This ended up being kind of a hybrid video. After looking at the Mona Simpson history, I felt like there was unfinished business with Grampa's role as Homer's father. But then you can't get into Grampa's backstory without getting into his military history, which opened up a whole bunch of questions about the Grampa Timeline. He is a very unreliable narrator. So instead, this ended up being a Mysteries project, trying to go through the random details trying to find the big picture of Grampa's life. Enjoy! :D
@@thedeafelectrician420 Haha, you got me. I tried to make this a Father's Day video too, but the video ended up getting out of control and I missed the deadline. Ah well
Sauce McAdams the joke is that in the video it was stated that Abe was spanked by Grover Cleveland for two non consecutive terms, and Abe never saw Hitler consistently
You didn't even mention the time in 30s when he caught the ferry over to Shelbyville (which was then called Morganville) and he wore an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.
Most real thing Grampa ever said: "I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!"
"If you ever go back in time, don't step on anything. Even the smallest action can change the present in ways you couldn't imagine."- Grandpa Simpson on Homer's wedding day
Counterpoint: When you consider all the insane things that have happened to Homer during his life that we've seen over the past 30 seasons, it's not that hard to believe Grandpa's most outlandish claims as being true and not just senile ramblings.
Right? How many Grammy winners, astronaut, survivors from a gorge fall, donkey riders are out there? When Homer becomes as old as Grampa, the story of his life would surely seems like a the ramblings of senile person.
I think the shark riding story is meant to be true, seeing as Abe shows a picture of him meeting up with one of his old navy buddies and one of the sharks he rode in Hawaii. So there's a bit more evidence than just Santa.
I think Dr. Phil once said this in a video with Bill Giest from CBS Sunday Morning. He mentions how grandparents seem to do parenting a whole lot better the 2nd time around when it's their grand children. It seems to be one of those weird things. Perhaps even for a cartoon, we see the same science in pay where a grandfather does a better job with the grandkids than they do with their own kids. In fact in one of the Christmas specials, we see an older Homer being better with Bart's own children than he ever was with Bart. And the episode comes to full circle when Homer tells his own grandchildren of the struggle he had with his own father and how their struggle with Bart wasn't all that different.
Okay here's my theory on Abraham Simpson. He was born around 1890, and then he joined World War I in 1919 and then in 1928 he enlisted in the Navy and then he joined the army when World War II was starting and then during his service during WW2, he joined the flying hell fish and after the war ended in 1945 he got with Mona and then in May of 1956 Homer was born. So if Grandpa Simpson joined the military in World War I he must have been around 5 to 6 years old because he lied about his age. And then in World War two he was about 34 to 35 years old and then when the show started he was between 65 to 70 years old so we're talking about nearly 7 decades.
No reason Cleveland had to be in the White House to spank Grampa. He just had to be alive. He died in 1908, so if he spanked Abe as an infant, that actually lines up perfectly with the WWI thing.
I love how the "Sliced Bread having been invented the previous winter" joke is meant to sound ridiculous but actually Sliced bread was invented in 1928 so it actually lines up quite well.
I don't like the version of Abe that surrenders and says "I'll lead you to Patton". I like the old version of Abe who was a badass soldier who kicked Mr. Burns' ass.
I think a character trait of Abe, even in the older seasons, is that he is insecure, when he is alone. He works the best, when in a team or with his family and he actually cares for the ones he loves.
Simpsons histories on Eddie & Lou? Since they almost exclusively appear together (except for that flashback episode Lou was in) i think it would make sense to lump them together in a video.
D'you ever notice Lou and Eddie sitting next to each other in plain clothes at Lisa and Bart's hockey game? I think it's nice they hang out outside of work
Thomas McWilliams my wife has family that are police officers and they often hang out with their partner and units outside of work and form bond working together. I worked at FedEx at the airport for a couple years and my team was like a family, many of us often hung out outside of work too
When the show ends, it has to be a final confrontation between Homer and Burns. He IS the villain of the Simpsons, no matter how much marketing they put into Sideshow Bob.
