History Recap / TheSimpsonsS11E1BeyondBlunderdome

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[Creator/JimmyStewart Jimmy Stewart]]'s middle-aged granddaughter slaps Homer and Mel for their ActionizedAdaptation of Stewart's film. In RealLife, however, not even Stewart's twin daughters were that old (being in their ''thirties'' at the time).

** The first has him dismissing the filibuster scene. It may even cross into CompletelyMissingThePoint when Mel says that it was Jimmy Stewart's favorite scene, to which Homer replies it was "fine for the 1930s: [[TheGreatDepression the country was doin' great back then."]]

* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, Homer writes a bad review of his movie so Gibson lets him work on the re-edit, thinking Homer was saying what people really felt and was [[TheLastDJ the only one with the guts to tell him]], when in fact it was because Homer is an idiot with no taste and [[GreenEyedMonster had a grudge against Mel at the time due to Marge's infatuation with him]].

* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, Homer writes a bad review of his movie so Gibson lets him work on the re-edit, thinking Homer was saying what people really felt and was [[TheLastDJ the only one with the guts to tell him]], when in fact it was because Homer is an idiot with no taste and[[GreenEyedMonster had a grudge against Mel at the time due to Marge's infatuation with him]].

** During the car chase scene, Bart bags Marge to take a picture of him to show to Milhouse, to which she replies that she used up her last shot on that man she thought was Judge Judy.

'''Edward Christian''': I know, but he sells tickets. ''[long pause as neither of the execs laugh]'' ... Let's go.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Mel thinking that Homer was the OnlySaneMan with the guts to tell him that not having violence in the movie was a bad thing, when there were several hundred people writing glowing reviews saying otherwise. This is dramatic because it completely wrecks his career.

* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, Homer writes a bad review of his movie so Gibson lets him work on the re-edit, thinking Homer was saying what people really felt and was [[TheLastDJ the only one with the guts to tell him]], when in fact it was because Homer [[GreenEyedMonster had a grudge against Mel at the time due to Marge's infatuation with him]].

* BrickJoke: During a Q&A before the test screening, Professor Frink asks if the movie will have any [[Movie/TheAbsentMindedProfessor Flubber]] in it, and is disappointed to learn it won't. Later when the studio is reading the audience's reactions, one of cards mentioned that they loved the film even though it didn't have any Flubber, indicating Frink was the one who wrote it.

* BrickJoke: Before Q&A before the test screening, Professor Frink asks if the movie will have any [[Movie/TheAbsentMindedProfessor Flubber]] in it, and is disappointed to learn it won't. Later when the studio is reading the audience's reactions, one of cards mentioned that they loved the film even though it didn't have any Flubber, indicating Frink was the one who wrote it.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Senator Paine get this in the remake.

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, the rewritten climax of the remake of ''Mr. Smith Goes To Washington'' has everybody who sees it (but Homer and Gibson) become horrified at the defilement of a piece of cinematic history. The test audience that comes out on the final scene includes Flanders saying that he's holding back vomiting from how bad it is and ''Jimmy Stewart's grand-daughter'', who threatens to sue both men for such a blatant defamation of her grandfather's work.

* OffWithHisHead: Mr. Smith ends his murderous rampage in Homer's ending by removing the Seal of the United States Senate from the Senate chamber's central rostrum, and throwing it at the neck of the President like a frisbee, causing it to decapitate the Commander-in-chief.

* ActionizedAdaptation: In-universe. Homer criticizes the movie for having Gibson's character talk for hours and not shooting anybody (something Gibson himself regrets). Homer is invited to help edit the movie, and they mutually decide to reshoot the ending of the movie so that Mr. Smith goes on a violent rampage against the senate, culminating with him decapitating the President of the United States. Nobody likes the result, not even Jimmy Stewart's granddaughter, and in the end the movie becomes a StarDerailingRole for Gibson.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Senator Paine in Homer's revision of ''Mr. Smith Goes To Washington''. While Mr. Smith's HeroicRROD set his epiphany in the original movie, here he just laughs and makes a cruel one-liner. This provokes Mr Smith to ''massacre everyone inside the Capitol Building.''

