'The Simpsons' landmark gay episo keeps the fay

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• ‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY
• SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?
• SIMPSON FAY    GRAMPA ABRAHAM JEDIAH "ABE" SIMPSON II "I'M LD AND THERE'RE WOLV AFTER ME!"VOICED BY: DAN CASTELLAADEBUT: "GRAMPA AND THE KIDS" DEBUT ON THE SIMPSONS: "SIMPSONS ROASTG ON AN OPEN FIRE"HOMER'S ELRLY, CRANKY, SENILE FATHER, A SERGEANT WW2. FOR ALL HOMER'S FAILUR AS A FATHER-FIGURE, HIS FATHER HAS PROVEN HE WAS WORSE. ABIVE PARENTS: THERE'S AT LEAST ONE FLASHBACK THAT SHOWS HIM STRANGLG YOUNG HOMER JT LIKE HOMER NOW DO TO BART. AND ONE WHERE GRAMPA'S FATHER ORVILLE DO TO HIM (WHILST ORVILLE'S OWN FATHER IS STRANGLG HIM TOO). MT BE A SIMPSON TRA. HOWEVER, THE MA TRA WAS THAT HE WAS VERY EMOTNALLY ABIVE OF HOMER, OFTEN LLG HIM A FAILURE AND OVERALL NOT BEG AN ENURAGG OR SUPPORTG PARENT. AMBIGUO GENR INTY: IN "CAPE FEARE," AFTER THE SIMPSONS MOVE AWAY ORR TO PE OM SISHOW BOB, ABRAHAM NEEDS TO GET TO THEIR OLD HOE BEE HE NEEDS HIS PILLS. AT THE END OF THE EPISO, HE SOMEHOW TURNS TO A WOMAN DUE TO NOT TAKG SAID PILLS. AMBIGUOLY BI: HE OBVLY MARRIED A WOMAN (EVEN IF THE RELATNSHIP WAS TERRIBLE), HOMOPHOBIC, AND HOMER EVEN HAS SOME HALF-SIBLGS DUE TO ABE SLEEPG AROUND. HOWEVER... IN "HOMER THE GREAT", WHEN HOMER WANTS TO JO THE STONECUTTERS' LODGE:OK, I'M AN ELK, A MASON, A COMMUNIST, THE PRINT OF THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE FOR SOME REASON. OH, HERE IS... THE STONE CUTTERS. IN "GEO GRAMPA", THE SIMPSON FAY BIDS ON A STORAGE UN NTAG MYSTER CLOTHG AND MAKE-UP, AND MARGE CIS TO LEND HER UNNDNAL SUPPORT TO GRANDPA, ONLY FOR HIM TO REVEAL THAT HIS YOUNGER DAYS, HE WAS A PROFSNAL WRTLER WH A GEO GEE GIMMICK. "MAD ABOUT THE TOY" REVEALS THAT ABE REPRSED QUTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY FOR MANY YEARS AFTER BEG KISSED BY ANOTHER MAN, DUE TO BELIEVG HOMOSEXUALY TO BE PATIBLE WH MASCULY AND WH ANY ATTRACTN TO WOMEN. HOWEVER, KISSG THE SAME MAN AGA HIM TO NCLU THAT HE'S 100% STRAIGHT AFTER ALL. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WH MONA OM THE START AND EVEN BEFORE THAT. ABE WAS A NEGLECTFUL AND ABIVE MAN WHO TREATED MONA AND HOMER TERRIBLY. MONA FOUND HIS FLIRTATN ANNOYG WHEN THEY FIRST MET AND HE CHEATED ON HER WH A RNIVAL PROSTUTE (WHOM HE ALSO IMPREGNATED) WHEN THEY STARTED DATG. IT BOGGL THE MD THAT THE TWO ACTUALLY GOT MARRIED THE FIRST PLACE. IN "LET'S GO FLY A COOT," ABE CLAIMS HE WON HER HEART WH A GRAND ROMANTIC GTURE, IMPLYG THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY THG SHE EVER LIKED HIM FOR: HE WARNS BART TO BE HIMSELF WHEN TO GIRLS AS WNG SOMEONE OVER WH ATYPIL BEHAVR N EASILY VER UP FUNDAMENTAL PATIBILY. BEWARE THE SILLY ON: HE MAY BE A SENILE OLD MAN WHO SPOUTS NONSENSE BUT WHEN THGS GETS SER, GRAMPA'S OLD SOLDIER STCTS WILL KICK . BLOOD KNIGHT: "MAD ABOUT THE TOY" REVEALS THAT HE ENJOYED KILLG STRANGERS WHEN HE WAS THE ARMY AND THEREFORE NEVER BEME A SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN. BOWDLERIZATN: CONVERSED "YOU KENT ALWAYS SAY WHAT YOU WANT". GRAMPA TALKS ABOUT HOW TELEVISN HIS DAY ULDN'T SAY THE FOLLOWG WORDS: BOOBY, THY, BURP, FANNY BURP, WATER CLOSET, UNRPANTS, HOT DOG, DGLE-DGLE, BOSTON MARRIAGE, LBJ, TI, OR ONT LUMPS. BUTT-MONKEY: IS OFTEN IGNORED, TREATED WH NTEMPT, AND OTHERWISE LEFT TO ROT AT THE NURSG HOME (WHICH IS IMPLIED TO BE JT LIKE THE CROOKED HOME HOMER SAW ON 60 MUT) BY HIS OWN SON, AFTER GRAMPA SOLD HIS OLD HOE (THAT HE WON DURG THE 1950S QUIZ SHOW SNDAL) AND ED THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE HOE HOMER LIV NOW. HOMER'S TREATMENT OF ABE SEEMS TO REFLECT THE EMOTNAL ABE AND LACK OF SUPPORT ABE PROVID FOR HIM HIS YOUTH. HE IS GIVG WHAT HE GOT. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: BEFORE MONA ABANDONED HOMER, ABE WAS A UCH POTATO WHO SPENT HIS DAYS WATCHG TELEVISN, DRKG BEER, AND NEGLECTG HIS FAY. WHEN MONA LEFT, ABE IS NOTICEABLY CLEANER, RPONSIBLE (ALBE STILL NEGLECTFUL AND BTER), AND MAKG SACRIFIC FOR HOMER'S WELLBEG. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: EARLY SEASONS TEND TO SHOW HIM AS BEG AN ATTENTIVE, DNK FATHER TOWARDS HOMER. A NUMBER OF NEWER EPISOS HAVE FOCED ON SOFTENG HIM, SHOWG HIM AS A LONELY MAN WHO WATCHED MANY OF HIS DREAMS GO UP SMOKE AND WHO OFTEN DID MORE FOR HIS SON THAN HOMER EVER KNEW. HOWEVER, IS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE IS NOT PERFECT AND THAT HE MA PLENTY OF MISTAK THAT AFFECTED HOMER THE LONG N. COOL OLD GUY: IN "THE CURSE OF THE FLYG HELLFISH", HE PERFORMS A VARIETY OF FEATS TO SAVE BART AND TAKE BACK THE PATGS OM MR. BURNS. THIS ALSO CLUS HIS TIME AS A PRO WRTLER! "YOU'RE THE LUCKIT PEOPLE THE WORLD: YOU GET TO LOOK AT ME!" HIS MOV CLUD POSG FOR A PATED PORTRA THE MIDDLE OF THE RG, THEN GRABBG AND SMASHG OVER THE BABYFACE'S HEAD. HE WAS A MONSTER, AND WAS AWOME. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: DUE TO HIS SENILY, MOST OF WHAT HE SAYS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. SOME EXAMPL CLU SUPPOSEDLY FIGHTG WORLD WAR I AS A TODDLER AND TYG ONNS AROUND HIS BELT AS A FASHN ACCSORY CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: DPE THE FACT THAT HE'S SENILE, CRANKY AND A B OF A HARMLS NUISANCE MOST OF THE TIME, ON OCSN, WE N SEE JT WHY HE ROSE TO THE RANK OF MASTER SERGEANT THE US ARMY AND WHY HE IS NOT SOMEONE YOU MS WH. IN HIS ONE ENUNTER WH MR. BURNS HE PLETELY MOPS THE FLOOR WH THE OLD MISER SPE MR. BURNS HAVG EVERY ADVANTAGE IMAGABLE THE SUATN CLUDG BEG ARMED. CEL MERCY: GIVE THIS TO MONTY BURNS "CURSE OF THE FLYG HELLFISH", PROVG THAT HE'S STILL A BADASS UNRNEATH.ABE: I A'T GONNA KILL YA! THAT'D BE WARDLY! MONTY BURNS WARDLY! I'M JT GONNA WATCH YOU SQUIRM... DAD THE VETERAN: ABE SERVED THE ARMY, NAVY, COAST GUARD AND AIR FORCE, AND WAS THE SEND WORLD WAR. DECEMBER–DECEMBER ROMANCE: HAS HAD SEVERAL, WH MARGE'S MOM, BEATRICE, AND A HOOCHIE NAMED ZELDA. DISAPPEARED DAD: NOT TO HOMER BUT TO HOMER'S ILLEGIMATE HALF-SIBLGS - ABBEY AND HERBERT - WHO WERE BOTH BORN OM HIS SHORT-LIVED AFFAIRS. DISGUISED DRAG: HAS DRSED AS A FEMALE ON SEVERAL OCSNS, CLUDG 1942 WHEN HE DRSED DRAG AND PLAYED FOR A FEMALE BASEBALL TEAM TO AVOID FIGHTG THE WAR AND ANOTHER CINT WHERE HE WORE A DRS FOR A WHILE ("OH, THEY HAD SIGNERS BACK THEN"). EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: WHILE HE WAS BY NO MEANS A GOOD FATHER TO HOMER, HE SHOWED GENUE ANGER TOWARDS MONA FOR ABANDONG HOMER DUE TO HER CRIMAL LIFTYLE, REVEALG THAT THE ONLY REASON HE LIED ABOUT HER ATH THE FIRST PLACE WAS THAT HE DIDN'T WANT HOMER TO LIVE WH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HIS MOTHER WAS A CRIMAL. FANBOY: OF MATLOCK, LIKE ALL THE SENR CIZENS OF SPRGFIELD. HE EVEN VOT FOR A NEW EXPRSWAY TO BE NAMED HIS HONOR, SPE OF BEG THE WAY OF HIS FAY'S HOME. FATAL FLAW: ABE’S BIGGT FAILG IS THAT HE DON’T HANDLE ADVERSY THAT WELL WHEN TO RELATNSHIPS. WHEN A RELATNSHIP STARTS GOG DOWNHILL HE JT DON’T SEEM TO KNOW HOW TO FIX . HE EHER IGNOR THE PROBLEM OR ACTIVELY FEEDS TO . HE DID THE FORMER WH HOMER AND THE LATTER WH MONA. GRANDPARENT FAVORISM: HE HAS SHOWN PLENTY OF TIM TO HAVE MORE LOVE AND RPECT FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN THAN HIS SON AND PARTICULAR IS CLOST TO HIS OLST GRANDCHILD AND ONLY GRANDSON, BART. GRANDPARENTAL OBLIVNS: HE OFTEN DON'T PAY ATTENTN, WHICH GENERALLY HAS BAD NSEQUENC. GMPY OLD MAN: GMPIER THAN HOMER. HEEL–FACE TURN: LERAL EXAMPLE, "GEO GRANDPA" HE WRTLED AS GEO GODEY, A NOTOR HEEL, WHOM HE PLAYED AS A VA SELFISH MAN. EVERYONE HATED HIM, SAVE FOR BURNS, SO HE RETIRED. HE ME OUT OF RETIREMENT PER BURNS'S REQUT, AND BEGAN TO ENJOY BEG A BAD GUY. WHEN BART BE HIS WRTLG PARTNER, HE SE THE EFFECT HAS ON BART'S OUTLOOK, SO HE BE A FACE, HONT ABE, FOR HIS LAST MATCH. HIDG YOUR HERAGE: IN "THE COLOR YELLOW", ABE REVEALS THAT VIRGIL SIMPSON ACTUALLY PED OM THE SLAVERS WH MABEL SIMPSON AND THEY EVENTUALLY MARRIED. WHEN LISA ASKS WHY HE HID THIS OM THE FAY, HE REVEALS THAT HE HAD TO HI HIS HERAGE DUE TO STUTNAL RACISM. