Barack Obama And Joe Biden Bromance Animated Sitcom Raises Money For Production

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden may have left the White House and stepped out of the limelight – but their notorious bromance has not been forgotten. Now, one man is trying to bring that bromance to the little screen by way of an animated sitcom entitled “Barry & Joe.”

Writer and director Adam Reid took to crowdfunding website Kickstarter to raise money for his superhero series starring the dynamic pair using their talents to save the world with the help of Neil DeGrasse Tyson in an alternate reality. The series starts out with Obama and Biden getting sent back in time to before the election of President Donald Trump.

“These are the adventures of Barack Obama and Joe Biden bromancing the multiverse as they try and save us from ourselves,” the Kickstarter campaign explained. “Moments after the inauguration of the fifty-fourth president, Barack Obama and his best friend Joe Biden were escorted to a secret lab, run by a team of the world’s greatest scientists and occasionally Elon Musk.”

Reid came up with the idea in the wake of the 2016 election. While he summoned the plot relatively quickly, the idea itself has only recently begun to come to fruition.

“We need a cartoon of a bromance trying to save us from ourselves,” said Reid, according to DCist. “I put it away for six months because it’s clearly a stoner idea. I felt like it was an over-reaction to the news that Trump had won. But then we hadn’t lived through everything we’ve gone through in the past few months.”

Reid’s Kickstarter campaign described the series as “leftist fan fiction meant to give solace to those who need some hope and healing.” Reid himself has some extraordinary hopes for his characters: Jordan Peele would voice Obama, while Chris Pratt would play Biden and Neil deGrasse Tyson would star as, of course, himself.

The Obama-Biden bromance captured the nation’s heart throughout Obama’s presidency: the pair was, at one point, christened “BROTUS.” Lighthearted memes of the duo proliferated on social media, especially toward the end of the presidency.

Reid’s sitcom fundraising campaign had raised more than $72,000 of its $100,000 goal as of Tuesday afternoon. The project, however, would only be funded if it reached its goal by August 31. Should Reid reach his goal, he planned to either make a mini-pilot to shop to interested parties or partner with a production company on a full-length episode, DCist reported.

“I feel like I’m creating something to escape, but into the truth,” said Reid. “I’m looking for comfort in a Saturday morning cartoon show that’s going to be more in tune with what’s actually going on than what we’re reading every day and that’s more of a sign of where we’re at right now.”