Abraham Simpson II

Abraham J. Simpson also known as Grampa Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta, is the father of Homer Simpson, and the grandfather of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson.

Biography
Almost all of Grampa's biographical information is supplied by himself. Many of his stories seem to be wildly inaccurate, often physically or historically impossible, and occasionally inconsistent even with each other, suggesting that Abe is senile. As such, all information provided is taken with a grain of salt. Additionally, he suffers from sporadic narcoleptic attacks.

Abraham Jedadiya Simpson, perennially known as "Grampa" Simpson, was born in the "Old Country"; he apparently does not remember which country exactly. In the episode "Million Dollar Abie", he claims to be 83 years old, although he is sometimes described as older. He boasts of having been a watchman at Pearl Harbor (falling asleep on duty), and claims that President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions.

Abe's recollections of his World War II experiences are sometimes implausible. Abe was not initially keen to fight in Europe. After the United States declared war he supposedly tried to avoid service by dressing in drag and playing for a women's baseball team in 1942, which kept him from serving for a year before he was eventually discovered. After "liberating" a stash of priceless art from the Nazis, Abe's unit (the Flying Hellfish) formed a tontine, and buried the art in a trunk at sea. Decades later, Montgomery Burns tries to murder Abe in order to get the art, prompting Abe to violate the tontine. When Abe and Bart retrieve the art from Burns after a spectacular confrontation, the State Department arrives to give the art to their "rightful" owner, Baron Herzenberger, a snooty young German aristocrat.

Abe fathered an illegitimate daughter in the United Kingdom the day before he joined the D-Day operations in Normandy. This daughter is seen in the same episode lending further credence to the idea that he served in Europe. Moreover, he once showed Bart and Lisa an album with photos of Germans killed by his platoon. He was also awarded the Iron Cross for accidentally directing U.S. jeeps into Nazi minefields.Another piece of information to support this idea is, in the episode "In the Name of the Grandfather," he came to O'Flannigan's pub in Ireland a long time ago in his WWII sergeant's uniform.

Abe was not a particularly caring father to Homer, as evidenced at one point when he tells his son, "Homer, you're dumb as a mule and twice as ugly. If a strange man offers you a ride, I say take it!" Homer does not normally appear to resent these casual abuses, though in one episode in which Abe calls Homer an accident, years of pent up anger on Homer's part leads to a temporary estrangement. Homer also takes every opportunity to ignore or eject his father, whom he placed in a dilapidated retirement home. Abe held a variety of postwar jobs, including a farmer in Homer's early childhood until the bank foreclosed. Abe was also a watchman at a cranberry silo for forty years. He spent most of this time living in a house he won on a crooked 1950s game show until he sold it to help Homer buy a house for his family. Abe moved in with the family, but was sent to a retirement home some three weeks later.

Abraham Simpson is estranged husband to Mona Simpson, father to Homer Simpson, father-in-law to Marge Simpson and grandfather to siblings Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He also fathered two illegitimate children; a daughter named Abbie by a British lady named Edwina while in England during World War II and Herbert Powell with a carnival hooker. He was briefly married to Amber, the same woman Homer married on a Vegas binge. Also in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, the family tree shows his parents' names to be Orville Simpson and Yuma Hickman. Abe's brother Cyrus appeared in the Simpsons Christmas Stories" episode. Cyrus lives in Tahiti with multiple wives.

