Character Analysis

Grampa
Played by Dan Castellaneta
418 jokes across 94 episodes of The Simpsons
143.1
418
7.1
6.7
Character Comedy
Grampa delivers 418 scored jokes across 94 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 143.1. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Grampa Lines
Grampa:My Homer is not a Communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a Communist- But he is not a porn star!
Grampa:Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety-two. We had to say 'dickety,' 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word 'twenty.'
Grampa:If I hadn't taken that stupid tonic 38 years ago... you'd have never been born and I'd have been happy. You were an accident!
Grampa:You, president? This is the greatest country in the world. We've got a system set up to keep people like you... from ever becoming president. Quit your daydreaming, melonhead.
Grampa:Anyway, Homer and that dog went together like Christmas and suicidal thoughts.
All Jokes — 361 total
Bart · Grampa:-This place is depressing. -Hey, I live here! Well, I'm sure it's a blast once you get used to it.
Grampa · Homer:That's no way to lay a fire! -This will roar any time now. -A caveman could start it.
Family · Grampa:-Amen. -Worst prayer yet.
Grampa · Homer:Homer was never stubborn. He always folded instantly. As if he had no will of his own. -Isn't that true, Homer? -Yes, Dad.
Grampa:Let's go! If I'm not back at the home by 9... they declare me dead and collect my insurance.
Lisa · Homer · Bart · Grampa · Grampa's Mother:Now we can blame him for everything! -It's your fault I'm bald! -Sorry. -It's your fault I'm old! -Sorry. -It's your fault I can't talk! -Sorry.
Grampa:It's Simpson, and these aren't my pills
Grampa:Look at us. We're staring like a couple of stupid punk teenagers
Grampa:Care to tip the wrist with me?
Grampa:Widower, one son, one working kidney
Grampa:You'd think this would get easier!
Grampa:Never fly solo again
Grampa:Oh, hello, young lady. Is your grandmother home?
Bea · Grampa:I'd better keep my good eye on you. Damn straight.
Grampa · Herman:The battleship New Jersey. You idiot! My girlfriend, Bea.
Herman · Grampa:$400. I'll give you $5. Not an offer you should make to a man with a gun.
Grampa:She's not invisible, you idiot!
Grampa:Damn these childproof doors!
Grampa:What a wingding. This is much better than my girlfriend's party.
Grampa · Jasper:I got a date with an angel. You don't know how right you are.
Grampa:They may say she died of a burst ventricle, but I know she died of a broken heart.
Grampa · Homer:Is someone talking? I didn't hear anything. Oh, no! Dad's lost his hearing! No, you idiot! I'm ignoring you!
Grampa:I just had to tell you that you're not getting one thin dime!
Grampa · Limo Driver:Take me someplace fun! You're the boss. Next stop, Funsville.
Grampa · Ghost Bea:Hey, Bea, I've got to ask you, what was death like? Not as scary as this!
Grampa:All my precious sacks of gold couldn't buy me the joys of a family meal.
Professor Frink · Grampa:With funding, this baby could destroy an area the size of New York. I wanna help people, not kill them! Oh. The ray only has evil applications.
Lisa · Grampa:But you can buy me a pony. You're right! I'll name her Princess.
Grampa · Homer:Homer, I think Rudyard Kipling said it best. 'If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn...' You'll be a bonehead!
Grampa · Croupier:Put it all on 41. I've got a feeling. The wheel only goes to 36. Put it all on 36.
Grampa · Dealer:Put it all on 41. / I've got a feeling. / The wheel only goes to 36. / Put it all on 36. I've got a feeling.
Grampa:For the first time, I'm glad I had children.
Grampa:Come on in. Dignity's on me, friends.
Grampa:Last resort. Old Grampa, the feeb. The guy who can't be counted on for nothing, nohow. Everyone's against me.
Grampa:You can smoke cigars?
Grampa · Bart:It's remorse, you burlesque of irrepressible youth. -How do you make it go away? -Grab a brush... and clean faster than you ever have before.
Grampa:Pretending to cry. That's right! You heard me! Pretending to cry! I can turn it on and off like a faucet.
Grampa:"I'm crying. I'm so sad."
Grampa:You'll never do any better. You lucky bum. The fish jumped right in the boat.
