Futurama has an even more specific reference to They Saved Hitler's Brain than just its pickled heads, when the Professor states "Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far!" After leaving The Simpsons, Oakley and Weinstein worked as consulting producers on Futurama, albeit after Futurama had made this specific reference.Īlthough this 1960s B-movie may be obscure, it's been referenced similarly in several different media throughout the years. This type of imagery is familiar to fans of animated Matt Groening shows by now, with the preserved heads of history's famous faces featured regularly in Futurama.
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The Simpsons made its first reference to this obscure movie in Season 4's "Duffless," when Hitler's pickled head is seen in a jar on a table during a Barney Gumble scene. It's clear that Oakley and Weinstein championed this running gag at the very least, but it's surely no coincidence that the writing duo's first episode as part of the writers' room was in Season 4, the same year as the show's earliest reference to They Saved Hitler's Brain. The Simpsons also titled one of their Bongo Comics stories 'They Fixed Homer's Brain' in 1996's Simpsons Comics #27, the same year as Season 7 aired. Could Scully have been continuing the joke's legacy from his time in Oakley and Weinstein's writers' room? This would have been written approximately at the end of 1998, not too long after Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein left the show after Season 8.
The Simpsons' references to They Saved Hitler's Brain also extend to titles, such as the Season 10 episode 'They Saved Lisa's Brain' which was written by Matt Selman under Mike Scully as showrunner. Both episodes were written under showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, suggesting perhaps the idea started with them. The former was written by Mike Scully and directed by Steven Dean Moore while the latter was written by Jonathan Collier and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. Both aforementioned episodes are written and directed by different people. At one point, Abe recalls a time he had the Führer in his sights, and before pulling the trigger, he utters to himself "Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler!" To help us understand the reason behind this recurring reference in the show we need to cross-reference the creatives behind each episode. They Saved Hitler's Brain is referenced again later that same season in an episode titled "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish,'" a throwback to Grampa Simpson's time fighting in World War II. The game he steals is called "Bonestorm," but other games visible in the scene include "Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge," and, yup, you guessed it. In Season 7's "Marge Be Not Proud," Bart steals a videogame from the local Try-N-Save, only to get banned from the store and disappoint his mother. It's clear the creatives behind the longest-running animated sitcom are not above this either, as The Simpsons has made several references to They Saved Hitler's Brain. The advent of "so bad they're good" movies is nothing new, and it's understandable that they could become a running joke within workplace friendships. RELATED: Best 'The Simpsons' Episodes That Don't Center Around the Family
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This "new" 1968 TV movie was given yet another title, this time being called They Saved Hitler's Brain, and it was dubbed as one of the worst films ever made. With this new runtime being over 90 minutes, Paragon was able to charge a higher fee for the film when they sold it to television, as outlined in Charles P. After its limited run at drive-ins, Paragon Films acquired the rights and arranged for some UCLA students to shoot another 18 minutes of footage for the film. In the fictional country of Mandoras, it is revealed that some Nazis possess the preserved head of Adolf Hitler in a jar, and by kidnapping an American scientist to help them access the Führer's mind, they plan on taking over the world. The film was released in 1963 under the new title of Madmen of Mandoras and follows surviving Nazi officials now living in South America, as many Nazis did after the war.
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