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: "I WAS ONCE THE HANDSOMT MAN ALBANY, NEW YORK!" JERKASS HAS A POT: WHILE ABE IS HARDLY A GOOD PARENT, HIS ANGER TOWARDS MONA IS JTIFIED. ABE IS UPSET AT MONA NOT BEE SHE LEFT HIM, BUT MORE BEE SHE ABANDONED HOMER. WHEN MONA LLS ABE OUT FOR LYG TO HOMER ABOUT HER BEG AD, HE REPLI THAT THIS WAS BETTER THAN TELLG HIM THE TTH, WHICH WAS THAT SHE ABANDONED HER FAY ON IMPULSE AND DIDN'T THK TWICE ABOUT HOW ULD AFFECT HER MATERNAL RPONSIBILI. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AT TIM, PARTICULARLY HIS YOUNGER DAYS, SPE BEG A GFF, UNTERTED FATHER FIGURE, HE DID DRS UP AS SANTA CLS FOR CHRISTMAS TO CHEER UP HOMER, AND SOLD HIS HOE ORR TO ALLOW HOMER AND MARGE TO BUY A PLACE OF THEIR OWN. AND HE DO RE ABOUT HIS GRANDCHILDREN. KARMA HOUDI: HE WON HIS HOE ON A CROOKED '50S GAME SHOW. HE THEN RATTED ON EVERYBODY AND GOT OFF ST-EE. LASER-GUID KARMA: IT'S OFTEN MONSTRATED THAT WHILE HE DID SACRIFICE A LOT FOR HOMER, HE WAS ULTIMATELY A DISTERTED, NEGLECTFUL, UNSUPPORTG AND SOMETIM DOWNRIGHT EMOTNALLY ABIVE PARENT TO HOMER. HOMER'S OWN TREATMENT OF HIM NOW THAT HE'S A AIL OLD MAN IS MANY WAYS ABE REAPG WHAT HE'S SOWN. A THROWAWAY LE "THE WTER OF HIS CONTENT" MENTNS THAT HE PUT HIS OWN FATHER A HOME AND NEVER VISS HIM. THIS SURPRIS BART AND LISA, WHO DIDNT REALISE GREAT-GRANDPA ORVILLE WAS STILL ALIVE. MEDAL OF DISHONOR: APPARENTLY, HE WAS SO EPT AT CLEARG MEFIELDS THAT HE WAS AWARD THE IRON CROSS WORLD WAR 2 WHILE SERVG THE US ARMY. MULTIPLE-CHOICE PAST: EVEN JT THE VERSNS OF HIS PAST THAT ARE NFIRMED AS TE (AND NOT SENILE RAMBLGS) BY OTHER CHARACTERS SHOULD BE SELF-NTRADICTORY. APPARENTLY THEY'RE ALL TE AND NONE OF THEM ARE TE AT THE SAME TIME. THE MüNCHSEN: ALTHOUGH THERE IS THE OCSNAL IMPLITN THAT HIS RAMBLG AND NONSENSIL STORI ARE ACTUALLY TE, OR AT LEAST HAVE GRAS OF TTH THEM. THERE IS ALSO AT LEAST ONE IMPLITN THAT HE IS ACTUALLY AWARE THAT HE IS RAMBLG NONSENSE, BUT DO ANYWAYS BEE HE THKS HIS GRANDKIDS DON'T ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTN TO HIS STORI ANYWAYS."YOU MEAN I HAVE TO THK OF AN ENDG TO THIS NONSENSE?!" NOODLE INCINT: HE CLAIMS HE ONCE SHOT DOWN A GERMAN PLANE. IN 1995. OBFTG STUPIDY: ZIGZAGGED. WHEN ASKED IF HE'S STALLG THE FBI OR JT SENILE "MOTHER SIMPSON", HE SAYS THAT HE'S DOG BOTH. ON SOME OCSNS, ABE IS SHOWN TO BE EXAGGERATG VAR TRAS SUCH AS SENILY, RATHER THAN FAKG THEM OUTRIGHT AS MOST EXAMPL OF THIS TROPE DO, WHICH IS VERY GOOD FOR TCHG PEOPLE OFF GUARD. PAPA WOLF: QUE PROTECTIVE OF HIS GRANDSON BART, ALTHOUGH NOT SO MUCH FOR HIS ACTUAL SON, HOMER. MR. BURNS TRI TO DROWN BART AS A WAY OF STOPPG GRANDPA OM PURSUG HIM. GRANDPA'S RPONSE IS TO DRIVE TO THE LAKE AFTER BART, EE BART OM THE BOX MR. BURNS HAD TRAPPED HIM AND BRG HIM BACK TO THE SURFACE, AND THEN PURSUE MR. BURNS BY WATERSKIG WH HIS BARE FEET TO EVENTUALLY REACH BURNS'S BOAT. CUE THE NO-HOLDS-BARRED BEATDOWN. DPE HIS TREATMENT TOWARDS HOMER DURG HIS CHILDHOOD, ONE EPISO SHOWS THAT TO PREVENT MR. BURNS KILLG HOMER'S BELOVED DOG, ABE SENT THE DOG TO A FARM UPSTATE AND ALLOWED BURNS TO PUNISH HIM STEAD. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: ABRAHAM AND BART HAVE MORE OF A FATHER-SON RELATNSHIP THAN EHER OF THEM DO WH HOMER, THEIR ACTUAL RPECTIVE SON AND FATHER. THE EPISO "BARTHOOD" SHOWS JT HOW MUCH BART LOV HIS GRAMPA, AND THEY HAVE BOND OTHER EPISOS. PARENTS AS PEOPLE: ABE IS A PLEX CHARACTER AS A PARENT FOR HOMER, HE WAS NEGLECTFUL OF HOMER'S EMOTNAL NEEDS AND HE SHED TO MARRYG MONA AND SOON BEME LOVELS AND TOXIC. WHEN MONA LEFT, ABE THOUGHT BT TO TELL HOMER THAT SHE DIED THAN TELL HIM THAT MONA HAD TO ABANDON HIM AFTER MAKG A LAW-BREAKG MISTAKE WHOUT NSIRG HOW WILL IMPACT HER FAY. WHEN MONA LEFT, GRANDPA HAD TO STEP UP AND FILL THE VOID THAT MONA LEFT SPE HIS OWN BTERNS AND RAGE ON THE MATTER. DPE HIS FLAWS, ABE DO LOVE HOMER AND MA ENOUGH PERSONAL SACRIFIC TO PROVE . PERMA-STUBBLE: LIKE HOMER, HE'S ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS WHO HAS A STUBBLE BEARD. MT BE A FAY TRA BEE EVEN ADULT BART HAS THE SAME BEARD LE SOME FUTURE EPISOS. RAMBLG OLD MAN MONOLOGUE: PRACTILLY THE TROPE CODIFIER."SO I TIED AN ONN TO MY BELT, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME. NOW, TO TAKE THE FERRY ST A NICKEL, AND THOSE DAYS, NICKELS HAD PICTUR OF BUMBLEBE ON 'EM. GIMME FIVE BE FOR A QUARTER, YOU'D SAY. NOW WHERE WAS I … OH YEAH. THE IMPORTANT THG WAS THAT I HAD AN ONN TIED TO MY BELT, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME. YOU ULDN'T GET WHE ONNS BEE OF THE WAR; THE ONLY THGS YOU ULD GET WAS THOSE BIG YELLOW ON…" PARODIED TWICE: THE FIRST WAS "DOUBLE, DOUBLE, BOY IN TROUBLE", WHERE THE MIDDLE OF GRAMPA'S RAMBLE, "BART" (ACTUALLY SIMON WOOSTERFIELD) EXCLAIMS SHOCK AND PRI THAT GRAMPA SHOT A BUFFALO. GRAMPA THEN TURNS AROUND AND EXPRS SHOCK THAT "BART" WAS EVEN LISTENG TO HIS RAMBLE, AND PLAS ABOUT NOW HAVG TO FD AN ENDG TO HIS NONSENSE. THE SEND IS "THURSDAYS WH ABIE" AFTER HOMER SAV HIS LIFE OM AN AX-CRAZY HUMANARIAN JOURNALIST TRYG TO KILL HIM, AND REWARDS HOMER WH THE OPPORTUNY TO HAVE HIS "FIRST RAMBLE", DITG THAT 'S A FAY TRADN TO HAVE THE SIMPSON MAL DO RAMBLG. REAL MEN HATE AFFECTN: HE DO LOVE HIS FAY, HE'S JT TOO GMPY AND BTER TO EXPRS AN EMOTNALLY HEALTHY WAY. REFUGEE OM TIME: HIS BACKGROUND AS A WWII VETERAN HAS NEVER CHANGED. INTERTGLY, THE SIXTH SEASON EPISO "LISA'S WEDDG", SET 2010 (AND AIRED 1995), VAGUELY IMPLIED HE WAS AD VIA HIS NSPICUO ABSENCE, THOUGH NOTHG WAS SAID ON THE MATTER. RETIRED BADASS: IT TURNS OUT HE'S A WORLD WAR II VETERAN AND HIS STORI ABOUT HIS FIGHTG DAYS ARE GENERALLY TE (EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WHERE HE POSED AS A GERMAN BARET SGER AND FLIRTED WH HLER, UNTIL HIS FAKE BOOB POPPED OUT. THE ONLY TE THG ABOUT THAT WAS THAT HE WORE A DRS FOR A TIME THE 1940S AND THAT THE SIGNERS BACK THEN WERE BETTER THAN THE ON TODAY). AND APPARENTLY HE ALSO ED TO BE A PROFSNAL WRTLER. IT RURFAC WHEN BURNS TRI TO DROWN BART DURG THE HUNT FOR THE ART