Franklin D. Roosevelt
- This article is about the character. For the guest star, see Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in office in 1945 where his four administrations toke place over the Great Depression and World War II. From age 39 Franklin Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility. A two-pack-a-day smoker, he was often seen with a cigarette holder clenched in his teeth in photographs, political cartoons, and in the public imagination.
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He was featured in a 1940s cartoon of The Itchy and Scratchy Show, kicking Scratchy and Hitler, despite the fact that Roosevelt was a wheelchair patient. This was a reference to the fact that during his term, not many people in the general public knew he was a wheelchair patient.[1]
When Ralph Wiggum wanted to play the part of George Washington in a school play, he dressed himself with glasses, a cigarette holder, and seated himself in a wheelchair. Lisa then said, "Eh, Ralph...", presumably to inform him he had dressed as the wrong president.[2]
Krusty the Clown as Franklin D. Roosevelt in a staging at the Springfield Performing Arts Center of Sunrise at Campobello was used as an example of why Springfield was ranked dead last in culture in Kent Brockman's report.[3]
Mayor Quimby was thrown from his treadmill and out his office window. His new bodyguard, Homer, was trying to pull him up, but the mayor told him, "Not so fast," as he could see into the window of the story below, which was the interns' restroom, saying to one of them, "Did you know this is how FDR met Eleanor?" before she slapped his face.[4]
When Raphael did a crossword, he searched for Roosevelt's middle name. He thought it was "excitement," but that didn't fit, so Lisa started helping him and told him it was "Delano."[5]
Roosevelt appeared in a story told by Marge. In order to deal with Bonnie and Clyde, President Roosevelt recalled all the air defenses from Pearl Harbor. He then asked to be reminded to move them back again afterward, with a Japanese ambassador saying that he'd remind Roosevelt.[6]
When Lisa searched for the radio station Bart was on, she ran into Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor speech in 1941: "A date which will live in infamy."[7]
When Lisa was reading her Social Studies book, there was a picture of Franklin and Eleanor in it. Lisa imagined Ms. Cantwell's face coming onto Eleanor's head, and she then pushed Franklin, in his wheelchair, off a jetty into the water.[8]
Mr. Burns was filling out the patient intake form at the Mayo Clinic, and when writing his social security number, 000-000-002, he cursed, "Damn Roosevelt," as the Social Security Act was part of the New Deal.[9]
A fictional version of Roosevelt was in the opening of Head Butt with Nash Castor, where he and Ronald Reagan fought against each other.[10]
Mr. Burns removed the daily donuts at the nuclear power plant's break room, saying, "Until Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal starts working, this country's still in a depression." Mr. Burns was being typically out-of-date, as the U.S. midterm elections of 1938 are often marked as the close of the New Deal era.[11]
A picture of him was seen in a book that Superintendent Chalmers showed Bart, before Bart developed an interest in Theodore Roosevelt. Lisa said she liked Franklin Roosevelt more than Teddy Roosevelt.[12]
Lacey Van Aster mentioned that she had seduced and destroyed Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.[13]
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Harvard College had a picture on the wall of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a member of the class of 1904).[14]
One of Homer's clones went to the retirement home and listened to another of Grampa Simpson's go-nowhere stories. Part of it was that after World War II, FDR (who Grampa never mentioned was already dead by the time World War II ended) was challenged by Superman (a comic book character) to a race around the world, and FDR won by two furlongs.[15]
The Simpsons: Tapped Out
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Behind the Laughter
The real audio of Roosevelt's speech delivered the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor specifically where he famously label December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy" was used in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" although he was uncredited.
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References
- Jump up ↑ "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
- Jump up ↑ "I Love Lisa"
- Jump up ↑ "A Star Is Burns"
- Jump up ↑ "Mayored to the Mob"
- Jump up ↑ "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Jump up ↑ "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Jump up ↑ "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Jump up ↑ "Black-Eyed, Please"
- Jump up ↑ "The Mansion Family"
- Jump up ↑ "E Pluribus Wiggum"
- Jump up ↑ "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
- Jump up ↑ "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
- Jump up ↑ "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
- Jump up ↑ "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
- Jump up ↑ "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
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