History Trivia / TheSimpsonsS8E18HomerVsTheEighteenthAmendment

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: During the riot, a scene where an Irish mob blows up a British chip shop named "John Bull's Fish & Chips" (with the crowd cheering in response) was censored on British television and the rest of Europe. The episode first aired while the conflict in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles was on and four years after the Shankill Road bombing, in which ten people were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb which exploded prematurely in a fish shop. Considering the decades of terrorist attacks the IRA carried out in Britain, the most notorious of which targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, it's easy to see why the scene was censored and [[DoubleStandard hard to imagine the same joke being approved by Fox]] if it was at the expense of American terrorist attack victims.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Originally Chief Wiggum's first line was "They're either drunk or on the cocaine", but it was deemed too old-fashioned.
** The line "To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems," was originally the act break line at the end of act two, but was moved to the very end of the episode.

* TooSoon: During the riot, a scene where an Irish mob blows up a British chip shop named "John Bull's Fish & Chips" (with the crowd cheering in response) was censored on British television and the rest of Europe. The episode first aired while the conflict in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles was on and four years after the Shankill Road bombing, in which ten people were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb which exploded prematurely in a fish shop. Considering the decades of terrorist attacks the IRA carried out in Britain, the most notorious of which targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, it's easy to see why the scene was censored and [[DoubleStandard hard to imagine the same joke being approved by Fox]] if it was at the expense of American terrorist attack victims.

* TooSoon: During the riot, a scene where an Irish mob blows up a British chip shop named "John Bull's Fish & Chips" was censored on British television and the rest of Europe. The episode first aired while the conflict in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles was on and four years after the Shankill Road bombing in which ten people were killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb which exploded prematurely in a fish shop.