Okay... hear me out on this... Redemption Arc for Sideshow Bob. And the whole time Sideshow Bob won't stop complaining about all the literary issues and educated issues present in these constant requirements for Redemption Arcs, or why people require villains need to have good back stories. Then once he is "Redeemed" he is constantly trying to prove how he isn't--and how blastedly awful this cliche stands to be. It backfires so often he decides to try to do something good, to have it backfire--but it just ends up working... which is kind of a form of backfiring, I suppose. He spends all his time talking about the bad stuff he has done--and other characters will comment how cute he is, as they've all racked up much worse stuff "for the comedies" at this point in time. He tries to kill Bart--but is met with people upset that he jumped the queue to kill Bart... as there is a little round red thing that distributes numbers. His attempts to foil the queue are met with love and adoration, as queues are inherently British and unamerican. Oh gosh... this... unfortunately writes itself for the most part. Also, this is most assuredly not Sideshow Bob having hijacked somebody elses accounts. The spelling and grammatical errors are more than enough proof of this.
@@joecool201 The whole time he is brought back as a villain he speaks only in Japanese with somebody hired to run around with "subtitles"... as Sideshow Bob is an artist.
About Burns, have you ever noticed that he seems to have a subconscious affection for Homer? You could call it senility, but I think it's more than that. Burns completely screwed over Homer's parents, but he seems to unknowingly care for Homer himself. He rehired him how many times? Even the "don't forget, you're here forever" wasn't as bad as it could have been considering how Homer quit. He also winds up picking Homer for random important tasks while claiming not to be able to remember his name. Remember them teamed up for Mountain of Madness? Some food for thought.
that is interesting given homer has been mad that he forgets his name i always thought that was just burns is old thing. and that's the one thing that he forgets
It would make sense. I saw a clip where homers console at the plant isn't even plugged in, and is full of cleaning supplies. He's being paid to go to work and do nothing.
I always imagined Abe as living a similar life to Homer when he was a young man. Think of all the crazy stuff Homer has done throughout the show and compare it to Abe's stories. Homer is going to sound a lot like Abe when he explains his life to his kids and Grandchildren when he's older.
The problem with a show that's been on 30+ years where no one ever ages or changes drastically, the timeline gets skewed. I'm glad that there wasn't too many episodes that warp the timeline too badly (just "That 90's Show") and Abe can still be a WW II hero while Skinner can remain a Vietnam Vet. Though I really wish they kept Skinner's PSD flashbacks he had in the early seasons, and developed that character more with it. Also, I just realized something. If Abe lived in Albany, I bet he'd take credit for the term "Steamed Hams."
Yeah I've more or less looked at the last 30 years as a very slowed down progression of time. That's why nobody appears to age, at least very much. Yay one-year lasts 30!
@@benullom2301 which just means that one year gets filled with so many anachronistic elements, that it becomes impossible to point to which one year, that one year actually is.
You forgot about a major part during the raising homer years. When homer was in high school Abe reveals he use to be with It. However, they changed what It was and at that time what he was wasn’t It. He even elaborates that what he believes to be It nowadays confuses and frightens him. Then he caps this revelation into His character with a dire warming born from concern that this chain of events would happen to Homer. In a surprising sign of grandpa being really smart about how future events turn out, this does in fact happen to Homer later when he’s a father.
@@Sewblon It happens to _everyone_. And the effect is only going to get worse with changes happening faster every decade, it seems. Wait until you realize how degenerate "It" has actually become, you'll shock yourself for seeing it, and are asking yourself how things were allowed to go so far.
@@Sewblon I honestly don't think Minecraft is 'it' anymore either. I used to play a lot of Minecraft, back in the eeeearly days. Before they added horses and bunnies and I don't know what other unneccessary shit. Now I find it confusing when my nephew talks about it and none of the old commands work anymore... I think Fortnite might be 'it'? But maybe its not. Maybe that was two years ago. Who knows. I still play Half Life 2 every 1-2 years though. So I feel ya.
Wait, did I miss something? Did you ever mention Abe's 40 years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo? To me, that's the key line about Abe's past, the thing that explains everything about him. It's the most boring, useless job in the world and he did it for 40 years.
LMFAO As soon as I read that second line. Yeah something tells me that's the senility, but maybe that really is the only true thing that Abe ever said.
@@benullom2301 It can't be the only true thing that he has said. We have met his bastards. So we know he was telling the truth about his dalliances. We also know he was partly telling the truth about climbing the Murderhorn because we found his mountaineering partner's journal. We also know he was telling the truth about stealing the paintings because he eventually found them.