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: [[Creator/JimmyStewart Jimmy Stewart]]'s elderly granddaughter slaps Homer and Mel for their ActionizedAdaptation of Stewart's film. In RealLife, however, not even Stewart's twin daughters were that old (being in their ''thirties'' at the time).

* AdaptationalBadass: Mel Gibson's version of Mr. Smith is a one-man army. This ends up DramaticallyMissingThePoint of the original film, though (or ComicallyMissingThePoint, in a dark way) and only Gibson and Simpson think that it's cool.

* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse, Homer writes a bad review of his movie so Gibson lets him work on the re-edit, thinking Homer was saying what people really felt and had the guts to tell him, when in fact it was because Homer [[GreenEyedMonster had a grudge against Mel at the time due to Marge's infatuation with him]].

* CallBack: Mel Gibson is not the first man to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou do the mistake of assuming that Homer Simpson knows what people really wants just because his tastes are simple]].

'''Bart:''' [[ExactWords You betcha]] ''[burps]''\\

* AnachronismStew: On top of the RevisedEnding that Gibson and Homer do being hyper-violent, it has some blatant examples of these (because the original movie was made in 1939). To count: when Mel's version of Mr. Smith machine-guns everybody in Congress, he does so with an M-16 (made in TheSixties. It would have been more period-accurate (to not mention arguably a lot cooler) to have Mel blaze away with a Tommy Gun) and the fire extinguisher that blows up the whole building wouldn't (models of that era didn't had contents under pressure, and making them red wasn't standardized, even). Strangely enough, Mel imitating Curly ''would'' have been period-accurate (the Three Stooges were active from 1922 to 1970, with the shorts starting production in 1934).

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, the rewritten climax of the remake of ''"Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"'' has everybody who sees it (but Homer and Gibson) become horrified at the defilement of a piece of cinematic history. The test audience that comes out on the final scene includes Flanders saying that he's holding back vomiting from how bad it is and ''Jimmy Stewart's grand-daughter'', who threatens to sue both men for such a blatant defamation of her grandfather's work.

* AnachronismStew: On top of the RevisedEnding that Gibson and Homer do being hyper-violent, it has some blatant examples of these (because the original movie was made in 1939). To count: when Mel's version of Mr. Smith machine-guns everybody in Congress, he does so with an M-16 (made in TheSixties. It would have been more period-accurate (to not mention arguably a lot cooler) to have Mel blaze away with a Tommy Gun) and the fire extinguisher that blows up the whole building wouldn't (models of that era didn't had contents under pressure). Strangely enough, Mel imitating Curly ''would'' have been period-accurate (the Three Stooges were active from 1922 to 1970, with the shorts starting production in 1934).

** For some reason, Homer believes that there is a scene in ''Braveheart'' where the Scots mooned the British and this scared them off. Mel corrects him that it was a bunch of bloody battles that the Scots ''lost'' before nearly (or in Homer's case, actually) being hit by the executives' car.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer on two occasions, at least:

* DudeNotFunny: InUniverse, the rewritten climax of the remake of ''"Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"'' has everybody who sees it (but Homer and Gibson) become horrified at the defilement of a piece of cinematic history. The test audience that comes out on the final scene includes one man that is holding back vomiting from how bad it is and ''Jimmy Stewart's grand-daughter'', who threatens to sue both men for such a blatant defamation of her grandfather's work.

* TakeThat: One of the executives said Homer's changes made Gibson's movie worse than ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'' and Mel Gibson told him not to say that kind of thing. The executive conceded he went too far with the comment but still wanted to destroy Homer's film.

* SomebodyDoesntLovesRaymond: Homer is '''the single''' person in the hundreds of people that test-screened that absolutely loathes the fact the ''"Mr. Smith"'' remake has zero violence or gross humor in it. Gibson takes it as gospel truth and evidence that Homer is TheLastDJ and turns what may have been one of the best movies of his (InUniverse) career into a StarDerailingRole with Homer's "help".

* PanderingToTheBase : InUniverse, Homer writes a bad review of his movie so Gibson lets him work on the re-edit, thinking Homer was saying what people really felt and had the guts to tell him, when in fact it was because Homer [[GreenEyedMonster had a grudge against Mel at the time due to Marge's infatuation with him]].