Grampa:All you got to do is whack her with the oar
Grampa:I didn't earn it. I don't need it. But if they miss one payment, I'll raise hell!
Grampa · Bart:That doll is evil, I tells ya. Evil! E-E-Evil! Grampa, you said that about all the presents. I just want attention.
Grampa:Homer, I've coughed up scarier stuff than that.
Grampa:That's a lie, and you know it! But I have seen a lot of movies.
Grampa:Do you have dropsy? The grippe? Scrofula? The vapors? Jungle rot? Dandy fever? Poor man's gout? Housemaid's knee? Climatic poopow? The staggers? Dum-dum fever?
Grampa:Good news, boy. I found a pharmacy that carries leeches! Well, it wasn't exactly a pharmacy. More of a bait shop.
Grampa:Oral thermometer, my eye! Think warm thoughts, boy, 'cause this is mighty cold.
Homer · Grampa:Dad, I have a problem. Why'd you come to me?
Grampa:I don't know nothin'. I used to get by on my looks. Now they're gone, withered away like an old piece of fruit.
Grampa:I was voted the handsomest boy in Albany, New York.
Grampa:I ratted on everybody and got off scot-free.
Grampa:We'll show 'em all! [Laughing] [Snoring]
Grampa:Coma? Pfftt. Why, I go in and out of comas all the-- [Snores]
Grampa:It's like one of those TV shows where they show a bunch of clips from old episodes.
Grampa:Well, whenever I'm confused I just check my underwear. It holds the answer to all the important questions.
Bart · Grampa:Grampa, how'd you take off your underwear without taking off your pants? I don't know!
Grampa:That's right. I did the Iggy.
Grampa:You're a comedy writer? My God, you're so old. I want my check!
Roger Meyers Jr. · Grampa:His name is Abraham Simpson... and he's got something you couldn't get at your fancy schools-- life experience. I spent 40 years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo.
Grampa:They pay me $800 a week to tell a cat and mouse what to do!
Grampa:I dreamt I was the queen of the Old West. I kept a six-shooter in my garter, I did.
Grampa:Cross my fingers for me. [Snap] That's gonna hurt come winter.
Grampa:That was the first time I ever saw Itchy and Scratchy... and I didn't like it one bit! It was disgusting and violent! I think all you people are despicable! For shame!
Grampa:I say we call Matlock. He'll find the culprit. It's probably that evil Gavin MacLeod or George 'Goober' Lindsey.
Grampa:Grampa, Matlock's not real. Neither are my teeth, but I can still eat corn on the cob... if someone cuts it off and smushes it into a fine paste.
Grampa:Hello! Hello! You have my pills! Hello? I'm cold, and there are wolves after me.
Grampa:Look what happened without my pills!
Jasper · Grampa:Not so fast. I wanna court this fair, young maiden. There's somethin' you should know about me. I've got Steve and Eydie tickets. I'm all yours!
Grampa:I'm a vampire, and I've come to suck your blood. Blah! Oh-- This cape is giving me a rash.
Grampa:There's nothing here a little elbow grease won't fix! So let's roll up our sleeves and-- [Snoring]
Grampa:Papa needs a new pair of spats. I want some of that sweet, sweet do-re-mi! Fat City, here I come!
Grampa:Oh, for crying out loud, I dropped one. Oh! Now it's in my shoe! Ow! Ow! Ooh!
Jasper · Grampa:swiped his pills... 'Take one every hour to prevent spastic heart convulsions.'
Grampa:Wait, that's my hand.
Lisa · Grampa:Mr. Simpson. Stop. Your constant letters are becoming a nuisance. Stop. If you do not cease, I will be forced to pursue legal action. Stop. Signed, Boris Karloff. Hollywood, California.
Grampa:You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in zeppelins, dropping coins on people.
Grampa:I just used it that morning to wash my turkey... which in those days was known as a 'walking bird.'
Grampa:Cranberries, 'injun eyes,' and yams stuffed with gunpowder.
Grampa:Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called 'baseball.'
Grampa:When I was young, toys were built to last. Look at this junk! It breaks the first time you take it out of the box.
Grampa:And look at these toy soldiers! They'll break the second I step on 'em. [proceeds to step on them]
Grampa:My skull is eggshell-thin.
