Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies/References
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Cultural references
- In Grampa's story, Fatty Arbuckle becomes the national spokesman for The Cookie Initiative. In real life, Arbuckle was an actor and comedian, and one of the most popular silent film stars of the 1910s.
- The Cookie Initiative leads to the Great Cookie Prohibition of 1929, a reference to Prohibition in the United States. Prohibition was a national ban on the sale, manufacture and transport of alcohol, established in 1920 with the 18th Amendment and repealed in 1933 with the 21st Amendment.
- According to Grampa, cookies were not seen again until 1987, when Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's vault, referring to the television special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults, which was hosted by Rivera. In real life, after a huge media buildup, the vault was anticlimactically discovered to be empty except for dirt and debris.
- Bart mentions that Grampa also has "theories on Easter, evolution, and Kevin James's career".
Goofs
- The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults aired in 1986, not in 1987 as Grampa indicates. However, rather than a goof, this could be a deliberate mistake on the part of the writers, a sly reference to Grampa's stories' tendency to not have all the facts straight.
