Talk:Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill/Rap Meanings/@comment-123.2.177.6-20161228050128

I'm an American stud, and you're the British Elmer Fudd!

Elmer Fudd was not just short and ugly, he had no facial hair - something considered unmanly in the first half of the twentieth century. Roosevelt in the next verse encourages him to grow a moustache.

I'm about to take you out prematurely, like your family.

Churchill is shown firing a machine gun; the real Churchill was famously photographed casually carrying a Thompson machine gun, which was used for propaganda purposes by both the Allies and Axis.

I was saving the planet from an axis of darkness,

The description needs to be clarified - The UK was fighting the Axis almost alone (then Germany and Italy) prior to the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. I believe this line emphasised that Churchill was saving the planet alone while the US was sitting on the sidelines. Roosevelt would come back with the Pearl Harbour reference.

I'll fight you on the beaches, I'll fight you on the beats, yes!

'beats' is a word play on 'streets', a location where Churchill envisaged fighting would continue in his famous  "We shall defend our island" speech.