War Is Smelly!/References

General

References/Trivia

Appearances

Credits

Quotes

Cultural references

• The story's title is a pun on the saying "War is Hell", attributed to General William Tecumseh Sherman.
• When Lisa starts talking to Grampa, she says that it'll be a first-person glimpse into history, like a Ken Burns documentary.
• Lola Bonanza starred alongside Cary Grant in Doomed Love. The poster is a reference to An Affair to Remember, starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
• Lola Bonanza cheated on Grampa with Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Gabby Hayes, and Shemp Howard.
• The legendary haunted tank was haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde.
• Sgt. Furry and his Howling K-9 Kommandos are a parody of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos.
• Iggy Wiggum says that General Patton sounds like Minnie Mouse in jodhpurs.
• The Terrycloth Major asks the Flying Hellfish if Li'l Abner will marry Daisy Mae, a reference to the Li'l Abner comic strip.
• Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon is among the Nazi leaders.
• Grampa says that Dwight D. Eisenhower gave him a medal.
• Grampa tells Lisa that their real mission was to find the hat that Bob Hope had lost.

Continuity

• The story follows the Flying Hellfish. ("Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"")