Season 23 - Episode 10
Fox (US)
I know that after over twenty years the content isn't going to be as consistently good as it once was, but every now and then The Simpsons pulls out an absolute stormer (see "The Book Job" and to a slightly lesser extent "Holidays of Futures Passed" from this season alone). This one shouldn't have even seen past the first draft stage. It is such a poor attempt at political satire that it almost descended into self parody.
Now, the idea of Homer becoming a hard hitting plotical talk show host is absolutely stellar. The idea that he would just spout nonsense, yet still become a highly influential figure in politics is solid as well. But how it's actually handled is utter garbage. His analagies are dumb even for Homer, the little jokes that try to be clever come across as snarky and obvious, and even the casting of Ted Nugent as an unlikely presidential candidate seems out of place (although Nugent himself is a good sport voicing himself).
The Simpsons is good at certain things, but save for Sideshow Bob rigging an election over fifteen years ago, political satire is not one of them. Terrible episode, and I really hope it gets better from here.
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