Editing Adlai Stevenson II (section)

=== In film and television ===
Stevenson has been referenced in television episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in the episodes "[[Lisa the Iconoclast]]" and "[[The Secret War of Lisa Simpson]]" (appearing in the latter in an educational film, with [[Harry Shearer]] providing the cartoon Stevenson's voice. In the former, a gag occurs, as the mob of Springfielders exhume the corpse of Jedediah, Willie mistakenly throws dirt over the flame of a candle vigil set in front of Adlai's grave).
He has also been referenced in ''[[The Golden Girls]]'',<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589846/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu The One That Got Away  (1988)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328011119/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589846/quotes/?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu |date=March 28, 2022 }} IMDb.</ref> ''[[Happy Days]]'' (in the January 28, 1975, episode "The Not Making of the President")<ref>{{IMDb title|596341|The Not Making of a President}}</ref> and ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''{{'}}s presentation of ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' (a Stevenson lookalike buys a car and one of the MST3K characters comments on it). [[Murphy Brown]] briefly names her newborn son 'Adlai Stevenson'. He was also mentioned in ''[[The West Wing (season 7)|The West Wing]]'' ([[Arnold Vinick]] compares himself to Stevenson, the latter having been nominated twice to run for president)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://westwingwiki.com/2014/04/season-7-episode-20-last-hurrah/ | title=Season 7 - Episode 20 - "The Last Hurrah" | date=April 12, 2014 }}</ref>

Stevenson has also been referenced in films. [[Peter Sellers]] claimed that his portrayal of President Merkin Muffley in ''[[Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb|Dr. Strangelove]]'' was modeled on Stevenson.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUJ6XVBxTYAC&q=%22adlai+stevenson%22+%22peter+sellers%22&pg=PA196 |title=Google Book Search: Mr. Strangelove |isbn=9780786885817 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |last1=Sikov |first1=Ed |date=October 15, 2003 |publisher=Hachette Books |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331153734/https://books.google.com/books?id=uUJ6XVBxTYAC&q=%22adlai+stevenson%22+%22peter+sellers%22&pg=PA196 |url-status=live }}</ref> Stevenson's "[[s:Adlai Stevenson's Cuban Missile Crisis speech to the United Nations Security Council|Don't wait for the translation]]" speech to Russian ambassador [[Valerian Zorin]] during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] inspired dialogue in a courtroom scene in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]''.<ref name="compendium">{{cite book|title=The Star Trek Compendium|first=Alan|last=Asherman|date=May 1, 1993|publisher=Pocket Books | isbn = 978-0-671-79612-9 }}</ref> The historical speech itself is depicted in the 2000 film ''[[Thirteen Days (film)|Thirteen Days]]'' with [[Michael Fairman]] playing Stevenson, as well as partially depicted in the 1974 television play ''[[The Missiles of October]]'' by [[Ralph Bellamy]]. Stevenson is also referenced in ''[[Wayne's World 2]]'' ("Waynestock" is held in an [[Aurora, Illinois]], park named for Stevenson), ''[[Plain Clothes (1988 film)|Plain Clothes]]'' (the high school is named for Stevenson), ''[[Annie Hall]]'' (Woody Allen's character tells a standup joke about the Stevenson-Eisenhower campaign) and ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whysanity.net/monos/tiffany.html |title=Breakfast at Tiffanys |publisher=Whysanity.net |access-date=May 14, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529092548/http://www.whysanity.net/monos/tiffany.html |archive-date=May 29, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Stevenson also appears in ''[[A Global Affair]]'' credited as himself.

In ''[[Pioneer One]]'', a crowd-financed TV series published under a [[Creative Commons]] license, one of the characters introduces himself as "Adlai Steve DiLeo", named after Adlai Stevenson, "someone who ran three times for president unsuccessfully".<ref>Pioneer One S1E3</ref>

In a [[Parallel universe (fiction)|parallel universe]] featured in the ''[[Sliders (TV series)|Sliders]]'' episode "The Return of Maggie Beckett", the German [[Wehrmacht]] breaks through the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] lines in the [[Battle of the Bulge]] in 1944, which causes World War II to drag on until 1947. General Eisenhower is relieved as the [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force|Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe]] and returns to the United States in disgrace. Consequently, Stevenson becomes president. The Stevenson administration makes the [[Roswell UFO incident]] in July 1947 public knowledge and signs the Reticulan-American Free Trade Agreement (RAFTA), giving the US access to advanced [[Zeta Reticuli|Reticulan]] technology. This leads to a [[human mission to Mars]] in the 1990s.

In the 2016 movie ''Bogie and Bacall'', Stevenson was portrayed by actor [[Ryan Paevey]].