I teared up around the end. Abe reminds me so much of my dad. My parents were divorced when I was very young and my dad didn’t have anywhere to go. He was basically homeless and contemplated leaving the state to find a new opportunity elsewhere. But because of me he stayed and figured it all out. We were forced to crash at people’s houses and stay at my great grandpas home for a while. But all the time my dad stuck it out and worked for us. He’s told he several times, if not for me he would have left. But he just couldn’t do that to me. I love my dad so much
Been looking forward to this one 😀 Grandpa's one of my favourite characters. Seeing Grandpa's random haphazard side-stories all brought together in one beautiful analysis really is a treat.
" if you don't start making more sense, we're going to have to put you in a home" " you already put me in a home" "then we'll put you in the crooked home we saw on 60 minutes" "I'll be good"
I’m low-key kind of bummed his stint as a drag Cabaret Star in Nazi Germany was retconned. Like, that’s definitely in the top 3 of insane Abe Simpson side hustles.
My headcanon is that they're extremely messed up serial killers or something. Just look at the one with the hat. He looks like those stereotypical hitchhiker murderers.
Sin Talento Producciones nice maybe he has guilt over the killings and thats why he’s drowning his sorrows at the bar each night. He might even be the “jealous jockey” who committed those murders at the murder house!
I don’t think so, in one of the videos of this channel when trying to know if the simpsons had a fixed or floating timeline one of the things that was most consistent was Homer and Marge high school years always took place in the 70s, so maybe WW2 could be like the watermark for Abe Simpson
His time in the Coast Guard is explicitly mentioned briefly in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", on his long rambling converstation with Lisa on the phone he says "The following morning I resigned my commission in the Coast Guard, the next thing I heard, there was Civil War in Spain", suggesting he was in Coast Guard before World War II
@@darthsawlex8257 Supposedly they are ending the series and the most reason season finale was an episode covering Santa's little helper's past and trauma and "Wrapped up his story arc"
Now here's an interesting story behind this video. In 1957 I remember it was. I got up in the morning, and made my self a piece of toast. And set it to 3 medium brown.
It's funny how he talks about their family history like it's an actual history lesson regardless of the strange and bizarre details added in for comic relief
Abe is one of my favorite Simpsons side characters, probably in the top 3. Having never really watched the show past Season 14, I love all of the random tidbits about his childhood and post WW2 life. It makes me happy that he stopped being a deadbeat after Mona left. Maybe it's time to dive into that era of the show. But a couple things irk me about his history. Why does his great-great(?) grandmother look exactly like Marge? I watched that episode when it aired and it's still jarring to me. Second, if Abe agreed to wear a bolo tie and slippers for the rest of his life, why does he dress normally when he helps Homer buy his house? It seems like the writers wanted to explain why he dresses the same all the time, but earlier seasons made those kinds of observations in funnier ways without making some canon explanation.
My grandpa died when I was only two years old. I never knew him really well, so I ended up strangely bonding with Grandpa Simpson. I would genuinely love to have a grandpa like him! Excellent character study!
I'm really glad this simpsons mysteries episode was made, i've been re-binge watching all of the Simpsons episodes recently and I kept debating if Abe was a bad father or not while also trying to piece together the timeline of events. I've been following you for a while but only just now found this video. Great timing. Awesome video, thank you!
Except the Bongo episode is contradicted by "Homer's Enemy" where Lenny and Carl state that Homer got his job by showing up on the day the plant opened. It's further supported by "The Way We Was" where high school Homer is given a brochure by his guidance counselor about jobs at the plant that will be opening soon. Although that conflicts somewhat with "I Married Marge" where Homer applies to the plant and not only does he have to apply twice, but it appears to already be well under operation when he first does so.
If i had to guess, the plant was announced when he was a kid, it was near opening when he was a teenager, and when he applied it was barely opened and still seeking new employees
“Back in my day, we didn’t have none of this continuity hooey! Things just happened, and we didn’t question it darn it! That reminds me of the time I was herding Buffalo in the old west.”
19:20 You know, Maggie Simpson has been proven time and time again to be a secret baby genius. Even at the end of the Who Shot Mr. Burns part 2 episode, we see that Maggie is implied to have maybe intentionally shot Mr. Burns. Perhaps up to that point, she was being vindictive over the lollipop that Mr. Burns tried to steal, but maybe Maggie secretly knows all the harm the Mr. Burns has done to the Simpson family and she knows all the trouble that he has caused to Homer Simpson especially.
