Dumbsday!

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

The Story
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.”

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.

Characters

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

Comic Credits

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