Grampa:Holy smokes! That's it! From now on, I'm thinkin', actin' and lookin' young.
Grampa:Oh! Ow! Ow! The bubbles are burning my tongue! Ow! Ooh. Water! Water!
Grampa:Look at me! I'm acting young! [proceeds to injure himself]
Grampa:I'm gonna get me a job! A real Malibu and see if Stacy can help invent me young-- Help!
Grampa:We need some more secret sauce! Put this mayonnaise in the sun.
Grampa:Ever see a sandwich that could take a bite outta you? Look at the sandwich! It's gonna bite you!
Grampa:And one more thing. I never once washed my hands. That's your policy, not mine.
Grampa · Jacqueline · Marge:I love ya. / What? / Uh, I love ya, Mom. / I love ya. I love ya. / I love ya. I love ya. / I love ya, Mom. Gotta go.
Grampa:Hot diggity damn! That's good enough for me!
Homer · Grampa:David Letterman! - Hi, David. I'm Grampa.
Crowd · Grampa:Their father's fat and their mother's thin And Grampa Simpson reeks of gin / Hey! That's Obsession for Men.
Grampa:Pneumonoultramicroscopic-silicovolcanoconiosis?
Grampa:What? Sex? What's so unappealing about hearing your elderly father... talk about sex? I had sex.
Grampa:I got a home remedy that'll put the dowsers back in your trousers.
Grampa:Legend has it my great grandpappy stumbled upon this recipe... when he was trying to invent a cheap substitute for holy water.
Grampa:Put some ardor in your larder with our energizing, moisturizing... tantalizing, romanticizing, surprising, 'her-prising,' revitalizing tonic!
Grampa:Frigid Falls, Mount Seldom, Lake Flaccid.
Grampa:You're the worst shill ever! You're a disgrace to the medicine show business.
Grampa:Farm went bust after the cows started giving sour milk. Something must've spooked them good.
Grampa:There she is. The old Radiation King.
Grampa:You, president? This is the greatest country in the world. We've got a system set up to keep people like you... from ever becoming president. Quit your daydreaming, melonhead.
Grampa:If I hadn't taken that stupid tonic 38 years ago... you'd have never been born and I'd have been happy. You were an accident!
Homer · Grampa:Dad! Son! I'm a screwup. I burned down our house. No. I'm a screwup. I burned down our house.
Grampa:I'm not sorry I had you, son. And I was always proud... that you weren't a short man.
Grampa:What do they do? What don't they do? Oh, they do so many things, they never stop. Oh, the things they do there. My stars.
Grampa:Not as such, no.
Grampa:I'm an Elk, a Mason, a Communist.
Grampa:I'm the president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance, for some reason.
Grampa:Ev-er-y-one is... talk-ing a-bout... Ra-di-o-ac-tive M-an... y'all.
Grampa:No, I was the tough kid. Smelly. My shtick was lookin' into an exhaust pipe and gettin' a face full of soot.
Grampa:William Faulkner can write an exhaust pipe gag that would really make you think.
Grampa · Actor:Oh, no! My favorite aggie! - You stole my bit! That's my bit!
Child Services Worker · Grampa:Seems confused and dehydrated. Where's the baby? Well, that's her, ain't it?
Grampa:Kids love that water. Oh, my lord! Stupid babies need the most attention.
Grampa:Oh, bitch, bitch, bitch!
Grampa · Homer:Just leave me in the car with the window open a crack. - That's the plan.
Grampa · Family:Grampa destroying the TV while trying to adjust it
Bart · Homer · Grampa:No, Grampa! Don't! Dad, sit down! Gosh darn it! What does this do?
Grampa:Oh, jabber jacks! Schoolhouse don't put out spittoons, I ain't responsible.
Grampa:You're livin'in a fool's paradise, Van Houten.
Grampa:If you fell down in the shower, that thing'd be your tomb.
Grampa:I do have slippers and an oatmeal spoon.
Grampa:Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety-two. We had to say 'dickety,' 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word 'twenty.'
Grampa:I chased that rascal to get it back... but gave up after dickety-six miles.
Grampa:What are you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie. That's your problem.
Grampa:discuss how I invented the 'terlet.'
