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Template:Episode with billboard Thursdays with Abie is the nineth episode of Season 21, which aired on January 3, 2010. The episode is the 450th episode produced. The episode was written by Mitchell H. Glazer and Don Payne while Michael Plcino directed. Mitch Albom guest starred.

Synopsis

A Springfield Shopper reporter takes an interest in Grampa's stories, making him front-page news, which makes Homer jealous, until Homer discovers what the reporter has in store for the final column; Lisa loses the classroom stuffed lamb she was watching for Bart - down a sewer drain

Plot

The episode begins with the Simpsons go to the aquarium. The Simpsons decide to go see Slimu, a performing octopus, while Grampa sits on a shark bench. There, Grampa meets a man named Marshall Goldman which is interested to hear Grandpa's many stories. Grampa 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 Grampa wouldn't tell him and becomes jealous of Marshall. Grampa then tells him of the time he met Clark Gabel, 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 secretary 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 Grampa 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, Grandpa fakes surrender by holding his hands up and then pulling the emergency brake, in which the resulting force knocked Marshall to the wall of the train, where he is buried 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, Larry, home with him for the weekend. Bart treats Larry 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 Larry's absence, 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 Larry, he would "unleash a dark side of him that no one knows about". So Bart goes into the sewer to look for Larry. There, he is chased by sewer rats, and then sewer cats. Then he finds Larry and zip lines on a pole to escape. But then Larry rips in half and Bart wails that he destroyed it (mainly because he began to find a liking to it). Although, Larry seems fine when the entire family is in the living room together (possibly because Larry 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.