Has anybody noticed the historical references in Simpsons? Its interesting to notice.

For example

The evacuation of Saigon





Then had anybody noticied in one of the itchy and scratchy in the wacking day episode the name Oliver Stone came up. I think he was the guy that filmed the Kenedy assanation.

There is more, but I'll post it when I come across them.

Woops, sorry my mistake.   

lol...

What I remember most is "Bert the Turtle". "Remember kids, when you see the flash, just duck and cover." My history teacher has a cabinet full of historical footage.

Another more suttle historical reference (or i guess you would call it a artistic reference) is Side Show Bob's prison number-24601.  If you don't recgonize that, it's the number that Jean Valjean from the play Les Miserables also wears.

Don't forget about the moon landing when homer was sitting in his bean bag singing and eating and not watching it happening. ;

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This is not the only time when they used the prison number 24601,  Principle Skinner found a helment that he wore when he was caught in Namm , it had the number 24601 on it,
To quote him 'It's a small world, it really is'

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yeah,this one was cool,they tried to assassinate hitler...

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Yea, like the Model UN club one. Milhouse is talking about Poland "I heard they set a rocket to the sun once, at night. And there was that submarine with the screen door." Speaking of making fun of Poland, "All in the Family" was another show that would poke fun at everything. "God made woman from Adam's rib, see, cheaper cut"

That one with the number I would never catch.

Remember the episode where homer got a trampoline from Krusty? There was a scene where  the camara backs and shows a field of wounded people. I think that was taken from the movie Gettysburg, where the camara backed up showing many wounded people.

There was anonother episode when homer rides a nuclear bomb with a cowboy hat, just to bomb a group of beatniks. I think that was taken from the movie "Dr.Strangelove" where the character Kong rides the bomb because the rail wont release.

Then there was another Dr.Stangelove reference, when Side Show Bob stole a nuclear bomb, then the mayor and military staff meets in a war room with the world map against the wall with a circular table and a circular light fixture.

Yep, and sold it back to Burns because of Homer'

Another histoical reference (sort of) was the Haloween episode when Lisa managed to get guns banned in Springfield because she found the grave of a 20 year old man who had been killed by guns-his name was William James.  Later William comes back to life and it turns out to be Billy the Kid, there is also an appearance of Jessie James in his group and they also allow Kaiser Wilhelm to be a part too (after he convinces them he's a cowboy).  Then they basically take over the town.  Anyway, thats kind of a historical reference.

and the episode where alchoholic beverages are prohibited and Homer tries to make a replicate of it....sort of like the Prohibition days..

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The 'Model UN ' episode where the kids get marooned on an island has a number of obvious references to "Lord of the Flies" (not historic - but a book)
Nelson - "The hunt is on" while painting his cheeks with charcoal..........

The 'B Sharps' episode is very obviously a 'hystoric' satire of the Beatles career. Harrison even makes a last minute appearance.

Not really a historical realation but,

The future episode of lisas first love 'Huge',

Homer "We saved your arse in World war 2"
Huge "Well we saved your arse in World War 3"

My dad tried to "lecture" me on the themes for Soilent Green when I was a kid.

There are some references to JFK in simpsons. Like there was a small thing where JFK is on a PT Boat and I think it was numbered 109.

I'm not sure who said it in Simpsons JFK or mayor Quimby but one of them said. 'Ich bin ein Berliner'

Another episode when Side Show Bob ran for mayor. When there was a televised debate between Side Show Bob and Quimby and Side Show Bob win because of appearance, they copied the debate between Nixon and Kennedy.

In the same episode when Side Show Bob became mayor, Lisa went to the library to do some research and fell asleep in the center of the library, they copied the scene from the "Presidents Men" Goldstien was reading the votes. Then Lisa and Bart met "Deepthroat".

Again in the Side Show Bob mayor episode, he said "You want the truth, you cant handle the truth. You need me." That was Nicolsons line in a Few Good Men.

There was another episode when Burns ran for mayor and had that big black and white photo of him in the backround.

There seems to be alot of political references

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The JFK character also said it on the PT 109 when grandpa was telling his story about WWII (The Hellfish). They then accused him of being a Nazi and beat the crap out of him.
Quimby also says "ich bin ein Springfielder" at some point. I think in the episode where they celebrate either Jebadiah's Day or Whacking Day.

There's the one where Lisa sneaks into college. At the gym she dreams about Kennedy. He calls here Leeser. 
Then there's the Jebadhia Springfield one where they expose him as Hanns Sprungfeld. He fights George Washington and tears the painting.

There's also the one where Homer and Apu go to India. They're riding on the camels through the desert to Sringfield Airport. Apu says something like "I'm sorry we couldn't take a cab but I spent the last of my money on airline tickets." That scene is  from Lawrence of Arabia.

Theres reference to Ghengis Khan on one. Lisa's dreaming of what the school can do with more money and invisions virtual reality helments. "Ah yes, hello Lisa, I'm Ghengis Khan. Today you'll go where I go, defile what I'll defile, eat who I eat. Eh."

Then there's the Duff Gardens one where they visit the Hall of Patriots or something. It has Babe Ruth, Abe Lincon and a bunch of others, and they're all drunk.

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The whole episode has a kind of historical reference (movie history at least) in fact.
You may not know but the movie that Mel stars in is a remake of 'Mr Smith goes to Washington' which starred James Stewart.

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oh,i did not know that. thanks!

that vietnam one skinners entire platoon got eaten by an elephant when they tried to escape:)

i seem to spend 90% of my day here these days:)
although they didnt show his entire platoon, they were in that bamboo cell, one guy broke out of it when skinner told them to stay put, and he got stopped by the elephant then when they went back to the presant skinner said, "that elephant ate my entire platoon that day"

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Of course he got the German Cross....he blew up his own tanks!

Remember the one where Homers power plant goes on strike? They made a reference to the labor union strikes in the early 1900s. Factories needed a private police that controlled protest in front of factories. So, Mr.Burns said something like "Smithers get me those labor police like the ones they had in the 1920s." Then they get Grandfather Simpson, and three other men telling them a boring story.