E Pluribus Wiggum

I watched the tenth episode from the nineteenth season “E Pluribus Wiggum”. It started off at the nuclear power plant, Homer, Lenny, and Carl waited for Burns to go home so they could go home as well. When Burns took off Homer went to the fast-food street, he had promised Marge to start on a diet so he wanted to say farewell to all the fast-food there is. He bought tons of food and got a lot of garbage in his car, and then he saw a drive through trash can where he dumped all his garbage. Among the garbage there was an old car battery that started to leek acid. The acid eroded a hole in the gas pipe that supplied all fast-food chains with gas and a huge explosion destroyed all fast-food chains.

Without any fast-food Springfield was in panic. They gathered all inhabitants of Springfield in the town-hall and Homer gave them a preach about the importance of fast-food, Major Quinmy decides to move the primary election to next week, which will make it the first city in America to have the primary elections. America now put Springfield in the centre of attention and the city gets invaded by the media.

No one knows who to vote for, so Homer decides to vote for someone that’s not politically correct, he chooses Ralph Wiggum to be his candidate. Both the democrats and republicans fight to get Ralph over on their side because they don’t have any better option.

This episode was more or less a comic about the primary elections in America. It showed us how the media focus on things that necessarily don’t have anything to do with the elections. It was also an episode that show how some voters (Homer) don’t really care about politics, that they are more interested in a show and a representative that is a character rather than a politician (Ralph).