But just prior to that exhibit we find out that Marge was responsible for making first contact with the aliens Kodos and Kang so it wasn’t all bad.Īll in all this was a good episode. In it we find that there was a scandal that got Marge impeached. She and Homer unfortunately have to walk through the ‘impeachment and disgrace’ section to get to the cafeteria. In it we see a library with an exhibit dedicated to Marge’s time as mayor. So there’s a happy ending until we get a flash forward eight years later. In the end Marge can’t take it anymore and realizes that its not worth sacrificing her relationship with Homer for the sake of political gain. This is seen quite literally by the towns Homer parade balloon shooting confetti out of its butt. After Lindsey checks with Frink if this strategy could work (apparently the math adds up) Marge uses Homer as the butt of every joke in her official duties. After she delivers some zingers to him on live TV (“Marge do we have any bread?” “Check your chest”) her ratings go back up. She targets colourful sectors of the electorate such as the yokel objectivists and exotic pet owners while a campaign song plays in the background. The funniest bits come from the short campaign that Marge whips up with the help of Professor Frink and Lindsey Neagle (the town’s resident businesswoman). In ‘The Old Blue Mayor’, Marge takes this opportunity to run for Mayor after Quimby decides not to do anything about the disaster and for belittling her as a woman. This includes a statue of Leonard Nemoy whose epitaph reads “He saved Springfield from the monorail.” If you recall Leonard Nemoy proclaimed his work done in that earlier episode with Barney calling him out saying he hadn’t, to which Nemoy coyly replies: “didn’t I”, said as he disappears (to my mind one of the funnier cameos to date). Unfortunately, the old monorail begins working again and destroys everything in its path. The first scene with the sky-park recalls one of the funnier older Simpsons episodes: ‘Marge vs The Monorail’ The cast even recreate some of the song from that episode. After a disaster occurs with the re-purposing of the monorail into a sky-park Marge runs for mayor and when she wins she finds that its not all that its cracked up to be. That’s the slogan that Marge employs in her quest to become mayor. This week The Simpsons tries its hand at politics and declares “I’m with hair!”
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