TONTE. STTERBRAED SENR: PROVIS THE PAGE IMAGE. ABRAHAM "GRANDPA" SIMPSON HAS A PRETTY HEAVILY EROD MD. THIS N RANGE OM SIMPLE FETFULNS TO BEG PLETELY DIVORCED OM REALY. HE ONCE KEPT TWO POLICEMEN OCCUPIED BY CLAIMG TO BE THE LDBERGH BABY AND WANTG HIS "FLY-FLY DADA". WHEN THE POLICE ASK IF HE'S TRYG TO STALL THEM, OR IF HE'S JT SENILE, HE ADMS 'S "A LTLE OM COLUMN A, A LTLE OM COLUMN B". THIS IS NSISTENTLY PLAYED FOR LGHS. SCREW POLENS, I'M A SENR!: HIS NVERSATNS SOMETIM GET DIRTIER THAN HOMER'S. SENR SLEEP-CYCLE: ALWAYS FALLS ASLEEP MID-SENTENCE, LIKE WHEN HE'S SGG "THE FUNKY GRAMPA" OR WHEN HE PLAS ABOUT HOW BAD STAR TREK XII: SO VERY TIRED WAS. SERGEANT ROCK: ABE WAS ONE OF THE WORLD WAR II. SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN: THERE ARE VERY OCSNAL HTS THAT PART OF THE REASONS FOR HIM BEG SUCH A JERK IS BEE HE'S THIS. SISSY VILLA: AS "GLAMORO GODEY", HIS HEEL OF A WRTLG PERSONA. THE SIXTH RANGER: OCSNALLY FILLS THIS ROLE, WHEN THE FAY ISN'T ACTIVELY AVOIDG HIM. SOLID CARTOON FACIAL STUBBLE: THE BROWN AREA SURROUNDG ABE'S MOUTH IS A SHORTHAND WAY OF ANIMATG HIS STUBBLE. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: IT'S "GRAMPA", NOT "GRANDPA". TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: DURG HOMER'S CHILDHOOD, ABE WAS NOT EXACTLY THE BT FATHER OR HBAND. IN THE PRENT DAY, HE IS A MUCH BETTER PERSON, PECIALLY TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN. UNEXPLAED REVERY: HE REVERS OM A VARIETY OF DISTURBG NDNS. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: HIS STORI HAVE LTLE TO NO TTH THEM. HE EVEN LIED TO HOMER WHEN HE WAS 9 THAT MONA DIED WHILE HE WAS AT THE MOVI. VAGUE AGE: "GOD ONLY KNOWS", AS MARGE PUTS . TO MAKE PECIALLY NFG, "THE MANSN FAY", KENT BROCKMAN IS TRYG TO TERME THE OLST PERSON TOWN BY HAVG EVERYONE STAND UP AND THEN S DOWN WHEN BROCKMAN LLS OUT A NUMBER GREATER THAN THEIR AGE. AT ABOUT EIGHTY, GRAMPA SS DOWN, AND THEN AT NETY, HE STANDS UP AGA. ONE EPISO SAYS HE'S 83 (THIS OBVLY NNOT BE THE SE ANYMORE SCE HE'S ALSO A WW2 VETERAN). NOT HELPG ARE EPISOS SHOWG HE'S GOT AT LEAST TWO S ON EVEN-VAGUER-AGED MISTER BURNS. WAR HERO: ABE IS UALLY THIS. HOW HEROIC HE WAS EXACTLY IS DEPENDG ON THE WRER. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: A GOOD AL OF HOMER'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS STEM OM ABE'S ABIVE PARENTG (WHICH IS PORTRAYED AS EERILY SIAR TO HOMER'S OWN TREATMENT OF BART). IN TURN HOMER STUFFED HIM A NURSG HOME AT THE FIRST LL AND OFTEN ATTEMPTS TO IGNORE HIS EXISTENCE. THEY DO GET GENUE MOMENTS OF BONDG AT TIM HOWEVER. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE...: HE LOV THE.    GRANDMA MONA PENELOPE SIMPSON (NéE OLSEN) VOICED BY: GLENN CLOSE, MAGGIE ROSWELL, TRS MACNEILLE, PAMELA HAYNDEBUT: "OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?"A ANT HIPPIE HER YOUTH, SHE HAD TO LEAVE HOMER AND HER HBAND ALIKE WHEN HOMER WAS YOUNG BEE SHE MA AN ENEMY OF MR. BURNS AND FLED TO THE HIPPY UNRGROUND. SCERELY LOV HER FAY, AND SPERATELY WANTS TO BE WH THEM. DI HER THIRD APPEARANCE. ACTN MOM: SHE NEVER LET BEG A MOTHER STOP HER OM BEG A POLIL ACTIVIST, UP TO AND CLUDG WHAT ARE TECHNILLY ACTS OF E-TERRORISM, LIKE "BOMBG" MR. BURNS' GERM WEAPONS LAB WH ANTIBTICS TO KILL OFF HIS MICROBE CULTUR. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WH ABE PRETTY MUCH RIGHT OM THE START. COOL OLD LADY: ESPECIALLY NTRAST WH HOMER'S FATHER. SHE'S A HIPPIE, TED AND CULTURED, AND SHE BONDS WH HER GRANDCHILDREN, PECIALLY BOOK-SMART LISA WHO FALLY FEELS SHE IS A SIMPSON. DADDY HAD A GOOD REASON FOR ABANDONG YOU: A NSTCTED EXAMPLE. SHE HAD TO LEAVE HER FAY WHEN SHE HELPED MR. BURNS AFTER HER GROUP SABOTAGED HIM, BEE HE INTIFIED HER AS A CRIMAL. WHILE SHE DID HAVE GOOD REASONS FOR LEAVG THE FAY, THE REASONS FOR THE EVENTS LEADG UP TO WERE THE OPPOSE. MONA DID NOT BALANCE HER DUTI AS A MOTHER WH HER GRANOLA GIRL LIFTYLE AND POLIL ACTIVISM PROPERLY, WHICH WOULD LEAD HER TO TROUBLE WH THE LAW. WHEN ABE LLS MONA OUT FOLLOWG HER FIRST RETURN, HE REVEALS THAT HIS ANGER TOWARDS HER WAS NOT OVER LEAVG HIM, BUT MORE OVER ABANDONG HOMER. A UPLE OF FLASHBACKS SHOW A GLIMPSE OF THE PERD BETWEEN HER TRODUCTN TO ACTIVISM AND DISAPPEARANCE, AND SHOWN THAT SHE HAD BEE A B MORE NEGLIGENT OVER TIME (THOUGH STILL BETTER THAN ABE.) DOTG GRANDPARENT: MONA IMMEDIATELY BONDS WH HER GRANDCHILDREN WHEN SHE FIRST MEETS THEM, PECIALLY LISA, WHO ALWAYS TREATED HERSELF AS AN OUTSIR AMONG THE FAY, DUE TO THEIR TELLIGENCE. IT IS ALSO REVEALS THAT MONA SECRETLY VISED HER GRANDSON'S BIRTH EVEN WHEN SHE IS ON THE N. DYG ALONE: HOMER FEELS PLENTY OF GUILT OVER THE FACT HE NEVER GOT TO FIVE HIS MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED. FAKG THE DEAD: SHE HAS FAKED HER OWN ATH A UPLE TIM AND, BEFORE THAT, ABE LIED TO HOMER ABOUT MONA HAVG DIED. FAY THEME NAMG: WH HER FIRST-BORN GRANDDGHTER, LISA. TOGETHER, THEIR NAM CREATE "MONA LISA" - WHICH ARE REGULARLY ED FOR PUNS EPISO TL SUCH A "MOANG LISA" AND "MONA LEAV-A". MATT GROENG ORIGALLY GAVE HER NAME AS "PENELOPE OLSEN" ON A FAY TREE BUT THE WRERS CHANGED TO "MONA" (TURNG "PENELOPE" TO HER MIDDLE NAME) TO CREATE A NNECTN BETWEEN THE TWO AND EXPLA WHERE LISA GOT HER TELLIGENCE AND ACTIVIST PERSONALY OM. FARMER AND THE VIPER: THE REASON WHY SHE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON HER FAY, MR BURNS SAW HER INTY WHEN SHE HAD HELPED HIM UP AFTER HE WAS TRAMPLED BY THE OTHER HIPPI. FOIL: TO ABE. ABE IS A SENILE, CRANKY, AND UNPLEASANT OLD MAN WHO GO OFF ON WILD TANGENTS AND GENERALLY ANNOYS HOMER AND HIS FAY, ALBE HIS WEAR AND TEAR LARGELY G OM ALL HE HAS GONE THROUGH WH HIS FAY. MONA HAS AGED WH DIGNY, RETAED ALL OF HER FACULTI, AND IS SOMEONE HOMER AND HIS FAY LOV TO HAVE AROUND, THOUGH IS LEFT WH AN CREDIBLY DISTANT RELATNSHIP DUE TO HER ABANDONMENT. GRANOLA GIRL: DENSTCTED. HER EXTREME VOLVEMENT THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT, AS WELL AS POLIL ACTIVISM, ST MONA HER REPUTATN WH THE LAW AS WELL AS HER CHANCE TO BE A MOTHER TO HOMER. GREASY SPOON: SHE WORKED AS A WARS AT AN AIR FORCE STATN DER BEFORE BEG MARRYG ABE AND BEG A HOEWIFE. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: SHE WAS QUE GOOD-LOOKG HER YOUTH. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: ABE AND MONA LEARNED ABOUT HERB AROUND THE TIME THEY WERE MARRIED. HER RPONSE TO THIS WAS TO E AS AN EXCE TO CHEAT ON HIM VOKG GOOD ADULTERY, BAD ADULTERY EVEN THOUGH HERB WAS NCEIVED BEFORE THEY WERE TOGETHER. HOWEVER, SHE NTUED TO HYPOCRILLY HOLD HERB OVER ABE’S HEAD, EVEN AFTER SHE BEME PREGNANT AND DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IF HOMER WAS ABE’S. ONCE ABE REALIZED HE WOULD ALWAYS BE FIVEN, BUT NOT FOTTEN AND STOPPED CARG THE RULTG BAD MARRIAGE ED HER TO EVENTUALLY JO THE HIPPY MOVEMENT WHERE SHE NEVER STOPPED CHEATG ON HIM. HER RPONSE TO HOMER ACCG HER OF BEG A DISNEYLAND DAD WAS TO CHANGE HER WILL NOT ONLY MANIPULATG HOMER TO PUTTG HIMSELF AND HIS FAY DANGER, BUT SHOWG THAT SHE DID JT E BACK TO NONT BURNS. MISSG MOM: MONA WANTS TO BE WH HER FAY, BUT HER VISS TO HOMER PUT THE ENTIRE SIMPSON FAY AT A RISK OF GETTG TO TROUBLE WH THE LAW, ALL BEE MR. BURNS HAD HER CRIMALIZED FOR G A GERM LAB. EVEN WORSE, SHE GOT ARRTED A SEND TIME FOR A TECHNILY THAT WAS ARRANGED BY BURNS, AND UPON PG THE B TAKG HER TO JAIL, WAS FORCED TO ABANDON HER FAY AGA. