The producers of the Simpsons did a great job in portraying the 1920's and Prohibition in Springfield. The accuracies greatly outweigh the fictional comedy in the episode. For example, they mentioned the word speakeasies a lot in the episode. This is very accurate because the undercover bars were called speakeasies during Prohibition. Also, in the episode there were corrupt police officers that got payed off so that they would not shut down the speakeasies. At one point officer Wiggum was in a speakeasy just like some officers were in the 1920's. I enjoyed the episode a lot and I think we should watch more things like that because we can relate present day comedies to history. A lot of the things in the video were portrayed well and were just like they would have been in the 1920's.
The one scene that i would have changed to make more historically accurate would be the scene when everyone is in the speakeasy, the cops came buy, and it turned into a pet shop by pulling a lever. This was a little bit too exaggerated. The cop would have never believed that the pet shop was open all night. Also, The pets would be dead if they were turned up-side-down and underground. The last thing that i would change about that scene is the underground tunnels that the bowling ball goes through to get to the beer to the costumers. This would have never happened in the 1920's, they would have just hid the liquor, no send it in bowling balls. Besides that scene i thought most of the episode portrayed Prohibition and the 1920's very nicely.
