 "Lord Buckethead" attempted to promote his movie in the UK by  standing as a prospective MP for Parliament in both the 1987 and  1992 General Elections. Representing the "Gremloid" party (by which  this movie is known in the UK) he stood against Margaret Thatcher in  her Finchley constituency and somehow got 131 votes. Five years  later in 1992 he stood against the then PM John Major in Huntingdon  and got 107 votes.