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: SHE STOPPED TO HELP MR. BURNS UP AFTER HE'D BEEN TRAMPLED BY HER HORTS, FOLLOWG HER HIPPIE GROUP'S SABOTAGE OF HIS BLOGIL WEAPONS. THIS MA HER A WANTED CRIMAL SCE THEY END UP GETTG HER PHOTO. SCREW THE RUL, I'M DOG WHAT'S RIGHT!: THIS IS WHY SHE GOT TO THE HIPPIE LIFTYLE; SHE WAS OPPOSED TO MANY OF THE CISNS OF BIG BS AND THE ERNMENT, AND FELT THAT SHE NEED TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT , EVEN IF MA HER A CRIMAL. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: A META EXAMPLE. "MOTHER SIMPSON" AIRED DURG THE SEVENTH SEASON AND AVERTG THE TROPE WAS THE IAL IMPET TO PRODUCG THE EPISO. SHOWNNERS BILL OAKLEY AND JOSH WESTE ADMTED SURPRISE THAT ALL THOSE YEARS THE STAT OF HOMER'S MOTHER HAD NEVER BEEN GIVEN ON-SCREEN. (SHE HAD BEEN SEEN A UPLE TIM FLASHBACKS, BUT HER PRENT-DAY WHEREABOUTS HAD NEVER BEEN MENTNED UNTIL "MOTHER SIMPSON.") IN AN ISSUE OF SIMPSONS ILLTRATED, PUBLISHED YEARS BEFORE MONA'S BUT, A REAR WROTE ASKG WHERE HOMER'S MOM WAS. THE EDORS SAID THAT HOMER'S MOM "WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE ONE DAY AND NEVER ME BACK".    HERBERT "HERB" POWELL "[I]N AMERI, YOU'RE NEVER FISHED AS LONG AS YOU'VE GOT A BRA YOUR HEAD, BEE ALL A MAN REALLY NEEDS IS AN IA."VOICED BY: DANNY DEVODEBUT: "OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?"HERBERT "HERB" POWELL IS HOMER SIMPSON'S SELDOM-SEEN LONG-LOST OLR HALF-BROTHER. HE IS FIRST MENTNED BY ABRAHAM SIMPSON WHEN HOMER TO ABE'S SI AFTER ABE SUFFERS A HEART ATTACK. HERBERT IS ALSO THE HALF-UNCLE OF BART, LISA, AND MAGGIE. THE ALHOLIC: IT IS IMPLIED THAT HERB DRKS DUE TO STRS - THE EA MOBILE GAME TAPPED OUT, HERB HAS A NUMBER OF DRKG-BASED TASKS. COOL UNCLE: HE IS A REALLY NICE UNCLE TO BART, LISA, AND MAGGIE, EVEN SISTG THAT THEY LL HIM "UNKIE HERB". FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: RPONSIBLE TO HOMER'S FOOLISH. HAT RICH PEOPLE: HE IS A DENSTCTN AS HE HIMSELF IS THE RICH AND SUCCSFUL OWNER OF POWER MOTORS, BUT IS A SELF-MA MAN WHO MA HIS WAY TO THE TOP. HIS PANY NSISTS OF PRETENT WEALTHY KNOW--ALLS WHO HE WEARS HIS NTEMPT FOR ON HIS SLEEVE. HIS DOWNFALL FACT OM CIDG TO HAVE HIS NEXT R SIGNED BY HOMER, A MON MAN HE BELIEV IS MORE TOUCH WH HIS NSUMERS, TENTNALLY IGNORG ANY NCERNS BY HIS STAFF THAT THIS MIGHT FAIL. THE PROJECT BOMBS, POWELL MOTORS IS BANKPT, AND HERB'S SEND APPEARANCE REVOLV AROUND HIM TRYG TO WORK HIS WAY BACK TO SUCCS AGA.HERB: WHY DID I EVER HIRE YOU HARVARD AD-HEADS?EXECUTIVE: BEE YOU WENT THERE.HERB: YEAH, BUT MOMMY AND DADDY DIDN'T PAY MY WAY. I HAD TO WORK MY WAY THROUGH, WASHG YOUR DISH AND SCBBG TOILETS!EXECUTIVE: OH YEAH, I REMEMBER YOU. IGNORED EPIPHANY: HE BLAM HIS BANKPTCY PLETELY ON HOMER, AND EVEN WHEN HE REGAS HIS WEALTH, HIS CLOSURE IS TO FIVE HOMER FOR G . A GAG "CHANGG OF THE GUARDIAN" IMPLI HERB ACTUALLY HABUALLY LOS HIS FORTUNE, SEEMGLY NEVER LEARNG OM HIS MISTAK. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN "BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM". HE TREATS HOMER PRETTY BADLY (DUE TO STILL NOT FIVG HIM) AND ONLY HUNTS HIM DOWN TO E HIS MONEY, BUT HE IS A GOOD UNCLE AND GIV EVERY FAY MEMBER THEIR OWN GIFT ON TOP OF PAYG THE MONEY BACK. AND HERB EVENTUALLY DO FIVE HOMER, LLS HIM "BROTHER" AGA, AND BUYS HIM THE MASSAGE CHAIR HE WANTED. LONELY AT THE TOP: HERB IS OVERJOYED TO LEARN THAT HE HAS A BIRTH FAY AND BONDS WH HIS NIEC AND NEPHEW, AND - HIS ROLE AS CEO - ALLOWS HOMER TO SIGN A R. MEAN BOSS: HERB IS EXTREMELY DISMISSIVE AND TEMPERAMENTAL TO HIS EMPLOYE, VIEWG THEM AS PRIVILEGED IDTS ( STARK NTRAST TO HIS OWN UPBRGG). THIS ENDS UP HIS OWN UNDOG, AS HE REF TO TAKE THEIR WARNGS OF HOMER'S PETENCE SERLY, AND FORC THEM TO NTUE WH HIS DOOMED PROJECT UNTIL 'S TOO LATE. THEY APPARENTLY KNOW NOT TO GIVE WHAT PEOPLE WANT. NEVER MY FLT: HERB BLAM HOMER FOR G HIS PANY SPE PUTTG HIM CHARGE, SHELVG ALL OTHER PROJECTS AND OUTRIGHT IGNORG HIS EMPLOYE' WARNGS, WHO SPE BEG 'PRIVILEGED IDTS' AS HE PUT STILL KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT BS TO BE ON THE BOARD OF A R PANY. HE ALSO LIV EXTREMELY LAVISHLY, SUGGTG THAT HIS IMMEDIATE STUTN UPON HIS PANY'S BANKPTCY WAS BEE HE WAS LIVG WELL BEYOND HIS MEANS. RAGS TO RICH: IN "BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM", HOMER GIV HERB $2,000 (OM THE POWER PLANT, AS PENSATN FOR MAKG HIM STERILE OM RADIATN), WHICH HERB TO BUILD AN VENTN THAT TRANSLAT BABY BABBLE TO PREHENSIBLE ENGLISH, BASED ON OBSERVATNS HE MA OF MAGGIE SIMPSON. HE PROCEEDS TO MASS-PRODUCE HIS NEW PRODUCT AND REGA HIS FORTUNE. AFTER GOG BACK TO LIVG A RICH LIFE, A THROWAWAY LE "CHANGG OF THE GUARDIAN" REVEALED HE ONCE MORE LOST HIS FORTUNE. SOMEHOW. RICH TO RAGS: WHEN HERB V HOMER TO MAKE A R, THKG HE WILL HAVE SOME IA OF WHAT THE AVERAGE MAN IS LOOKG FOR, HOMER IGNOR ALL THE ADVICE HE'S GIVEN, WHILE HERB IGNOR ALL THE WARNGS OM HIS ADVISORS. THE R HAS A HORRIBLE SIGN ATHETIC AND A RIDICULO PRICE TAG OF $82,000. THE R IS LLED "BLUNR OF THE CENTURY", AND SENDS THE ALREADY AILG PANY TO BANKPTCY, AND HERB TO THE STREET. WHILE HE MANAG TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE BACK BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM, HE'S BACK TO BEG POOR AGA CHANGG OF THE GUARDIANS. SELF-MA MAN: HE GREW UP SHELBYVILLE ORPHANAGE, WASHED RS FOR HIS LLEGE CLASSMAT TO PAY FOR HIS TN AND BEME A R MANUFACTURER, WH SAID CLASSMAT BEG NOW HIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SIBLG Y-YANG: WH HOMER. HE IS AN TELLIGENT, AMB, CHARISMATIC, PASSNATE, BUT ALSO LONELY PERSON. SON OF A WHORE: CAME ABOUT AS A RULT OF GRANDPA'S FLG WH A RNIVAL WOMAN WHO'D DO THGS MONA NEVER WOULD, LIKE HAVE SEX FOR MONEY. HE WAS LATER ADOPTED BY THE POWELL FAY.BOUVIER FAY
• THE SIMPSONS SEASON 30 REP: IS GRAMPA SIMPSON GAY?

‘THE SIMPSONS’ LANDMARK GAY EPISO KEEPS THE FAY

And while ’s a historil moment for Smhers, ’s also a full-circle one for longtime seri wrer Rob LaZebnik, whose son, Johnny, spired Smhers’ big, gay g-out episo 2016. Of urse, Smhers — who fds himself thst to a globe-trottg, whirlwd romance wh Garber’s fashnista — was already fluenced by them both when he bted down his closet door 2016’s touchg Season 27 episo “Tom Colls, ” which was penned by Rob as an homage to his gay son.

“So often, gay romanc are a subplot or allud to or shown some kd of montage or as a punchle. And what I thk I was really exced about, wh this episo, we get to see — whout spoilg too much — the begng, middle and who knows how ends of a gay relatnship, of really gettg to the nty-grty of how gay people date, how they meet, what ’s like, ” he said. “I haven’t played a lot of gay characters, but every time I do , brgs back certa feelgs I had as a young actor where I uldn’t be gay.

