Abraham Simpson

**Abraham Jebediah "Abe" Simpson II**, commonly known as **Grampa Simpson** or simply **Grampa**, is a major recurring character in *The Simpsons* and a supporting character in *The Simpsons Movie*. He is the oldest patriarch of the Simpson family, ex-husband of 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, his daughter-in-law's mother (which would have made Marge and Homer step siblings).

Abe was a World War II veteran who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer. He is known for his long, rambling, and often inaccurate stories.

### Family Life

Almost all of Grampa's biographical info is supplied by him. Many of his stories seem to be wildly inaccurate, often physically or historically impossible, and occasionally inconsistent, even with each other, suggesting that Abe is senile though it's often implied that he is aware of the inconsistency. As such, all info provided by Grampa is often to be taken with a grain of salt.

He is a member of the Stonecutters, Masons, and Communists, as well as being president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance for some reason.

### Childhood

Abraham Simpson was born and raised in the "Old Country", which has been hinted to be the United Kingdom or Ireland, to his father, Orville Simpson and his mother, Yuma Hickman, before immigrating as a young child to the United States and briefly living inside the Statue of Liberty. Eliza Simpson, an indirect relative of his, apparently helped a slave (his great-great-grandfather, Virgil Simpson, to be exact) escape to Canada: another possible location of the "Old Country".

### Life in The Army

In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Abe was participating in the javelin event. His throw narrowly missed Hitler, who was watching in the stands. Unfortunately, it missed and hit the man who was about to assassinate him. At a later date, Grampa claimed that he and Hitler laughed about it.

Abe's recollections of his World War II experiences are sometimes implausible. Abe was not initially keen to fight in Europe. After the United States declared war, he supposedly tried to avoid service by dressing in drag and playing for a women's baseball team in 1942, which kept him from serving for a year before he was eventually discovered during a game. Later on, he and his unit served in The Battle of the Bulge, where he nearly succeeded in assassinating Hitler (though Charles Montgomery Burns thwarted it at the last moment). In the closing days of the war in Europe, they then invade an abandoned castle owned by the Nazis and flushed the Nazis out, though Mr. Burns tried to remove some of the paintings. Although he opposed the decision, and was morally against the idea, he ended up deciding to let Mr. Burns do it, though only so he might have a nest-egg after retirement. After "liberating" a stash of priceless art from the Nazis, Abe's unit (the Flying Hellfish) formed a tontine, and buried the art in a trunk at sea. Decades later, Mr. Burns tried to murder Abe in order to get the art, prompting Abe to violate the ton tine. When Abe and Bart retrieve the art from Burns after a spectacular confrontation, the State Department arrives to give the art to their "rightful" owner, Baron von Herzenberger, a snooty young German aristocrat (this part implies that this did happen).