Editing 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.  {{w|Fatty Arbuckle|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 {{w|Prohibition in the United States}}. Prohibition was a national ban on the sale, manufacture and transport of alcohol, established in 1920 with the {{w|Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|18th Amendment}} and repealed in 1933 with the {{w|Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution|21st Amendment}}.
*According to Grampa, cookies were not seen again until 1987, when [[Geraldo Rivera]] opened {{w|Al Capone}}'s vault, referring to the television special ''{{w|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 {{w|Easter}}, {{w|evolution}}, and {{w|Kevin James (actor)|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.

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