Live commentary:
-Whoa, what's with Ralph's voice? I mean, I get the gag with the "thewapist", but why did Ralph have to sound totally different and weird here? Just an odd joke.
-The Skypark thing was pretty cool to look at it, too bad it didn't last. Also, I thought the monorail was solar-powered so how can it "come back" like that?
-Ah, so Sebastian Cobb's dead now. Cool.
-What was with that really obvious use of the Wilhelm scream when the guy fell in the cactus patch? I mean, was that badly done on purpose?
-So Jasper's dead too...
-The "sexism" scene was too exaggerated and caricatured to be any kind of effective satire.
-I don't mind Marge deciding to run for mayor on Lisa's urging. Marge has gotten "involved" in other episodes (with S.N.U.H. and P.P.A.S.S.C.C.A.T.A.G.) so this seems in character for her. The motivation may have been a
little flimsy, but I'll buy it.
-Not sure why there had to be a song. This scene seemed to be a little slow and awkward in general. The idea of her appealing to Springfield's fringe and their issues was funny, though.
-I laughed at Bart and Homer making fun of Lisa
-The idea of Marge becoming more popular because of Homer's oafish antics was a decent plot. I laughed at some of these scenes. Homer acting like a whale was kind of ridiculous, but I loved that sign someone was holding in the crowd that said "She's With Stupid" lol. And Krusty was actually funny here. It's not a bad conflict either, though it comes a bit late in the episode and we don't see much of Homer's reaction to it (other than standing on the sidelines looking sad while Marge is having a crisis of conscience).
This episode had a number of awkward gags that didn't land. It also had a plot whose conflict didn't show up until the end and wasn't well-developed despite the time allotted by the lack of a subplot. Parts of it were funny, but most of it was just bland.
2/5