Editing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (section)

==In popular culture==
* The March 10, 1940, broadcast of [[Jack Benny]]'s NBC radio show featured a parody entitled "Mr. Benny Goes to Washington".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otr.net/?p=jbny|title=The Jack Benny Show |website=OTR.Network (Old Time Radio)|date=October 23, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811070626/http://otr.net/?p=jbny|archive-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref>
* The VHS release of ''[[Ernest Rides Again]]'' featured the opening ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''-based short "Mr. Bill Goes to Washington".
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has parodied it several times, including the [[The Simpsons (season 3)|third season]] episode "[[Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington]]", which deals with [[Lisa Simpson]]'s disillusionment with Washington government, following her winning a trip to Washington as a prize in an essay contest; the [[The Simpsons (season 11)|eleventh season]] premiere "[[Beyond Blunderdome]]" which includes a remake of ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'', starring [[Mel Gibson]] (voiced by himself) as Jefferson Smith; and the [[The Simpsons (season 14)|fourteenth season]] episode "[[Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington]]" .
* For their 2002 season, the [[San Francisco Mime Troupe]] presented a musical, ''Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan'', which tells the story of "an idealistic innocent who learns firsthand what [[Presidency of George W. Bush]] means when it claims to support democratic principles at home and abroad" in a [[post-9/11]] setting.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hurwitt |first1=Robert |title=S.F. Mime Troupe goes to 'Obscuristan' / The company's new summer show takes a crack at political absurdities post-Sept. 11 |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/S-F-Mime-Troupe-goes-to-Obscuristan-The-2824538.php |website=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=July 6, 2002 |access-date=September 14, 2019}}</ref>
* The short-lived NBC political drama ''[[Mister Sterling]]'' (2003) was described as "a ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' for the 21st century", with the show centering on an idealistic young senator from California, coming to grips with Washington and appointed by a scheming, underhanded governor.<ref name=tcmnote />
* In the TV series ''[[Highway to Heaven]]'', the eleventh episode of season three is entitled, [[List of Highway to Heaven episodes|"Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington"]] (1986). The appeal made in that episode was regarding healthcare, and a filibuster was employed.<ref>{{Citation|title=Highway to Heaven – Season 3, Episode 11: Jonathan Smith Goes to Washington| date=August 29, 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzhUgSfF2U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ZdzhUgSfF2U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=June 11, 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* In the TV series ''[[Scandal (American TV series)|Scandal]]'', the third episode of season three is entitled "[[Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington]]" (2013).
* The documentary film ''[[Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?]]'' follows [[Missouri]] politician [[Jeff Smith (Missouri politician)|Jeff Smith]]'s 2004 [[Democratic Party (U.S.)|Democratic]] [[Partisan primary|primary election]] campaign for the [[United States House of Representatives]].
* On March 31 - April 1, 2025, [[Cory Booker's marathon speech]] lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, approximately the same length as Mr. Smith's in the film.