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"Gorgeous Grampa" is the fourteenth episode of Season 24. It was written by Matt Selman and directed by Chuck Sheetz. It originally aired on March 3, 2013.

Synopsis

"Homer's addiction to the show Storage Battles leads to the family finding a storage locker filled with Grampa's old wrestling memorabilia. After confronting Grampa with it, Mr. Burns brings Grampa back into the world of wrestling, with Grampa becoming Glamorous Godfrey once more. But, the effect it has on Bart starts to eat at his conscience."

Plot

Homer and Lisa are flicking through TV shows trying to find a reality show to watch when Homer comes across Storage Battles. After becoming obsessed with the show, Homer decides that he wants to become a pro-bidder too. He takes the family to a storage locker auction where he bids against other Springfieldians for a locker, winning the auction for $1,000. Upon opening the storage locker, the family finds that it's full of boxes that belong to Grampa. Opening the boxes, the family finds women's clothing and fitness magazines and work out that Grampa must be secretly gay.

At home, Homer and Marge talk it over and decide to support Grampa and decide to help him be who he is. The family go to the Retirement Castle and tell Grampa that they found his storage locker. Grampa tells them to go as the contents of the locker was his private business. The Simpsons then put an advert on the Internet to find Grampa a date. They set up a blind date where Smithers comes along and asks if Grampa is his date. When Grampa gets confused by this, Marge comes out and tells him to be happy who he is, as a gay man. Grampa gets shocked by this accusation and tells the family that he is straight. As Homer puts the wig on Grampa, Mr. Burns comes along and recognizes Grampa as Glamorous Godfrey, a former professional wrestler.

Mr. Burns takes the Simpsons back to his mansion and shows them all his room filled with Glamorous Godfrey articles, photographs, posters and other memorabilia. Grampa then told the family about his past as Glamorous Godfrey and how he put on an act that led to him being hated, which Grampa grew to dislike. So, he gave up the wrestling life and put everything in a storage locker as he thought that being despised was no way to live. Mr. Burns takes offense to this as he thought of Glamorous Godfrey as his hero. Bart becomes a fan from his story and Mr. Burns asks Grampa to tell him stories.

Burns takes Grampa and Bart to The Coot Society where he sings "High to Be Loathed" to Grampa, to convince him to take up wrestling again. The song works and Grampa accepts. Bart becomes an even bigger fan of Grampa and starts to emulate Glamorous Godfrey's behavior, which makes him hated in town. Homer and Marge tells Bart to stop acting the way he is and Homer goes to Grampa and Burns to tell them about how Bart is copying Grampa's behavior. Burns then asks Grampa if he and Bart could team up for a wrestling match, which he accepts.

Grampa gets Beautiful Bart ready for his match as Marge goes to Grampa and tells him that she doesn't want Bart to become a bad person. In the tunnel on the way to the ring, Bart is approached by a fan and carries on with his heel act. Grampa gets concerned and tells Bart to leave the attitude to the ring. Before the fight begins, Grampa changes his outfit to become Honest Abe and turns Bart into Laddie Liberty, to Bart's shock. Mr. Burns gets annoyed at this and insults Bart. Grampa then starts to wrestle Mr. Burns, with Bart joining in. Mr. Burns then puts all of Glamorous Godfrey's memorabilia in a storage locker whilst Storage Battles crew fill up a storage locker with valuables.

Production

The episode was directed by Chuck Sheetz and written Matt Selman.

Reception

This episode gathered 4.76 million viewers on its original airing, up 150,000 viewers from the previous episode, "Hardly Kirk-ing".^[1]

Robert David Sullivan of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B-, praising the song "High to Be Loathed" in particular.^[2]

As of April 2020, the episode has a 6.0 rating on IMDb^[3] and a 7.1 rating on TV.com.^[4]

International airdates

Country	Date	Channel	Note
Latin America	June 23, 2013	Fox Latin America
United Kingdom	November 17, 2013; 6pm	Sky1	Gathered 723,000 viewers
Spain	January 5, 2015	Antena 3

Gallery

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References

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[1] TVbythenumbers - "TV Ratings Sunday: ‘Once Upon a Time’ Hits Low, ‘The Amazing Race’, ‘The Simpsons’ & ‘The Good Wife’ Rise, ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Returns Down, ‘Red Widow’ Premieres Low"

[2] The A.V. Club - "The Simpsons: “Gorgeous Grampa”"

[3] IMDb - "Gorgeous Grampa"

[4] TV.com - "Gorgeous Grampa"

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