Simpson's Assignment

The comedic value was kept in place, while still keeping good historical facts. The Simpson’s managed to pull off a good episode by taking a true historical event with the ideas and terminology and turning it into a cartoon. Some examples that are seen are the Mafia, who are seen trying to give bribes to police Officers. This was very prevalent at the time and the police where very corrupt when it came to taking bribes and looking the other way at crime involving prohibition. Another major idea that was prevalent was speakeasies. These where secret pubs \ bars where people could hang out after work and drink. This was seen, and although exaggerated, still got the point across that was trying to be made. Some more distant icons such as the “Beer Baron” and “Rex Banner” which can be loosely tied into Al Capone and the FBI. Al Capone was a major crime boss who ruled over the smuggling business, and as a result Rex Banner (the FBI) steps in and takes control over the police to look into and investigate the problems.

Scene: The scene at the pet shop bar could be rewritten to be more historically correct. Obviously the bars where not extremely high tech where you can merely pull a lever and the entire bar would turn into a pet shop. This could have been made more historically correct by having the pet shop already set up and the beer being served in the back. Then the people would have come out and hung around in the pet shop while drinking. This is something that would more likely happen in order to disguise the saloon.