It always annoyed me how positively Mona was portrayed, given that she was the one who abandoned her son to go play hippy protester, while Abe, who stuck around to care for Homer, was portrayed much more negatively.
Maybe it's because she left when Homer was so young so he doesn't remember anything bad of her. Abe was there whole time, trying his best for Homer but still being just a human. Homer remembers bad stuff of Abe because those memories are not coated with nostalgia like his memories of "dead" mother. There were good memories of him but it's easier to concentrate on negatives and that way Homer sees Abe in worse light than Mona.
There is no constistency in the Simpsons, we know that by now. I would like to know when exactly the concept was thrown out the window, e.g what is the latest episode which can be set in a coherent universe.
Whenever the writers stopped giving a shit, which seems to be around or before season 10. Whenever they stopped caring about what Groening had made up rules for
Really there were inconsistencies from the first season onward - at no point did they expect this to go on as long as it did and, it's a cartoon - who needs consistency and logic!
I still firmly believe Trash of the Titans (season 9) to be the last episode of the Simpsons. They all technically leave the real Springfield (by 5 miles at least) and everything after that had an odd feeling, like they entered the matrix. TLDR: Old man (me) yells at cloud
Part 1: I think Grampa was born around 1910 - 1913. Part 2: He probably served in the Navy for the first few years and then by 1944, he transferred to the Army. Part 3: Probably enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War (1950 - 1953). So he probably stayed in the Air Force until about the mid 1950s. Part 4: Homer was born about the mid 1950s. Part 5: Wellll, I ran out of theroies here.
LOL, while I don't think any US troops won German awards the Germans did recommend (via the red Cross) several Americans for US bravery awards most of which were granted. I guess when you impress your enemies so much they find it necessary to recommend you for a medal you probably earned it.
I feel like this is a job only comic book guy could tackle, god bless you, you care more about the shows continuity and characters than the post season twelve curators of it
- Back in my day, Videos were called “flickerin’ Funnies” and you had to go to the theatre to see them. You couldn’t hear them, so we always made up our own dialogue; my buddy Danny Baldy was great at adding political subtext into Steam Boat Willie... that mouse hated those damn Commies! Now of course, when the funnies first started they weren’t that popular, “a gimmick” everyone said, so A dedicated team of animators and I decided to make a funny that would really show those big-wigs in Hollywood what the genre could be... and so in 19-Dickity-6 we created, Toy Story. The film cost 50 thousand Bees to make, and is responsible for my crippling alcoholism and dependency on morphine to this day... So Anyway, that’s how I founded Pixar and filed for chapter 11 the next year... left with absolutely nothing but the left shoe that Walt Disney gifted to me before the operation to freeze his head. I loved his head Please god, I wish one day for another head like that. They don’t give head like they used to.
Also the other massive question is this: they still maintain Mona and Abe got married in the 50s, but as of 2020 Homer is canonically 40, meaning he would have to be born in the 1980s and that kinda shoots that entire Mona-Hippie association in the foot.
@@Chris-mc2dt Yeah but the problem is when a specific character gets linked to a specific event or time period, and that character's appearance and backstory remains enshrined as canon. Because now Homer was born aprox. 11 years after the Woodstock Festival where Mona took him as a toddler. And apparently she left when homer was 9 so she'd have committed her Flower Children inspired act of sabotage around 1989 to 1990.
The fact that Burns have been a personal nemesis of both Mona and Abe (on several counts) directly and indirectly making homer's life worse through this, and later went on to have confrontation with both Bart, Lisa, Maggie and even Santa's little helper, making Homer's life more complicated in the present... All of that make the fact that he still can't remember who Homer is both even more sad and even more hillarious.
" I would've preferred it if homer shot mr burns" Well, his daughter is the one who shot him, so I guess that counts? Intergenerational surrogate revenge perhaps?
Aww now I'm sad, Homer, Mona and She's backstories always get me emotionally. I know it's realistic for families to be troubled but it's still so sad to see a cartoon character go through this. I just want to give them all a hug and make them happy.
About the same for the first time in Simpsons history I actually felt sympathy for the old guy. That really says something about him though. Even after life had pretty much destroyed him, he still did the best he could for Homer. Except destroying his passion of gymnastics, Homer really would have had something there.
