Abe Simpson

Abraham Jebediah Simpson II, also known as Abe Simpson, Abe Simpson II, Abraham Jay Simpson, Abraham Simpson, Effie Lou, Glamorous Godfrey, Grampa Simpson, Grey Fox, Johnny Flamethrower, Love Tester and Methuselah, is a character from The Simpsons series.
== Charactah Account ==
Abe is the oldest patriarch of the Simpson family, husband of Rita LaFleur, ex-husband of the late Mona Simpson, father of Homer Simpson, Herbert Powell and Abbey, father-in-law of Marge Simpson and paternal grandfather of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson. He is also the ex-boyfriend of Jacqueline Bouvier.
Abe is old, grizzled, periodically incontinent and quite senile to the extent of calling someone a fish tank. He lives in the Springfield Retirement Castle, which is a sad, lonely place filled with demented, crippled and depressed old people. Abe also informs Lisa that residents are not allowed to read newspapers because "they angry up the blood". His closest friend appears to be Jasper Beardsley, a fellow Retirement Castle resident.
Abe spends a good deal of his time writing letters of complaints. He once wrote to the President, complaining that there were too many states, and requesting that they get rid of three of them. He also wrote to "the sickos at Modern Bride Magazine" about his disgust at not seeing "one wrinkled face" or "a single toothless grin" in the publication. He also owns a 49-star American flag because of an undefined hatred of Missouri. Abe has many traits of stereotypical old men. These traits include back pain, the inability to hear, falling asleep suddenly, among other traits.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* The Simpsons
* The Simpsons Season 2
* The Simpsons Season 3
* The Simpsons Season 4
* The Simpsons Season 5
* The Simpsons Season 6
* The Simpsons Season 7
* The Simpsons Season 8
* The Simpsons Season 9
* The Simpsons Season 10
* The Simpsons Season 11
* The Simpsons Season 12
* The Simpsons Season 13
* The Simpsons Season 14
* The Simpsons Season 15
* The Simpsons Season 16
* The Simpsons Season 17
* The Simpsons Season 18
* The Simpsons Season 19
* The Simpsons Season 20
* The Simpsons Season 21
* The Simpsons Season 22
* The Simpsons Season 23
* The Simpsons Season 24
* The Simpsons Season 25
* The Simpsons Season 26
* The Simpsons Season 27
* The Simpsons Season 28
* The Simpsons Season 29
* The Simpsons Season 30
* The Simpsons Season 31
* The Simpsons Season 32
* The Simpsons Season 33
* The Simpsons Season 34
* The Simpsons Season 35
=== Comics ===
* Bart Simpson
* Bart Simpson's Horrorshow
* Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror
* Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie Jeebie Hullabaloo
* Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror: Spine-Tingling Spooktacular
* Bart Simpson: Class Clown
* Bartman
* Bongo Comics Free-For-All!
* Bongo Comics Presents: Comic Book Guy - The Comic Book
* Futurama - Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis
* Grampa Simpson's Unbelievable Adventures
* Krusty Comics
* Li'l Homer
* Maggie
* Professor Frink Fantastic Science Fictions
* Simpsons Classics
* Simpsons Comics
* Simpsons Comics and Stories
* Simpsons Comics Beach Blanket Bongo
* Simpsons Comics Clubhouse
* Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium
* Simpsons Comics Explosion
* Simpsons Comics Hit the Road!
* Simpsons Comics Royale
* Simpsons Comics Supernova
* Simpsons Comics: Jam-Packed Jamboree
* Simpsons Illustrated
* Simpsons Super Spectacular
* Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Fun-filled Frightfest
* Simpsons Winter Wingding
* The Simpsons Annual
* The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis II
* The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Dead Man's Jest
* The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: From Beyond the Grave
* The Simpsons: Homer for the Holidays
=== Movie ===
* The Simpsons Movie
=== Video Games ===
* LEGO Dimensions
* The Simpsons Arcade Game
* The Simpsons Cartoon Studio
* The Simpsons Game
* The Simpsons: Hit & Run
* The Simpsons: Road Rage
* The Simpsons: Tapped Out
* The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield
== Trivia ==
* Abe once told the people at the bank that he was King Olaf of Sweden so he could get some money, and later went to explain.
* Abe mixes up facts and often when he tells his stories, so not everything in them is true.
* Abe is one of the few characters to have the beard line, the others include Homer, Lenny and Bart (future, Lisa's Wedding).
* Abe is angry about not dying. In "Holidays of Future Passed", he saw a reflection of himself with his face covered in mashed potato and exclaimed "I'm Santa!? Now I'll never die!".
* Abe's age is uncertain and has fluctuated throughout the series.
** Abe has at least once been said to be 83 years old.
** Although Abe's age is often put as 83, "Gone Abie Gone" indicates that he was 35 when Homer was around 6 years old, making his birth year in that 2012 episode circa the mid 1940s to early 1950s, making his previous appearances in World War I and II unlikely. Further confusing matters, Abe's footlocker of precious memories in "Gone Abie Gone" shows an adult Abe in what appears to be a European town in World War II as well as a voting badge opposing Thomas E. Dewey (Franklin D. Roosevelt's opponent in the 1944 presidential election, and Harry S. Truman's opponent in the 1948 election) which reads "Phooey to Dewey".
** However, in the 2016 episode "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4", Abe mentions "the one happy moment in 80 years of life" and in the 2017 episode "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me", the Simpson family celebrates Abe's 87th birthday, suggesting a birth year of 1936 and 1930 respectively.
** A news report in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album has Abe down as being four years older than Mr. Burns. Burns' age has varied between 81 and over 120 years old throughout the series.
* Abe's voice sounds similar to an elderly goat.
* Abe is (or at least was) quite skilled at dancing, as proven in "In the Name of the Grandfather".
* Homer resembles him while dehydrated during the Springfield marathon race.
* The episode "Throw Grampa from the Dane" reveals that Abe has a tattoo of Mona's name on his upper chest with a purple heart. He wanted to get the tattoo removed for free in Copenhagen before he died. Instead of getting the tattoo removed, he redesigned it as an appreciation for the proverbial phrase "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade". His first official tattoo was the emblem for the "Flying Hellfish" and was revealed in "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Abe Simpson II at Simpsons Wiki
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