Noob 4 Mayor (Supernoobs)

"Noob 4 Mayor" is the twenty-seventh episode in the second season of Supernoobs.

Plot
Mem and Zen decide to run against each other for the position of mayor of Cornbury after the previous mayor gets kicked out of office because of his hatred of corn.

Why We Won’t Vote For It

 * 1) This episode feels less like a typical Supernoobs episode and more like eleven minutes of the writers and series creator Scott Fellows preaching their political beliefs and criticizing American politics.  It seems that the writers made this episode out of frustration towards former U.S president Donald Trump and his political cabinet.
 * 2) The episode was also seemingly made in response to the criticism the show had been receiving as it lashes out at the criticism made by American audiences and the criticism that focuses on the character treatment of Memnock and Zenblock in regards to their lack of focus in the show and the frequent shoehorning of boring plots on them.
 * 3) Mem and Zen are out of character for this episode.  They seem to forget that they have a mission to train the noobs to be virus warriors and go straight into politics without a second thought.  It would have made more sense for them to run for mayor out of concern for the frequent virus attacks in Cornbury but disagree with the solution to this problem.  It would have also made sense for them to be campaign managers for different politicians they back to be mayor with the motive of having that mayor stop the virus from repeatedly infecting Cornbury. Instead, they fight over the petty issues of potholes and commuter coasters, which should not be a concern for them since they are aliens from space who own a spaceship.
 * 4) This episode is not only a complete rehash of “A Noob Divided Cannot Noob” but also renders “A Noob Divided Cannot Noob” completely pointless since Mem and Zen start fighting with each other again and their character development in regards to their friendship with each other gets thrown out the window.
 * 5) Hypocrisy: The moral this episode teaches is lackluster and hypocritical: politics and democracy are bad because they ruin friendships. The hypocrisy in this moral occurs when the noobs help the original mayor get re-elected in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Mem and Zen’s friendship yet the noobs become friends with the mayor and continue to be friends to the end of the episode.
 * 6) Another troubling moral is not only taught in this episode but repeated from “A Noob Divided Cannot Noob”: You don’t need to resolve your fights or apologize.  It occurs when Mem and Zen do not resolve their fight on their own and instead the Noobs resolve it for them.  Mem and Zen do not apologize for their behavior to each other in this episode either.
 * 7) Because the episode has politics as a theme and then bashes politics altogether, this episode can be considered propaganda that promotes anarchy, anti-trumpism, and/or political stagnation since the second half of the episode has the Noobs maintain the status quo by getting the mayor re-elected.
 * 8) The plot of the episode could have been avoided had the other politicians in Cornbury decided that the dislike of corn was not worth impeaching the mayor over.
 * 9) As the synopsis says, the mayor gets impeached and removed from office for a very stupid, petty, and mean-spirited reason. He gets removed because he dislikes corn.
 * 10) While Memnock’s concern over potholes is justifiable due to how annoying they are and how they can destroy a lot of cars and cause countless accidents, his solution to fixing them is very disgusting.  It consists of chewing a lot of gum and then spitting the gum into the potholes until the potholes are all filled in.
 * 11) The Noobs never even think about contacting the leaders of the benevolent alliance to ask for help with their problem of Mem and Zen running for mayor and then fighting over it.  The noobs have repeated this kind of mistake in “A Noob Divided Cannot Noob”.
 * 12) The conflict and feud between Mem and Zen in this episode are forced.  They fight over very petty things that should not even be a concern for them since they are aliens and their reason for fighting has absolutely nothing to do with their mission.
 * 13) For an episode that has politics as the main focus, the plot feels rushed as the pacing is very fast.  This is because the episode only lasts for eleven minutes and eleven minutes is not enough time to do a cartoon episode that focuses on politics.
 * 14) The shoehorning of the plot on Mem and Zen is at its absolute worst in this episode as it shoehorns them into running for the mayor of a small town despite being aliens who do not understand that the position of mayor is a long term job. The justification this episode gives in such shoehorning is that Mem and Zen have polar opposite personalities.
 * 15) The episode has a cliched “main characters running for office” plot as such a plot was already used in many other shows like  Mh:besttvshows:Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends and My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
 * 16) The episode title is misleading as it teases that the noobs are going to run for mayor but instead it is Mem and Zen who run for that office while the noobs manage their campaigns.
 * 17) The reason the mayor was impeached, as stated from the premise,  because he hated corn. . CAN THEY JUST IMPEACH HIM FOR SOMETHING APART FROM STUPID DECISION LIKE HATING CORN?!

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Mem and Zen’s behavior in this episode can teach children how they should not behave in politics when they grow up and run for a position in an election
 * 2) Despire the fact that this moment is cliched, the mayor does get his job back.