Release the Grease

Release the Grease

Tapped Out Quest Information Level: 15 Update: Hot Diggity D'oh! Required characters: Homer Optional characters: Bart, Marge, Rev. Lovejoy, Squeaky Voice Teen, Grampa, Deuce, See Currency-earning jobs Internal name(s): ReleaseTheGrease ID(s): 254002 - 254006 Previous quest(s): The Unbearable Darkness of Being Pt. 2 Next quest(s): Off to Mexico

Release the Grease is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Hot Diggity D'oh! content update.

Dialogue

Pt. 1

After completing The Unbearable Darkness of Being Pt. 2 Look at all that juicy grease. Are you sure Mom's okay with us maxing out her credit cards to buy a truckload of hot dogs? Of course, she's fine with it! Do you know how much grease we'll pump out of these hot dogs? No. Oh, I don't either. I was genuinely asking. Anyway, as long as the blackout continues, we're going to sell so much grease, we'll be able to put Lisa through college AND pay all your future legal fees. Real lawyers or those cheap suits that do ads on AM radio? The ones who charge you a thousand dollars an hour. Whoa. But again, only as long as this power outage continues. Do you see that?! What? The power's back on! Woohoo! Now I can watch my British Boiling show! No, Dad, this isn't good. Like you just said: if everyone gets their power back, then all of our grease is going to be worth pennies! Oh yeah, crap. Task: "Collect Grease" (x125). Task: "Make Homer Rage Over Grease Prices". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Think Through the Business Plan". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Marge is owned: Task: "Make Marge Go Through the Credit Card Statement". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Aww, man. Of all our get-rich-quick schemes — I thought this was finally gonna be the one to get us rich the quickest. It still can! If there's another blackout, the grease prices will go up again! Yeah, but it's impossible to predict when the next blackout will happen... Homer, there's grease supply, and there's grease demand. And you, "Nuclear Safety Inspector of the Month", control both sides of it. Oh my God, you're right. I can just click all the buttons on my control panel and it'll take weeks until those nuclear guys figure out how to get the power up and running again! Let's pull the cord out from under this town! Yeah! But first let's eat some hot dogs and watch another season of The Great British Boiling Show. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Hot Dog Cart

Pt. 2

After completing Pt. 1 Bart, we made out with quite the lumpy sum selling our fatty grease. And to think, all we had to do was sink the town into a horrible, prolonged darkness. Good thing being without electricity isn't dangerous at all... My oxygen tank can't run without power! You don't use an oxygen tank. Yeah, but if I did, you'd be the one responsible for killin' me! I can live with that. Dad, I'd say that we should sell some more grease, but now we're out of our only source: hot dogs. What we need to do is go to the greasiest restaurants in town and suck all the grease out from under them. How are we gonna do that? Oh, Holy Sky Finger! Won't you, in all your benevolence, bequeath upon your lowly and addicted subjects the gift of more greasy spoon diners and fatty fast food joints? *wags approvingly* Woohoo! Task: "Collect Grease" (x175). Task: "Make Sky Finger Collect Grease From Restaurants" (x25). Task: "Make Homer Pray to Sky Finger". The job takes place at the Sky Finger Monument or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Question the Existence of Sky Finger". The job takes place at the Sky Finger Monument or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Rev. Lovejoy is owned: Task: "Make Lovejoy Declare Sky Finger Blasphemous". The job takes place at the Sky Finger Monument, First Church of Springfield, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Bart, these restaurants are onto us. They've upped the prices on their excess grease! I make-a the gnocchi, the chicken parmesan, the lasagna, the spaghetti carbonara — and for what? For you to buy-a my hard-a-earned grease for nothing?! If you want my grease, you're gonna have to pay a premium because 10% has to go to my agent, another 15% to my manager, and another 5% to my lawyer. And don't get me started on the alimony. Arrgh, the Frying Dutchman does not negotiate with grease pirates! If you want our grease, you'll have to pay market rate! Market rate?! Our profits are going to become razor thin! Man, I wish we could just cut out those greasy middlemen! Excellent idea, boy. We should threaten to burn all their restaurants down in a "grease fire" and then collect their insurance. What? I didn't say that! Oh, then were you saying that we should use all our profits to purchase our very own super-greasy restaurant to make all our own grease?! I wasn't saying that either! Too late! I bought a restaurant and we're calling it: "Der Homerschnitzel". What about "Der Bart-wurst." You know, like Bratwurst... That is good... But I can't change it now. I already told the game developers that it's going to be called "Der Homerschnitzel". Quest reward: 100 and 10 Der Homerschnitzel

