 In the March 15 , 2003 episode of Saturday Night Live , Tina Fey reported this on the satirical Weekend Update : " In a related story , in France , American cheese is now referred to as ' idiot cheese ' . " The 2006 documentary Freedom Fries : And Other Stupidity We 'll Have to Explain to Our Grandchildren directed by Carl Christman took a comedic viewpoint on American consumerism and patriotism . In the episode " Stan Knows Best " of American Dad ! , after being asked how his French toast is , the main character Stan remarks : " Smelly and ungrateful ! But this American toast is delicious . " In the comic strip Doonesbury , the characters Mark Slackmeyer and <unk> Harris criticized the name change in French . Slackmeyer said that , translated , the U.S. liberated France in World War II ; and that many French newspaper headlines after 9 / 11 were " We are all American . " At the end , he states that the anti @-@ French were " jingoistic , self @-@ regarding conquer @-@ monkeys ! " The French American indie band Freedom Fry chose their name based on the Freedom Fries phenomenon . In 2005 , Robert Plant and his band Strange Sensation released Mighty <unk> , which contained the track " Freedom Fries ; " an anti @-@ war song , its lyrics contained : " Freedom fries and burns and scars , the liberator goes too far . " 
