Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish - S02E04

In Season 2, Episode 4, Andrew and Thom revisit “Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish”—an episode they remember very differently from childhood.When Blinky the three-eyed fish becomes evidence of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s questionable safety record, Mr. Burns comes up with the obvious solution: run for governor and change the rules.Andrew and Thom dig into an episode packed with political satire that largely sailed over their heads as kids, from campaign consultants, spin doctors and mudslingers to manufactured populism, attack politics, Michael Dukakis, Herbert Hoover, and Burns’s wonderfully bizarre attempts to understand the “common man.”They also rediscover just how funny Burns is in this episode, ponder the political usefulness of smiling, meet Average Joe Six Pack, Johnny Lunchpail, Sally Housecoat and Eddie Punchclock—and appreciate a side of Marge they didn’t fully recognize as kids.Because after an entire campaign built around convincing Springfield that Blinky is perfectly safe to eat, Marge has a remarkably simple way of settling the question.Grab a donut and join us on the couch as we revisit one of the earliest Simpsons episodes that seems to have been written at least as much for the adults in the room as the kids.