SIMPSONS GAY CHARACTERS: WHO IS LGBT THE SIMPSONS?

You may be surprised how many Simpsons gay characters have appeared throughout the 30 seasons so far, not to mentn the vio gam and movie. We have listed the var LGBT characters The Simpsons, om those openly gay, lbian and bi, to those who may be the closet.

SIMPSON FAY    GRAMPA ABRAHAM JEDIAH "ABE" SIMPSON II "I'M LD AND THERE'RE WOLV AFTER ME!"VOICED BY: DAN CASTELLAADEBUT: "GRAMPA AND THE KIDS" DEBUT ON THE SIMPSONS: "SIMPSONS ROASTG ON AN OPEN FIRE"HOMER'S ELRLY, CRANKY, SENILE FATHER, A SERGEANT WW2. FOR ALL HOMER'S FAILUR AS A FATHER-FIGURE, HIS FATHER HAS PROVEN HE WAS WORSE. ABIVE PARENTS: THERE'S AT LEAST ONE FLASHBACK THAT SHOWS HIM STRANGLG YOUNG HOMER JT LIKE HOMER NOW DO TO BART. AND ONE WHERE GRAMPA'S FATHER ORVILLE DO TO HIM (WHILST ORVILLE'S OWN FATHER IS STRANGLG HIM TOO). MT BE A SIMPSON TRA. HOWEVER, THE MA TRA WAS THAT HE WAS VERY EMOTNALLY ABIVE OF HOMER, OFTEN LLG HIM A FAILURE AND OVERALL NOT BEG AN ENURAGG OR SUPPORTG PARENT. AMBIGUO GENR INTY: IN "CAPE FEARE," AFTER THE SIMPSONS MOVE AWAY ORR TO PE OM SISHOW BOB, ABRAHAM NEEDS TO GET TO THEIR OLD HOE BEE HE NEEDS HIS PILLS. AT THE END OF THE EPISO, HE SOMEHOW TURNS TO A WOMAN DUE TO NOT TAKG SAID PILLS. AMBIGUOLY BI: HE OBVLY MARRIED A WOMAN (EVEN IF THE RELATNSHIP WAS TERRIBLE), HOMOPHOBIC, AND HOMER EVEN HAS SOME HALF-SIBLGS DUE TO ABE SLEEPG AROUND. HOWEVER... IN "HOMER THE GREAT", WHEN HOMER WANTS TO JO THE STONECUTTERS' LODGE:OK, I'M AN ELK, A MASON, A COMMUNIST, THE PRINT OF THE GAY AND LBIAN ALLIANCE FOR SOME REASON. OH, HERE IS... THE STONE CUTTERS. IN "GEO GRAMPA", THE SIMPSON FAY BIDS ON A STORAGE UN NTAG MYSTER CLOTHG AND MAKE-UP, AND MARGE CIS TO LEND HER UNNDNAL SUPPORT TO GRANDPA, ONLY FOR HIM TO REVEAL THAT HIS YOUNGER DAYS, HE WAS A PROFSNAL WRTLER WH A GEO GEE GIMMICK. "MAD ABOUT THE TOY" REVEALS THAT ABE REPRSED QUTNS ABOUT HIS SEXUALY FOR MANY YEARS AFTER BEG KISSED BY ANOTHER MAN, DUE TO BELIEVG HOMOSEXUALY TO BE PATIBLE WH MASCULY AND WH ANY ATTRACTN TO WOMEN. HOWEVER, KISSG THE SAME MAN AGA HIM TO NCLU THAT HE'S 100% STRAIGHT AFTER ALL. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WH MONA OM THE START AND EVEN BEFORE THAT. ABE WAS A NEGLECTFUL AND ABIVE MAN WHO TREATED MONA AND HOMER TERRIBLY. MONA FOUND HIS FLIRTATN ANNOYG WHEN THEY FIRST MET AND HE CHEATED ON HER WH A RNIVAL PROSTUTE (WHOM HE ALSO IMPREGNATED) WHEN THEY STARTED DATG. IT BOGGL THE MD THAT THE TWO ACTUALLY GOT MARRIED THE FIRST PLACE. IN "LET'S GO FLY A COOT," ABE CLAIMS HE WON HER HEART WH A GRAND ROMANTIC GTURE, IMPLYG THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY THG SHE EVER LIKED HIM FOR: HE WARNS BART TO BE HIMSELF WHEN TO GIRLS AS WNG SOMEONE OVER WH ATYPIL BEHAVR N EASILY VER UP FUNDAMENTAL PATIBILY. BEWARE THE SILLY ON: HE MAY BE A SENILE OLD MAN WHO SPOUTS NONSENSE BUT WHEN THGS GETS SER, GRAMPA'S OLD SOLDIER STCTS WILL KICK . BLOOD KNIGHT: "MAD ABOUT THE TOY" REVEALS THAT HE ENJOYED KILLG STRANGERS WHEN HE WAS THE ARMY AND THEREFORE NEVER BEME A SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN. BOWDLERIZATN: CONVERSED "YOU KENT ALWAYS SAY WHAT YOU WANT". GRAMPA TALKS ABOUT HOW TELEVISN HIS DAY ULDN'T SAY THE FOLLOWG WORDS: BOOBY, THY, BURP, FANNY BURP, WATER CLOSET, UNRPANTS, HOT DOG, DGLE-DGLE, BOSTON MARRIAGE, LBJ, TI, OR ONT LUMPS. BUTT-MONKEY: IS OFTEN IGNORED, TREATED WH NTEMPT, AND OTHERWISE LEFT TO ROT AT THE NURSG HOME (WHICH IS IMPLIED TO BE JT LIKE THE CROOKED HOME HOMER SAW ON 60 MUT) BY HIS OWN SON, AFTER GRAMPA SOLD HIS OLD HOE (THAT HE WON DURG THE 1950S QUIZ SHOW SNDAL) AND ED THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE HOE HOMER LIV NOW. HOMER'S TREATMENT OF ABE SEEMS TO REFLECT THE EMOTNAL ABE AND LACK OF SUPPORT ABE PROVID FOR HIM HIS YOUTH. HE IS GIVG WHAT HE GOT. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: BEFORE MONA ABANDONED HOMER, ABE WAS A UCH POTATO WHO SPENT HIS DAYS WATCHG TELEVISN, DRKG BEER, AND NEGLECTG HIS FAY. WHEN MONA LEFT, ABE IS NOTICEABLY CLEANER, RPONSIBLE (ALBE STILL NEGLECTFUL AND BTER), AND MAKG SACRIFIC FOR HOMER'S WELLBEG. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: EARLY SEASONS TEND TO SHOW HIM AS BEG AN ATTENTIVE, DNK FATHER TOWARDS HOMER. A NUMBER OF NEWER EPISOS HAVE FOCED ON SOFTENG HIM, SHOWG HIM AS A LONELY MAN WHO WATCHED MANY OF HIS DREAMS GO UP SMOKE AND WHO OFTEN DID MORE FOR HIS SON THAN HOMER EVER KNEW. HOWEVER, IS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE IS NOT PERFECT AND THAT HE MA PLENTY OF MISTAK THAT AFFECTED HOMER THE LONG N. COOL OLD GUY: IN "THE CURSE OF THE FLYG HELLFISH", HE PERFORMS A VARIETY OF FEATS TO SAVE BART AND TAKE BACK THE PATGS OM MR. BURNS. THIS ALSO CLUS HIS TIME AS A PRO WRTLER! "YOU'RE THE LUCKIT PEOPLE THE WORLD: YOU GET TO LOOK AT ME!" HIS MOV CLUD POSG FOR A PATED PORTRA THE MIDDLE OF THE RG, THEN GRABBG AND SMASHG OVER THE BABYFACE'S HEAD. HE WAS A MONSTER, AND WAS AWOME. CLOUD CUCKOOLANR: DUE TO HIS SENILY, MOST OF WHAT HE SAYS IS ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. SOME EXAMPL CLU SUPPOSEDLY FIGHTG WORLD WAR I AS A TODDLER AND TYG ONNS AROUND HIS BELT AS A FASHN ACCSORY CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: DPE THE FACT THAT HE'S SENILE, CRANKY AND A B OF A HARMLS NUISANCE MOST OF THE TIME, ON OCSN, WE N SEE JT WHY HE ROSE TO THE RANK OF MASTER SERGEANT THE US ARMY AND WHY HE IS NOT SOMEONE YOU MS WH. IN HIS ONE ENUNTER WH MR. BURNS HE PLETELY MOPS THE FLOOR WH THE OLD MISER SPE MR. BURNS HAVG EVERY ADVANTAGE IMAGABLE THE SUATN CLUDG BEG ARMED. CEL MERCY: GIVE THIS TO MONTY BURNS "CURSE OF THE FLYG HELLFISH", PROVG THAT HE'S STILL A BADASS UNRNEATH.ABE: I A'T GONNA KILL YA! THAT'D BE WARDLY! MONTY BURNS WARDLY! I'M JT GONNA WATCH YOU SQUIRM... DAD THE VETERAN: ABE SERVED THE ARMY, NAVY, COAST GUARD AND AIR FORCE, AND WAS THE SEND WORLD WAR. DECEMBER–DECEMBER ROMANCE: HAS HAD SEVERAL, WH MARGE'S MOM, BEATRICE, AND A HOOCHIE NAMED ZELDA. DISAPPEARED DAD: NOT TO HOMER BUT TO HOMER'S ILLEGIMATE HALF-SIBLGS - ABBEY AND HERBERT - WHO WERE BOTH BORN OM HIS SHORT-LIVED AFFAIRS. DISGUISED DRAG: HAS DRSED AS A FEMALE ON SEVERAL OCSNS, CLUDG 1942 WHEN HE DRSED DRAG AND PLAYED FOR A FEMALE BASEBALL TEAM TO AVOID FIGHTG THE WAR AND ANOTHER CINT WHERE HE WORE A DRS FOR A WHILE ("OH, THEY HAD SIGNERS BACK THEN"). EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: WHILE HE WAS BY NO MEANS A GOOD FATHER TO HOMER, HE SHOWED GENUE ANGER TOWARDS MONA FOR ABANDONG HOMER DUE TO HER CRIMAL LIFTYLE, REVEALG THAT THE ONLY REASON HE LIED ABOUT HER ATH THE FIRST PLACE WAS THAT HE DIDN'T WANT HOMER TO LIVE WH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HIS MOTHER WAS A CRIMAL. FANBOY: OF MATLOCK, LIKE ALL THE SENR CIZENS