He was married for several years to Mona, who became entranced with the hippie lifestyle after watching Joe Namath on TV. She became a fugitive from justice after she abetted in the sabotage of a biological weapons research lab owned by Montgomery Burns. Abe tells a six-year-old Homer that Mona died while Homer was at the movies. abe and homer also don't seem to get along as seen in several episodes where they are usally arguing amongst themselves. although they always make up for their past and always forgive each other. like homer abe is not very bright and is always making up stories about his past, which sometimes they are not even true. he is also usally ignoredby homer and often feels left out by several people. abe is very friendly with jasper and the crazy old man, like moleman abe often appears in recurring gags he is also very unlucky and forgetful at times sometimes forgetting where he lives or where his son lives. abe has also had many affairs with lots of womensuch as beatrice simmons in the episode old money. he has also married selma in the episode romeoh and julieh. abe has also had many realitives in the simpsons who he has mentioned in his storeies several times. abe has also acted as a good father to homer at times and as also acted as a good grandfather to bart and lisa however he does not like cheekiness from homer, bart, or lisa, he also demands to be treated right and he reckons he is just as important as the others. he has also had an affair with jackie bouvier [marge's mother] in the episode lady bouvier,s love.

Personality
Grampa Simpson is an old, grizzled, periodically incontinent and quite senile man, who lives in the Springfield Retirement Castle; which is a sad, lonely place filled with demented, crippled and depressed old people (a sign near the entrance says "Thank you for not discussing the outside world"). Abe also informs Lisa that residents are not allowed to read newspapers because "they angry up the blood". His closest friend appears to be Jasper, a fellow Retirement Castle resident. He was a Stonecutter in the episode, Homer The Great He spends a good deal of his time writing letters of complaint. He once wrote to the President, complaining that there were too many states, and requesting that they get rid of three of them (simultaneously insisting that he was "not a crackpot"). He also wrote to "the sickos at Modern Bride Magazine" about his disgust at not seeing "one wrinkled face" or "a single toothless grin" in the publication. He also owns a 49-star American flag, because of his undefined hatred of the state of Missouri: "I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missoura."

He also is soundly rooted in his antiquated ways: "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it." Like many of his fellow Retirement Castle residents, Abe is a devoted follower of Matlock. He even supports tearing down the Simpsons' house in order to complete construction of the proposed "Matlock Expressway". He seems to believe Matlock is a real person, suggesting they call him in to solve real-life crimes: "I say we call Matlock. He'll find the culprit. It's probably that evil Gavin MacLeod or George 'Goober' Lindsey." During a Matlock public appearance, Abe and Jasper swipe Matlock's pills, which were needed to prevent him from having a spastic heart failure. Once, reflecting on his lifetime, he lamented it as terribly boring and full of unruly teenagers, but then decided it was alright because "we did have two shows with Andy Griffith".

Creation
Groening famously named the five main Simpson characters after members of his own family: his parents, Homer and Marge (or Majorie in full), and his younger sisters, Lisa and Margaret (Maggie). Claiming that it was a bit too obvious to name a character after himself, he chose the name "Bart," an anagram of brat. When it came time to give Grampa Simpson a first name, Groening says he refused to name him after his own grandfather, Abraham Groening, leaving it to other writers to choose a name. By coincidence, the writers chose the name Abraham, unaware that it was also the name of Groening's grandfather. abe has also had many major appearances on the show and is also a major character on the show although he was not seen much in season 3. but he was featured more in other seasons. episodes about grampa usually focus on homer as well.

