@@eisbergsyndrom5010 yeah They used surrender only to kill some more enemies, so after some time no side accepted surrenders (Especially since what they did to the captives)
Reminds me of that one French-German battle. Hold on, there was a funny video about it... Edit: A Bridge Too Far was the name! Great sorry, and great joke, really.
Well that depends what they are used to. A child that lives on a farm seeing chicken getting beheaded surely has no Problem with gore to a degree, while others who were raised without that stimuli would tend to reject gore footage
Yes, that is the joke, thank you for describing the joke exactly as it occurred. Jolly good work cracking the case, Scotland Yard will surely promote you to Detective Inspector for this one, eh? Capital work, you're the best Noticer that the Look! Brigade has produced
History is decided by the winners. This is what this symbolized for all of us. During the revolution we could of massacred many red coats and they would of wrote it off as a battle.
@@Progamerguy101 thats how history pans out, but by the laws of morality, we've done horrible things we should be ashamed of too. No massacre, justified or otherwise should be swiped under the rug.....yet they often sadly are
@@Progamerguy101 Then there would be no massacres in history if that's how it always worked. You don't kill off an entire division of surrendering soldiers without someone noticing.
@@10INTM just because people notice doesn't mean they will do anything. We (The USA) used nukes on Japan and wiped out a couple hundred thousand citizens. No repercussions. This is the facts of war. Might equals right.
@@andyf1235 Funny enough actually yes, there is a historic French naval flag that is just a white sheet. Imagine the heaping amounts of imagination the designer must have had.
I vaguely recall a story of a battle, the enemy surrendered, but their opponents weren’t actual soldiers, they were a quickly formed militia of townspeople defending themselves, and none of them knew what the white flag meant, so they just kept attacking
It requires little brain power nor does it require the brain power one does have to be used in any above average way. It doesn't require a unique perspective or even penetrating depth of a normal perspective to think that up. It's been done a million times over since before this aired. Even simpletons could, and have, landed a joke this way. It's decently executed but that doesn't require genius. It requires competence. It requires the bare minimum. Is everything that's even remotely competent pure genius to you? What would that make you? I'm sure you could make a joke like that so don't put it on a pedestal, don't demean yourself. I'm sick of every UA-cam comment looking the exact same as yours. It's a fucking cesspit. 800 likes 🙄
@@jonathanwilliams1065that would also make sense with the implication that there were Confederate forces near Springfield during the Civil War as well as the likelihood Springfield was near the slave states given that episode about Lisa discovering the family is 1/64 black.
Springfield gets regular and often heavy snowfall, which suggests its located somewhere in the north. It also has a port with access to the sea, meaning its a coastal region.
@@beniboi6992 "Randall is that shack a civvie one or a guerrilla one?" *Napalm noises and people screaming* "Idk, didnt have time to sort it out" Rinse and repeat until they fail on land but win on the hearts
Those men are lucky that the Geneva convention didn’t exist yet because that violates basically the entire reason for its existence to protect the unarmed or healers
@@amaruqlonewolf3350 lol I'm just joking nothing matters any more. General Sheridan burned everything in the Shenandoah valley. It would be prosecuted today. So VA people still remember.
@@patrickhenry9521 So war crimes are justified against civilians? Women and children starving? They left neither for or shelter for man or beast. Grow up.
Springfield manned a whole Brigade of Bearded Infantry for the North and mercilessly butchered the Springfielders who joined the South, they must have really have gone all in on the abolitionism.
Because the Springfield Elementary school kids were denied entry due to not having a enough money to pay for entry into the park “Hey! Those kids are trying to learn for free!” “Get ‘em!” “Use your phony guns as clubs!” And this was Bart’s class on the field trip as to highlight the tension between Skinner and Krabapple over lack of school funding that led to the teachers’ strike. The episode is called “The PTA Disbands!”
@@michaelvanderwal7390 Musket ends up being a catch all term for any of your muzzle loading infantry long guns. Case in point: Their weapons were rifled muskets. The use of the word musket is actually totally appropriate for the day.
Historically Accurate: May 21, 1865. The Civil war was essentially over for most of the theaters in April of 1865. The last official battle was May 13th, a week before this event of unconditional surrender.
It takes true grit to fight off the urge to accept a unconditional surrender of a beaten force. Most would just ingloriously accept giving the enemy a successful capitulation and in doing so hand the enemy a success and yourself utter failure.
Best history of civil war. Confederate also living of Southern. When They sing say ready kick Yankees a## on battlefield. Especially battle of Gettysburg,Alabama most dramatic history all time.