OF SPRGFIELD. HE EVEN VOT FOR A NEW EXPRSWAY TO BE NAMED HIS HONOR, SPE OF BEG THE WAY OF HIS FAY'S HOME. FATAL FLAW: ABE’S BIGGT FAILG IS THAT HE DON’T HANDLE ADVERSY THAT WELL WHEN TO RELATNSHIPS. WHEN A RELATNSHIP STARTS GOG DOWNHILL HE JT DON’T SEEM TO KNOW HOW TO FIX . HE EHER IGNOR THE PROBLEM OR ACTIVELY FEEDS TO . HE DID THE FORMER WH HOMER AND THE LATTER WH MONA. GRANDPARENT FAVORISM: HE HAS SHOWN PLENTY OF TIM TO HAVE MORE LOVE AND RPECT FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN THAN HIS SON AND PARTICULAR IS CLOST TO HIS OLST GRANDCHILD AND ONLY GRANDSON, BART. GRANDPARENTAL OBLIVNS: HE OFTEN DON'T PAY ATTENTN, WHICH GENERALLY HAS BAD NSEQUENC. GMPY OLD MAN: GMPIER THAN HOMER. HEEL–FACE TURN: LERAL EXAMPLE, "GEO GRANDPA" HE WRTLED AS GEO GODEY, A NOTOR HEEL, WHOM HE PLAYED AS A VA SELFISH MAN. EVERYONE HATED HIM, SAVE FOR BURNS, SO HE RETIRED. HE ME OUT OF RETIREMENT PER BURNS'S REQUT, AND BEGAN TO ENJOY BEG A BAD GUY. WHEN BART BE HIS WRTLG PARTNER, HE SE THE EFFECT HAS ON BART'S OUTLOOK, SO HE BE A FACE, HONT ABE, FOR HIS LAST MATCH. HIDG YOUR HERAGE: IN "THE COLOR YELLOW", ABE REVEALS THAT VIRGIL SIMPSON ACTUALLY PED OM THE SLAVERS WH MABEL SIMPSON AND THEY EVENTUALLY MARRIED. WHEN LISA ASKS WHY HE HID THIS OM THE FAY, HE REVEALS THAT HE HAD TO HI HIS HERAGE DUE TO STUTNAL RACISM. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: "I WAS ONCE THE HANDSOMT MAN ALBANY, NEW YORK!" JERKASS HAS A POT: WHILE ABE IS HARDLY A GOOD PARENT, HIS ANGER TOWARDS MONA IS JTIFIED. ABE IS UPSET AT MONA NOT BEE SHE LEFT HIM, BUT MORE BEE SHE ABANDONED HOMER. WHEN MONA LLS ABE OUT FOR LYG TO HOMER ABOUT HER BEG AD, HE REPLI THAT THIS WAS BETTER THAN TELLG HIM THE TTH, WHICH WAS THAT SHE ABANDONED HER FAY ON IMPULSE AND DIDN'T THK TWICE ABOUT HOW ULD AFFECT HER MATERNAL RPONSIBILI. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: AT TIM, PARTICULARLY HIS YOUNGER DAYS, SPE BEG A GFF, UNTERTED FATHER FIGURE, HE DID DRS UP AS SANTA CLS FOR CHRISTMAS TO CHEER UP HOMER, AND SOLD HIS HOE ORR TO ALLOW HOMER AND MARGE TO BUY A PLACE OF THEIR OWN. AND HE DO RE ABOUT HIS GRANDCHILDREN. KARMA HOUDI: HE WON HIS HOE ON A CROOKED '50S GAME SHOW. HE THEN RATTED ON EVERYBODY AND GOT OFF ST-EE. LASER-GUID KARMA: IT'S OFTEN MONSTRATED THAT WHILE HE DID SACRIFICE A LOT FOR HOMER, HE WAS ULTIMATELY A DISTERTED, NEGLECTFUL, UNSUPPORTG AND SOMETIM DOWNRIGHT EMOTNALLY ABIVE PARENT TO HOMER. HOMER'S OWN TREATMENT OF HIM NOW THAT HE'S A AIL OLD MAN IS MANY WAYS ABE REAPG WHAT HE'S SOWN. A THROWAWAY LE "THE WTER OF HIS CONTENT" MENTNS THAT HE PUT HIS OWN FATHER A HOME AND NEVER VISS HIM. THIS SURPRIS BART AND LISA, WHO DIDNT REALISE GREAT-GRANDPA ORVILLE WAS STILL ALIVE. MEDAL OF DISHONOR: APPARENTLY, HE WAS SO EPT AT CLEARG MEFIELDS THAT HE WAS AWARD THE IRON CROSS WORLD WAR 2 WHILE SERVG THE US ARMY. MULTIPLE-CHOICE PAST: EVEN JT THE VERSNS OF HIS PAST THAT ARE NFIRMED AS TE (AND NOT SENILE RAMBLGS) BY OTHER CHARACTERS SHOULD BE SELF-NTRADICTORY. APPARENTLY THEY'RE ALL TE AND NONE OF THEM ARE TE AT THE SAME TIME. THE MüNCHSEN: ALTHOUGH THERE IS THE OCSNAL IMPLITN THAT HIS RAMBLG AND NONSENSIL STORI ARE ACTUALLY TE, OR AT LEAST HAVE GRAS OF TTH THEM. THERE IS ALSO AT LEAST ONE IMPLITN THAT HE IS ACTUALLY AWARE THAT HE IS RAMBLG NONSENSE, BUT DO ANYWAYS BEE HE THKS HIS GRANDKIDS DON'T ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTN TO HIS STORI ANYWAYS."YOU MEAN I HAVE TO THK OF AN ENDG TO THIS NONSENSE?!" NOODLE INCINT: HE CLAIMS HE ONCE SHOT DOWN A GERMAN PLANE. IN 1995. OBFTG STUPIDY: ZIGZAGGED. WHEN ASKED IF HE'S STALLG THE FBI OR JT SENILE "MOTHER SIMPSON", HE SAYS THAT HE'S DOG BOTH. ON SOME OCSNS, ABE IS SHOWN TO BE EXAGGERATG VAR TRAS SUCH AS SENILY, RATHER THAN FAKG THEM OUTRIGHT AS MOST EXAMPL OF THIS TROPE DO, WHICH IS VERY GOOD FOR TCHG PEOPLE OFF GUARD. PAPA WOLF: QUE PROTECTIVE OF HIS GRANDSON BART, ALTHOUGH NOT SO MUCH FOR HIS ACTUAL SON, HOMER. MR. BURNS TRI TO DROWN BART AS A WAY OF STOPPG GRANDPA OM PURSUG HIM. GRANDPA'S RPONSE IS TO DRIVE TO THE LAKE AFTER BART, EE BART OM THE BOX MR. BURNS HAD TRAPPED HIM AND BRG HIM BACK TO THE SURFACE, AND THEN PURSUE MR. BURNS BY WATERSKIG WH HIS BARE FEET TO EVENTUALLY REACH BURNS'S BOAT. CUE THE NO-HOLDS-BARRED BEATDOWN. DPE HIS TREATMENT TOWARDS HOMER DURG HIS CHILDHOOD, ONE EPISO SHOWS THAT TO PREVENT MR. BURNS KILLG HOMER'S BELOVED DOG, ABE SENT THE DOG TO A FARM UPSTATE AND ALLOWED BURNS TO PUNISH HIM STEAD. PARENTAL SUBSTUTE: ABRAHAM AND BART HAVE MORE OF A FATHER-SON RELATNSHIP THAN EHER OF THEM DO WH HOMER, THEIR ACTUAL RPECTIVE SON AND FATHER. THE EPISO "BARTHOOD" SHOWS JT HOW MUCH BART LOV HIS GRAMPA, AND THEY HAVE BOND OTHER EPISOS. PARENTS AS PEOPLE: ABE IS A PLEX CHARACTER AS A PARENT FOR HOMER, HE WAS NEGLECTFUL OF HOMER'S EMOTNAL NEEDS AND HE SHED TO MARRYG MONA AND SOON BEME LOVELS AND TOXIC. WHEN MONA LEFT, ABE THOUGHT BT TO TELL HOMER THAT SHE DIED THAN TELL HIM THAT MONA HAD TO ABANDON HIM AFTER MAKG A LAW-BREAKG MISTAKE WHOUT NSIRG HOW WILL IMPACT HER FAY. WHEN MONA LEFT, GRANDPA HAD TO STEP UP AND FILL THE VOID THAT MONA LEFT SPE HIS OWN BTERNS AND RAGE ON THE MATTER. DPE HIS FLAWS, ABE DO LOVE HOMER AND MA ENOUGH PERSONAL SACRIFIC TO PROVE . PERMA-STUBBLE: LIKE HOMER, HE'S ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS WHO HAS A STUBBLE BEARD. MT BE A FAY TRA BEE EVEN ADULT BART HAS THE SAME BEARD LE SOME FUTURE EPISOS. RAMBLG OLD MAN MONOLOGUE: PRACTILLY THE TROPE CODIFIER."SO I TIED AN ONN TO MY BELT, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME. NOW, TO TAKE THE FERRY ST A NICKEL, AND THOSE DAYS, NICKELS HAD PICTUR OF BUMBLEBE ON 'EM. GIMME FIVE BE FOR A QUARTER, YOU'D SAY. NOW WHERE WAS I … OH YEAH. THE IMPORTANT THG WAS THAT I HAD AN ONN TIED TO MY BELT, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME. YOU ULDN'T GET WHE ONNS BEE OF THE WAR; THE ONLY THGS YOU ULD GET WAS THOSE BIG YELLOW ON…" PARODIED TWICE: THE FIRST WAS "DOUBLE, DOUBLE, BOY IN TROUBLE", WHERE THE MIDDLE OF GRAMPA'S RAMBLE, "BART" (ACTUALLY SIMON WOOSTERFIELD) EXCLAIMS SHOCK AND PRI THAT GRAMPA SHOT A BUFFALO. GRAMPA THEN TURNS AROUND AND EXPRS SHOCK THAT "BART" WAS EVEN LISTENG TO HIS RAMBLE, AND PLAS ABOUT NOW HAVG TO FD AN ENDG TO HIS NONSENSE. THE SEND IS "THURSDAYS WH ABIE" AFTER HOMER SAV HIS LIFE OM AN AX-CRAZY HUMANARIAN JOURNALIST TRYG TO KILL HIM, AND REWARDS HOMER WH THE OPPORTUNY TO HAVE HIS "FIRST RAMBLE", DITG THAT 'S A FAY TRADN TO HAVE THE SIMPSON MAL DO RAMBLG. REAL MEN HATE AFFECTN: HE DO LOVE HIS FAY, HE'S JT TOO GMPY AND BTER TO EXPRS AN EMOTNALLY HEALTHY WAY. REFUGEE OM TIME: HIS BACKGROUND AS A WWII VETERAN HAS NEVER CHANGED. INTERTGLY, THE SIXTH SEASON EPISO "LISA'S WEDDG", SET 2010 (AND AIRED 1995), VAGUELY IMPLIED HE WAS AD VIA HIS