Grampa:Stop your snickering! I spent three years on that terlet!
Grampa:That means the fortune's almost mine.
Grampa · Burns:Over my dead body it will! That's exactly the point!
Grampa:How long was that?
Grampa:Was that me, or was that you?
Grampa:Sweet merciful McGillicutty! You gotta open the door!
Grampa:And then a knife flew at my head! And you were there... and you were there.
Grampa:I got this in the Second World War II.
Grampa:the fightingest squad in the fightingest company... in the third-fightingest battalion in the army.
Grampa:Well, he got busted down for obstructing a probe from J. Edgar Hoover.
Grampa:They took a photo of my keister for Stars and Stripes! At least they told me it was for Stars and Stripes.
Grampa:I'd hate to wind up in one of them old folks' homes.
Grampa:Ox was the first to go. He got a hernia carrying the crate out of the castle.
Grampa:Five more men died in the Veterans Day float disaster of'79.
Grampa:If they're anything like me, they have to get up twice.
Grampa:you're all welcome to visit me in Rich Man's Heaven.
Grampa:You could've made sergeant.
Grampa:You're out of my unit. You're out of the tontine. And that means the paintings are mine! Private, you are dismissed!
Marge · Homer · Grampa:Careful of the apple pie on the seat. - Uh-oh. Grampa, are you sitting on the pie? - I sure hope so.
Grampa:For the love of God, help me! I've been here for four days and a turtle's got ahold of my teeth!
Grampa · Mulder · Scully:Ow! He bit me with my own teeth! - This is the worst assignment we've ever had. - Worse than the time we were attacked by the flesh-eating virus?
Grampa:I had that dream again!
Grampa:Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on? Midge, help me out here.
Grampa:Well, you're really asking two questions there. The first one takes me back to 1934...
Grampa:Well, you're really asking two questions there. The first one takes me back to 1934...
Grampa:Oh, I'm afraid I'd just be repeating myself, honey
Grampa:Hello, beautiful. [Snoring] / Hello, beautiful. [Snoring Resumes]
Grampa:I can't feel nothing below my chin.
Homer · Barney · Grampa:You take that back, Barney. No, he's right, Homer. Stay out of this, old man.
Grampa:Oh, ain't no big deal. All Simpsons start to lose their smarts around your age.
Grampa:Oh, your dad used to be smart as a monkey. Then his mind started gettir lazy... and now he's dumb as a chimp.
Grampa:Back when he was your age, he was smart as a chimp.
Grampa · JFK · Sailors:I was on P.T. 109 with John F. Kennedy. I was the first to discover his terrible secret. / Ich bin ein Berliner. / He's a Nazi! Get 'im!
Grampa:My Homer is not a Communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a Communist- But he is not a porn star!
Grampa:Sure. It was the winter of '28. The Butter Baby Flapjack Company sponsored me and a fella named McAllister.
Grampa:Heroically, I gave him the last short stack.
Grampa:Of course, folks were tougher in those days. I was jitterbugging that very night.
Rod Flanders · Grampa:I'm not Bart. I'm Rod Flanders. - There you go with that smart mouth!
Grampa · Lisa:Lisa, run outside and cut me a switch. Yes, sir!
Grampa:And that's why today bananas are called 'yellow fatty beans.'
Bart · Grampa:Hey, are they pulling the plug on anybody today? - Nope, everybody's paid up.
Grampa:And that's how I earned the Iron Cross.
Grampa:That's my brass knee. Steel hip. That one's news to me.
Grampa:It was your mother's job to name ya and love ya and such. I was mainly in it for the spankin'.
Grampa:Serves her right for bein' a '60s radical! Though she was a demon in the sack.
Grampa:Your mother dragged us both to that godforsaken lovefest!
Grampa:Boo! Bring on Sha Na Na!
Grampa:Shame on you, boy! Put some damn pants on and then pull 'em down! 'Cause it's time for a spankin'!
Grampa:Never! What you need's a good long hitch in Vietnam! There must be an enlistment tent around here somewhere.
Grampa:If I'd have left it up to your mother... you'd have ended up in a hellhole like this... just lyin' around, never workin'... without a care in your head... full of long, luxurious hippie hair!
