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.

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 '.

To Grampa, life is worth living and he encourages Dennis to live it to the fullest.

" Abe " Simpson, often known simply as Grampa, is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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.

Grampa Simpson is the father to Homer Simpson, father-in-law to Marge Simpson and grandfather to siblings Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

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.

It is unknown where Grampa was born.

The Simpsons writer Al Jean commented that Grampa is often the focus of pointed jokes about 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.

In a bizarre flashback of World War II, Grampa is seen coordinating tank movements through a minefield.

Grampa also is soundly rooted in his antiquated ways: " The metric system is the tool of the devil!

Like many of his fellow Retirement Castle residents, Grampa is a devoted follower of Matlock.

The Simpsons writer David Mirkin said that one of his favorite jokes on the show is the one where Grampa cycles down the street in high speed and shouts that he feels young again, and is then knocked flying from his bicycle after a doll's head flies into the spokes and falls into an open grave.

In a review of the Grampa-centric episode " Lady Bouvier's Lover ", Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict said that he is " never terribly interested " in episodes that revolve around Grampa, because he believes Grampa is " great as a background character, but less so when he takes center stage.

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.

Playmates Toys created two Grampa Simpson action figures for the World of Springfield series.

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.

The song Grampa was supposed to sing in his flashback, showing how he posed as a German cabaret singer in World War II, was " Falling in Love Again ( Can't Help It )" by Marlene Dietrich.

In the episode, one of Abraham " Grampa " Simpson's fellow World War II veterans, Asa Phelps, dies, leaving him and Mr. Burns as the only living members of Grampa's war squad, the Flying Hellfish.

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.

* Grampa and Julie, Shark Hunters by Jef Czekaj-This strip's titular pair of a girl and her dim-witted grandfather started out searching for Stephen, the Largest Shark in the World.

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 ".

Grampa Simpson sings the song while babysitting Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson in The War of the Simpsons from The Simpsons ( season 2 ).

In the scene where Grampa joins Bart and Homer, Grampa mentions the film The Sting II.

Goliath II has killed Methuselah ( Grampa ), David's oldest friend.

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 ".

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 ".

To fix this, Grampa takes Angus to Madame Rulenska ( Rita Moreno ), where despite Angus's best efforts, he comes out worse than before ( and injures the hapless Madame in the process ).

The question is exemplified in a scene where Angus, Grampa, and Troy shop in a tuxedo store, where the only suit available in Angus ' size comes in the color of plum.

While " The Bart Wants What It Wants " features the Simpsons ' first travel to Canada, the family would return in two later episodes: season sixteen's " Midnight Rx ", where Homer and Grampa visited Winnipeg so they could smuggle cheap medication ; and season 21's " Boy Meets Curl ", where Marge and Homer travel to Vancouver, so they can participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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 suggests they go to London, where he hopes to meet his long-lost love Edwina.

To escape death, Grampa moves into the Simpsons ' house, where the family lets him live in Bart's room.

The Flying Hellfish raid on the castle recalls the attack on the chateau in The Dirty Dozen, while the scene where Grampa tries to assassinate Hitler is based on The Day of the Jackal.

The climax scenes, where Grampa uses the money to fix up the Springfield Retirement Castle, is a reference to the ending of the 1932 film If I Had a Million.

" DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson wrote that " many Grampa episodes tank, but “ Hellfish ” provides a very notable exception.

Decades later, Montgomery Burns, the second surviving member of the unit, tried to murder Grampa in order to get the art, prompting Grampa to violate the tontine.

* Grampa Joad – Tom's grandfather, who expresses his strong desire to stay in Oklahoma.

* Granma Joad – The religious wife of Grampa Joad, she seems to lose the will to live ( and consequently dies while crossing the desert, possibly as a result of exposure to the heat while crossing New Mexico and Arizona ) after her husband's death.

* 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.

Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, he voices many other characters on The Simpsons, including Abraham " Grampa " Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

Castellaneta also provides the voices for numerous other characters, including Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, Itchy, Kodos, the Squeaky Voiced Teen and Gil Gunderson.

* Grampa Johnson ( Oliver " Swede " Johnson )-Alice's father who spoils Dennis often.

Because they are so much alike, Dennis and Grampa Johnson get along beautifully.

Grampa has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in Tahiti and has multiple native wives.

Grampa was briefly married to Amber, the same woman Homer married on a drinking binge in Las Vegas.

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.

Grampa was raised in New York City with his parents, Orville J. Simpson and Yuma Hickman.

When Grampa and Bart retrieved the art from Mr. Burns, the State Department arrived to give the art to their rightful owner.