History Recap / TheSimpsonsS20E14InTheNameOfTheGrandfather

* HardWorkMontage: Subverted. Getting the pub up to speed as as "smoke-easy" consists entirely of tearing the "No" off of a "No Smoking" sign.

* FightingIrish: In Granpa's romanticized flashback about life in Ireland, two Irishmen are fighting in a bar.

** An interesting subversion is that Homer and Grandpa expect every Irishman to be a drunk, yet most of them don't particularly feel the need to visit a bar.

** The creators luckily managed to avoid directly addressing UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, except for one throwaway line. As Grandpa enters the Irish bar he had to miss for so many decades he nostalgically says: "Get ready to step back to a simpler age filled with tweet calves, cheerful sheep and unending Troubles."

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie visit the Giant's Causeway, Guinness Brewery and the Blarney Stone in one day. This is improbable, but not impossible, because the Giant's Causeway is in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the Brewery in County Dublin (about 250 km away) and Blarney Stone in County Cork (about another 250 km away). Keep in mind that Irish roads do not allow for all that fast travel and the Irish railroad system is something of a joke.

This episode holds the distinction of airing in Ireland and the United Kingdom a week before airing on American TV.

* FightingIrish: In Granpa's romanticized flashback about life in Ireland two Irishmen are fighting in a bar.

* OhCrap: Bart after realizing the Irish version of Nelson is, unknowingly, going to carve his initials into Bart's butt.

** Bart makes a derogatory remark about UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} to which Marge replies: "Bart, if you hate Belgium so much: maybe I should take your {{Tintin}}s away", to which a scared Bart replies he'll be good, clutching a copy of ''[[Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws The Crab With The Golden Claws]]''.

** The romantic couple Bart sees near the road are a reference to the film Film/{{Once}}, with voice actors Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová reprising their roles from that film.

* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Homer says: "Let me say, I've always admired the Irish. Knute Rockne, Larry Bird and especially Mr.Potato Head."

** At the trial, Homer mentions legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne[[note]]who was of Norwegian descent[[/note]], Larry Bird and Mr. Potato Head as Irishmen admired by Americans (the judge looking just like Mr. Potato Head) and finishes his defense with "So I hope you'll forgive two well-meaning Americans for trying to take Ireland back to the good old days of ''Literature/AngelasAshes''".

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie visit the Giant's Causeway, Guinness Brewery and the Blarney Stone in one day. This is improbable, but not impossible, because the Giant's Causeway is in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the Brewery in County Dublin (about 250 km away) and Blarney Stone in County Cork (about another 250 km away).
Keep in mind that Irish roads do not allow for all that fast travel and the Irish railroad system is something of a joke.

--> Irish jugde: "It (Ireland) got a lot nicer since we sent all our incompetent half-wits to America. Where you, for some reason, made them police officers. Top of the morning to you." ''(Cue Wiggum entering)''

--> An Irish man: "It (Ireland) got a lot nicer since we sent all our incompetent half-wits to America. Where you, for some reason, made them police officers. Top of the morning to you."

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie visit the Giant's Causeway, Guinness Brewery and the Blarney Stone in one day. This is improbable, but not impossible, because the Giant's Causeway is in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the Brewery in County Dublin (about 250 km away) and Blarney Stone in County Cork (about another 250 km away). Keep in mind that Irish roads do not allow for all that fast travel and the Irish railroad system is something of a joke.

* NationalStereotypes: The Irish are shown as people with surnames ending in "O'...". Several men have red sideburns and wear green. Many references to specific Irish phenomena are made, including potatoes, Irish pubs, darts, alcoholism, boiled food, line dancing, the fiddle, "The Irish Washerwoman" song, Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, Creator/JamesJoyce, Creator/SamuelBeckett, leprechauns, Music/{{U2}}, calves, sheep, UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, the word "me" instead of "mine", whiskey, "Guinness", The Giant's Causeway, UsefulNotes/TheIrishDiaspora, Blarney Stone, Bloomsday, the word "da" instead of "dad", shamrocks, the phrases "So its...., then?" and "Top o'the morning to ya" and the fact that Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in bars.

** When Marge chases Bart and Lisa upon the Giant's Causeway, a reference is made to the videogame ''Q-Bert''.

** Homer references Literature/AngelasAshes: "So I hope you'll forgive two well-meaning Americans for trying to take Ireland back to the good old days of "Angela's Ashes"".

* NationalStereotypes: The Irish are shown as people with surnames ending in "O'...". Several men have red sideburns and wear green. Many references to specific Irish phenomena are made, including potatoes, Irish pubs, darts, alcoholism, boiled food, line dancing, the fiddle, "The Irish Washerwoman" song, Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, Creator/JamesJoyce, Creator/SamuelBeckett, leprechauns, Music/{{U2}}, calves, sheep, UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, the word "me" instead of "mine", whiskey, "Guinness", The Giant's Causeway, TheIrishDiaspora, Blarney Stone, Bloomsday, the word "da" instead of "dad", shamrocks, the phrases "So its...., then?" and "Top o'the morning to ya" and the fact that Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in bars.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie visit the Giant's Causeway, Guinness Brewery and the Blarney Stone in one day. This is improbable, but not impossible, because the Giant's Causeway is in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the Brewery in County Dublin (about 250 km away) and Blarney Stone in County Cork (about another 250 km away).

* SpecialGuest: Glen Hasard, Markéta Irglová and Colm Meaney.