Seth · Grampa:And a demon in the sack. [Both chuckling] Ah, you heard about that, eh?
Homer · Grampa:How could you let me turn into you? Bu-Bu-But the poncho!
Grampa · Homer:Can I go to the bathroom before we leave? We gotta get home. I don't want to miss Inside the Actor's Studio. Tonight it's F. Murray Abraham. But I really need to- F. Murray Abraham!
Grampa · Homer:Can I go behind a tree? What are you? An animal?
Grampa · Homer:Please go back! You can make it my birthday present. We're almost home, Dad. Only a couple more times over the horizon. But I might explode!
Homer · Grampa · Dr. Hibbert:So you're saying I don't need a new muffler? I don't feel so good. Maybe I oughta eat something. Oh, I'm afraid your eating days are over. [Laughing]
Grampa · Dr. Hibbert · Homer · Family:How long do I have to live, Doc? [Laughs] I'm amazed you're alive now. Oh, I blame myself for this. We all blame you.
Krusty · Grampa:Krusty here to cheer you up... as part of the hospital's Last Laugh program. / Last laugh?
Grampa:Shelbyville Hospital!
Grampa · Grampa · Grampa · Grampa:Grave nothin'! I never felt more alive! / [Laughs] / [Bones Cracking] / Oh, boy, I shouldn't have done that.
Grampa:Yes, tickling.
Grampa:And he traded a mule for it. And that mule went on to save spring break.
Grampa · Jasper:Oh, the little rat-faced one. No, no, no. Nick. He's so good to his mother.
Homer · Grampa · Jasper:According to this, you're both idiots. Hey, thanks. What do we owe you?
Grampa:I mean, emotionally it was terrible, but the turkey was so moist.
Grampa · Homer:What do you do with the $68 I send your mother every month? - Weekday Dad wanted a DVD player.
Homer · Grampa:Dad? / That's right. / You don't smoke a pipe. / That's right.
Grampa:They used to call me Grifty McGrift. I wrote the book on flimflammin'.
Grampa:In the Depression, you had to grift. Either that or work.
Grampa:Yeah. In the Depression, you had to grift. Either that or work.
Grampa:Let's dust a few fossils.
Grampa:Now this scam was in The Sting, Part Two, so nobody knows about it.
Grampa:I can finally afford a young, crazy, stripper wife.
Grampa:Yeah. I'm gonna get me the craziest, 'strippiest'-
Grampa:Call me mint jelly, 'cause I'm on the lam!
Grampa:You want to give Honest Abe another term in the Oval Office?
Grampa:Well, it hurts now. But the senility will take care of that.
Grampa:You know, I have a son about your age.
Grampa:Two ration stamps and an artillery shell full of oleo!
Grampa:Liberace action figure. Party tonight at Roddy McDowall's.
Grampa · Crowd:We called them men. I agree with the hideous crone! Yeah! Hear, hear! She's ugly!
Grampa:World War I? I fought in that. Of course, to enlist, I had to lie about my age.
Bart · Grampa:Good night, sleepyhead. - Do you have to poop? - Always.
Grampa:'The Swedish are coming! The Swedish are coming!'
Grampa:'Look at me, I'm Speedy Alka Seltzer. Whoa!'
Grampa:Look at me, I'm Speedy Alka Seltzer. Whoa!
Grampa:Sorry I bothered you.
Grampa:Plus, as the boat pulled away from the dock, I thought you looked fat.
Grampa:Well, gotta go! See you in heaven!
Grampa:You cowardly Swede!
Homer · Grampa:But how will I find out what you had for lunch in 1928? I have a web site!
Grampa:This show stinks! I knew my son would blow it! Where's the remote? Oh, it might as well be in China.
Grampa:In my day, mechanical men had funnel heads and showed respect! Then it all changed when they got the vote and started tinkering with our memories.
Grampa · Homer:I'm only rotting on the right side. / I'll right-side you!
Grampa:how can I be a parent? I break my teeth on ribbon candy.
Grampa:I can't go to miami. I'm expecting calls from telemarketers!
Grampa:All right, ladies, get ready to settle.
Grampa:you know those feet sticking out from under the house in the wizard of oz? You're looking at them.
Grampa:not the kind of congress that contained paul tsongas...
