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Marge has been a very effective political proponent in the past.

That didnt stop her from serving up Montgomery Burns mayoral candidacy like a cold three-eyed fish.

The Simpsonsopens on a recycling of a classic old gag.

They even reprise bits of the song.

Just like German scientist Sebastian Cobb predicted it would, shortly before he himself is run over.

The path of the monorails destruction is widespread and costly.

Well, didnt he?

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The fiasco brings everyone together in a town council meeting with Mayor Quimby.

Marge offers simple solutions and is met with crude throwback sexist jokes and relegated to kitchen patrol.

As terrible potluck would have it, Marge gets her revenge on the mayor by taking his incumbency.

The episode pokes some general fun at the current political landscape.

It opens with a plane carrying a sign reading this year the turkey will not pardon the president.

The stump speech strategies Marge employs during the extremely short campaign were a pre-existing condition long before Obamacare.

The digs at the right are merely flesh wounds.

A small cadre of supporters proclaims Im with hair in the race to put Marge in charge.

In a reenactment that probably didnt happen, Marge wins by a small landslide.

At first her mayoralty hits a rough spot.

That is until the town realizes shes with stupid.

Homer becomes Fang as Marge takes a page from Phillis Diller and throws him under the bus.

Marge is a wife and mother first, and tires of belittling her extra-large first man.

Ultimately farts imitate life as the air is let out of her governmental power.

We learn that her reign ended in a small scandal putting Quimby back in office in a flash-forward.

It is eight years later and Maggie still cant talk.

Shes not in the scene, but we know she cant.

It is filled with jokes and sight gags, but keeps its subversion to a minimum.

Hank Azaria plays Kirk Van Houten, Chief Wiggum and Moe.

Harry Shearer is Seymour Skinner, Kent Brockman, C. Montgomery Burns and Waylon Smithers.

Chalkboard:I will not ask my guidance counselor why he couldnt get a better job.

Rating:

3.5 out of 5