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"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish '", or simply "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", is the twenty-second episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28, 1996.
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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.
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.
Robert David Sullivan of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B−, saying, "The season has already been heavy on nostalgia and on Grampa appearances, so it's not a pleasant surprise when the Simpsons stumble upon a storage unit with boxes of feather boas, wigs, and perfume sprayers in boxes marked 'Property of Abe Simpson'." [7]
Weinstein said that this episode was an opportunity for him, Oakley, and Swartzwelder to "go nuts" with the "Burns-ism". He said that they enjoy writing for characters such as Burns and Abe Simpson because of their "out-datedness", and because they get to use thesauruses for looking up "old time slang".
"Thursdays with Abie" is the ninth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. In this episode, Grampa meets a human interest journalist who writes and publishes Grampa's life stories, which makes Homer jealous.