Raoul · Grampa:may I place my hand on your shoulder as a sign of friendship? / Why not?
Grampa:For many years, I was a tater farmer, but the shameful truth is, the taters farmed me.
Grampa · Bart:Keep my dog? Until when? Not too long ago, until they die.
Grampa · Bart:You know it's bad. It was also from that dog long as I can remember. What dog? - Who are you?
Grampa:Look at me, I am a young gorilla virvoltant. My hip is broken. With the help. Let's go to the hospital for a gorilla.
Bart · Grampa:What are you doing in the chimney? Trying to kill Santa. What's it to ya?! What do you have against Santa? He screwed me over back in WWII!
Grampa:Fine. I'll spend christmas eve with the raccoons.
Grampa:Then I put my name first on the list for a new heart. My old one's fine, but you never know.
Grampa · Homer:All right, nap time. But I'm not tired.
Grampa:Not so tough when someone hits you from behind with golf club, are ya?
Grampa:I want to hear the Glenn Miller orchestra, and I want to see cops beating up hippies.
Grampa:I threw a javelin that barely missed Hitler. But I did hit an assassin who was trying to kill Hitler.
Grampa:The next time I saw Hitler, we had dinner and laughed about it.
Grampa:Oh, it's clouding up. I better put on me rain poncho.
Grampa:You'll never take me alive, Grim Reaper
Grampa:Take the boy. His soul is fresher.
Grampa:In a world of 31 flavors, we're the cup of water they rinse the scoops in.
Grampa:Grampa out.
Grampa:You promised me I could die here!
Grampa:Hands off, you big blue Buttinski!
Selma · Grampa:I know what you're wondering. How come a single woman with so much to offer is alone on a Saturday night. / I assumed you were resting up for bingo tomorrow, like me.
Grampa:You know, I was voted best kisser in my P.O.W. camp.
Grampa:All right, lips, man your kissing stations. This is not a drill.
Grampa:I'm a little shaky on when and where, but I got my theories.
Grampa:At my age, and with your drawbacks, we can't afford to miss an opportunity.
Grampa:Slow down, you hussy.
Grampa:We wrote that joke in the water. It wasn't all frolicking.
Grampa:'booby,' 'tushie,' 'burp,' 'fanny burp,' 'water closet,' 'underpants,' 'dingle-dangle,' 'Boston marriage,' 'LBJ,' 'Titica,' 'hot dog,' or 'front lumps'!
Grampa:First, it was gonna be the Hustle. Recently, I've been taking tap lessons. But now? Well, I don't feel much like dancing.
Grampa:Let's see, B-12...
Grampa:You were listening? That means I've got to come up with an ending for this nonsense.
Grampa:It was the war to end all wars, but Pepsi would not give up. They continued to challenge Coke.
Grampa · Homer:Whee. I'm gonna live like a human in a real house! What's the catch? I'm using you. For what? My own devices. All right.
Ned · Grampa:Because your father lives with me now. Flanders feeds me people food.
Grampa:My feet hurt! left ear's freezing! My right ear's burning! I got fish smell in my wrinkles!
Grampa:A splash-'em-up show? Reminds me of the time I high-dived into a damp sponge for the amusement of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Homer · Grampa:Grampa, no stories! You can come with us, or sit here on the shark bench. You know, I did sit on a shark once... Bathing suit!
Grampa:They'll cheer a dancing octopus, but not an old man complaining about everything.
Marshall · Grampa:Excuse me, sir. Is this seat taken? Well, not for a pretty girl like you! (chuckles nervously)
Marshall · Grampa:Well, this is the first time I ever sat on a shark. Not me-- sat on a real one once!
Grampa:It was back in World War II. I was a Seaman First Class on the USS World War I.
Grampa:We were minding our own business when we were attacked by a heat-seeking torpedo we had fired the day before.
Grampa:Don't worry about the sharks, boys. Just play possum and they'll leave you alone. Unfortunately, sharks love possum.
Grampa · Sailor:Hey, boys, these sharks can't bite us if we're on their backs! It's like riding the Cyclone back at Coney Island!
Grampa:I still keep in touch with all those men and some of the sharks. Why, here's us in Hawaii last year. Good times.
Grampa:You're in the newspaper business? (chuckles) Something that's gonna die before I do!
