'Gorgeous Grampa' | |||
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The Simpsons episode | |||
Episode no. | Season 24 Episode 14 | ||
Directed by | Chuck Sheetz[1] | ||
Written by | Matt Selman[2] | ||
Production code | RABF06[3] | ||
Original air date | March 3, 2013 | ||
Episode features | |||
Couch gag | The Simpson family and several secondary characters do the Homer Shake. | ||
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The Simpsons (season 24) | |||
List of The Simpsons episodes |
'Gorgeous Grampa' is the fourteenth episode of the 24th season of The Simpsons and the 522nd episode overall.[3] It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 3, 2013.
Plot[edit]
Homer becomes addicted to a reality TV show called Storage Battles and decides to participate in a storage unit auction as a result. He wins the storage unit with $1000, outbidding several townspeople and elephant Stampy. The family goes through its contents to find it is full of women's clothes and muscleman magazines belonging to Grampa Simpson. Marge comes to the conclusion that Grampa is a closeted homosexual who was forced to be heterosexual through most of his life. Homer and Marge set Grampa up with Waylon Smithers, but the plan fails when Mr. Burns arrives and scares Smithers off. Marge then admits to Grampa that she thought he was homosexual, to which Grampa becomes enraged and Mr. Burns reveals that Grampa actually used to be an old-time Gorgeous George-type wrestler called 'Glamorous Godfrey', whose radical fighting style was heavily despised by the wrestling fan community, forcing him to retire. Burns reveals himself to be Godfrey's biggest fan (and only living one); he then persuades Grampa to return to the wrestling scene, which Grampa does. Though he is again met with loathing, Grampa continues the act under Burns's manipulation.
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- Grampa returns to wrestling and teams with Bart in a tag-team match. When Bart starts to emulate some of his grandfather's villainous ways, Grampa reveals 'Honest Abe,' another wrestling identity, to set Bart straight and steady. Grampa officially retires from wrestling afterward.
'Gorgeous Grampa' is the fourteenth episode of the 24th season of The Simpsons and the 522nd episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 3, 2013.
Bart soon becomes fascinated with Grampa and starts mimicking the mannerisms Grampa uses in the ring. However, he also attracts hatred and it worries Homer and Marge, but pleases Grampa and Burns. Under Burns's supervision, Grampa and Bart partner up in a tag team wrestling match. Marge tries to appeal to Grampa, but he turns her efforts down. However, he changes his mind when he observes Bart harassing the audience and takes on another wrestling identity that he calls 'Honest Abe' in order to convince Bart to stop his ways. When Burns protests against this, Grampa and Bart defeat him in the ring. Afterwards, the two retire from wrestling.
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
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'.'[4]
Ratings[edit]
The episode received a 2.2 in the 18-49 demographic and was watched by a total of 4.66 million viewers. This made it the most watched show on Fox's Animation Domination line up that night.[5]
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Syndication edits[edit]
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The 'Homer Shake' couch gag was removed from repeated airings in the US and all airings in the UK, presumably due to what it parodies.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^'FoxFast.com - View, Screen, Download'. Direct.foxfast.com. Retrieved 2014-04-15.[permanent dead link]
- ^Chris Ledesma Twitter. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ abReg. #PAu003625982 in the Copyright Catalog. United States Copyright Office. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^David, Robert (2013-03-03). ''Gorgeous Grampa' | The Simpsons | TV Club | TV'. The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ^'Sunday Final Ratings: 'Once Upon a Time', 'The Amazing Race', 'Celebrity Apprentice', 'Red Widow', 'The Cleveland Show', 'America's Funniest Home Videos' Adjusted Up; '60 Minutes', 'The Simpsons' Adjusted Down'. Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
External links[edit]
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- 'Gorgeous Grampa' on IMDb
- 'Gorgeous Grampa' at TV.com
- 'Gorgeous Grampa' at theSimpsons.com
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