"They really should have made it a poll of reasonable characters that had high request counts already."
AMEN!
Also love The Oblongs reference! It and The Critic are so underrated

“They really should have made it a poll of reasonable characters that had high request counts already.”

I think that the only reason that they didn't was to prevent people from complaining how Character X wasn't included on the poll. That, and such a list would imply that they would get to every character included on the poll.