3.15: "Democracy in America"
Summary: Mayoral incumbent Holling is stung by the news that he has a formidable opponent, old friend Edna Hancock, who's got a bee in her bonnet over a promise he never kept. The election also finds Shelly testing the aphrodisiac of power, Chris waxing patriotic, Ed anticipating his first time voting, and Joel and Maggie arguing party politics.
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"I am not a shallow, insubstantial person just because I think appearances matter; they do matter!" Hehehe. I don't think she would've said this before her reckoning with her old Grosse Pointe life last episode. Yay for character development! (Even if I wish appearances didn't matter so much. Alas.)
Yay Marilyn! Votes are personal! I like the way she's just kind of like, "Well, some of us will vote for you, and some won't. DUH."
"My friends, today when I look out over Cicely, I see not a town, but a nation's history written in miniature, inscribed in the cracked pavement, reverberating from every passing flatbed. Today, every runny nose I see says 'America' to me."
My point about Chris's speeches still stands, I think, but I see why he would get way into the idea of an election, since he's such a Whitman fan. And awwwwwww, he can't even vote!
Aw, Ed! I wish some of my students had been as curious and willing to learn as you are.
"Over is a preposition, not a direction." I wish we'd gotten an entire episode about them attempting to do a home improvement project together after they got together.
"People bore me as a rule. To tell you the truth, the thought of having to make small talk with most of the people in this room nauseates me, and that includes you, Dorothy. Given my usual dim view of civilization, it took an unusually powerful displace of incompetence for me to be forced to seek public office."
EDNA. OH, EDNA, ARE YOU ME? Because I thought of all the characters, I was most like Ed, but I'd forgotten about you. I can't quite see myself saying this, but I can see myself thinking it very loudly.
(Actually, wait. I think I did actually say something like the last sentence during a particularly craptacular group project in middle school, right before I took over the entire thing. I didn't have a lot of friends in middle school.)
Random Guy: I was wondering if the candidates saw the stop sign as a Jeffersonian or Hamiltonian expression of democracy in action.
Ruth-Anne: What kind of a stupid question is that? Sit!
Tehehehehe!
"When you shot at me with that beautiful Remington over and under, I knew we were going to get along just fine. And when you laid bare the tundra with your drilling and logging operation, I knew I'd found a kindred spirit."
Awwwwww, Maurice has a friend! Sort of. I suppose it's hard to be friends if you're Edna and Maurice.
And Maurice finally realizes his race to develop Cicely will have consequences, but not the ones he expected. He's okay with billboards and Burger Kings, but throw a few zoning and environmental regulations at him and he freaks out. Sigh.
"How do you look? Beautiful, just like you always do." Aww. But of course they're back to kicking and smacking each other a few scenes later. Double aww.
Eeeee, "Appalachian Spring"! I don't care what Sarah says, I still love it. :D
The voting booths are made from refrigerator boxes and old curtains. Cicely, I love you.
And Chris comes in with the suit and a haircut! Who knew he even owned a suit?
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It's not democracy, it's event planning!
"I am not a shallow, insubstantial person just because I think appearances matter; they do matter!"
She has a point! She's into campaign psychology! (I love how Joel is wearing a bright red shirt and she's wearing a giant blue coat.)
"Well, some of us will vote for you, and some won't. DUH."
Gee, Holling, way to elect her Mayor of Homogeneous Indian Vote.
And awwwwwww, he can't even vote!
He loves it partially because it's so unattainable for himself! Awwwww! If he'd been able to vote, we would have gotten regular Chris odes, but since it was forbidden, we got Chris Speeches Up To Eleven.
Aw, Ed! I wish some of my students had been as curious and willing to learn as you are.
Ed is just beautiful sometimes.
I wish we'd gotten an entire episode about them attempting to do a home improvement project together after they got together.
...Isn't that kind of the whole series?
EDNA. OH, EDNA, ARE YOU ME?
I THINK SHE IS, YES. So great!
I suppose it's hard to be friends if you're Edna and Maurice.
I'm sure the fence helps.
He's okay with billboards and Burger Kings, but throw a few zoning and environmental regulations at him and he freaks out. Sigh.
"You've dirtied our pristine capitalism with the creeping weeds of democracy You can't unring that bell!!"
"How do you look? Beautiful, just like you always do."
Aww. I wonder if that had a teeny influence in their having dinner at the end.
Eeeee, "Appalachian Spring"!
This whole episode was Coplandalicious!
The voting booths are made from refrigerator boxes and old curtains. Cicely, I love you.
My first thought: "Maggie, why are you setting up for a puppet show?"
And Chris comes in with the suit and a haircut! Who knew he even owned a suit?
Sooooo excited about democracy!!
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Obviously fields with great similarity!
She has a point! She's into campaign psychology!
She's ahead of her time!
(I love how Joel is wearing a bright red shirt and she's wearing a giant blue coat.)
HA! I never noticed that!
Gee, Holling, way to elect her Mayor of Homogeneous Indian Vote.
*facepalm*
If he'd been able to vote, we would have gotten regular Chris odes, but since it was forbidden, we got Chris Speeches Up To Eleven.
He's compensating!
Ed is just beautiful sometimes.
Yes.
...Isn't that kind of the whole series?
One five-year-long home improvement project? Heh, perhaps. But I want to see them try to build a deck together or something.
I THINK SHE IS, YES. So great!
My long-lost grandmother!
I'm sure the fence helps.
Good fences make good neighbors! Also not-dead neighbors!
"You've dirtied our pristine capitalism with the creeping weeds of democracy You can't unring that bell!!"
Democracy as kudzu?
Aww. I wonder if that had a teeny influence in their having dinner at the end.
Perhaps a teeny one!
My first thought: "Maggie, why are you setting up for a puppet show?"
A puppet show about democracy?
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Take your eyes off it for one second AND IT'S CRAWLING UP YOUR LEG!
A puppet show about democracy?
Only in Cicely.
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