Deep in his heart, the king still hates politics and wants to get out of ruling Waterland and would be content with only holding a ceremonial position. He has presidential elections organized. Ollie registers, but so does Dolf.
Continues in De Watersnood (Dolf Takes A Chance)
Tropes:
- Implied Death Threat: Dolf tells Wannes he should remember that Dolf will do anything, including murder.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Dolf's first idea is to commit murder.
- "Just Joking" Justification: When Wannes is horrified at the suggestion of murdering Ollie, Dolf claims he wasn't serious.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Snel appears to be working at Ollie's campaign office.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Wannes, despite his earlier actions and current involvement, is straight-up horrified by the idea of murdering Ollie.
- Animal Species Accent: Not the voice itself, but in the finnish dub Dolf responds to Wannes' interruption with a caw. It doesn't sound weird because the voice actor is good and it still works with Dolf's voice. He shortly makes another caw at Wannes when Wannes expresses his shock at Dolf's suggestion to murder Ollie.
- Series Continuity Error: The hippo man straight-up does the Nazi salute instead of the salute NCP actually used in season 1 (which was hand-on-the-heart).
- Call-Back:
- When Alfred says sir Poen visited him, Henk immediately hopes he didn't a is for a loan again. This is a reference to episode 21.
- Alfred tells king Franz a story about fire that didn't burn him, referring to his adventure in the previous two episodes (specifically the first part).
- Henk refers to Dolf smuggling guns (episode 37), and to Dolf stealing the blueprints of professor Von Paljas' solar power plant (episode 40).
- Dolf does his campaign handshakes by shaking people's both hands at the same time.
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Fridge Logic: Henk says Dolf smuggled weapons, which refers to episode 37. They didn't know who planted the guns on the ship and never found out during that arc and were not shown finding it out later, so how can Alfred and Henk know Dolf was involved at all? - Unexpected Character: Mr. Knox, the dog investor from season 1 episode 26 appears to run for president.
- Refuge in Audacity: After heading a fascist coup that arrested (and propably also murdered) lots of people, stealing everybody's money, causing the remaining free populace to riot, and trying to order a genocide, Dolf waltzes back into Waterland to run for president. He's not arrested for high treason and no significant protests against his campaign are shown.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In the finnish dub, Dolf's answer to the panda's prediction.
- Dolf: What the devil is that supposed to mean?
- Abdicate the Throne: King Franz's plan is to abdicate and turn Waterland into either a republic or a constitutional monarchy.
- All Elections Are Serious Business: It is when one of main contenders is almost literally Hitler.
- Dolf's leg movement is animated really weirdly, and his head looks off in the campaign office scenes.
- Dine and Dash: A non-food version. Dolf marches out of a seer's "office" without paying.
- Reluctant Ruler: Despite having grown as a person, Franz still doesn't want to rule Waterland. In this episode, he decides to abdicate.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- Sir Poen's opposition to Franz's abdication, and the reactions of his court and the nobility (or what exactly happens to them now) could have gotten more exploration.
- Dolf still has loads of supporters from the Crows' Party era, but they don't really do anything.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Winnie is angered when she (correctly) believes Alfred is fantasizing about another woman in the coffee table.
- Wingding Eyes: In his fantasy, Alfred gets pink heart eyes when he sees the face of an imaginary duck woman.
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The duck woman Alfred imagines is wearing a shirt and a scarf on her head.
- Furry Female Mane: The woman Alfred inagines has a brown tuft of hair, and is also propably the first white duck woman depicted with hair.
- True Blue Femininity: The woman Alfred imagines is dressed in light blues.
- Love Bubbles: Something like this can be seen in the background when Winnie imagines king Franz falling in love with somebody. The background is also pink.
- Heart Beats out of Chest: Some kind of a variation on king Franz in Winnie's fantasy. It's red though, and doesn't appear to come through his clothes.
- Imagine Spot:
- Winnie imagines king Franz falling in love.
- Alfred fantasizes about a hypotetchical woman whose existence Winnie theorized about. Winnie isn't happy when she notices.
- Hypocrite: In the Michael Duckson episode Alfred lost his marbles when Winnie fantasized about a pop star, but there Alfred himself fantasizes about a person of the opposite gender - one who doesn't actually exist, at that.
- Insistent Terminology: The finnish dub still calls sir Poen a "judge".
- Blunt "No": Sir Poen immediately and rudely says "No" when Alfred asks of he could tell him what king Franz wants to talk about.
- Humble Hero: Despite all the stuff he has done, Alfred says he's just an ordinary citizen[[note]] The finnish version.
- Early-Bird Cameo: The seer Dolf consults will have a larger role in the next arc.
- Karma Houdini:
- Dolf staged a coup and pretty literally went all-out Hitler on the people of Waterland an unclear amount of time ago. Regardless, he's neither arrested for treason nor protested when he waltzes back in to run for president.
- The archbishop apparently didn't get caught for his treasonous negotiations with Dolf in the Crows' Party arc, because he's still at king Franz's court.
- Concealing Canvas: A non-safe variant and propably just for aestethic purposes, but king Franz's television is behind a painting that can be raised away and lowered back with a remote.
- Spoiler Title: The original dutch is "Great Waterland gets a president". The english one ("Vote for Ollie") is more ambiguous. Averted completely by the finnish one ("Changes in waterland").
