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Grampa has a poor relationship with his son, who placed Grampa in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage, although its strongly and recurringly suggested that, while caring, Grampa was very controlling and even emotionally abusive towards Homer when he was growing up and he still had not forgiven him for that.
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Grampa has also fathered two illegitimate children ; a daughter named Abbie by a British woman named Edwina while in the United Kingdom during World War II, and Herbert Powell by a carnival prostitute.
Grampa has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in Tahiti and has multiple native wives.
Grampa has also been briefly married to Marge's sister, Selma Bouvier, though Homer was against it, and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier.
The Simpson family will often do their best to avoid unnecessary contact with Grampa, but Homer has shown feelings of love for his father from time to time.
" Dan Castellaneta has won two Primetime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for voicing various characters, including Grampa.
Alan S. Brown and Chris Logan wrote in The Psychology of The Simpsons that Grampa has the least amount of " power " in the Simpson family, and that he is treated as little more than a child and is often ignored.
This act of attempted censorship was reflected in the part where Grampa Simpson writes a letter complaining of how sexualized television has become and gives a list of words he never wants to hear on TV again, one of which is " family jewels ".
Wiggum arrests Grampa but the people of Springfield protest, as his smuggling has gotten them the medicine they need.
Grampa tells him to confront his ursine assailant, and Homer eventually does so, contacting a hunter named Grant, who has revealed to place an electrical prod on the bear to exact his location.
Goliath II has killed Methuselah ( Grampa ), David's oldest friend.
However Grampa, who is alive and well, appears in the doorway and declares that he has never felt better.
Back at the retirement home, Grampa receives word that Asa Phelps, one of the men who served under his command in the Army during World War II, has died.
In the episode, Grampa confesses that Homer has a half-brother, whom Homer immediately tries to track down.
In the episode, Grampa Simpson falls in love with Zelda, an old woman who has just moved in to the senior home in which Grampa lives.
When Bea's birthday arrives on a Sunday, Homer makes Grampa come on a family outing to the Discount Lion Safari, because he thinks Grampa is making up that he has a girlfriend.
The Diz-Nee-Land amusement park that Grampa visits with Bea's money has a sign that reads " Diz-Nee-Land – Not affiliated with Disneyland, Disney World, or anything else from the Walt Disney Company ".
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Sexual Inadequacy " saw the old farmhouse burning down after Homer dropped a match and Grampa threw the sex tonic into the fireplace ) on Rural Route 9 outside of Springfield, where they decide to live and, despite the land's poor reputation for growing crops, Homer becomes a farmer.
Grampa and relationship
The authors said that Homer tries " in vain " to repair his relationship with Grampa and continuously seeks for his approval, but Grampa continues to be " as critical as ever ".
The relationship between Grampa and Bart deteriorates after Grampa's senility and abrasiveness embarrass Bart during Grandparents Day at Springfield Elementary School, where Grampa claims to have invented the toilet, to have turned cats and dogs against one another, and that Kaiser Wilhelm II stole the word " twenty ".
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Grampa is drugged by his family with " soothin ' syrup " to force him to leave, but dies in the evening of the first day on the road ; Casy attributes his death to a stroke, but also says that Grampa is " jus ' stayin ' with the lan '.
* Ivy and Sairy Wilson – Kansas folks in a similar predicament, who help attend the death of Grampa and subsequently share the traveling with the Joads as far as the California state line.
Many of his stories seem to be wildly inaccurate, often physically or historically impossible, and occasionally inconsistent even with each other, suggesting that Grampa is quite senile.
Grampa was raised in New York City with his parents, Orville J. Simpson and Yuma Hickman.
Homer's mother, Mona Simpson, was married with Grampa for several years.
Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, former writers on the show, said that they liked to write episodes about Grampa because they are " obsessed " with old people.
Grampa is an old, grizzled, periodically incontinent and quite senile man, who lives in the Springfield Retirement Castle, a sad, lonely place filled with demented, crippled and depressed old people.
Grampa claims to have attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on two occasions, one when he threw a javelin at him in the 1936 Summer Olympics, which barely missed and instead struck a would-be Hitler assassin, and once when he attempted to shoot him with a sniper rifle, missing only by a few centimeters due to unintentional interference by Montgomery Burns.
Bart called him out on the accuracy of his encounter with Hitler, in which Grampa did say that the story was not true but then admitted that he did wear a dress during a period in the 1940s.
In 2010, Castellaneta was nominated for the award for voicing Grampa and Homer in the episode " Thursdays with Abie ".
They added that Grampa is left behind, forgotten, and rarely invited to spend time with the family.
Grampa and son
Along the road, Grampa dies and is buried in the camp ; Granma dies close to the California state line, both Noah ( the eldest Joad son ) and Connie ( the husband of the pregnant Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon ) split from the family ; the remaining members, led by Ma, realize they have no choice but to go on, as there is nothing remaining for them in Oklahoma.
To explain this to his then-six-year-old son, Grampa said that Mona died while Homer was at the movies.
Grampa: Preferring the allure and company of beautiful, nubile young females, Grampa is quite the opposite of his son Bob when it comes to technology.
Grampa explains that he met a carnival prostitute before marrying Homer's mother, and they had a son that they left at the Shelbyville Orphanage.
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* Grampa Joad – Tom's grandfather, who expresses his strong desire to stay in Oklahoma.
* Grampa Johnson ( Oliver " Swede " Johnson )-Alice's father who spoils Dennis often.
Grampa is a veteran of both World War I ( by enlisting as a toddler ) and World War II who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer.
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, wanted to have a character that was " really cranky " and old, and who complained a lot and invented stories to tell to children, so he created Grampa.
In his book Understanding the Psychology of Diversity, author Bruce Evan Blaine wrote that Grampa is typically portrayed as a " doddering ", " senile ", and " dependent " person who is a " trivial " and " often disposable figure " in his son's life.
The episode started out as a story about Mr. Burns and Grampa both being stationed in Paris during World War II and falling in love with the same woman, who had a love child.
While Flanders serves as the segment's antagonist, the role would originally go to Grampa, who would chase Homer inside a roller disco.
Later that day, Grampa stops by the Simpsons ' house and tells everybody that he knows who the cat burglar is: a resident in the local retirement home named Molloy.
As they prepare to leave, Edwina appears and introduces Grampa to her daughter Abbie, who looks and sounds just like Homer.
The second is The Love-matic Grampa, a sitcom featuring Moe Szyslak who receives dating advice from Abraham Simpson, whose ghost is possessing a love testing machine.
However, Grampa is not the only one in the home who is infatuated with Zelda.
) Grampa calls out to his lady from on-stage, but then denounces her in front of everyone, who then call her ( in a chant ) a hoochie, sending her fleeing off the stage in tears.
The Souvenir Jackitos, who challenge Grampa to a death race in the episode, were conceived from an observation by the writers.
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