@@potatortheomnipotentspud Man, putting aside how stupid this comment is, the sad part is people like this also think they're clever when they can't be less cringe or unfunny.
I love that at no point during the reenacters pretending to be unarmed, desperate, and pleading for mercy while being slaughtered in a surrender did none of them think, "hey, waitaminute..."
'It's a common misconception that children are shy of blood. They're quite fond of it, so long as it is being shed by the appropriate party; It's the parents that cant stand the stuff." ~ Terry Pratchett
The “too brave to accept a surrender” line always gets a good chuckle out of me
Imperial Japan moment.
@@eisbergsyndrom5010 yeah
They used surrender only to kill some more enemies, so after some time no side accepted surrenders
(Especially since what they did to the captives)
Reminds me of that one French-German battle. Hold on, there was a funny video about it...
Edit: A Bridge Too Far was the name! Great sorry, and great joke, really.
@@user-qi6pv9jh7o
Yay capitalism .
The way his eyes open wider when he says "brave" is just the best
My favorite bit of this clip is these are supposed to be reenactors but one of them really gets stabbed all the way through!
@@edtheangler4930 Yeah, but it's funnier to think that one guy got straight up murdered.
@@beelzebubcrumpethorn true
I like to think the shots weren't blanks either
Probably just a folding knife, since the guy holds his chest afterwards to cover up the fact he isn't bleeding.
@@edtheangler4930 as a kid who first watched this at 7 years old without the internet, No
I love how The Simpsons never shied away from the reality that kids are bloodthirsty little psychos.
Well that depends what they are used to. A child that lives on a farm seeing chicken getting beheaded surely has no Problem with gore to a degree, while others who were raised without that stimuli would tend to reject gore footage
@@erenpopegado you live in the modern world? 😂
He's a modern urbanite. Which means he instinctively looks down on the past, and those who are rural. Basically just standard issue bigotry
@@jacobmassey3897 I do, an allegory it's what it's called
@@erenpopega you literally live in a made up reality lmao
Those brave men, fending off those white flags.
Because white flags are red flags to the North.
Clearly a French attack!
They weren't French
Yes, that is the joke, thank you for describing the joke exactly as it occurred. Jolly good work cracking the case, Scotland Yard will surely promote you to Detective Inspector for this one, eh? Capital work, you're the best Noticer that the Look! Brigade has produced
brave like so many awful people.
"hey they're trying to learn for free"
best line from the whole episode😂👌
“Use your phony guns as clubs!!!”
"God bless the man who invented permission slips".
Damn I shouldn't have eaten the mint first ugh
Hahaha love it 😂🤣
Our American education system in a nutshell. Especially if you're planning on going to college 😂
„And the Springfielders heroically slaughtered their enemies as they prayed for mercy.“
🙈🤣🤣🤣🤣
“ONE BY ONE, THE SAXONS DISBAND, OR DIE WHERE THEY STAND!”
@@zoomzoom2276 "KILLING GROUND, EVEN THOUGH YOU SURRENDER! TURN AROUND, YOU WILL NEVER SURVIVE!"
@@slueepy1232 KILLING GROUND! AS THE BATTLE OF FRAUSTADT TUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSS!!!
Followed by cheers from the kids lol
@zoomzoom2276
Fall in line, battle formations!
Show no fear, riding them down!
Break their will, show them no mercy!
Caroleans attack!!!!
This is where the Zapp Brannigan got the tactics to defeat the pacifist of the Gandhi nebula.
they were clearly flying the white flags of war
all i know is my gut says maybe
KIFF! Inform the men.
Kiff: *sighs deeply*
@@chazzybara I could only hear the brave, manly, and sexy voice of the best ship captain of the Doop military.
I love that Springfields greatest military victory and act of heroism in their eyes was a massively horrible war crime XD
History is decided by the winners. This is what this symbolized for all of us. During the revolution we could of massacred many red coats and they would of wrote it off as a battle.
@@Progamerguy101 thats how history pans out, but by the laws of morality, we've done horrible things we should be ashamed of too. No massacre, justified or otherwise should be swiped under the rug.....yet they often sadly are
@@Progamerguy101 Then there would be no massacres in history if that's how it always worked.
You don't kill off an entire division of surrendering soldiers without someone noticing.
Homer simpson: An alleged war crime, lisa.
@@10INTM just because people notice doesn't mean they will do anything. We (The USA) used nukes on Japan and wiped out a couple hundred thousand citizens. No repercussions. This is the facts of war. Might equals right.
Don't bring a white flag to a gunfight
Yea cos I now a white FLAG can kill ma ENTIR FAMALY! I have ta defund mysaef wif ma gun.
