In the short, Grampa tells his grandchildren stories of " the good old days ".

Angry at first, Homer vows to get it back, but settles down after his family tells him that he did the right thing for Grampa.

Later that day, Lisa tells Grampa about her recent cognitive problems.

Grampa and his friends from the retirement home volunteer to help, but Homer tells them to leave because they are too old.

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.

Grampa tells Bart that he did all of this to show that he used to be something besides a pathetic old man, and Bart says that he never thought of Grampa that way.

Zelda informs Grampa that she got them tickets to Branson, Missouri but when he tells her he does not have a car Zelda leaves with Zack and his minivan.

Jasper tells Grampa that Bea died of a burst ventricle when Grampa was out with the family.

She also tells him to forgive Homer because deep down Grampa still loves him.

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 '.

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.

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.

During a Matlock public appearance, Grampa and Jasper swipe Matlock's pills, which were needed to prevent him from having a spastic heart failure.

Nancy Basile of About. com named Grampa the fifth best character of The Simpsons, calling him a " perfect stereotypical old person ".

" DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson said in a review of the same episode that Grampa is " always fun " and " it ’ s nice to see him in an ebullient mood, at least for a while.

Later on, despite his request for a black tuxedo and wanting to be normal, Grampa purchases him a plum one.

Meanwhile, Angus helps Grampa prepare for his marriage to April ( Anna Thomas ), a woman thirty years younger than him.

As Angus waits with Grampa in his room on the day of the wedding and confides with him about his love for Melissa, he tries to wake him, but he quickly discovers that he is dead.

") while Angus begs Grampa to buy a more " socially acceptable " black suit even though all of the store's available black suits fit him too tightly.

Grampa, however, insists that the suit will benefit Angus by making him even more " different.

's grandfather, or as she calls him, Grampa Miller.

Burns vows to help him so he takes Homer and Grampa along in his plane, the " Plywood Pelican ", which he built for Nazi Germany.

At the party, Grampa feels lonely and bored, so Marge suggests she set him up for a date with her mother, Jacqueline Bouvier.

To impress Marge's mother, Grampa takes her out on the town, but when he does, Mr. Burns steals her from him.

However, Grampa crashes the ceremony and asks that Mrs. Bouvier marry him instead of Mr. Burns.

One of the ideas was that Grampa would get injured on Mr. Burns's property and get stuck there, leading Grampa to think that Mr. Burns would kill him when he was discovered there.

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.

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.

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.

To explain this to his then-six-year-old son, Grampa said that Mona died while Homer was at the movies.

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.

Sexual Inadequacy " ( season six, 1994 ) featured many interactions between Grampa and Homer, so Castellaneta therefore had to talk to himself when he recorded the voices for that episode.

In 2010, Castellaneta was nominated for the award for voicing Grampa and Homer in the episode " Thursdays with Abie ".

Brown and Logan also wrote that Grampa had a considerable influence in the formation of Homer's character, and that flashbacks in The Simpsons show what an " angry ", " critical " father he was to Homer.

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 ".

At first, the only playable characters ( taxi drivers ) are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Grampa, but as the game progresses more characters are unlocked.

Gaining membership through Grampa, Homer takes great pleasure in the society's many privileges and events.

Later, as Grampa and Homer plan to do more smuggling trips in order to give more support for the town, Apu and Ned ask if they can tag along with them, stating that their children are desperate to get their medicine.

In an article about the 2003 DVD release in The Independent, " Krusty Gets Kancelled " was highlighted along with episodes " When You Dish Upon a Star ", " Lisa the Iconoclast ", " Dog of Death ", " Homer Badman ", and " Grampa vs.