Thursdays with Abie
"Thursdays with Abie"
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Episode Information
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Intro
In the intro a different music plays and cuts right to the house probably due to time restraints.
Plot
The episode begins with the Simpsons go to the aquarium. The Simpsons decide to go see and octopus while Grandpa sits on a shark bench. There, Grandpa meets a man named Marshall Goldman which is interested to hear Grandpa's many stories. Grandpa tells him about the time when he tamed a shark and Marshall publishes it in the Springfield Shopper newspaper. Homer reads about it and is shocked that Grandpa wouldn't tell him and becomes jealous of Marshall. Grandpa then tells him of the time he met the lead actor of Gone With the Wind (not famous yet at the time). Homer grows even more jealous and decides to write an article of stories from some other person. He decides to try Mr. Burns who feels appreciated that someone actually stopped by to listen to him. He says that he will release A hound, which chases Homer off. He then heads to the newspaper office to submit his office. While the secratary goes to "approve" his article (which she really is just shredding it), Homer walks into Marshall Goldman's office. He discovers an article that will win him a Pulitzer Prize, which is a story of Grandpa dying. Homer realizes that Marshall wants to kill Grandpa so he can win a Pulitzer Prize. He runs to stop them at the train station (where the story says he'll die while riding the train). Grandpa gets onto the train that the famous Gone With the Wind star rode with Marshall. Homer tries to chase it, but can't quite make it. So at the next stop, Lenny, Carl, and Homer jump onto the top and lower Homer into the car. There, he sees Marshall go to smother Grandpa with a pillow. Marshall realizes Homer is there and pulls out a knife (which he later rips the pillow with to show a gun). Then Grandpa gets up and hits him in the head with some wood, which has no effect. Finally, Homer pushes Marshall to the wall of the train, where he is crushed to death by hat boxes. Homer apologizes to Grandpa for being jealous, and Grandpa accepts it.
In a subplot, Bart is chosen to take the stuffed lamb, Paul, home with him for the weekend. Bart treats Paul poorly and Lisa takes it from him and takes it for a stroll in her stroller. It slips out and falls down the sewer, much to Lisa's horror. Lisa tries to have Bart not notice Paul's absense, but Bart figures it out immediately. He at first suggests to not bring it back, but Nelson walks by and tells Bart that if anything happened to Paul, he would "unleash a dark side of him that no one knows about". So Bart goes into the sewer to look for Paul. There, he is chased by sewer rats, and then sewer cats. Then he finds Paul and zip lines on a pole to escape. But then Paul rips in half and Bart wails that he destroyed it (mainly because he began to find a liking to it). Although, Paul seems fine when the entire family is in the living room together (possibly because Paul was sewn back up). Then Grandpa tells Homer that he thinks that Homer's ready for his first ramble. Homer states that he's been waiting for this moment all of his life. He then tells in a Grandpa style the story of Godzilla as the credits roll.
Errors
- In the scene where Carl and Lenny lowered Homer onto the train Lenny is shown without his five-o-clock shadow.