NSPICUO ABSENCE, THOUGH NOTHG WAS SAID ON THE MATTER. RETIRED BADASS: IT TURNS OUT HE'S A WORLD WAR II VETERAN AND HIS STORI ABOUT HIS FIGHTG DAYS ARE GENERALLY TE (EXCEPT FOR THE ONE WHERE HE POSED AS A GERMAN BARET SGER AND FLIRTED WH HLER, UNTIL HIS FAKE BOOB POPPED OUT. THE ONLY TE THG ABOUT THAT WAS THAT HE WORE A DRS FOR A TIME THE 1940S AND THAT THE SIGNERS BACK THEN WERE BETTER THAN THE ON TODAY). AND APPARENTLY HE ALSO ED TO BE A PROFSNAL WRTLER. IT RURFAC WHEN BURNS TRI TO DROWN BART DURG THE HUNT FOR THE ART TONTE. STTERBRAED SENR: PROVIS THE PAGE IMAGE. ABRAHAM "GRANDPA" SIMPSON HAS A PRETTY HEAVILY EROD MD. THIS N RANGE OM SIMPLE FETFULNS TO BEG PLETELY DIVORCED OM REALY. HE ONCE KEPT TWO POLICEMEN OCCUPIED BY CLAIMG TO BE THE LDBERGH BABY AND WANTG HIS "FLY-FLY DADA". WHEN THE POLICE ASK IF HE'S TRYG TO STALL THEM, OR IF HE'S JT SENILE, HE ADMS 'S "A LTLE OM COLUMN A, A LTLE OM COLUMN B". THIS IS NSISTENTLY PLAYED FOR LGHS. SCREW POLENS, I'M A SENR!: HIS NVERSATNS SOMETIM GET DIRTIER THAN HOMER'S. SENR SLEEP-CYCLE: ALWAYS FALLS ASLEEP MID-SENTENCE, LIKE WHEN HE'S SGG "THE FUNKY GRAMPA" OR WHEN HE PLAS ABOUT HOW BAD STAR TREK XII: SO VERY TIRED WAS. SERGEANT ROCK: ABE WAS ONE OF THE WORLD WAR II. SHELL-SHOCKED VETERAN: THERE ARE VERY OCSNAL HTS THAT PART OF THE REASONS FOR HIM BEG SUCH A JERK IS BEE HE'S THIS. SISSY VILLA: AS "GLAMORO GODEY", HIS HEEL OF A WRTLG PERSONA. THE SIXTH RANGER: OCSNALLY FILLS THIS ROLE, WHEN THE FAY ISN'T ACTIVELY AVOIDG HIM. SOLID CARTOON FACIAL STUBBLE: THE BROWN AREA SURROUNDG ABE'S MOUTH IS A SHORTHAND WAY OF ANIMATG HIS STUBBLE. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: IT'S "GRAMPA", NOT "GRANDPA". TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: DURG HOMER'S CHILDHOOD, ABE WAS NOT EXACTLY THE BT FATHER OR HBAND. IN THE PRENT DAY, HE IS A MUCH BETTER PERSON, PECIALLY TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN. UNEXPLAED REVERY: HE REVERS OM A VARIETY OF DISTURBG NDNS. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: HIS STORI HAVE LTLE TO NO TTH THEM. HE EVEN LIED TO HOMER WHEN HE WAS 9 THAT MONA DIED WHILE HE WAS AT THE MOVI. VAGUE AGE: "GOD ONLY KNOWS", AS MARGE PUTS . TO MAKE PECIALLY NFG, "THE MANSN FAY", KENT BROCKMAN IS TRYG TO TERME THE OLST PERSON TOWN BY HAVG EVERYONE STAND UP AND THEN S DOWN WHEN BROCKMAN LLS OUT A NUMBER GREATER THAN THEIR AGE. AT ABOUT EIGHTY, GRAMPA SS DOWN, AND THEN AT NETY, HE STANDS UP AGA. ONE EPISO SAYS HE'S 83 (THIS OBVLY NNOT BE THE SE ANYMORE SCE HE'S ALSO A WW2 VETERAN). NOT HELPG ARE EPISOS SHOWG HE'S GOT AT LEAST TWO S ON EVEN-VAGUER-AGED MISTER BURNS. WAR HERO: ABE IS UALLY THIS. HOW HEROIC HE WAS EXACTLY IS DEPENDG ON THE WRER. "WELL DONE, SON" GUY: A GOOD AL OF HOMER'S PERSONAL PROBLEMS STEM OM ABE'S ABIVE PARENTG (WHICH IS PORTRAYED AS EERILY SIAR TO HOMER'S OWN TREATMENT OF BART). IN TURN HOMER STUFFED HIM A NURSG HOME AT THE FIRST LL AND OFTEN ATTEMPTS TO IGNORE HIS EXISTENCE. THEY DO GET GENUE MOMENTS OF BONDG AT TIM HOWEVER. WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE...: HE LOV THE.    GRANDMA MONA PENELOPE SIMPSON (NéE OLSEN) VOICED BY: GLENN CLOSE, MAGGIE ROSWELL, TRS MACNEILLE, PAMELA HAYNDEBUT: "OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?"A ANT HIPPIE HER YOUTH, SHE HAD TO LEAVE HOMER AND HER HBAND ALIKE WHEN HOMER WAS YOUNG BEE SHE MA AN ENEMY OF MR. BURNS AND FLED TO THE HIPPY UNRGROUND. SCERELY LOV HER FAY, AND SPERATELY WANTS TO BE WH THEM. DI HER THIRD APPEARANCE. ACTN MOM: SHE NEVER LET BEG A MOTHER STOP HER OM BEG A POLIL ACTIVIST, UP TO AND CLUDG WHAT ARE TECHNILLY ACTS OF E-TERRORISM, LIKE "BOMBG" MR. BURNS' GERM WEAPONS LAB WH ANTIBTICS TO KILL OFF HIS MICROBE CULTUR. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: WH ABE PRETTY MUCH RIGHT OM THE START. COOL OLD LADY: ESPECIALLY NTRAST WH HOMER'S FATHER. SHE'S A HIPPIE, TED AND CULTURED, AND SHE BONDS WH HER GRANDCHILDREN, PECIALLY BOOK-SMART LISA WHO FALLY FEELS SHE IS A SIMPSON. DADDY HAD A GOOD REASON FOR ABANDONG YOU: A NSTCTED EXAMPLE. SHE HAD TO LEAVE HER FAY WHEN SHE HELPED MR. BURNS AFTER HER GROUP SABOTAGED HIM, BEE HE INTIFIED HER AS A CRIMAL. WHILE SHE DID HAVE GOOD REASONS FOR LEAVG THE FAY, THE REASONS FOR THE EVENTS LEADG UP TO WERE THE OPPOSE. MONA DID NOT BALANCE HER DUTI AS A MOTHER WH HER GRANOLA GIRL LIFTYLE AND POLIL ACTIVISM PROPERLY, WHICH WOULD LEAD HER TO TROUBLE WH THE LAW. WHEN ABE LLS MONA OUT FOLLOWG HER FIRST RETURN, HE REVEALS THAT HIS ANGER TOWARDS HER WAS NOT OVER LEAVG HIM, BUT MORE OVER ABANDONG HOMER. A UPLE OF FLASHBACKS SHOW A GLIMPSE OF THE PERD BETWEEN HER TRODUCTN TO ACTIVISM AND DISAPPEARANCE, AND SHOWN THAT SHE HAD BEE A B MORE NEGLIGENT OVER TIME (THOUGH STILL BETTER THAN ABE.) DOTG GRANDPARENT: MONA IMMEDIATELY BONDS WH HER GRANDCHILDREN WHEN SHE FIRST MEETS THEM, PECIALLY LISA, WHO ALWAYS TREATED HERSELF AS AN OUTSIR AMONG THE FAY, DUE TO THEIR TELLIGENCE. IT IS ALSO REVEALS THAT MONA SECRETLY VISED HER GRANDSON'S BIRTH EVEN WHEN SHE IS ON THE N. DYG ALONE: HOMER FEELS PLENTY OF GUILT OVER THE FACT HE NEVER GOT TO FIVE HIS MOTHER BEFORE SHE DIED. FAKG THE DEAD: SHE HAS FAKED HER OWN ATH A UPLE TIM AND, BEFORE THAT, ABE LIED TO HOMER ABOUT MONA HAVG DIED. FAY THEME NAMG: WH HER FIRST-BORN GRANDDGHTER, LISA. TOGETHER, THEIR NAM CREATE "MONA LISA" - WHICH ARE REGULARLY ED FOR PUNS EPISO TL SUCH A "MOANG LISA" AND "MONA LEAV-A". MATT GROENG ORIGALLY GAVE HER NAME AS "PENELOPE OLSEN" ON A FAY TREE BUT THE WRERS CHANGED TO "MONA" (TURNG "PENELOPE" TO HER MIDDLE NAME) TO CREATE A NNECTN BETWEEN THE TWO AND EXPLA WHERE LISA GOT HER TELLIGENCE AND ACTIVIST PERSONALY OM. FARMER AND THE VIPER: THE REASON WHY SHE WAS FORCED TO ABANDON HER FAY, MR BURNS SAW HER INTY WHEN SHE HAD HELPED HIM UP AFTER HE WAS TRAMPLED BY THE OTHER HIPPI. FOIL: TO ABE. ABE IS A SENILE, CRANKY, AND UNPLEASANT OLD MAN WHO GO OFF ON WILD TANGENTS AND GENERALLY ANNOYS HOMER AND HIS FAY, ALBE HIS WEAR AND TEAR LARGELY G OM ALL HE HAS GONE THROUGH WH HIS FAY. MONA HAS AGED WH DIGNY, RETAED ALL OF HER FACULTI, AND IS SOMEONE HOMER AND HIS FAY LOV TO HAVE AROUND, THOUGH IS LEFT WH AN CREDIBLY DISTANT RELATNSHIP DUE TO HER ABANDONMENT. GRANOLA GIRL: DENSTCTED. HER EXTREME VOLVEMENT THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT, AS WELL AS POLIL ACTIVISM, ST MONA HER REPUTATN WH THE LAW AS WELL AS HER CHANCE TO BE A MOTHER TO HOMER. GREASY SPOON: SHE WORKED AS A WARS AT AN AIR FORCE STATN DER BEFORE BEG MARRYG ABE AND BEG A HOEWIFE. I WAS QUE A LOOKER: SHE WAS QUE GOOD-LOOKG HER YOUTH. