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On Bob and Alice's roadtrip, they come along an old roadside manor. In front of it, they see a sign saying, "George Washington Slept Here"! How exciting! This is when an old inn, manor or other tourist attraction was once used by someone famous and usually dead. Whether or not this is actually true is generally only addressed if it somehow becomes relevant to the plot, ie if the celebrity in question might have hidden a Plot Coupon or MacGuffin there. Could also be anything from an outhouse to a gas station. |
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In The Sherwood Ring, the family manor "Rest-And-Be-Thankful" literally does have (among other things) a bed that George Washington slept in. | |
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In Heathers, psychotic teenager Jason Dean's father, who runs a demolition company, laments that a historical society is trying to keep him from tearing down a hotel. The reason given is that Glen Miller and his band once spent the night there. | |
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In the Wings episode "This Old House", the house that Joe and Brian grew up in is condemned for demolition after a storm erodes the cliff it's on, threatening to drop it into the ocean. The cast set out to find a way to save it, and after failing, decide to instead let out some childhood angst and wreck parts of it themselves. Cue Fay coming in at the end to announce that the Nantucket Historical Society had found evidence that Herman Melville had once rented a room in that house and would therefore preserve it. | |
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In The Vicar of Dibley, Frank says that Elizabeth I once stayed in Dibley when Geraldine asks for stories about famous people in the village. She's excited until Frank adds that Good Queen Bess only stopped because she'd come down with a nasty case of food poisoning. | |
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The Simpsons: Numerous things in Springfield are considered historical landmarks simply because Jebediah Springfield did something there. Parodied in an episode in which a recording studio engineer tells Homer "This studio has a lot of history. Buddy Holly once stood on this exact spot and said 'There is no way in Hell I'm performing in this dump!'" |
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In Parks and Recreation, after Ben and Leslie have returned from their honeymoon in Hawaii: While trying to find a reason for establishing a national park in Pawnee, Leslie discovers that President William Harrison once stayed in a cabin nearby. Unfortunately, all that's left is the foundation. |
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Mama's Family: In one episode, Mama is in danger of losing her home when the mayor plans to demolish the entire neighborhood to make room for a new city dump. She's able to save the day when she discovers (with some help from Bubba) that her house was once a brothel where the founder of Raytown died, prompting the mayor to declare her house a landmark and call off the demolition. | |
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Looney Tunes: In "His Hare-Raising Tale," a sign is seen outside the Washington home: "Watch your step—George Washington slipped here." | |
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Referenced in the film Arsenic and Old Lace when one of the police officers asks if George Washington slept in the old house owned by the two old women. | |
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On Just Shoot Me!, Jack's country house is next to a cabin where Washington planned the Battle of Yorktown. He tore it down years ago to build a tennis court. Which he doesn't use anymore. | |
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In Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Cedric the bellboy tries to impress Kevin with the history of the hotel by telling him Herbert Hoover once slept there. In fact, Kevin doesn't know who Herbert Hoover was and assumes from the name that he was the inventor of the vaccum cleaner but he still seems pretty impressed by that. | |
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Damn Yankees mentions this in Lola's song "A Little Brains—A Little Talent," in a joke that had to be Bowdlerised out of the film version: | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the Old Hroldan Inn is said to be where the famous general (and later Deity of Human Origin) Tiber Septim slept on the night before fighting the battle in which he earned the name Talos Stormcrown. Sleeping in Tiber Septim's bed triggers a Side Quest where you have to retrieve his sword for the ghost of his "sworn brother," who has been waiting for him to return for several hundred years. And because you slept in Tiber Septim's bed (and you're also Dragonborn like him), the ghost is convinced that you, the Player Character, are Tiber Septim (even if you are neither male nor even human). | |
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In the first episode of Newhart, Dick is told that it's said James Madison once stayed at the Stratford Inn. In "No Tigers at the Circus", Dick brings up this fact to people inspecting the inn to see if it qualifies to be a historic landmark, but they inform Dick that Madison couldn't have stayed there because history has shown that he never traveled past north of New York. | |
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In America (The Book), among the list of George Washington's achievements is "All-time record holder for Most Places Slept." | |
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George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 Jack Benny film in which his wife buys a dilapidated old farm house for that specific reason. Subverted as the local historical society has determined that it was actually Benedict Arnold who slept there. Then subverted again when they find evidence that Washington really had been there. |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, the Joestar group arrive at a inn in Pakistan, and the old woman that runs it says that a James Bond movie was filmed here and that John Lennon also stayed a night. Polnareff eagerly ask if either of those tidbits true, and the old woman says that it was a joke which makes both of them laugh. Though since the old woman is Enya the Hag, who hates Polanreff for killing her son J. Geil as vengeance for Polnareff's sister Sherry, she was aiming to mess with Polnareff as much as possible. | |
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Two episodes of Murder, She Wrote are based around attempts to prove this: "Joshua Peabody Died Here ... Possibly", about the (perhaps fictional) founder of Cabet Cove, and "Benedict Arnold Slipped Here". | |
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A variant occurs in After War Gundam X when a mechanic offers to knock down his fee if Roabea and Garrod let him take a picture of himself with their machines. If he can advertise that Gundams go to him to get serviced, he'll be able to charge his other customers that much more. (It also lets the villainous Frost brothers know that Garrod has been around, though.) | |
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Bran Castle in Romania, at the border of Transylvania and Wallachia, has a reputation of being closely tied to Vlad Tepes, though such claims are suspect. While it is currently used as a museum, there was an attempt to sell it to the highest bidder in 2007; the auctioneer marketed it as Dracula's castle. | |
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On Hey Arnold!, Ernie and Grandma get in a fight when the latter petitions to save a historic building that the former is planning to tear down, prompting Ernie to tell Grandma, "You'd save a pile of dog droppings on the street if George Washington once stepped in it!" | |
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Parodied in Family Guy. In an attempt to convince a historical society that the Big Fancy House he inherited had $100,000,000 worth of history occur in it (so he could sell it to them as repayment of a debt), Peter tried to fake this trope by scratching "Jesus Was Here" on one wall (and it was dated several years before Christ's birth) and installing an Underground Railroad tunnel (consisting of a toy train set hidden under some floorboards — "Go freedom train! Go!"). This was a disaster. Then it turned out that the house had been a presidential brothel frequented by Abraham Lincoln, among others. | |
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In Three Men in a Boat the trope is discussed by the narrator - in connection with surprisingly high number of pubs allegedly visited by Elizabeth I and contrasted with surprisingly low number of pubs his fellow traveller Harris had not visited. | |
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In Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, one of the selling points of the house is that General Gates supposedly stopped to water his horses there during the Revolutionary War. | |
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