Unless your french
@@InsertName159 Isn't a white flag part of the uniform? haha
@@andyf1235 Funny enough actually yes, there is a historic French naval flag that is just a white sheet.
Imagine the heaping amounts of imagination the designer must have had.
@@rachdarastrix5251 Plenty, only those with imaginative spirits could see the TRUE flag
I vaguely recall a story of a battle, the enemy surrendered, but their opponents weren’t actual soldiers, they were a quickly formed militia of townspeople defending themselves, and none of them knew what the white flag meant, so they just kept attacking
Might be Åland, I've heard a story like that.
@@skolkor no that was a naval battle
Check out the battle of Stirling where Edward I refused the surrender of Stirling Castle because he wanted to try his new trebuchet on the walls.
@@weeeeehhhhh he just tried it once for fun on walls, then accepted their surrender.
You talking about the Pinkertons killing a ton of protesters back in the day?
Pure genius writing with the kids cheering
Yayy
It requires little brain power nor does it require the brain power one does have to be used in any above average way. It doesn't require a unique perspective or even penetrating depth of a normal perspective to think that up. It's been done a million times over since before this aired. Even simpletons could, and have, landed a joke this way.
It's decently executed but that doesn't require genius. It requires competence. It requires the bare minimum. Is everything that's even remotely competent pure genius to you? What would that make you? I'm sure you could make a joke like that so don't put it on a pedestal, don't demean yourself. I'm sick of every UA-cam comment looking the exact same as yours. It's a fucking cesspit. 800 likes 🙄
Just love how they didn't even try to embellish it for the kids. They just told them "yeah the enemies were surrendering but we killed them anyway"
Not just killed but *"heroically* slaughtered" lol
That *was* the embellished version. The reality was much worse. Springfield has always been horrible.
yeah just like irak war
and the fact they're actually killing them and it's not a pretend. did no one see that dude get stabbed?
His eyes when he says brave lmao
😂 @0:25
Think he’s emphasizing the word or silently asking “who wrote this crap?”
When the edibles hit at the right moment 😂
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"The town leaders unintentionally found a way for the reenactment to both increase tourism and mitigate the homelessness issue."
Thank God the Springfielders were able to fend off that brutal assault
My favorite line is that they are the "9th bearded infantry."
...I get the 'shooting blanks' but...one of those guys literally bayonetted another
Just a flesh wound. He'll walk it off.
Retractable blades? Like the ones magicians use
@@Illianor123knowing Simpsons, it could go either way
"Those White Flags Are No Match For Our Muskets" sounds like the title of a Panic At The Disco song XD
Or Fall Out Boy, but that's to be expected given the name, huh?
"Charge"!😡😠👉
@@WhoIsTheEdman
Fall Out Boy: This ain't a scene it's a G--damned arms race
Reiner Wolfcastle: Now now there's no need for profanity Fall Out Boy.
Well this certainly suggests that Springfield is not in the South.
Based on their uniform that's true.
Other episodes confirm that, with one implying it was a border state
When there's debate over changing the State flag: "This Confederate symbol is an embarrassment - particularly as we are a Northern state."
@@jonathanwilliams1065that would also make sense with the implication that there were Confederate forces near Springfield during the Civil War as well as the likelihood Springfield was near the slave states given that episode about Lisa discovering the family is 1/64 black.
Springfield gets regular and often heavy snowfall, which suggests its located somewhere in the north. It also has a port with access to the sea, meaning its a coastal region.
0:38 had me rolling 🤣 that swing of the bayonet.
It's a musket.
I think he killed that guy.
@@Ale-mv3gr yup
But why was the commander of the 9th Bearded Infantry beardless?
Probably a young, inexperienced lieutenant.
@@jackgrimaldi8685 The man needs to grow some facial pubes before he's considered a traitor to the cause!
It’s like how Frank Beard in ZZ Top didn’t have a beard.
OtakuD50 So everyone would know he's the commader.
The same reason Space Marine officers don't wear a helmet.
0:27
Imperial Japan when they saw Chinese civilians
Oh shit give Chinese people flashbacks memories about Japanese have done to them back then WW2.
Americans when they saw Vietnamese civilians
@@beniboi6992
"Randall is that shack a civvie one or a guerrilla one?"
*Napalm noises and people screaming*
"Idk, didnt have time to sort it out"
Rinse and repeat until they fail on land but win on the hearts
"those white flags are no match for our dicks"
0:27
Chinese soldiers when they saw Chinese civilians during every conflict within China for the past thousands of years.
'HEY! They're trying to learn for free!'
'GET THEM!'
