The Star-Ledger, a newspaper in the Mid-Atlantic states, gave a good review to "A Head in the Polls" today, November 14, 1999.
(begin quoting) Sunday's "Futurama" on Fox was one of the funniest yet. The plot had Richard Nixon- who, in the year 3000, is just a head in a jar- appropiating the body of the robot Bender and running for president against a couple of look-alike human challengers. The digs at contemporary political culture were sweet indeed. When Nixon's truthfulness was challenged during a debate, he sweated inside his Plexiglas head tank, just as the real Nixon sweated during his 1960 televised match-up with JFK, and there was a good bit where a newscaster announced that Nixon's unexpected entry into the race had goosed voter participation to its highest level in centuries: a whopping six percent. The surreal humor was choice as well- especially Nixon's impulsive revelation that if elected, he would "sell voters' children to zoos for meat" and "break into their houses at night and trash their stuff." This show just keeps getting better. (end quoting)
The catch for New New Yorkers? The newspaper is located in New Jersey.
(Article: copryight 1999 by Newark Morning Ledger Co.)