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She became a fugitive from justice after she abetted in the sabotage of a biological weapons research lab owned by Mr. She became entranced with the hippie lifestyle after seeing Joe Namath's hair on television. According to ' Let's Go Fly a Coot', they met in the 1950s and hooked up on the day Grampa allegedly broke the sound barrier. Homer's mother, Mona Simpson, was married to Grampa for several years. Grampa was a hated wrestler named 'Glamorous Godfrey' in the 1950s, revealed in the episode ' Gorgeous Grampa', starring him and Mr. Burns, the State Department arrived to return the art to its rightful owner. When Grampa and Bart retrieved the art from Mr. 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.

The Flying Hellfish formed a tontine and buried the art in a trunk at sea.

At the very end of the war in Europe, Grampa's unit 'liberated' a stash of priceless art from surrendering German forces. Grampa is a veteran of World War II, where he served as Master Sergeant of the Flying Hellfish unit. Due to the show's floating timeline, his age remains the same over the years, and newer episodes still depict him as a World War II veteran. In the Season 25 episode ' The Winter of His Content,' Homer states that Grampa's father is still alive. He gives his age as 83 in the Season 17 episode ' Million Dollar Abie,' while in ' Grampy Can Ya Hear Me' (season 29), the family celebrates his 87th birthday, although he is canonically 83. Grampa was raised in New York City with his parents, Orville J. He claims that he came to America as a boy from the 'old country', but he cannot remember which country it was, although most likely it was the United Kingdom or Ireland. 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 Simpson is also married to Rita LaFleur.Īlmost all of Grampa's biographical information is supplied by himself and seems to be made up, although this could be likely due to his old age. Grampa has also been briefly married to Marge's sister, Selma Bouvier, and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier (his son's mother-in-law). Grampa was briefly married to Amber, the same woman Homer married on a drinking binge in Las Vegas. Other siblings of his include Hubert, Tyrone, Fester, Bill, and Hortense. He also has a younger brother named Chet, who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company. Grampa has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in Tahiti and has multiple native wives. Grampa has also fathered two illegitimate children a daughter named Abbey by a British woman named Edwina while in the United Kingdom during World War II, and Herbert Powell by a carnival prostitute. Grampa Simpson is the father to Homer Simpson, father-in-law to Marge Simpson and the paternal grandfather to siblings Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He is known for his long, rambling, often incoherent and irrelevant stories and senility. Grampa is a World War II veteran and retired farmer who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer.

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In the 1,000th issue of Entertainment Weekly, Grampa was selected as the 'Grandpa for The Perfect TV Family'. He is the paternal grandfather of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson. Grampa Simpson is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices his son, Homer Simpson. He made his first appearance in the episode entitled ' Grandpa and the Kids', a one-minute Simpsons short on The Tracey Ullman Show, before the debut of the television show in 1989.

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Springfield Retirement Castle, Springfield, United StatesĪbraham Jebediah ' Abe' Simpson II, better known as Grampa Simpson, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.

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