Grampa:Someone's listening to me! Now I know how a radio feels!
Ned · Grampa:Abe, I never knew you were so full of... (speaking Yiddish)! What does that mean? It's like (speaking Yiddish), but with a pinch more (speaking Yiddish)!
Grampa:Yep, I may just be the best known Abraham in history.
Grampa:Every Monday, the Tinseltown Starliner would stop at 1:17 p.m. on its way to Hollywood. I never rode that train, but I'd palaver with the movie stars when they got out to stretch their legs.
Clark Gable · Grampa:Looks like someone has seen my work as an extra in Du Barry, Woman Of Passion. I sure have, Mr. Gable.
Clark Gable · Grampa:How come you ain't a star yet? Maybe my ears are too big. I don't know.
Grampa:But his big blue eyes could melt the butter you kept in your pocket for lunch. Lunch butter we called it.
Grampa:That's how I got my idea for a suitcase with wheels, from watching a commercial about a suitcase with wheels.
Mitch Albom · Grampa:I'm Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie. Never heard of you. Yeah. Sure you haven't.
Grampa:Clouds are God's sneezes.
Grampa:Well, well, well, look who decided to visit me twice in one year.
Grampa · Marshall:This man's more of a son to me than you've ever been. What the...?! Well, he's more of a father to me than you've ever been!
Grampa:ABE: And if this is Homer, you're too late for my love.
Grampa:I'm finally riding the Tinseltown Starliner. I could die a happy man.
Marshall · Grampa:Live each moment as if someone's about to kill you. I mean, as if it's your last. Sorry, my hearing aid's on the fritz. The only word I heard was 'kill.'
Grampa:The older I get, the more I like the taste of hot water.
Grampa:Maybe so, but I know how to play possum.
Grampa:Maybe the nicest was Abigail Simpson, who you know as the Pittsburgh Poisoner.
Grampa:Adam and Eve Simpson, or as you may know them, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Grampa:I'll take that secret to my grave-- or urn, or medical school dissecting table, or wherever you're dumping me.
Grampa:D-Day is June 6th. Repeat: June 6th. Allied forces will land on the beaches of Normandy in the following order-- Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno. Are you writing this down, Fritz?
Grampa:Mabel she divorced Hiram and got one of his shoes in the settlement.
Grampa:They got married, and since Virgil had no last name, they both took the name Simpson so that Mabel could keep all her monogrammed table linens.
Grampa · Lisa:Well, it's hard to explain this to a young person, but people of my generation are, you know... Racists? That's it.
Grampa · Bart:There's one sure way to find out If a girl likes you-- steal a kiss. Really? Did that ever work for you? Sure did. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Grampa:Kiss her, ya idjit!
Lisa · Grampa · Homer:Or let her die in captivity, like Grampa? Hey, in my mind I'm free. No you're not, ya idjit!
Grampa:This building cut me off!
Grampa:I've had a lot of time to think since my hands got too shaky to play cards.
Grampa:Well, I lost the rest investing in a Broadway musical based on the real-life story of Eddie Gaedel, the midget who had one big league at-bat.
Grampa:♪ What do I do with this damn little man? His strike zone's the size of a tuna fish can! ♪
Grampa:You can't throw me out! I'm not dead yet! That's the deal, man!
Grampa:Good morning, family. It's such a beautiful day, I thought I'd take my little friend here for a walk.
Grampa · Homer:Who has disturbed my tomb? Grampa, you're not dead. Well, wake me when I am.
Grampa:In '57, I saw him turn the Secretary of Agriculture into the Secretary of the Interior! It was hell on their wives, but it sure brought down corn prices.
Grampa:Built a house outta corn. Worst house I ever owned! When it got real hot, it smelled like Fritos.
Grampa:I hated the 'Roosie-velts' and all them family dynasties. The Kennedys, the Bushes, Jon Voigt and Angelina Jolie, Mayor Daley and his smart-ass son, the Daily Show.
Grampa:Well, I like Stephen Colbert, but that's because I don't get the joke.
Bart's son · Grampa:Hey, Grampa, you gonna build a snowman? No, I just like to dress up to eat my carrots and smoke.
Grampa:Eh, I don't see what's great about 'em.
