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Arnold Gumble

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Deceased Hair: Brown Occupation: Soldier Relatives: Son: Barney Gumble Wife: Mrs. Gumble (deceased) First appearance: "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" (flashback) Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta v • d • e • h

Private Fifth Class Arnold "Arnie" Gumble was a member of the Flying Hellfish, Grampa's unit in World War II. He is the father of Barney Gumble. He was in charge of watching his unit's backs inside a tank.

History

Along with the rest of the unit, he took part in a tontine where the last surviving member would take sole possession of a group of paintings they liberated. He was one of five members of the group to die in a parade float accident in 1979. Apparently, Arnie desired to buy his way into high class society when he took part in the Tontine.

Barney once had a near-death experience, in which he expected to be reunited with "my loved ones, my dad, and that plant I never watered," perhaps implying that he did not get along with his father, though this line could also be interpreted as Barney reuniting with his "loved ones: my dad and that plant I never watered."^[1]

Appearances

• Episode – "Mr. Plow" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" (flashback)
• Episode – "Simpson Tide" (mentioned)
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" (flashback)
• Comic story – War Is Smelly!

References