Old Money

"Old Money" is the 17th episode of the second season of The Simpsons. The episode aired on March 28, 1991.

Synopsis

Grampa, after another lackluster Sunday outing with the family, falls in love with Beatrice Simmons when their pills are mixed up at the Retirement Castle. They fall in love and go on a date, leading up to her birthday on a Sunday.

However, Homer makes Grampa come on the family outing to the Discount Lion Safari and locks him in the car, causing him to miss Bea's birthday. At the refuge, the family's car becomes stuck in the mud and, to make matters worse, hungry lions begin circling the car, trapping the family in the car overnight. After a hunter helps run the lions off the next morning, Grampa returns home expecting to see Bea. However, Homer pulls up just in time for the ambulance to pull away. It turns out that Bea has died of a burst ventricle when he was out with the family.

Grampa is saddened, attends her funeral and is very angry with Homer, as Homer was responsible for pulling Grampa away from Bea's birthday party and he was unable to spend time with her in what turned out to be her final hours.

Grampa then receives Bea's inheritance of $106,000. First, he looks at buying things for himself, until Bea's ghost suggests that he give the money (his inheritance is slightly less because he spent $400 on a fez that Napoleon supposedly once wore) to worthy causes. After interviews with many people across Springfield, Grampa attempts to double his money by gambling at a casino, but Homer stops him — and just in time, since Grampa would have lost the entire inheritance at the roulette wheel.

In the end, Grampa forgives Homer. Grampa also decides that he should spend the rest of the inheritance on renovating the retirement home, and adding a new room named the Beatrice Simmons Dining Room.