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United States of Al Rewrites Its Afghanistan Episode
from #271 - The Many Taints of Newark | The Tim Dillon Show · #271
6 min
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Tim and his guest mock the CBS sitcom United States of Al for rewriting its season premiere to address the Taliban takeover, reading absurd plot synopses and playing a promo clip.
- Tim describes the Afghanistan evacuation scene CBS rewrote into the season premiere, with the character pretending to talk to family desperately trying to escape.
- When painful things happen, people try to make them into art, but this is happening immediately and in the most grotesque way imaginable—rewriting a sitcom to deliver a powerful message about an active crisis.
- Tim asks whether CBS includes the Taliban's perspective in the episode, or if this is just propaganda for the US.
- The Indian actor is locked in the role saying words written on the page, and Tim argues people are mad at the wrong target—they should be mad that the show exists and CBS exists.
- Tim reads the actual synopsis of a real episode: Al fails his driving test because his female instructor is wearing shorts, which he finds religiously offensive.
- CBS is trying to create funny situations around a character whose beliefs are antiquated, but Tim questions who this show is actually for.
- Tim describes another episode where Al attends a party and becomes nervous when women start doing jello shots in their cleavage, testing his religious faith.
- Tim concludes by calling it the worst show in the world.