Whiskey Business

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Episode Information

Episode number:	527
Season number:	S24 E19
Production code:	RABF13
Original airdate:	May 5, 2013
Title screen:	Professor Frink flies by on a jet pack.
Couch gag:	The Simpsons are carved into a block of ice by three men. Grampa Simpson comes in and turns on the heat. The ice sculpture melts.
Guest star(s):	Sonny Rollins as himself Ron Taylor as Bleeding Gums Murphy (archive voice clip) Kevin Michael Richardson as Cop with a secret Tony Bennett as "Capital City" singer
Showrunner:	[[Al Jean]]
Written by:	Valentina L. Garza
Directed by:	Matthew Nastuk

[[Category:Episodes showrun by Al Jean]]

"Whiskey Business" is the nineteenth episode of season 24 of The Simpsons and the five-hundred and twenty-seventh episode overall. It originally aired on May 5, 2013. The episode was written by Valentina L. Garza and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars Sonny Rollins as himself, Kevin Michael Richardson as Cop with a secret and Tony Bennett as "Capital City" singer. It also guest stars Ron Taylor as Bleeding Gums Murphy via archive audio.

Synopsis

"Sonny Rollins appears as a hologram to Lisa when she takes exception to a "Tupac-at-Coachella"-style hologram of blues icon Bleeding Gums Murphy and starts a letter writing campaign to stop this holographic exploitation. Grampa injures himself while babysitting Bart, and quickly discovers he prefers being cared for by his grandson than the staff at the nursing home and Moe finds a new lease on life when rich venture capitalists take an interest in his homemade bourbon after Marge and Homer help him."

Promotional images

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International airdates

Country	Date	Channel	Note
Latin America	August 4, 2013	Fox Latin America
United Kingdom	February 17, 2014; 9:30pm	Sky1	Gathered under 404,000 viewers
Spain	January 17, 2015	Antena 3

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