But, onto the good parts of this show. There are guest stars for almost every chapter of Tom Goes to the Mayor, from actors to musicians we have individuals playing as shop owners and the like, somehow involved in Peters' and The Mayor's ridiculous schemes. For example, when The Mayor decides to place bear traps all over the town to make the children safer in the chapter entitled, "Bear Traps," there just so happens to be two store shop owners of bear traps. Enter, two clever individuals named Jack Black and Kyle Gass... you may also know them as the hilarious duo Tenacious_D. Jack and Kyle do some good comedy in the show, arguing over the importance of bear traps, and singing about the glory of the sharpness of the steel mechanisms, and thanks to the reputation that the two comedian-musicians have built of over the years one can't help but be grateful for their interruption of the commonality of Tom Goes to the Mayor. Another guest star of the show includes Patton Oswalt, whom although playing a relatively short role in the chapter "Pioneer Island," serves as a relief from the boredom of Tom and The Mayor as an eccentric electronics store owner (and wannabe dictator) who refers to himself in the third person as "ZYNX." The episode Oswalt appears in follows Tom's construction and reinvention of a classic western period and historical portion of Jefferton, but with little success... it's too bad that Oswalt's character does little but attempt a street fight, he could have been put to much better use... such as making his character having a role in the subsequent destruction of the Pioneer Island project (which eventually succumbs to The Mayor's act of arson). I can imagine that the insertion of an overly dramatic character is supposed to offset the apparent lack of complexity amongst the central cast in Tom Goes to the Mayor, but in order for such a thing to occur one would hope that the balance of such character dynamics would not be so lopsided.
With the animation type reminiscent of that of shop mannequins, the character qualities with less personality then dried-up apricots, and the story's humor hinging upon an aspect of series development and production that most studios would clearly avoid (such as uninspired dialogue, poor punch lines, and/or an undeveloped plot climax), Tom Goes to the Mayor looks like a hard sell to me for the simple fact that I am unable to see how the plainness and lack of an organic story design is supposed to become a success.
Adult Swim original series' have played off of this structural approach before, but not to the extent that one will find within Tom Goes to the Mayor. One might find such an attempt at comedy unnatural, irregular, perhaps insipid, and therefore, unneeded.