Grampa:You quit drinking like a coward! The one thing you were good at...
Grampa:Yeah, there's a lot of fish in the sea, but she picked out a drunken walrus.
Grampa:I don't like to babble on, but I sure do like Babylon.
Grampa:Let me check my schedule. This might work. I think I'm free. Tuesday's open. You got it, kiddo!
Disco Stu · Professor Frink · Grampa:Disco Stu-tiful. Square root-iful. Old coot-iful
Grampa:He can handle 110 volt, but 220 would kill him.
Grampa:This is why 'life' comes before 'love' in the dictionary.
Grampa:Anyway, Homer and that dog went together like Christmas and suicidal thoughts.
Grampa:Course now, he's just stupid and fat.
Lisa · Grampa:Wait. How could you know what Herman said? You were driving away. He wrote a memoir.
Young Homer · Grampa:A hole next to the seat to hold my cup? That's a stupid idea. Holding cups are what thighs are for.
Grampa:He'd go to jail and stay there 'cause he loves the easy life
Grampa:Now, son, a lot of people are cuckoo till you need something from them.
Grampa:Gosh, Miss Viola, I want you and your husband to know how much I appreciate this.
Grampa · Young Homer:I wasn't sure if a six-year-old could even understand the concept. What? No. No! No! Bongo! Turns out, he caught on pretty quick.
Burns · Grampa:Dropping a horse on a church? No! Breaking a man's spirit. Mine. Well, I guess I could always drop a horse on a church afterward.
Grampa:But those satanic Snoopys always found their way in.
Grampa:Unlike those gerbils of yours we gave away. Oh, they were fickle as hell.
Grampa · Homer:Hold your arms like you're carrying a wedding cake. What flavor? It doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter, then I call Snickers.
Grampa:I don't ride sidesaddle! I'm straight as a submarine!
Grampa · Homer:Well, on V.E. Day, I kissed a man by mistake. Thank you.
Grampa:the manly mixture of strong and fat we called beefy
Grampa:You are the luckiest people in the world. You get to look at me.
Grampa:I was boastful before all your football showboaters, rap music-ers and TV beach Italians.
Grampa:Should I really let the men who ruined my past and present hang out with the kid who's going to ruin my future?
Grampa:You are the luckiest people in the world! You get to look at me!
Grampa:If professional wrestling were fake, that would make every fan in the history of the sport a complete and utter moron.
Bart · Grampa:I gave him a caramel. He should have been chewing for hours. I couldn't unwrap it!
Grampa:I don't want to die! I want to still be a burden!
Grampa:If the Wilsons' calf is birthed, Doc Miller should be available.
Grampa:My tailbone! And it was my last good bone.
Grampa:My crotch is crotchety, sitting down makes me uppity, and you call these cups pleated?!
Grampa · Bart:I've been faking being hurt, just like I fake liking those terrible homemade Christmas gifts you give. Did she? No. Even she thought it was crap.
Bart · Grampa:Well, you are the first thing I took care of that didn't die. Oh, I hear that a lot.
Bart · Grampa:Here's your new plate, Grampa. Oh, boy! There's crumbs on it!
Grampa · Bart · Lisa:Did this really happen? Pill attack! Actual sword attack!
Grampa:Down by the old, Not the new, but the old... Mill stream, Not the river, but the stream...
Grampa:I'll give you the business, you yellow sea cow!
Cheerleaders · Grampa:You're the greatest generation, worthy of our veneration. Go Grampa! / If this is heaven, why don't my shoes match?
Grampa · Dr. Hibbert:Look who's here, the big dummy! You do know I'm a doctor now. Yeah! M.D.! Major Dummy!
Grampa:This place is unlivable. My contract clearly promised 'barely livable.'
Grampa:Don't get fat.
Grampa:Without ripple, I never would have had you. Ripple's your real daddy.
Grampa · Bart:Your job is to guide me. Well, I really think you should watch your temper. I mean down the stairs, you stupid kid!
Mildred · Grampa:Who's the icebox pie, Abe? Your younger brother? My son-- but he's taken.
Grampa:You can't see the ring because his finger's too fat.
Grampa:Well, join the club. Anyone who makes it to old age has got to be part-coward.
Grampa:After Korea, I was drowning in boobies.