Actor, "Do I actually die in this in scene?".
Director, "I wouldn't be getting this lip if I was Scorsese".
I love the idea of a bearded regiment, who even take time to sun and fluff their beards
Thank god those Union soldiers were safe from rebel barbarism.
tbf owning slaves is pretty barbaric
@@jackdiddles4304 I guess the US government were completely justified in treating the slave-owning native americans barbarically then
@@jackdiddles4304 tbh slaves were economically profitable, and who needs slaves at industrialised regions?
@@jackdiddles4304 I know, this is a joke comment.
@@jackdiddles4304Indeed, but most of rebel soldiers didn't have any slaves. Since it was being abolish anyway already
0:03 a guy is smoking a cigar next to a cannon. Classic Simpsons always has these little touches.
I knew a reenactor that used to roll black powder cartridges while smoking.
They were sunning and fluffing their beards in the sun, it's a perfectly cromulent time to smoke a cigar.
They saw the white flags and thought they were French, and opened fire.
Now that's the first proper justification I've seen in these comments
Ironically the french have won the most battles and wars in human history
@@uncle7215 Napoleon is my boy.
Lol, the French flag actually used to be white
Average Virgin Cringe Brainless Fatherless Anti France Troll Fanboy taking Copium over here ⬆️
IDF tactics
Which means Palestine is the Confederates (the ones who started the war so it makes sense)
@@CiderVG Defending colonizers is wild bruv💀
You cut out the best part where one of them catches Bart learning for free.
This is how the lost causers see the civil war
my great gran father was a gunner in the 9th bearded infantry , he will always stay in our heart , this was the good all time.
Thanks for his service.
At :39 is where your great grandfather shot my great grandfather at point blank range. Damn you and your great grandfather.... LOL!!
Those men are lucky that the Geneva convention didn’t exist yet because that violates basically the entire reason for its existence to protect the unarmed or healers
I love how the kids succumb to their conditioning at the end and cheer for the barbarism xD
Praise be, the violence of war!
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!
@Olaf Allison Sound more like an asian thing rather than a western thing nowadays.
@Olaf Allison We already do that tho. I mean what do you think 60% of Television is?
Simpsons Did it!
I've always really liked how Springfield does not have a good history
This is how victors tell the story of their battles
Yes, that is the joke
If they were already diseased and needed hacksaws to saw their limbs off for gangrene, then I'm sure they did them a massive favor massacring them.
That's why you're a terrible person.
Come to Virginia and say that
@@Matt-of2eq No I will not, really.
@@amaruqlonewolf3350 lol I'm just joking nothing matters any more. General Sheridan burned everything in the Shenandoah valley. It would be prosecuted today. So VA people still remember.
@@patrickhenry9521 So war crimes are justified against civilians? Women and children starving? They left neither for or shelter for man or beast. Grow up.
Remember, it’s not a war crime if you win
Considering how most soldiers in the Civil War died from disease after the surgery this was more of a mercy killing.
Maybe the real war crimes were the friends we made along the way.
No that's the one piece
War crimes didn’t exist until 1899
The icing on the cake is all the kids cheering this show is too good
Hey! Those kids are learning for free!
Fluffing their beards in the sun. Gets me every time 🤣🤣
This is a good representation of how people see the union.
Only a few would've gotten it, but they should've called the unit "the Springfield Rifles".
Well i played mud and blood, do i get it?
That's what the call in the biz a one percenter.
Springfield manned a whole Brigade of Bearded Infantry for the North and mercilessly butchered the Springfielders who joined the South, they must have really have gone all in on the abolitionism.
John Brown would be proud.
AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS-
Or they were just psychopaths.
Nah, they were untouched by most of the easts problems. Ole Jedediah was a bushwhacker to begin with
“We unconditionally surrender!”
“You hear that? No conditions-let’s have fun with those slavers, bois!”
Wow😮 They are so good actors they used very realistic bullets and even acted how the spear went thru his entire body!
Probably the only time Lisa didn’t complain about history
Because the Springfield Elementary school kids were denied entry due to not having a enough money to pay for entry into the park
“Hey! Those kids are trying to learn for free!”
“Get ‘em!”
“Use your phony guns as clubs!”
And this was Bart’s class on the field trip as to highlight the tension between Skinner and Krabapple over lack of school funding that led to the teachers’ strike. The episode is called “The PTA Disbands!”
Well in her eyes the 9th bearded infantry was fighting off a white supremacy army.
Possibly the beardiest war ever
With the medicine they had at the time that was probably a mercy
Least bloodthirsty Sherman supporter
this is actually pretty historically accurate.
