Florida congressman realizes 'The Boys' used real House of Representatives footage (original) (raw)

"3 more seconds of letting this roll and I would’ve been on 'The Boys,'" Maxwell Alejandro Frost says.

Updated on July 22, 2024 04:26PM EDT

When reality is stranger than fiction, why not lean all the way into it?

The Boys has always been an extremely dark satire about capitalism, politics, and modern society mashed together with comic book fare, but the season 4 finale took things to the next level by coincidentally featuring a storyline revolving around the assassination attempt on President-elect Robert Singer (Jim Beaver), just days after the attempt on former President Donald Trump's life at a MAGA rally on July 13. And now, a congressman has realized that the episode also features real footage from the House of Representatives.

Antony Starr in 'The Boys'.

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"YO. THE BOYS USED FOOTAGE FROM THE HOUSE FLOOR & IM NOT IN IT," Florida's 10th district congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost wrote on Twitter, along with the crying face emoji."I think this was during the speaker’s vote.. 3 more seconds of letting this roll and I would’ve been on @TheBoysTV."

Frost, a Democrat, included screenshots of the scene about 20 minutes into the episode where fictional Speaker of the House Steven Calhoun (David Andrews) addresses the nation confirming Singer and Vice President-elect Victoria Neuman's (Claudia Doumit) election. See the photos in his tweet below:

A source close to the situation confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the show used a licensed clip for that scene.

The season 4 finale was originally called "Assassination Run," but Amazon has since changed the title of the episode on the Prime Video platform to simply "Season Four Finale," added a "viewer discretion advised" trigger warning to the episode, and issued a statement on the matter.

"The season finale of The Boys contains scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers may find disturbing, especially in light of the injuries and tragic loss of life sustained during the assassination attempt on former President Trump," a statement from Amazon released on social media reads. "The Boys is a fictitious series that was filmed in 2023, and any scene or plotline similarities to these real-world events are coincidental and unintentional. Amazon, Sony Pictures Television, and the producers of The Boys reject, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind."

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The episode also featured Homelander (Antony Starr) leading an army of supes as they took over the U.S. government on Jan. 6, with the MAGA-inspired mantra "make America super again."

"We write about whatever is pissing us off or frightening us at the time," Kripke previously told EW. "I'm under no illusion that we're going to change minds or change anything. We're carnies. I get it. But to be able to just have a place to put our feelings and to say the things we want to say is a real gift."