@@benullom2301 I was a bit sort of bitter about it and also forgot a few of his things but often he completely did lied to Homer about Mona too. But at the same time with how he word it in the story makes total sense and understanding. I also do miss Mona allot as well as other characters that died in the show or the voice actor did..
@@benullom2301 I also naturally loved Mona each time she returned back and Homer was for a very long time trully happy, more so I enjoyed her constant fighting over the overbloated greedy capitalism that mr burn is and all of his naturally questionable actions he committed
you forgot to mention how his story started in 19-dickety-two. He had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". He chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…
Hey, Jims, this has been a favourite video of mine. I love Abe, not only is he my favourite Simpson, but somehow he's the one I relate to most. (I'm not old and senile, I'm 24!) Have you considered doing an episode about Futurama? Or even a spin-off series? I think it would be really cool even just to have a 10-20 minute video explaining your thoughts on that show. Anyway, you're an awesome UA-camr, I'm always excited to watch your videos! Eagerly waiting for the next one, as always.
My God modern Simpsons seems all the more cringe inducingly awful when juxtaposed with seasons 1 through 12. Riding sharks!? Well guess you got to do something after jumping em gets old...
@@Pandosyanna I guess? But, then you stop watching. I felt a certain connection to the show as I'm only a few months older than it. I haven't really paid attention to it since my early teen years. I'll still watch anything from 2000 and before any time it's on.
"You can march 'em off a cliff. You can send 'em to die on some godforsaken rock. But for some reason, you can't slap 'em. Now apologize to that boy immediately."
Alright I'm done - either this is the greatest Simpson's UA-cam Fan Channel, making this man an absolute Godsend to us Real Simpsons' fans or I'm suffering from a very bad fever which threw me into a coma and now I am dreaming. Every time I say TheRealJims can't out match the video he just made - two months later he takes my words and dances a jig on them. Wow, just Wow! This is fantastic!
Interesting video, although I believe you left out a part, in 1957 it was where he got up and made himself a piece of toast, setting it to 3 medium brown.
You glossed over the most detailed part of Abe's history that could help date his stories: his trip to Morganville to acquire a new heel for his damaged shoe, which has the following dating references: -It occurred before Morganville changed names to Shelbyville -Ferry rides cost $0.05 -Nickles had bumblebees on one side -wearing an onion on one's belt was the latest fad -white onions were rare due to wartime shortages -yellow onions were plentiful
I've been meaning to watch this video since you first uploaded it, but it just took a long time to finally sit down and watch the whole thing. Now that I have watched the entire video I feel like I definitely missed out at the time but now I'm just happy I finally saw it. Really well done and I knew about some of these things, but there was actually a lot I either didn't know or just forgot about so this was definitely as you said very interesting
This ended up being kind of a hybrid video. After looking at the Mona Simpson history, I felt like there was unfinished business with Grampa's role as Homer's father. But then you can't get into Grampa's backstory without getting into his military history, which opened up a whole bunch of questions about the Grampa Timeline. He is a very unreliable narrator. So instead, this ended up being a Mysteries project, trying to go through the random details trying to find the big picture of Grampa's life. Enjoy! :D
I’m fine with that I love the mysteries projects
Yep
You just wanted to do a Father's Day episode and now you won't admit it since you're a couple days late uploading.
Oh, you should do Community videos. I know you've referenced the show a few times and your insight is perfect for that show.
@@thedeafelectrician420 Haha, you got me. I tried to make this a Father's Day video too, but the video ended up getting out of control and I missed the deadline. Ah well
The wildest part about Grandpa's timeline is the possibility that he encountered Hitler on three separate occasions.
You mean 3 non consecutive occasions
Sauce McAdams the joke is that in the video it was stated that Abe was spanked by Grover Cleveland for two non consecutive terms, and Abe never saw Hitler consistently
As you do
@@Green_Stache_Productions yes but the joke works with Ckeveland because he was the only person to be president in 2 non consecutive terms.
Mauro Daniel D'Ambrosio oh yeah. Forgot to mention that part. Thanks
You didn't even mention the time in 30s when he caught the ferry over to Shelbyville (which was then called Morganville) and he wore an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.
Liam Anthony That has to be senility.
@@sonicmastersword8080 Twist, it's the ONLY thing that's true
Bigger twist, it's all Bongo's dream.
To take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say.
