Forgive and Regret

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	Season 29 Episode
← 635 "Lisa Gets the Blues"	636 "Forgive and Regret"	"Left Behind" 637 →

"Forgive and Regret"

Episode Information Title screen: In a Western setting, the opening is a parody of Gunsmoke's. The series' main charater Matt Dillon says to Maggie "Can't let you do it, can't let you break my record" then engages her in a Fast draw, Maggie shoots first, killing him, referencing how the show surpasses Gunsmoke's previous record with this episode. Showrunner: [[{{{showrunner}}}]]

"Forgive and Regret" is the 18th episode of season 29. It aired on April 29, 2018. This episode marks the show as TV's longest running primetime scripted series, surpassing Gunsmoke, which had 635 episodes.

Synopsis

"Grampa makes a confession to Homer while on his deathbed. After his recovery, he comes to realize that this issue will not be easy to reconcile."

Plot

At Moe's Tavern, Homer tries to win a bet on eating 30 pickle eggs from Moe's jar, but loses once he spits them all out. Enraged, he rears the car on a lightpole. A man that watched the scene approaches him and offers $500 in exchange for his car. He agrees and tells Marge once home that he sold the car, showing them what become of it: brought to the Springfield Demolition Derby.

The person gave Homer tickets to the show, and Marge drives the family to it. When Grampa starts blabbing, Homer blocks him using a divider, and when Marge starts too, he does the same.

At the derby, after showing the new and improved Truckasaurus, Truckasaurus II, it gets destroyed immediatly, and a video in memorial of those lost in the past week at the derby was shown. The derby starts, and Homer's car and Car-Rak Obama, the affordable healthcare mobile. But at the last moment, Grampa felt sick, with heart attack symptoms, and Homer took him to the hospital, while Car-Rak Obama's head flew next to them, signifying Homer's car victory.

Dr. Hibbert informs Homer that Grampa's conditions are bad, and he wants to see him one last time. At his deathbed (right next to Old Jewish man, separated only by another one of the dividers), he asks for forbidness for something really bad he did in the past. Homer, seeing it was his last wish, agrees to.

However, shortly after, Dr. Hibbert informs the family that Grampa recovered thanks to a new drug that stops the hormone that brings a merciful death when the body is in too much pain. This fact reveals Homer hasn't forgiven him, and in his anger, he destroyes a box of cotton balls, costing him $75.000.

Homer refuses to tell what Grampa did, but doesn't want to look at him the same way again, so he wants to go to Moe's but Grampa does too. In the end they end up at opposite sides of the bar table. Moe convinces them to try the jukebox and the Love Tester machine together but that doesn't help either.

Production

It was scheduled to be episode 634th, but King Leer aired as 634th instead.

The long opening sequence parodying the one from Gunsmoke was cut, only showing the part till the title screen.

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Promo videos

• Preview: Be There When The Simpsons Make History at YouTube
• Preview: All Systems Are A Go at YouTube
• Gunsmoke Opening Parody at YouTube
• The Simpsons Is Breaking Records at YouTube
• Lisa Suggests The Silent Treatment at YouTube
• Homer Raises The Divider at YouTube

References

← Season 28 Season 29 Episodes Season 30 →

The Serfsons • Springfield Splendor • Whistler's Father • Treehouse of Horror XXVIII • Grampy Can Ya Hear Me • The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be • Singin' in the Lane • Mr. Lisa's Opus • Gone Boy • Haw-Haw Land • Frink Gets Testy • Homer Is Where the Art Isn't • 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage • Fears of a Clown • No Good Read Goes Unpunished • King Leer • Lisa Gets the Blues • Forgive and Regret • Left Behind • Throw Grampa from the Dane • Flanders' Ladder