The Great Depression

In an effort to learn firsthand what it was like to live during the Great Depression, write ten questions that you might ask someone who lived through it.

How many people committed suicide?
What was it like living in a Hooverville?
What was the presidents reaction to the stock market crash?
How many people actually got laid off?
Did people ever get kicked out of freight trains?
Where did soup kitchens get all their soup?
How much money did the government spend to get people back into a normal economy?
What happened to the rich people?
How many people died from starvation?
Did necessary jobs, such as doctors and firefighters, get laid off too?

Homer vs. 18th Amendment

The Simpson's are known for fictional humor, and very intense parodies, but with this episode that including the Prohibition from 1920, it really showed that they knew what they were writing about. The creators included the idea of drunken fighting, and how the government/society dealt with it. They included the actual 18th amendment, and the repercussions from it such as the speakeasies, cops illegally drinking, and illegal mob trading. The accuracy of these complete overshadow the fictional humor in the episode. I enjoyed this episode, and thought it was a good representation of what the Prohibition era was in the United States, even if it made it really funny.

If I were to be one of the producers of The Simpson's, I would add the face that the government fully endorsed it. They didn't really show any form of authority except the judges who said the bill was passed/rejected. It would have made it a lot more accurate if they made a judge scene where someone tried to reject the bill but they argued that the Prohibition is a way of getting a good name among other parts of the world, and that they want to be the model city. This would be an allusion to what the government wanted from the Prohibition act, a good name and clean people.