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Old Money" was the first episode to feature Grampa's full name, Abraham Simpson. Matt Groening , creator of The Simpsons , named the main characters after his own family members (except for Bart , an anagram of brat, which he substituted for his own name), [ 3 ] but refused to name Grampa after his grandfather, Abram Groening.
Abraham Jebediah "Abe" Simpson II, [1] [2] better known as Grampa Simpson, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.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.
Another family member, Grampa Simpson, was introduced in the later shorts. Years later, during the early seasons of The Simpsons, when it came time to give Grampa 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, they chose "Abraham ...
Soon, Grampa goes to the Veterans of Unpopular Wars bar, where he tells the bartender his problems. Homer receives a call from the bartender, who sends Grampa back home. Upon arriving at the Simpsons' house, Grampa hears the family missing him while reading the episode's script written by Lisa and Marge. Grampa realizes that his family finally ...
Robert David Sullivan of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C+, commenting that the Homer-Grampa subplot was "another thin story with little satiric spark, and we don’t even get much of Grampa Simpson in cranky-old-man insanity" and the Lisa subplot as "especially inconsequential." [4] Teresa Lopez of TV Fanatic gave the episode 4.5 out of 5 ...
...that when it came time to give Grampa Simpson a first name, the writers named him Abraham which by coincidence was the name of Matt Groening's grandfather? More did you know facts Show new list
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It first aired on Sky1 on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2009 and aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 22, 2009. It was the first episode of the show to premiere in Europe before airing on Fox. In the episode, the Simpsons buy a new hot tub and spend so much time relaxing in it that they neglect Abraham "Grampa" Simpson.