Episode Appearances
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 * {{Ep|Bart the General}}
 * {{Ep|The Telltale Head}}
 * {{Ep|Bart Gets an F}}
 * {{Ep|Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish}}
 * {{Ep|Bart vs. Thanksgiving}}
 * {{Ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
 * {{Ep|The Way We Was}}
 * {{Ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment}}
 * {{Ep|Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?}}
 * {{Ep|Old Money}}
 * {{Ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
 * {{Ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
 * {{Ep|Homer Defined}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa's Pony}}
 * {{ep burns verkaufen der kraftwerk }}
 * {{Ep|I Married Marge}}
 * {{ep dog of death }}
 * {{ep black widower }}
 * {{ep a streetcar named marge }}
 * {{ep homer the heretic }}
 * {{ep lisa the beauty queen }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror 3 }}
 * {{ep itchy and scratchy the movie }}
 * {{ep marge gets a job }}
 * {{ep new kid on the block }}
 * {{ep mr plow }}
 * {{ep lisa's first word }}
 * {{ep homer's triple bypass }}
 * {{ep marge vs the monorail}}
 * {{ep brother from the same planet }}
 * {{ep i love lisa }}
 * {{ep duffless }}
 * {{ep last exit to springfield }}
 * {{ep so it's come to this a simpsons clip show }}
 * {{ep the front }}
 * {{ep whacking day }}
 * {{ep marge in chains }}
 * {{ep krusty gets kancelled }}
 * {{ep homer's barbershop quartert }}
 * {{ep cape feare }}
 * {{ep rosebud }}
 * {{ep homer goes to college }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror vi }}
 * {{ep bart's inner child }}
 * {{ep the last temptation of homer }}
 * {{ep $pringfield or how learned to stop worrying and love legalised gambling }}
 * {{ep homer the vigilante }}
 * {{ep homer and apu }}
 * {{ep bart gets famous }}
 * {{ep lisa vs malibu stacey }}
 * {{ep deep space homer }}
 * {{ep homer loves flanders }}
 * {{ep bart gets an elephant }}
 * {{ep burns heir }}
 * {{ep sweet seymour skinner's baadassess ))
 * {{ep lady bouviers love }}
 * {{ep secrets of a successful marriage }}
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 * {{ep bart's girlfriend }}
 * {{ep lisa on ice }}
 * {{ep homer bad man }}
 * {{ep grampa vs sexual inadequacy }}
 * {{ep fear of flying }}
 * {{ep homer the great }}
 * {{ep bart's comet }}
 * {{ep a star is burns }}
 * {{ep two dozen and one greyhounds }}
 * {{ep the pta disbands }}
 * {{ep round springfield }}
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 * {{ep lemon of troy }}
 * {{ep who shot mr burns part 1 }}
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 * {{ep radioactive man }}
 * {{ep home sweet home diddily dum doodily }}
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 * {{ep treehouse of horror vi }}
 * {{ep mother simpson }}
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 * {{ep marge be not proud }}
 * {{ep two bed neighbours }}
 * {{ep scenes from the class struggle in springfield }}
 * {{ep lisa the iconoclast }}
 * {{ep the day the violence died }}
 * {{ep 22 short films about springfield }}
 * {{ep raging abe simpson and his grumbling grandson in the return of the flying hellfish }}
 * {{ep much apu about nothing }}
 * {{ep homerpallooza }}
 * {{ep the homer they fall }}
 * {{ep bart after dark }}
 * {{ep a milhouse divided }}
 * {{ep lisa's date with density }}
 * {{ep hurricane neddy }}
 * {{ep the springfield files }}
 * {{ep the twisted world of marge simpson }}
 * {{ep simpsoncallifragisticexpialad'ohcious }}
 * {{ep the itchy and scratchy and poochie show }}
 * {{ep homer vs the 18th amendmant }}
 * {{ep grade school confedential }}
 * {{ep the old man and the lisa }}
 * {{ep the simpsons spin off showcase }}
 * {{ep the secret war of lisa simpson }}
 * {{ep the principal and the pauper }}
 * {{ep lisa's sax }}
 * {{ep bart star }}
 * {{ep lisa the skeptic }}
 * {{ep miracle on evergreen terrace }}
 * {{ep all singing all dancing }}
 * {{ep lisa the simpson }}