Pt. 3

After completing Pt. 2 Welcome to Der Homerschnitzel. Can I interest you in a basket of Grease Balls? Or perhaps a Lard Chicken Sandwich? I'll take two Hot Dog-stuffed Greaseburgers and a side of Greasy Fries. Homer J. Simpson! You bought a fast casual restaurant without telling me?! Technically, Bart's a co-owner. So, WE didn't tell you. How could you do something like this?! Marge, don't worry! This is all just one of my classic get rich quick schemes! You never get rich, and if you ever were to get rich, it wouldn't happen quick! That's hurtful, Marge. Take that back. I'm skipping the parts where I'm angry and then kick you out of the house. We're jumping straight to the marriage counseling. No! But the marriage counseling's the worst part! It'll feel so jarring to skip over all the other stuff! Our first session starts in ten minutes. I'll be in the car. Bart, keep the business running while I'm gone. And don't forget: always keep this fire extinguisher on you in case this place goes up in greasy flames. *annoyed grumble* Task: "Collect Grease" (x150). Task: "Make Homer Go to Marriage Counseling". The job takes place at Marriage Counseling, Monroe Family Therapy Center, Walk-In Therapy Stand, Springfield General Hospital, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours. If Marge is owned: Task: "Make Marge Go to Marriage Counseling". The job takes place at Marriage Counseling, Monroe Family Therapy Center, Walk-In Therapy Stand, Springfield General Hospital, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Keep the Business Going". The job takes place at Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, Eatery, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Ask if There Are Any Vegan Options". The job takes place at Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Squeaky Voice Teen is owned: Task: "Make Squeaky Voice Teen Take Over at the Register". The job takes place at Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. I see. And how does that make you feel, Marge? Like my husband cares more about hot dog grease than his own family. Mmm, yes. Homer, do you find any truth within Marge's feelings? ... Homer? Mustard?! Homer...are you picturing me as a hot dog right now? No. I mean, yes. I mean, hot dog. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Dr. Hot Dog

Pt. 4

After completing Pt. 3 Bart, we're hemorrhaging money! Running a restaurant is just too expensive of a way to make grease and sell it. Okay, so let's sell the restaurant and get our money back. Sell? No, the only way to turn things around is to come up with an even quicker get-rich-quick scheme. I know how you can do it! Is it a foolproof grease-based get-richer-quicker scheme? It sure is! Task: "Collect Grease" (x125). If Grampa is owned: Task: "Make Grampa Explain the Scheme". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Homer Listen Intently". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Go Along Out of Morbid Curiosity". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Marge is owned: Task: "Make Marge Schedule the Next Counseling Session". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. I got a fix on the biggest grease stockpile in town. My old employer, the Springfield Meatball Factory. They have tanks loaded top to bottom with excess grease. Now that's a spicy meatball. But isn't the meatball factory run by the Italian mob? Sure, it's run by Fat Tony's gang. Which is exactly why it'll have such low security. Who would be stupid enough to try to steal from the mob? I'm stupid enough! You grab the grease and we split the cut 50/50. Yeah, but you already told us everything we need to know. So you get a big fat slice of nothing, old man. To hell with your generation. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Acne Grease Co. Truck

Pt. 5

After completing Pt. 4 Alright, boy. You back the grease truck up to the loading doors, and I'll go around the breadcrumb silo and hook up the grease tanks. Wait, someone's coming! H-Dog? Is that you? Deuce? I didn't know you sold hot dogs at the meatball factory. I don't. I'm only here because I got a fix on the biggest grease stockpile in all of Springfield. Ugh, I guess Grampa's going around telling everyone about this heist. How'd you idiots know my old meatball factory was a grease goldmine! You told us! No I didn't! I only told my old pal, Deuce. I used to be his biggest customer at that wiener wagon of his. It wasn't a wiener wagon! It was a caboose! I should know — I'm the one that drove it off a cliff! Scram, Homer. These meatballs aren't big enough for the four of us. Abe-Dog, H-Dog, come on. We're all friends. Let's just rob this place together and increase our chances of success. That is a fair compromise. But is it too fair? Let me consult with my associate privately. *whispering* What do you think, Bart? *whispering* Let's cut them in. But if Fat Tony catches one of us in the factory, we're pinning it on Mr. Deuce Caboose over there. *whispering* I don't know. I think we should pin it on that Grampa guy. *whispering* You guys really need to learn how to whisper. What are we whisperin' about?! Task: "Collect Grease" (x175). Task: "Make Homer Pull Off the Heist of the Century". The job takes place at the Acne Grease Co. Truck, Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Deuce is owned: Task: "Make Deuce Pull Off the Heist of the Century". The job takes place at the Acne Grease Co. Truck, Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Pull Off the Heist of the Century". The job takes place at the Acne Grease Co. Truck, Der Homerschnitzel, a Krusty Burger, or the Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Marge is owned: Task: "Make Marge Get Stood Up at Marriage Counseling". The job takes place at Marriage Counseling, Monroe Family Therapy Center, Walk-In Therapy Stand, Springfield General Hospital, or a Visitable Home and takes 4 hours. Oh, man. I can't believe that worked! And we didn't even run into a single guard! Actually, there were a bunch of guards. Grampa neutralized them all. I wouldn't eat the meatballs from this place anytime soon. That's all I'm saying. Whoa Grampa, you're a bad ass... Well, when I was in the war— No war stories! Let's take this highly lucrative grease and get out of here! Quest reward: 100 and 10 Springfield Meatball Factory

Currency-earning jobs

Task Character(s) Time Location(s) Reward Steal Used Grease From Restaurants Homer, Bart, Marge, Grampa, Mr. Burns, Smithers 4h Eatery, Simpson House 5, 45 Scrape Grease Off the Collection Vats Deuce Grease Recycling Plant 8, 70

The Simpsons: Tapped Out Hot Diggity D'oh! quests
The Unbearable Darkness of Being • Release the Grease • Off to Mexico
Deuce	Deal With the Deuce
Dr. Hot Dog	The Prince of Sulphides
Sgt. Sausage	The Imaginarium of Sgt. Sausage