@@taopilot2669 The important thing to remember was that he had an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.
Most real thing Grampa ever said:
"I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!"
Too damn true
No way man! I'm gonna keep rockin forever!
@Dildo Shwaggins literally untrue
Didn't stick with me as a kid. Now I'm only 20 and already scared of memes.
Look at ANY UA-cam comment section on a music video that's at least five years old for the proof of this theory: so much ridiculous nostalgia
"If you ever go back in time, don't step on anything. Even the smallest action can change the present in ways you couldn't imagine."- Grandpa Simpson on Homer's wedding day
A fairly cliche line is made absolutely hilarious by how it was somehow said on a wedding day, of all days.
Best advice my dad ever gave me.
I wish my dad told me that
Maybe grandpa is a time traveller
I mean, considering The Time Toaster is something that people use to fix the various issues in canon present in the Simpsons...
The best thing Abe ever did for Homer was give him that time travel advice at his wedding.
Or that time when he told homer to take a ride from a stranger because he's dumb as a mule and twice as ugly.
Which version of the wedding
Tree House Of Horror episode Time and Punishment.
Or when he sold his house so Homer could buy a new one and raise his family
His best advice was when he told him he used to be on it until it wasn't.
Counterpoint: When you consider all the insane things that have happened to Homer during his life that we've seen over the past 30 seasons, it's not that hard to believe Grandpa's most outlandish claims as being true and not just senile ramblings.
That's a really good point. A little meta, but very interesting.
Right? How many Grammy winners, astronaut, survivors from a gorge fall, donkey riders are out there? When Homer becomes as old as Grampa, the story of his life would surely seems like a the ramblings of senile person.
Yeah, Abe's record's not bad but I think Homer might be the most interesting person in the world, never mind Springfield
@@randomname285 i think burns is the most interesting bc of how long hjs life is
Maybe is hereditary like the strangling
I love how the entirety of Abe's Navy serves depends on the admissibility of Santa as a witness.
all adressed to santa claus!
I think the shark riding story is meant to be true, seeing as Abe shows a picture of him meeting up with one of his old navy buddies and one of the sharks he rode in Hawaii. So there's a bit more evidence than just Santa.
@@TheBcoolGuythat's (blank vs blank, that's next door)
One of the best potrayal of Abe, was in Barthood. He maybe failed as a father, but he shines as a grandfather.
Rather like Homer then!
I think Dr. Phil once said this in a video with Bill Giest from CBS Sunday Morning. He mentions how grandparents seem to do parenting a whole lot better the 2nd time around when it's their grand children. It seems to be one of those weird things. Perhaps even for a cartoon, we see the same science in pay where a grandfather does a better job with the grandkids than they do with their own kids. In fact in one of the Christmas specials, we see an older Homer being better with Bart's own children than he ever was with Bart. And the episode comes to full circle when Homer tells his own grandchildren of the struggle he had with his own father and how their struggle with Bart wasn't all that different.
Not just Barthood, you can see overall that he and Bart have a much more better stable relationship then they had with Homer.
Just like Homer later shines as a grandfather in the future episodes.
Similar to holidays of future past, where homer is a far better grandparent to Bart’s kids then he ever was to Bart.
"air force? I thought you were in the Navy"
"That kind of mix up happened all the time when I was in the marines"
I think that line about the Marines was a direct hit at his senility.
"I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time!"
Was it A big yellow one?
back in dickety two
@@petermercurio9415 They didn't have any white onions, because of the war.
The Simpsons Theory the part in the thumbnail 😉
i think this was mocking "penny loafers" ... people would stick a penny in a certain spot of a certain shoe... i always loved that quote lol:)
Of course he was born around the 1920s.
His story began in 19-dickety-two.
We had to use the word dickety since the Kaiser stole our word for 20!
@@chris7372 Dickety! Highly dubious!
@Smoking Joe Which was the style at the time.
Okay here's my theory on Abraham Simpson. He was born around 1890, and then he joined World War I in 1919 and then in 1928 he enlisted in the Navy and then he joined the army when World War II was starting and then during his service during WW2, he joined the flying hell fish and after the war ended in 1945 he got with Mona and then in May of 1956 Homer was born. So if Grandpa Simpson joined the military in World War I he must have been around 5 to 6 years old because he lied about his age. And then in World War two he was about 34 to 35 years old and then when the show started he was between 65 to 70 years old so we're talking about nearly 7 decades.
