage working for him.
He is permitted to talk to others...he is not a puppet ( not that alec would tolerate some b-tch anyway) he's a gutsy guy. He's a good actor he wins awards for this show every single year. Good for you Alec. Keep Plugging
I think he is just a big ol fat pile of P00P. Diahreah P00P.
I'm sure the Democrats will count these fictional character's votes. I mean, they do somehow get deceased people vote for Nobama, why not Homer Simpson?
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