 * {{ep simpson tide }}
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 * {{ep king of the hill }}
 * {{ep lost our lisa }}
 * {{ep natural born kissers }}
 * {{ep the wizard of evergreen terrace }}
 * {{ep d'oh in the wind }}
 * {{ep homer simpson in kidney trouble }}
 * {{ep viva ned flanders }}
 * {{ep wild barts can't be broken }}
 * {{ep homer to the max }}
 * {{ep i'm with cupid }}
 * {{ep simpsons bible stories }}
 * {{ep the old man and the c studant }}
 * {{ep they saved lisa's brain }}
 * {{ep brother's little helper }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror x }}
 * {{ep hello gutter hello fadder }}
 * {{ep take my wife sleaze }}
 * {{ep faith off }}
 * {{ep the mansion family }}
 * {{ep last tap dance in springfield }}
 * {{ep it's a mad, mad, mad, marge }}
 * {{ep behind the laughter }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror xi }}
 * {{ep a tale of two spribgfields }}
 * {{ep lisa the tree hugger }}
 * {{ep the great money caper }}
 * {{ep skinner's sense of show }}
 * {{ep tennis the menace }}
 * {{ep new kids on the blecch }}
 * {{ep children of a lesser clod }}
 * {{ep simpsons tall tales }}
 * {{ep brawl in the family }}
 * {{ep sweets and sour marge }}
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 * {{ep the lastest gun in the west }}
 * {{ep the old man and the key }}
 * {{ep weekend at burnsie's }}
 * {{ep gump roast }}
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 * {{ep little girl in the big ten }}
 * {{ep the frying game }}
 * {{ep papa's got a brand new badge }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror xii }}
 * {{ep how i spent my strummer vacation }}
 * {{ep helter skelter }}
 * {{ep special edna }}
 * {{ep pray anything }}
 * {{ep scuse me while i miss the sky }}
 * {{ep three gays of the condo }}
 * {{ep brake my wife please }}
 * {{ep the bart of war }}
 * {{ep moe baby blues }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror xiv }}
 * {{ep my mother the carjacker }}
 * {{ep the regina monologues }}
 * {{ep the fat and the furiest }}
 * {{ep today i am a clown }}
 * {{ep i [annoyed grunt]-bot }}
 * {{ep diatrube of a mad housewife }}
 * {{ep milhouse doesn't live here anymore }}
 * {{ep the ziff who came to dinner }}
 * {{ep my big fat geek wedding }}
 * {{ep catch em of the day }}
 * {{ep the way we weren't }}
 * {{ep sleeping with the enemy }}
 * {{ep she used to be my girl }}
 * {{ep fat man and a little boy }}
 * {{ep midnight rx }}
 * {{ep there's something about marrying }}
 * {{ep on a clear day i can't see my sister }}
 * {{ep don't fear the roofer }}
 * {{ep the heartbroke kid }}
 * {{ep a star is torn }}
 * {{ep the father the son and the holy guest star }}
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 * {{ep milhouse of sand and fog }}
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 * {{ep simpsons christmas stories }}
 * {{ep homer's paternity coat }}
 * {{ep million dollar abie }}
 * {{ep regarding margie }}
 * {{ep the monkey suit }}
 * {{ep marge and homer turn a couple pair }}
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 * {{ep gi [annoyed grunt] }}
 * {{ep moe n a lisa }}
 * {{ep ice cream of margie }}
 * {{ep haw hawed couple }}
 * {{ep kill gil volumes 1 and 2 }}
 * {{ep the wife aquatic }}
 * {{ep revenge is a dish best served 3 times }}
 * {{ep little big girl }}
 * {{ep springfield up }}
 * {{ep yokel chords }}
 * {{ep rome old and julieh }}
 * {{ep the boys of bummer }}
 * {{ep crook and ladder }}
 * {{ep 24 minutes }}
 * {{ep you kent always say what you want }}
 * {{ep the simpsons movie }}
 * {{ep little orphan millie }}
 * {{ep eternal moonshine of the simpsons mind }}
 * {{ep that 90s show }}
 * {{ep love springfeildian style }}
 * {{ep papa don't leech }}
 * {{ep mona leaves a }}
 * {{ep double, double boy in trouble }}
 * {{ep treehouse of horror xix }}
 * {{ep dqngerous curves }}
 * {{ep mypods and broomsticks }}
 * {{ep the burns and the bees }}
 * {{ep take my life please }}