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: ABE AND MONA LEARNED ABOUT HERB AROUND THE TIME THEY WERE MARRIED. HER RPONSE TO THIS WAS TO E AS AN EXCE TO CHEAT ON HIM VOKG GOOD ADULTERY, BAD ADULTERY EVEN THOUGH HERB WAS NCEIVED BEFORE THEY WERE TOGETHER. HOWEVER, SHE NTUED TO HYPOCRILLY HOLD HERB OVER ABE’S HEAD, EVEN AFTER SHE BEME PREGNANT AND DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IF HOMER WAS ABE’S. ONCE ABE REALIZED HE WOULD ALWAYS BE FIVEN, BUT NOT FOTTEN AND STOPPED CARG THE RULTG BAD MARRIAGE ED HER TO EVENTUALLY JO THE HIPPY MOVEMENT WHERE SHE NEVER STOPPED CHEATG ON HIM. HER RPONSE TO HOMER ACCG HER OF BEG A DISNEYLAND DAD WAS TO CHANGE HER WILL NOT ONLY MANIPULATG HOMER TO PUTTG HIMSELF AND HIS FAY DANGER, BUT SHOWG THAT SHE DID JT E BACK TO NONT BURNS. MISSG MOM: MONA WANTS TO BE WH HER FAY, BUT HER VISS TO HOMER PUT THE ENTIRE SIMPSON FAY AT A RISK OF GETTG TO TROUBLE WH THE LAW, ALL BEE MR. BURNS HAD HER CRIMALIZED FOR G A GERM LAB. EVEN WORSE, SHE GOT ARRTED A SEND TIME FOR A TECHNILY THAT WAS ARRANGED BY BURNS, AND UPON PG THE B TAKG HER TO JAIL, WAS FORCED TO ABANDON HER FAY AGA. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: SHE STOPPED TO HELP MR. BURNS UP AFTER HE'D BEEN TRAMPLED BY HER HORTS, FOLLOWG HER HIPPIE GROUP'S SABOTAGE OF HIS BLOGIL WEAPONS. THIS MA HER A WANTED CRIMAL SCE THEY END UP GETTG HER PHOTO. SCREW THE RUL, I'M DOG WHAT'S RIGHT!: THIS IS WHY SHE GOT TO THE HIPPIE LIFTYLE; SHE WAS OPPOSED TO MANY OF THE CISNS OF BIG BS AND THE ERNMENT, AND FELT THAT SHE NEED TO DO SOMETHG ABOUT , EVEN IF MA HER A CRIMAL. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: A META EXAMPLE. "MOTHER SIMPSON" AIRED DURG THE SEVENTH SEASON AND AVERTG THE TROPE WAS THE IAL IMPET TO PRODUCG THE EPISO. SHOWNNERS BILL OAKLEY AND JOSH WESTE ADMTED SURPRISE THAT ALL THOSE YEARS THE STAT OF HOMER'S MOTHER HAD NEVER BEEN GIVEN ON-SCREEN. (SHE HAD BEEN SEEN A UPLE TIM FLASHBACKS, BUT HER PRENT-DAY WHEREABOUTS HAD NEVER BEEN MENTNED UNTIL "MOTHER SIMPSON.") IN AN ISSUE OF SIMPSONS ILLTRATED, PUBLISHED YEARS BEFORE MONA'S BUT, A REAR WROTE ASKG WHERE HOMER'S MOM WAS. THE EDORS SAID THAT HOMER'S MOM "WENT TO THE GROCERY STORE ONE DAY AND NEVER ME BACK".    HERBERT "HERB" POWELL "[I]N AMERI, YOU'RE NEVER FISHED AS LONG AS YOU'VE GOT A BRA YOUR HEAD, BEE ALL A MAN REALLY NEEDS IS AN IA."VOICED BY: DANNY DEVODEBUT: "OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?"HERBERT "HERB" POWELL IS HOMER SIMPSON'S SELDOM-SEEN LONG-LOST OLR HALF-BROTHER. HE IS FIRST MENTNED BY ABRAHAM SIMPSON WHEN HOMER TO ABE'S SI AFTER ABE SUFFERS A HEART ATTACK. HERBERT IS ALSO THE HALF-UNCLE OF BART, LISA, AND MAGGIE. THE ALHOLIC: IT IS IMPLIED THAT HERB DRKS DUE TO STRS - THE EA MOBILE GAME TAPPED OUT, HERB HAS A NUMBER OF DRKG-BASED TASKS. COOL UNCLE: HE IS A REALLY NICE UNCLE TO BART, LISA, AND MAGGIE, EVEN SISTG THAT THEY LL HIM "UNKIE HERB". FOOLISH SIBLG, RPONSIBLE SIBLG: RPONSIBLE TO HOMER'S FOOLISH. HAT RICH PEOPLE: HE IS A DENSTCTN AS HE HIMSELF IS THE RICH AND SUCCSFUL OWNER OF POWER MOTORS, BUT IS A SELF-MA MAN WHO MA HIS WAY TO THE TOP. HIS PANY NSISTS OF PRETENT WEALTHY KNOW--ALLS WHO HE WEARS HIS NTEMPT FOR ON HIS SLEEVE. HIS DOWNFALL FACT OM CIDG TO HAVE HIS NEXT R SIGNED BY HOMER, A MON MAN HE BELIEV IS MORE TOUCH WH HIS NSUMERS, TENTNALLY IGNORG ANY NCERNS BY HIS STAFF THAT THIS MIGHT FAIL. THE PROJECT BOMBS, POWELL MOTORS IS BANKPT, AND HERB'S SEND APPEARANCE REVOLV AROUND HIM TRYG TO WORK HIS WAY BACK TO SUCCS AGA.HERB: WHY DID I EVER HIRE YOU HARVARD AD-HEADS?EXECUTIVE: BEE YOU WENT THERE.HERB: YEAH, BUT MOMMY AND DADDY DIDN'T PAY MY WAY. I HAD TO WORK MY WAY THROUGH, WASHG YOUR DISH AND SCBBG TOILETS!EXECUTIVE: OH YEAH, I REMEMBER YOU. IGNORED EPIPHANY: HE BLAM HIS BANKPTCY PLETELY ON HOMER, AND EVEN WHEN HE REGAS HIS WEALTH, HIS CLOSURE IS TO FIVE HOMER FOR G . A GAG "CHANGG OF THE GUARDIAN" IMPLI HERB ACTUALLY HABUALLY LOS HIS FORTUNE, SEEMGLY NEVER LEARNG OM HIS MISTAK. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN "BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM". HE TREATS HOMER PRETTY BADLY (DUE TO STILL NOT FIVG HIM) AND ONLY HUNTS HIM DOWN TO E HIS MONEY, BUT HE IS A GOOD UNCLE AND GIV EVERY FAY MEMBER THEIR OWN GIFT ON TOP OF PAYG THE MONEY BACK. AND HERB EVENTUALLY DO FIVE HOMER, LLS HIM "BROTHER" AGA, AND BUYS HIM THE MASSAGE CHAIR HE WANTED. LONELY AT THE TOP: HERB IS OVERJOYED TO LEARN THAT HE HAS A BIRTH FAY AND BONDS WH HIS NIEC AND NEPHEW, AND - HIS ROLE AS CEO - ALLOWS HOMER TO SIGN A R. MEAN BOSS: HERB IS EXTREMELY DISMISSIVE AND TEMPERAMENTAL TO HIS EMPLOYE, VIEWG THEM AS PRIVILEGED IDTS ( STARK NTRAST TO HIS OWN UPBRGG). THIS ENDS UP HIS OWN UNDOG, AS HE REF TO TAKE THEIR WARNGS OF HOMER'S PETENCE SERLY, AND FORC THEM TO NTUE WH HIS DOOMED PROJECT UNTIL 'S TOO LATE. THEY APPARENTLY KNOW NOT TO GIVE WHAT PEOPLE WANT. NEVER MY FLT: HERB BLAM HOMER FOR G HIS PANY SPE PUTTG HIM CHARGE, SHELVG ALL OTHER PROJECTS AND OUTRIGHT IGNORG HIS EMPLOYE' WARNGS, WHO SPE BEG 'PRIVILEGED IDTS' AS HE PUT STILL KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT BS TO BE ON THE BOARD OF A R PANY. HE ALSO LIV EXTREMELY LAVISHLY, SUGGTG THAT HIS IMMEDIATE STUTN UPON HIS PANY'S BANKPTCY WAS BEE HE WAS LIVG WELL BEYOND HIS MEANS. RAGS TO RICH: IN "BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM", HOMER GIV HERB $2,000 (OM THE POWER PLANT, AS PENSATN FOR MAKG HIM STERILE OM RADIATN), WHICH HERB TO BUILD AN VENTN THAT TRANSLAT BABY BABBLE TO PREHENSIBLE ENGLISH, BASED ON OBSERVATNS HE MA OF MAGGIE SIMPSON. HE PROCEEDS TO MASS-PRODUCE HIS NEW PRODUCT AND REGA HIS FORTUNE. AFTER GOG BACK TO LIVG A RICH LIFE, A THROWAWAY LE "CHANGG OF THE GUARDIAN" REVEALED HE ONCE MORE LOST HIS FORTUNE. SOMEHOW. RICH TO RAGS: WHEN HERB V HOMER TO MAKE A R, THKG HE WILL HAVE SOME IA OF WHAT THE AVERAGE MAN IS LOOKG FOR, HOMER IGNOR ALL THE ADVICE HE'S GIVEN, WHILE HERB IGNOR ALL THE WARNGS OM HIS ADVISORS. THE R HAS A HORRIBLE SIGN ATHETIC AND A RIDICULO PRICE TAG OF $82,000. THE R IS LLED "BLUNR OF THE CENTURY", AND SENDS THE ALREADY AILG PANY TO BANKPTCY, AND HERB TO THE STREET. WHILE HE MANAG TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE BACK BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE TWO DIM, HE'S BACK TO BEG POOR AGA CHANGG OF THE GUARDIANS. SELF-MA MAN: HE GREW UP SHELBYVILLE ORPHANAGE, WASHED RS FOR HIS LLEGE CLASSMAT TO PAY FOR HIS TN AND BEME A R MANUFACTURER, WH SAID CLASSMAT BEG NOW HIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS. SIBLG Y-YANG: WH HOMER. HE IS AN TELLIGENT, AMB, CHARISMATIC, PASSNATE, BUT ALSO LONELY PERSON. SON OF A WHORE: CAME ABOUT AS A RULT OF GRANDPA'S FLG WH A RNIVAL WOMAN WHO'D DO THGS MONA NEVER WOULD, LIKE HAVE SEX FOR MONEY. HE WAS LATER ADOPTED BY THE POWELL FAY.BOUVIER FAY

Openly gay Simpsons characters. The Simpsons characters are openly gay, as revealed the TV show.

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