--- title: Democratic Debate: Watch the Trailer for Heads of Space description: Univision teased the show during Thursday's Democratic Debate. It involves the 2016 presidential candidates saving earth from an asteroid. canonical: https://time.com/4253585/heads-of-space-dem-debate-univision-trailer/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-10T05:00:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:23.928Z article:section: Politics og:title: Here's the Cartoon Univision Plugged During the Debate og:description: The 2016 presidential candidates must save Earth from an asteroid. og:url: https://time.com/4253585/heads-of-space-dem-debate-univision-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b270b9dd273aad/69888a6af887dc63f8e94fb8/democratic-presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-election-2016-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4560 og:image:height: 2565 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Cartoon Univision Plugged During the Debate twitter:description: The 2016 presidential candidates must save Earth from an asteroid. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt59b270b9dd273aad/69888a6af887dc63f8e94fb8/democratic-presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-election-2016-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the Cartoon Univision Plugged During the Debate > Sponsored content. 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Democratic presidential candidates, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders participate in a debate in Kendall, Fla. on March 9, 2016. Wilfredo Lee—AP 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. 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