The Old Man and the Key
"The Old Man and the Key"
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Episode Information
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"The Old Man and the Key" is the thirteenth episode of the Simpsons' thirteenth season and first aired on March 10th 2002. It is the first episode written by Jon Vitti since season seven's clip show episode, "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".
Plot
When a beautiful new woman named Zelda moves into his retirement home, Grampa Simpson is determined to win her love over the youthful owner of a minivan. After renewing his driver's license (which Patty quickly gave to him in return that he would not wink at her again), Grampa convinces Homer to let him borrow the car to romance her. Although he impresses the new old gal who Homer and Marge think is a hoochie and only likes Grampa only because he can drive, he crashes Homer's car in a drag race and loses his girlfriend in the competition.
When a younger man takes Grampa's new girl on a road trip, Grampa steals Marge's car and "kidnaps" Bart, taking him on the road to Branson, Missouri to win back Zelda from the arms of the younger man. Ray Jay Johnson, Mr. T, Charo, Yakov Smirnoff, Charlie Callas, Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Zmed are the stars of the show in Branson they go to see. (Tennessee Ernie Ford is backstage, but crumbles to dust when Grampa proves he is dead by showing the deceased actor his obituary.) Grampa calls out to his lady from on-stage, but then denounces her in front of everyone, who then call her (in a chant) a hoochie, sending her fleeing off the stage in tears. Abe then reconciles with Homer.
