[markomalley]

Wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to have "free trade!" Isn't Bart one of our chief exports?

[prion]

Wait a second...250 million children? In a nation of a billion? Doesn't that strike you as improbably low? I wonder if they're talking about a particular age group. Or if the "one child" policy has been hugely successful.

[Cagey]

This episode may have gotten them a little nervous.

[TexasCajun]

"Ahhh No Chinese Beer?"

[martin_fierro]

"Worst. Country. Ever."

[swmobuffalo]

Should have been banned from US primetime. Go ahead flame away, the Simpsons is idiotic, disrespect and obnoxious.

[weegee]

And if this seems odd, the Clinton Administration had customs agents making sure that bootleg beanie babies weren't being brought into this country in large numbers.

Beanie Babies: Washington's latest tempest in a teapot
http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/10/beaniegate/
July 10, 1998
Web posted at: 11:01 p.m. EDT (0301 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On a hot summer day in the world's most powerful nation, at least some of its leaders found their attentions preoccupied by thoughts of ... Beanie Babies.

A spokesman for U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, America's tough-talking trade negotiator, admitted Friday that Barshefsky had run afoul of an American trade law when she returned with President Clinton from China.

[snip]

At the request of Ty, the U.S. Customs Service has placed a limit of one Beanie Baby per family for people re-entering the United States.