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Recently, I did one of those “Hey, remember nostalgia?” puzzles. You know, just a selection of images under an overarching topic. In this case, it was ‘90s television. I’m not a frequent puzzler, and it was going to be my first 1,000-piece puzzle, so I figured I’d go with something that was segmented for the sake of ease. It was a wise decision. The Simpsons was included, of course, and the episode they selected was “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish.”
That’s interesting, because I don’t know if this is an iconic episode. Even the image they chose, Marge and Bart standing over Mr. Burns being served Blinky, the three-eyed fish, is not necessarily iconic. Blinky is kind of remembered, but it has not endured as a memorable image from The Simpsons lore.
In this episode, Mr. Burns runs for governor of the state that Springfield is in. It’s his heftiest role to date. Burns is, of course, craven and self-interested. He has dinner with the Simpsons to humanize himself late in the race. Marge, not wanting Burns to win, serves him the fish mutated by his nuclear power plant.
It’s fine. It’s perfectly fine. The episode is pretty funny, and the plot is acceptable. The show started to get fleshed out a bit. The characters got fleshed out a bit. Of course, Mary Bailey has not endured. Well, this may be the most-political episode The Simpsons has done to this point, but obviously that will change going forward.
