The Picard ManeuverThis seems applicable to quite a few things
ValmondI remember that one, because for what I remember it was a really shitty episode because like the crux was that the statue had to be naked if you’d let “everyone” have their way. And that is of course disgusting or something you just cannot accept (I’m from Europe so the whole anti naked craziness from the USA is completely stupid for me). So not funny just moralizing pro USA christianity.
Or so I recall, it was some time ago 😁
There was a big kerfuffle in the US at the time, one particular senator - Jesse Helms - went on a special crusade to revoke funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and restrict obscene works, generally. Maybe triggered by, certainly exasperated by Piss Christ. US obscenity law at the time was basically, “I know it when I see it,” and Simpsons itself was occasionally threatened for its ‘obscenity.’
