# Let's remember World War I

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 16, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226 "2007-03-16T17:16:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226/61 "2007-03-17T20:36:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Walloon]  
…From Hollywood: _The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse_, _Hell’s Angels_ (directed by Howard Hughes), _Three Comrades_ (co-written by F. Scott Fitzgerald), _Paths of Glory_ (directed by Stanley Kubrick), _Johnny Got His Gun_…  
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**Walloon** , I am surprised, you are usually much better about reading before posting.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226/62 "2007-03-18T01:38:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain\_C]  
Oh, and there was an episode of _Dinosaurs_ where the 2-leggers and the 4-leggers go into trench warfare over who was better. They kept throwing sticks at each other and everyone kept losing eyes. You know, that’s actually clever the more I think about it.  
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This was mainly a satire of the then-recent Gulf War, with pistachios filling in for oil. Then again, now that I think about it, it satirized a number of wars- World War I with the trenches, as mentioned, and also World War II, as a number of songs from that era are parodied (“Don’t Sit Under the Pistachio Tree,” etc.) I think protests (such as those in Vietnam) were also mentioned.

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226/63 "2007-03-18T02:02:41Z")

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[QUOTE=TV time]  
**Walloon** , I am surprised, you are usually much better about reading before posting.  
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These are World War I movies that I liked and recommend. Is only one person allowed to recommend a particular movie?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-world-war-i/396226/64 "2007-03-18T02:19:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain\_C]  
All I can think of is a few episodes of _The Young Indiana Jones._ Does that count?  
Oh, and there was an episode of _Dinosaurs_ where the 2-leggers and the 4-leggers go into trench warfare over who was better. They kept throwing sticks at each other and everyone kept losing eyes. You know, that’s actually clever the more I think about it.  
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Oh yeah! Eventually, someone actually DIED, and the war ended, and the media wouldn’t admit that someone died. You’re right, it was a pretty interesting metaphor.

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