REVIEW: Crash Canyon “He’s The Mayor”

 

 

 

Spoilers Below

When Jake sees self-proclaimed Crash Canyon mayor Sarah Forbes receive a snow cone, free of charge, it is enough incentive to make him want to run for mayor himself. Daydreaming of riding Mrs. McGurck’s constantly abused brown bear to the front of the snow cone line and other delusions of grandeur, Jake announces his candidacy. Norm becomes excited for Jake and plans a valid campaign for his son, who decides to “just promise people what they want” (something unheard of in real-life politics!).

After promising Colton Steel an honorary marble statue, dental benefits for Mrs. McGurck’s bear and even a wife for lonely ventriloquist, Nalappat Brajabashimayum (yes, that had to be googled), Norm is distraught enough to cross sides and support the competition. With Sheila as Jake’s campaign manager, the race for mayor quickly escalates into a competition between husband and wife trying to outdo each other.

Uncle Vernon also takes Jakes side, using his shovel (the same one he fries bacon on) as an intimidating persuader to voters. But when election day comes, the tiebreaker for the next Crash Canyon mayor comes down to one man, and it’s someone even more brain-dead than Coma Steve; Sid Butane. After promising the swing-voting, former British rock star a donkey butler, Jake wins the election.

But when the new mayor can’t live up to his humbug promises, and after realizing he doesn’t get everything for free, Sheila and Jake seek help from Norm to get kicked out of office. Meanwhile, while exploring a cave, Roxy and some of the other Canyon teenagers come across a collection of cave paintings that closely resemble Roxy. The kids all think she is beautiful, until they notice a tail on the paintings. Roxy quickly becomes the laughing stock amongst the kids.

Elsewhere, in an attempt to upset the canyon folk by the use of insults (which only delights them), Jake uses Roxy’s ridicule to convince the people that he also has a tail, causing the people to call for an impeachment.All is restored, as Sarah reclaims her title as mayor, and we also get a glimpse at the origin of the mysterious cave paintings.

The plot of the episode gives the writers a chance to utilize politics as a basis of many jokes, some of the many highlights include calling out Sarah as a Socialist, since she teaches the younger children how to share, and Frida, the Mexican, finally living in a place with terrible politicians. I nominate this episode as one of the better paced and most well constructed this season so far.

 

(7.0 out of 10)