Cheese-eating surrender monkeys

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys is a phrase used by Groundskeeper Willie.

History
Groundskeper Willie, due to budget cuts, was teaching French dressed in a striped shirt and a beret. He greeted the class with "Bonjourrr, yah cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys!".

In other media
The French opposed the. The and the  used this phrase commonly. On the car show, described a French car as 'surrender monkey'. On the quiz show, a contestant described the French as 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys', after being told that they find the British 'lazy'.

Creation
The term was coined by writers of The Simpsons in 1995. According to the DVD commentary the phrase was probably written by.

The "surrender" part of the phrase refers to the with the French virtually surrendering to Nazi Germany.

Changes
In the French version of the show, the line was changed to "singes mangeurs de fromage", which translates to "cheese-eating monkeys", without any reference to the word surrender.