History Main / GeorgeWashingtonSleptHere

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'', the Joestar group arrive at a inn in Pakistan, and the old woman that runs it says that a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie was filmed here and that Music/JohnLennon also stayed a night. Polnareff eagerly ask if either of those tidbits true, and the old woman says that it was a joke which makes both of them laugh. [[spoiler:Though since the old woman is Enya the Hag, who hates Polanreff [[YouKilledMyFather for killing her son J. Geil]] [[RevengeMyopia as vengeance for Polnareff's sister Sherry]], she was aiming [[EvilIsPetty to mess with Polnareff as much as possible]]]].

* ''George Washington Slept Here'' is a 1942 Creator/JackBenny film in which his wife buys a dilapidated old farm house for that specific reason.

* Parodied in the tiny German college town of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tübingen Tübingen]]. [[Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe Goethe]] once stayed there to visit his publisher, and later wrote that he found the town to be horribly dirty, smelly, and generally unpleasant. Just under a second-story window in the middle of the town is a plaque reading "[[VomitIndiscretionShot Goethe puked here]]"

* Two episodes of ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' are based around attempts to prove this: "Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly", about the founder of Cabet Cove, and "Benedict Arnold Slipped Here".

* The famous Château Frontenac hotel in Quebec City has themed 8 executive suites after famous politicians and figures who visited over the years, such as UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt and UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill who came to Quebec City in 1943 and 1944 to discuss the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII war]]. Other notable figures include Music/CelineDion, Prime Minister UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau and his son [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Justin Trudeau]] and Creator/AlfredHitchcock, who filmed a movie there.

-> "''Abe Lincoln never slept here--but YOU can!''"

-->''She was nuts on public-houses, was England’s Virgin Queen. There’s scarcely a pub of any attractions within ten miles of London that she does not seem to have looked in at, or stopped at, or slept at, some time or other. I wonder now, supposing Harris, say, turned over a new leaf, and became a great and good man, and got to be Prime Minister, and died, if they would put up signs over the public-houses that he had patronised: “Harris had a glass of bitter in this house;” “Harris had two of Scotch cold here in the summer of ’88;” “Harris was chucked from here in December, 1886.”\\
No, there would be too many of them! It would be the houses that he had never entered that would become famous. “Only house in South London that Harris never had a drink in!” The people would flock to it to see what could have been the matter with it.''

** The phenomenon also still persists in countries that ''don't'' have a monarchy anymore, with traditional companies like Alois Dallmayr of UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} (former ''Königlicher Hoflieferant'' of delicatessen to the Bavarian royal court) or Zum schwarzen Kameel of UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} (former ''k.u.k. Hoflieferant'' of coffee and pastries to the Imperial Habsburg courts) still boasting about their historical achievements.

** The phenomenon also still persists in countries that ''don't'' have a monarchy anymore, with traditional companies like Alois Dallmayr of UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} (former ''Königlicher Hoflieferant'' of delicatessen to the Bavarian royal court) or ''Zum schwarzen Kameel'' of UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} (former ''k.u.k. Hoflieferant'' of coffee and pastries to the Imperial Habsburg courts) still boasting about their historical achievements.

** The phenomenon also still persists in countries that ''don't'' have a monarchy anymore, with traditional companies like Alois Dallmayr of UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} (former ''Königlicher Hoflieferant'' of delicatessen to the Bavarian royal court) or ''Zum achwarzen Kameel'' of UsefulNotes/{{Vienna}} (former ''k.u.k. Hoflieferant'' to the Imperial Habsburg courts) still boasting about their historical achievements.

* A closely related phenomenon is the "By Royal Appointment" emblem that British companies are entitled to use if the Royal Household purchases its products. This is an impressive boast if one sold them wine or bespoke furniture or something: Selling the Royal Household ''dish soap'' is rather less impressive, not that it stopped Procter and Gamble printing the emblem on bottles of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_(brand) Fairy Liquid]] for many years.