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 Zonker 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 the album '' Mighty ReArranger '' , which contains the track ' " Freedom Fries " , an anti-war song whose lyrics contains the words " Freedom fries and burns and scars , the liberator goes too far "
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