Homer burns down all of Springfield's fast-food restaurants. In order to rebuild them, Mayor Quimby moves up election day to the upcoming weekend, making Springfield's primary election the first in the nation. The candidates in the election are not compelling. When voting day arrives all the townspeople of Springfield write in "Ralph Wiggum," who wins the election. As a result, both candidates embrace Ralph, even though it is not known which party he is running for.
Al Jean has been honest with political satire. I'm being honest; "Mr. Spritz Goes To Washington" is maybe the best for its season, and there's been a lot of good examples recently; "You Kent Always Say What You Want", despite the very usual plot and humour, has some sharp satire - "I D'oh-Bot" was also a good satire attempt. But this is taking it too far. I'm not looking up to it.
The plot turn sounds awful. Homer burning down the fast food restraunts is certain to lead into a horrible character. The politics idea is silly and won't work properly, especially with Ralph Wiggum. His character has been awful recently; his proper airtime and sensibly hilarious one-liners (Do you like... stuff?) has been transformed into a mentally retarted boy who wets his pants in nearly every appearence.
So, the good points? Ralph's character can be improved. If he does more than telling everybody to be unitards, then the episode can have a reedeming feature. The characterisations can also be improved, and there needs to be some great jokes and include some sensible characters to the show. All in all, I'm not looking very forward to this. Sounds like "This Little Wiggy", "Sideshow Bob Roberts", "Mayored To The Mob" and "Maximum Homerdrive" all in one.
Predicted grade: C range - D range
Note: I also got Bender's Big Score today. Full review tommorow.
2 comments:
Blecchh, horrible plot. I agree that this sounds horrible.
I don't know. The episode could be potentially interesting. That's a great blog post though.
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