Barack Obama, Joe Biden Reimagined as Time-Traveling Action Heroes in New Animated Series

Writer/director Adam Reid really misses Barack Obama and Joe Biden, so much so that he’s turned to Kickstarter to raise funds to make a pilot for an animated series that turns the former President and Vice President into a time-traveling, crime-fighting duo.

Titled “Barry & Joe: The Animated Series” and sporting the tagline “Hope Is On the Way,” the project is looking for $100,000 for “storyboards, recording, animation and sound design” on a prologue and pilot that will be made as proof of concept.

According to the Kickstarter page, the pilot will show Obama and Biden being taken to a secret facility shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration, where they are shown a project “run by a team of the world’s greatest scientists and occasionally Elon Musk.”

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Soon, they are transported back in time and find themselves in the bodies of their younger selves. With only the voice of Neil DeGrasse Tyson (whom Reid hopes to bring on to the project to voice himself) as their guide, Obama and Biden must find each other in the past and then find a way to travel to an alternate timeline with a better future.

Reid says on the page that the show is for people who “miss Obama and Biden as much as we do” or are “connoisseurs of brilliantly cheesy 80’s television and science fiction.” But he also promises that the show won’t just pander to Obama supporters, as he also wants to reach out to “anyone on the right side of the political spectrum who enjoys watching the left get all worked up and finds themselves engaged by the rich storyline and surprising depth.”

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“If you’re like me, you’re more than a bit concerned lately about the fate of our country, our planet, and humanity itself,” Reid writes. “I dream about how the world might be different if we could go back in time and make better choices understanding what we know now. If only there was some way to set things right.”

The Kickstarter, which was launched at the end of July, has currently raised just under $29,000 with 12 days to go.

7 Stars Who Imagined Violence Against Barack Obama, Democrats (Photos)

While Kathy Griffin and NYC's Public Theater have been called out for imagining violent attacks on Donald Trump, conservative pundits and others made similar statements about Barack Obama and other Democrats during his presidency.
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Glenn Beck

In a 2009 Fox News broadcast, the conservative pundit joked about poisoning then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. During the bizarre skit, one of Beck's helpers attempted to sip a glass of red wine while wearing a mask of Pelosi's face. Beck then informs "Pelosi" that he slipped poison into her drink.

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Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater

Minnesota's famed Guthrie Theater "assassinated" an Obama-like figure in its 2012 production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Unlike the NYC Public Theater's Trump-themed assassination in 2017, this production saw no backlash or loss of corporate sponsorship.

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Joan Marcus
Shannon Richardson

Actress Shannon Richardson, who has appeared in "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Walking Dead," was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2014 for attempting to poison Barack Obama. According to CNN, Richardson mailed ricin-laced letters to Obama and several other politicians, because she was displeased with their stances on gun control.

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Scott Stapp

The lead singer of Creed got himself in trouble in 2014 months after his release from a mental facility. According to 911 tapes obtained by TMZ, Stapp's then-wife told police that the rocker was in the middle of a psychotic episode and had threatened to kill President Obama. "He thinks they're trying to kill him, and he has a bunch of paperwork in his backpack that he's a CIA agent and he's supposed to assassinate Obama," she said. Stapp's episode later prompted a Secret Service investigation.
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Ted Nugent

To encourage a group of NRA convention attendees to vote for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Nugent instructed them to "ride onto that battlefield and chop their heads off in November," the heads in question belonging to Democratic voters. At a 2007 concert, Nugent said Obama could "suck on [his] machine gun."

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Joe Walsh

The former Illinois Congressman believed Barack Obama was responsible for the July 2016 shooting deaths of several Dallas police officers. He took to Twitter with a veiled threat on the then-president: "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you."
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Donald Trump

At a North Carolina rally in August 2016, Trump suggested that his gun-toting supporters could prevent Hillary Clinton from taking office if they exercised their 2nd Amendment rights. He said, "[If Hillary Clinton] gets to pick...her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know."

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While Kathy Griffin and NYC's Public Theater have been called out for imagining violent attacks on Donald Trump, conservative pundits and others made similar statements about Barack Obama and other Democrats during his presidency.

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