"Freedom Fries", 2003

Item — video: 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Two French girls and a French man sit at a cafe table when the man sees a flier advertising travel to the US. When they arrive at the US airport, their culturally-insensitive tour guide takes them to a restaurant where all of French-named items on the menu have been crossed out and the word "French" replaced with "Freedom." So outraged by such an action in addition to the callous treatment they receive from their tour guide, the French tourists beat up their tour guide and leave. After they've left, a note inviting the Americans to come to France falls from the ceiling onto the lap of the tour guide. When the Americans read it, they yell "We're going to Mexico, YEAH!"

Dates

2003

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