Boom Dot Bust
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| Producer | Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Philip Proctor | |||
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Boom Dot Bust is a
It chronicles life in the fictional small Midwestern town of Billville ("The Town That Nature Forgot to Hate"), where every male resident's first name is some form of William, including mayor William Cudlip P'nisnose (
The "Bill" theme is most obviously construed as a reference to then-President Bill Clinton as representative of America, but it also can be taken to include Bill Gates, as a broader allusion to the seeming ubiquity of the name Bill in the news at the time, and because the word "billionaire" occurs. The notion of "Billville", however, was originally introduced in the song "Oh! Afghanistan!" on Fighting Clowns.
This has also been issued as a DVD-Audio in 5.1 Surround sound.
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