** The romantic couple Bart sees near the road are a reference to the film Film/{{Once}}, with voice actors Glen Hasard and Markéta Irglová reprising their roles from that film.

** When Marge and the children visit Blarney Stone, a monument that can be kissed, she says: "America doesn't have any stones worth kissing. Except for Stone Phillips." Later some stoney rubble is shown with the text: [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones "Blarney Rubble"]].

* VacationEpisode: The Simpsons travel to Ireland.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kenneth Branagh and Kathy Ireland were asked to appear in this episode, but declined.

* NationalStereotypes: The Irish are shown as people with surnames ending in "O'...". Several men have red sideburns and wear green. Many references to specific Irish phenomena are made, including potatoes, Irish pubs, darts, alcoholism, boiled food, line dancing, the fiddle, "The Irish Washerwoman" song, Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, Creator/JamesJoyce, Creator/SamuelBeckett, leprechauns, Music/{{U2}}, calves, sheep, TheTroubles, the word "me" instead of "mine", whiskey, "Guinness", The Giant's Causeway, TheIrishDiaspora, Blarney Stone, Bloomsday, the word "da" instead of "dad", shamrocks, the phrases "So its...., then?" and "Top o'the morning to ya" and the fact that Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in bars.

** The creators luckily managed to avoid directly addressing TheTroubles, except for one throwaway line. As Grandpa enters the Irish bar he had to miss for so many decades he nostalgically says: "Get ready to step back to a simpler age filled with tweet calves, cheerful sheep and unending Troubles."

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie visit the Giant's Causeway, Guinness Brewery and the Blarney Stone in one day. This is improbable, but not impossible, because the Giant's Causeway is in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, the Brewery in County Dublin and Blarney Stone in County Cork.

---> An Irish man: "It (Ireland) got a lot nicer since we sent all our incompetent half-wits to America. Where you, for some reason, made them police officers. Top of the morning to you."

** An interesting subversion is that Homer and Granpa expect every Irishman to be a drunk, yet most of them don't particularly feel the need to visit a bar.

** Grampa mentions about feeling "as lonely as Estes Kefauver at a meeting of Murder, Incorporated." When the Simpsons look at him blankly, he retorts, "That actually makes sense! Look it up!" Senator Estes Kefauver headed highly-publicized hearings into organized crime in the 1950s. The hearings were a serious blow to the Mob in America, though they are more remembered these days for a side hearing on juvenile deliquency that became a referendum on comic books and the direct cause for the creation of the Comics Code Authority.
** Bart makes a derigatory remark about UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}} to which Marge replies: "Bart, if you hate Belgium so much: maybe I should take your {{Tintin}}s away", to which Bart scaredly replies he'll be good, clutching a copy of [[Recap/TintinTheCrabWithTheGoldenClaws The Crab With The Golden Claws]]
** The creators luckily managed to avoid directly addressing TheTroubles, except for one throwaway line. As Granpa enters the Irish bar he had to miss for so many decades he nostalgically says: "Get ready to step back to a simpler age filled with tweet calves, cheerful sheep and unending Troubles."
** Tom O' Flanagan describes himself as an "old man yelling at his tapes." This is a reference to the modern Irish play, "Krapp's Last Tape".
** When Marge chases Bart and Lisa upon the Giant's Causeway, a reference is made to the videogame Q-Bert.
** The romantic couple Bart sees near the road are a reference to the film Film/{{Once}}, with voice actors Glen Hasard and Markéta Irglová resprising their roles from that film.

* CulturalTranslation: Bart watches a German dub of Krusty's show on the multichannel TV set of the Irish pub owner. (Also note that despite being dubbed Krusty and Sideshow Mel's lip movements still match with what they are saying in German.)

* DistaffCounterpart: Irish Nelson.

* NationalStereotypes: The Irish are shown as people with surnames ending in "O'...". Several men have red sideburns and wear green. Many references to specific Irish phenomena are made, including potatoes, Irish pubs, darts, alcoholism, boiled food, line dancing, the fiddle, "The Irish Washerwoman" song, Creator/OscarWilde, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, Creator/JamesJoyce, Creator/SamuelBeckett, leprechauns, Music/{{U2}}, calves, sheep, TheTroubles, the word "me" instead of "mine", whiskey, "Guinness", The Giant's Causeway, Irish immigration to the U.S.A. in the past, Blarney Stone, Bloomsday, the word "da" instead of "dad", shamrocks, the phrases "So its...., then?" and "Top o'the morning to ya" and the fact that Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in bars.

* SirNotAppearingInThisFilm: The Simpsons see various locations in Ireland, including actress Kathy Ireland. A writers' caption explains it's "not her real voice. We asked her to do the show, but she said no. We wish her well."

* OhCrap: Bart after realizing the Irish version of Nelson is, unknowingly, going to carve his initials into Bart's butt.

* ContinuitySnarl: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E12TheMansionFamily "The Mansion Family"]], Moe conformed to the law against serving beer on weekends before 2:00pm on Sundays. Now, he was encouraging Homer and Abe to break that law.

* OhCrap: Bart after realizing the irish version of Nelson is, unknowingly, going to carve his initials into Bart's butt.

* ContinuitySnarl: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E12TheMansionFamily "The Mansion Family"]], Moe conformed to the law against serving beer on weekends before 2:00pm on Sundays. Now, he was encouraging Homer and Abe to break that law.

* ContinuitySnarl: In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E12TheMansionFamily "The Mansion Family"]], Moe conformed to the law against serving beer on weekends before 14 o'clock. Now, he was encouraging Homer and Abe to break that law.