Dumbsday!

Dumbsday! is the eightieth comic issue, released on 24 August, 2016 in the US.

Synposis
When President discovers that the population is getting too smart to re-elect him again, he gets Dr. Wernstrom to create a machine that will make everyone stupider until Election Day. However, the Dumbsday device affects everyone but, making him “the smartest man in the world.”

Act I
Nixon is in a political debate against the Visible Woman, Bernie Burnman & the cloned head of himself. A member of the media reveals that they have decided to let the audience ask Nixon some questions (instead of the pre-prepared ones), which results in him offending a pair of frost giants (who have previously voted for Nixon three times). Meanwhile, at Planet Express, Fry accidentally gets popcorn all over the lounge, causing the others to insult his intelligence and laugh him out of the room. Nixon later consults with Dr. Wernstrom about raising his number of voters on Earth (which currently stands at a total of 85) by making everyone stupider. Wernstrom devises a plan to send out a baby Brain Spawn's intelligence-reducing waves through an antenna that will reach everyone on the planet.

Continuity

 * Nixon's head first became Earth president in "A Head in the Polls" in the year 3000 and has continued to use that loophole to be re-elected every four years, most recently in "Decision 3012".
 * Everyone on Earth, excluding Fry, also suffered from reduced intelligence caused by Brainspawn in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid". How Wernstrom got his hands on a baby one is unclear.
 * Wernstrom was previously misidentified as "Wormstorm" in "How to Secede Without Really Trying".

Allusions

 * Bernie Burnman is a cross between Marvel's Human Torch and American politician Bernie Sanders.
 * The head of the titular character from the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe appears in a garbage pile.

Characters

 * Debut: Bernie Burnman
 * Boxy Robot
 * Calculon
 * Debut: Cloned head of Richard Nixon
 * Cubert
 * Debut: Frost giants
 * Linda
 * Mario
 * Monique
 * Morbo
 * Nibbler
 * Scruffy
 * Debut: The Visible Woman
 * Debut: Wolfman Blitzer
 * Monique
 * Morbo
 * Nibbler
 * Scruffy
 * Debut: The Visible Woman
 * Debut: Wolfman Blitzer
 * Debut: Wolfman Blitzer
 * Debut: Wolfman Blitzer

Comic Credits

 * Script
 * Ian Boothby
 * Pencils
 * James Lloyd
 * Inks
 * Mike Rote
 * Colors
 * Art Villanueva
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates