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# Here's the Cartoon Univision Plugged During the Debate

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## Video: Heads of Space Trailer

[Watch (HLS stream): Heads of Space Trailer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/rceQPMdZ.m3u8) (1:28)

![Heads of Space Trailer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/rceQPMdZ/poster.jpg?width=720)

_Published 2016-03-10_


by 

[Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/)


## Daniel White


Mar 10, 2016 5:00 AM UTC

by 

[Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/)


## Daniel White


Mar 10, 2016 5:00 AM UTC

Democratic debate host Univision took the opportunity Thursday to plug its animated parody of the 2016 presidential race _Heads of Space_ as the debate headed to[ a commercial break](http://time.com/4253505/democratic-debate-eighth-miami-cnn-poll-survey/).

In _Heads of Space_ a group of astronauts must save Earth from an asteroid hurdling towards the planet, a la the 1998 film _Armageddon_.

Except in this show the astronauts are 2016 presidential candidates—Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and the [gone-but-not-forgotten Jeb Bush](http://time.com/4231020/jeb-bush-please-clap-saddest-moments-south-carolina/)—sent to space by President Obama as their last task in becoming leader of the free world.

Episodes of _Heads of Space_ premiere on the Udesia YouTube channel, a venture Univision launched in December aimed at Spanish-speaking millennials.

The show’s [companion website](http://especiales.univision.com/heads-of-space/) even includes a fictional newspaper, called the _End of Times_, which features sensationalist headlines from an alternate-future like “GOP Expected to Implode Before World Explodes.”

This isn’t the first time this election cycle that a network has used hosting a presidential debate to plug a show: CNBC went straight into its show _Profit_ after a Republican debate broadcast in October.

Watch the trailer for _Heads of Space_ above—no word if Bush will be removed from the show.


## Transcript

Mr. President, I'm sorry to inform you there is an asteroid the size of molly headed toward earth. So molly a big country or a small country? It's huge, this is the end of life on earth as we know it. This Presidential Campaign We have two state of the art spaceships for the mission. One will be full of bright, indispensable people. The other spaceship will transport the leader of the new world. How about we send all the presidential candidates? And then can duke it out in space. Will be held The Bible and Bruce Willis call this day Armageddon. The human race will prevail because we are sending our best.

I forgot my iPhone charger. In space, Sanders, Cruz, Rubio, Clinton, Trump Bush and introducing ROTUS. I'm really looking forward to spending the next 260, 000 minutes with you guys .

>> Why don't you shut up you gay, foreign made, ugly, vegan vomit, hipster loving, homo, left- wing, commie, pc user, prick, asian sex hamster, American taking Machine, are you Muslim? You are aren't you? Did you bring your birth certificate? Heads of Space. [ LAUGH ] That's a joke and because it's funny I have to laugh like any regular human folk. [ LAUGH ] I'm human. [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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