Sadly yes. You could swap out uniforms for a lot of different eras too. Including todays.
Nah, the Union would have used rifles by the this time in the war.
@@michaelvanderwal7390 Musket ends up being a catch all term for any of your muzzle loading infantry long guns. Case in point: Their weapons were rifled muskets. The use of the word musket is actually totally appropriate for the day.
I think that's kind of the point, it's satire.
@@DavidEllis94 I may be wrong, but I think most Union soldiers had breach loading rifles by 1864.
Historically Accurate: May 21, 1865. The Civil war was essentially over for most of the theaters in April of 1865. The last official battle was May 13th, a week before this event of unconditional surrender.
You mean 1865
There are 0 war crimes in this video
"UnGa bUnGa yOu Am nO Me tRiBe So yOu Am bAd"
technically true since Geneva convention didn't exist back then
*"Dead guy" breaks character* Hey! They're trying to learn for free!
Diz-Nee Historical Park: Sorry but there's profit to be had!
It takes true grit to fight off the urge to accept a unconditional surrender of a beaten force. Most would just ingloriously accept giving the enemy a successful capitulation and in doing so hand the enemy a success and yourself utter failure.
Good old Union Jack's stomping out some dirty rattlesnakes
'Yeaaaah!' to a slaughter. Simpsons was awesome back then.
The proper way to greet a confederate in the year 2023.
9th bearded infantry cracks me up every time.
0:36
"Ow! Not the pointed end, dumbass."
Simpsons sure didn't pull their punches damn
Zapp Brannigan’s distant ancestor probably fought in the 9th Bearded Infantry
"I know Americans won't let anything like unconditional surrender get in the way of a good war" -oswaldo mobary
Imperial Japan’s policy regarding surrender in a nutshell
The 9th bearded infantry were a awesome unit
"HEY! THEY'RE LEARNING FOR FREE!"
That poor, brave fabric.
To be fair, those were some pretty formidable white flags the rebels were weilding.
IDF rescuing hostages.
Some takes no prisoner, or no mercy.
@@tomedy_official Yeah, the IDF doesn't even take their own back. 😅
You dont mess with the 9th Bearded Infantry
"Too brave to accept the surrender" :O
Then the 9th bearded infantry was renamed to the 9th clean shaven infantry
I ❤️ American History.
GAE
Best history of civil war. Confederate also living of Southern. When They sing say ready kick Yankees a## on battlefield. Especially battle of Gettysburg,Alabama most dramatic history all time.
I love the part when the invader killed the native american and called themselves american after
This is weirdly the most accurate depiction of American history I've ever seen
Yeah, those guys defending Normandy with white flags...
I'm pretty sure they did those sick soldiers a favor, by putting them out of their misery.
Cheers for the Springfield 9th bearded infantry! Those confederates had it coming.
"UnGa bUnGa yOu Am nO Me tRiBe So yOu Am bAd"
@@potatortheomnipotentspud Man, putting aside how stupid this comment is, the sad part is people like this also think they're clever when they can't be less cringe or unfunny.
Damn the South didn’t even have hospitals. That blockade worked.
Sounds like the least brutal instance of Japanese taking prisoners in WW2.
Those Geneva Conventions are no match for these muskets
I love that at no point during the reenacters pretending to be unarmed, desperate, and pleading for mercy while being slaughtered in a surrender did none of them think, "hey, waitaminute..."
I love a heroic war story where the "good guys" win 😊
If there were a reenactment that played like this, I would 100% do it. Just sayin'
'It's a common misconception that children are shy of blood. They're quite fond of it, so long as it is being shed by the appropriate party; It's the parents that cant stand the stuff." ~ Terry Pratchett
Litteraly the most accurate animated american history lesson you can find
That only two guys were charged and executed for warcrimes during the Civil War is astonishing.
It is like watching idf now... lol
why did this get recommended to me? "on may 21st..." oh thats why
Reconstruction be like
Wow that bayonet apparently went in that man's chest... That's some epic reenactment quality there. 😮
Simpsons in the 90s was the funniest show ever.
They were put in a self defense situation
Springfield aka "Little Croatia"
Just learned that the patent for the hacksaw wasn’t granted til 25 years later so they didn’t exist yet lol
Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
A patient doesn't exactly when it was made tho-
Let's hope they think about this the next time.
IDF moment
Based Springfield Brigade??
The bearded infantry had cannons, but they charged with rifles?
What does the bearded cavalry attack with?
Cooks, skillets and hardtack?
Union gang
"UnGa bUnGa yOu Am nO Me tRiBe So yOu Am bAd"