Editing Grampa Simpson (section)

==Biography==
Grampa Simpson is the father to [[Homer Simpson]], father-in-law to [[Marge Simpson]] and the paternal grandfather to siblings [[Bart Simpson|Bart]], [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] and [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]]. 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]],<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Regina Monologues |episode-link=The Regina Monologues |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[John Swartzwelder|Swartzwelder, John]]; [[Mark Kirkland|Kirkland, Mark]] |network=Fox |airdate=November 23, 2003 |season=15 |number=04}}</ref> and [[Herb Powell|Herbert Powell]] by a carnival prostitute.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? |episode-link=Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[Jeff Martin (writer)|Martin, Jeff]]; [[Wes Archer|Archer, Wes]] |network=Fox |airdate=	February 21, 1991 |season=2 |number=15}}</ref> Grampa has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in [[Tahiti]] and has [[polygamy|multiple native wives]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=Simpsons Christmas Stories |episode-link=Simpsons Christmas Stories |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Payne, Don; Moore, Steven Dean |network=Fox |airdate=2005-12-18 |season=17 |number=365}}</ref> He also has a younger brother named Chet, who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company. Other siblings of his include Hubert, Tyrone, Fester, Bill, and Hortense.<ref name="oakley">{{cite video |people=Oakley, Bill |year=2006 |title=The Simpsons season 9 DVD commentary for the episode 'Lisa the Simpson' |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> Grampa was briefly married to [[Amber Simpson (The Simpsons)|Amber]], the same woman Homer married on a drinking binge in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=Brawl in the Family (The Simpsons) |episode-link=Brawl in the Family (The Simpsons) |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Cohen, Joel H.; Nastuk, Matthew |network=Fox |airdate=2002-01-06 |season=13 |number=276}}</ref> Grampa has also been briefly married to Marge's sister, [[Patty and Selma|Selma Bouvier]],<ref>{{cite episode |title=Rome-old and Juli-eh |episode-link=Rome-old and Juli-eh |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[Nancy Kruse|Kruse, Nancy]]; [[Daniel Chun|Chun, Daniel]] |network=Fox |airdate=March 11, 2007 |season=18 |number=15}}</ref> and was once romantically linked to Marge's mother, [[Simpson family#Jacqueline Bouvier|Jacqueline Bouvier]] (his son's mother-in-law). Grampa Simpson is also married to Rita LaFleur.

Almost 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. 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 [[dementia|senile]]. It is unknown where Grampa was born. He claims that he came to America as a boy from the "old country", but he cannot remember which country it was,<ref>{{cite episode |title=Much Apu About Nothing |episode-link=Much Apu About Nothing |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[David X. Cohen|Cohen, David]]; [[Susie Dietter|Dietter, Susie]] |network=Fox |airdate=May 5, 1996 |season=7 |number=23}}</ref> although most likely it was the United Kingdom or [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]. Grampa was raised in New York City with his parents, Orville J. Simpson and Yuma Hickman.<ref>{{cite book |last=Groening |first=Matt |title=The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album |year=1991 |publisher=Harper Collins Publishers |isbn=978-0-06-096582-2|title-link=The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album}}</ref> 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. In the Season 25 episode "[[The Winter of His Content]]," Homer states that Grampa's father is still alive. 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.

Grampa is a veteran of World War II, where he served as [[Master Sergeant]] of the [[Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"|Flying Hellfish]] unit which included himself (the Unit Commander), Radio Operator Sheldon Skinner ([[Seymour Skinner]]'s father), Private Fifth Class Arnie Gumble ([[Barney Gumble]]'s father), Asa Phelps, Iggy Wiggum ([[Clancy Wiggum]]'s father), Milton "Oxford" Haas, Etch Westgrin, Griff McDonald, Private [[Charles Montgomery Burns]] and Grey Fox.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Flying Hellfish |url=https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Flying_Hellfish |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=Wikisimpsons |language=en}}</ref> At the very end of the war in Europe, Grampa's unit "liberated" a stash of priceless art from surrendering German forces. The Flying Hellfish formed a [[tontine]] and buried the art in a trunk at sea. Decades later, Burns, the second surviving member of the unit, tried to murder Grampa in order to get the art, prompting Grampa to violate the tontine. When Grampa and Bart retrieved the art from Mr. Burns, [[United States Department of State|the State Department]] arrived to return the art to its rightful owner.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish' |episode-link=Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[Jonathan Collier|Collier, Jonathan]]; [[Jeffrey Lynch|Lynch, Jeffrey]] |network=Fox |airdate=April 28, 1996 |season=7 |number=22}}</ref> Grampa was a hated wrestler named "Glamorous Godfrey" in the 1950s, revealed in the episode "[[Gorgeous Grampa]]", starring him and [[Mr. Burns]].

Homer's mother, [[Mona Simpson (The Simpsons)|Mona Simpson]], was married to Grampa for several years. 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]]. She became entranced with the hippie lifestyle after seeing [[Joe Namath]]'s hair on television. She became a fugitive from justice after she abetted in the sabotage of a [[biological weapons]] research lab owned by Mr. Burns to deliberately poison everyone in [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]]. To explain this to his then-six-year-old son, Grampa said that Mona died while Homer was at the movies.<ref name=MotherSimpson>{{cite episode |title=Mother Simpson |episode-link=Mother Simpson |series=The Simpsons |credits=[[Rich Appel|Appel, Rich]]; [[David Silverman (animator)|Silverman, David]] |network=Fox |airdate=1995-11-19 |season=07 |number=08}}</ref> Grampa has a poor, but sometimes loving relationship with his son, who placed him in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Lisa's First Word |episode-link=Lisa's First Word |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Martin, Jeff; Kirkland, Mark |network=Fox |airdate=1992-12-03 |season=04 |number=10}}</ref> It is recurringly suggested that, while caring, Grampa was a strict disciplinarian who could be very controlling, neglectful, and even emotionally abusive towards Homer when he was growing up and he still had not forgiven him for that.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Bart Star |episode-link=Bart Star |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Cohen, David X.; Kirkland, Mark |network=Fox |airdate=1997-11-09 |season=09 |number=06}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |title=Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy |episode-link=Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Oakley, Bill & Weinstein, Josh.; Archer, Wes |network=Fox |airdate=1994-12-04 |season=06 |number=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode |title=Barting Over |episode-link=Barting Over |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=Kreisberg, Andrew.; Nastuk, Matthew |network=Fox |airdate=2003-02-16 |season=14 |number=11}}</ref> After Mona left Homer at a young age and ran off with a [[jester]], Grampa brought up Homer by himself. In the season four episode, "[[The Front (The Simpsons)|The Front]]", Grampa tells Roger Myers Jr., head of Itchy and Scratchy studios, that he worked as a cranberry silo night watchman for forty years.

The Simpson family will often do their best to avoid unnecessary contact with Grampa. A running gag in the show usually has Grampa in a cameo appearance where he wonders where everyone is or wishes to be noticed by the family. One example of this was when the family thought they left something on the plane in the episode "[[Fear of Flying (The Simpsons)|Fear of Flying]]", which is revealed to be Grampa. Despite this, Homer has shown feelings of love for his father from time to time.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Old Money |episode-link=Old Money (The Simpsons) |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |credits=[[Jay Kogen|Kogen, Jay]]; [[Wallace Wolodarsky|Wolodarsky, Wallace]]; Silverman, David |network=Fox |airdate=1991-03-28 |season=02 |number=17}}</ref>