So I’m watching an old rerun of “The Simpsons” the other day. It was the “Camp Krusty” episode.
In it they have a scene where in all the children are singing a song in honor of Krusty. The jist of it went something like this “…Krusty is our life he is our Lord…”
This song is a direct parody of a song kids used to have to sing in the Hitler Youth program way back in the day. (In the episode it was even sung to the same tune as the Hitler youth program.)
I’m wondering how many people actually got this reference. The only reason why I got it is because about an hour earlier I saw a show on the History Channel about Adolf Hitler himself.
What makes this even more funny is that Krusty is Jewish. :eek:
I don’t think so. The jist of the song was how “great” Kamp Krusty is- commenting on its poorly-constructed structures, etc. There is no reference to blind worship of Krusty, and the only higher power mentioned in the song is, indirectly, the almighty dollar (the alighty ollar?)- the song ends with the line “We will always love Kamp Krusty…a registered trademark of the Krusty Korporation, all rights reserved!”
Just off the top of my head, I believe the song was:
Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
By the shores of Big Snake Lake.
Thought your swings are rusty,
We know they’ll never break.
[something something something]
[something something something]
[something something] infirmary
Where all our wounds are healed.
[something something something]
Below Mount Avalanche
We will always love Kamp Krusty
A registered trademark of the Krusty Corporation
All rights reserved!
A check of the actual song at snpp.com reveals no lines anything like the OP’s claimed reference.
I thought the song SHAKES quoted sounded similar to a song which is sung in the first Why We Fight propaganda film, Prelude to War:
(sung in German with English subtitles)
Adolf Hitler is our Saviour, our hero
He is the noblest being in the whole wide world.
For Hitler we live,
For Hitler we die.
Our Hitler is our Lord
Who rules a brave new world.
The song sounds nothing like the Kamp Krusty anthem.
I guess I’m the only dolt that got the reference then.
Move along folks nothing to see here.
(I wonder why the hell I made that connection? :dubious: )
Yeah, I loved the picture of Hitler on the wall. He looks like a musclebound god bravely holding the Nazi flag. I’m pretty sure if the wind had picked up, Hitler would have been blown over…
To go off topic a little bit, I don’t know if you’ve seen the whole Why We Fight series, Merijeek, but there are a lot of surprising and unintentionally funny moments in the films. The final film, War Comes To America, has a very unusual scene in which German-Americans are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance while giving the Nazi salute. (To be fair, many Germans- inside and outside of Germany- believed Hitler to be the savior of Germany, and it can be argued that Hitler did bring Germany out of its deep depression, but nobody realized what he would do to the rest of Europe after he picked up Germany.) But the funniest scene of all is one in Prelude to War in which Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo are shown while circus music plays and the announcer says something like, “Remember these faces. If you see them on the street, you know what to do!” I don’t think most of America would be behind something like that today- it shows just how much the entire free world hated the Axis powers- and for good reason.
Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
: By the shores of Big Snake Lake.
: Though your swings are rusty,
: We know they’ll never break.
Jimbo: Louder! Faster!
Campers: From your gleaming mess hall, |[a frog leaps out of Lisa’s soup]
: To your hallowed baseball field, |[Fieldsman Bart falls in a hole]
: Your spic-and-span infirmary, |[disgustingly old nurse lights a]
: Where all our wounds are healed. |[match on a kid’s plaster cast]
: Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty, |[Bart, Milhouse and Lisa run for]
: Below Mount Avalanche. |[cover from falling rocks]
: We will always love Kamp Krusty,
: A registered trademark of the Krusty Corporation,
: All rights reserved!
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I’ll have to look and see. I believe the implication was that they were pro-Hitler Germans at a meeting of the German-American Bund (a very pro-Nazi American organization for peoples of German ancestry) or a similar group. It is possible the director intentionally used footage of German-Americans using the Bellamy Salute to imply that they praised both American and Hitler- the Wikipedia article on the salute says that anti-Lindbergh propaganda often used pictures of Lindbergh saluting the flag but with the flag removed, so it appeared he was giving the Nazi salute. (Charles Lindbergh was notoriosly pro-Hitler.)
Looking at it nowadays, that picture looks very bizarre. Heil flag!
