The Candidate Harper and Gretchen find themselves at odds due to San Francisco's mayoral race, as each backs an opposing candidate. Gretchen finds herself without a candidate when hers withdraws, as he is canceled by the public after a compromising photo is discovered. Freddy, at Franklin's insistence, ends up becoming the new party candidate after a video of him bathing goes viral. Phineas is irritated by the entire process and refuses to vote, claiming he was soured to politics in the 1960s due to Bernie Sanders co-opting his idea for democratic socialism. He is reluctantly pulled into the party, only to leave in favor of backing Harper's candidate Dennis Chang when the others ignore him. The political race comes to an end when Freddy is himself canceled due to his skin yellowing, as his campaigning was done entirely via a portable bathtub. The public assumes that he is adopting yellowface to mock Chang and abandon his campaign. Ultimately neither candidate wins and the mayorship is won by Pimco, a handicapped minor character who had thus far in the series been part of a series of running jokes.