[COBOL2Java]

"The Simpsons" were not the first network animated show to popularize the "surrender monkeys" notion. I remember watching "The Critic," which regularly featured episodes involving some fictional United Nations elementary school (which the main character's son attended) and it seemed that at every class assembly there was some loud bang or some other such noise, and without fail, the French students immediately threw their hands up in surrender...

[smith288]

"the simpsons" predate "the critic" if I recall.