1902....lol 😆
No reason Cleveland had to be in the White House to spank Grampa. He just had to be alive. He died in 1908, so if he spanked Abe as an infant, that actually lines up perfectly with the WWI thing.
But he had to spank him twice non consecutively
@@mariodangelo9768 that could be a few months apart tho
he went to the Hall of Presidents
and got an animatronic smackdown
I love how the "Sliced Bread having been invented the previous winter" joke is meant to sound ridiculous but actually Sliced bread was invented in 1928 so it actually lines up quite well.
I dont understand how it could take that long to invent something that simple.
@@CyberLance26 A machine that could do it reliably without destroying the bread took a lot more engineering than one would think.
Bread with enough Preservatives to not immediately stale also did @@modelrailpreservation
I don't like the version of Abe that surrenders and says "I'll lead you to Patton". I like the old version of Abe who was a badass soldier who kicked Mr. Burns' ass.
i know, modern simpsons really sucks
They don't give you the Iron Cross for surrendering.
@@TheWillo777 he got the iron cross for accidentally destroying 2 Americans tanks
Digby!
I think a character trait of Abe, even in the older seasons, is that he is insecure, when he is alone. He works the best, when in a team or with his family and he actually cares for the ones he loves.
Simpsons histories on Eddie & Lou? Since they almost exclusively appear together (except for that flashback episode Lou was in) i think it would make sense to lump them together in a video.
D'you ever notice Lou and Eddie sitting next to each other in plain clothes at Lisa and Bart's hockey game? I think it's nice they hang out outside of work
Thomas McWilliams my wife has family that are police officers and they often hang out with their partner and units outside of work and form bond working together. I worked at FedEx at the airport for a couple years and my team was like a family, many of us often hung out outside of work too
@@Thomaz0r you're right! And more importantly...EDDIE HAS HAIR??? amp.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/1awip7/eddie_and_lou_in_plainclothes/
When the show ends, it has to be a final confrontation between Homer and Burns. He IS the villain of the Simpsons, no matter how much marketing they put into Sideshow Bob.
Preston K. Productions What about both?
Agreed that will probably be The Simpsons movie 2
Okay... hear me out on this... Redemption Arc for Sideshow Bob.
And the whole time Sideshow Bob won't stop complaining about all the literary issues and educated issues present in these constant requirements for Redemption Arcs, or why people require villains need to have good back stories.
Then once he is "Redeemed" he is constantly trying to prove how he isn't--and how blastedly awful this cliche stands to be. It backfires so often he decides to try to do something good, to have it backfire--but it just ends up working... which is kind of a form of backfiring, I suppose. He spends all his time talking about the bad stuff he has done--and other characters will comment how cute he is, as they've all racked up much worse stuff "for the comedies" at this point in time.
He tries to kill Bart--but is met with people upset that he jumped the queue to kill Bart... as there is a little round red thing that distributes numbers. His attempts to foil the queue are met with love and adoration, as queues are inherently British and unamerican.
Oh gosh... this... unfortunately writes itself for the most part. Also, this is most assuredly not Sideshow Bob having hijacked somebody elses accounts. The spelling and grammatical errors are more than enough proof of this.
@@joecool201 The whole time he is brought back as a villain he speaks only in Japanese with somebody hired to run around with "subtitles"... as Sideshow Bob is an artist.
Homer needs to tell him that he was his shooter.
About Burns, have you ever noticed that he seems to have a subconscious affection for Homer? You could call it senility, but I think it's more than that. Burns completely screwed over Homer's parents, but he seems to unknowingly care for Homer himself. He rehired him how many times? Even the "don't forget, you're here forever" wasn't as bad as it could have been considering how Homer quit. He also winds up picking Homer for random important tasks while claiming not to be able to remember his name. Remember them teamed up for Mountain of Madness? Some food for thought.
that is interesting given homer has been mad that he forgets his name i always thought that was just burns is old thing. and that's the one thing that he forgets
He always forgets to remember how important the Simpsons are
That's a good theory! Maybe Mr. Burns only pretended to not know his name because he wanted to avoid Homer realizing his affection for him.
Maybe he wanted to steal the love of Grandpa's Son for himself but just never really went through with it? It kinda seems like a thing Burns would do
It would make sense. I saw a clip where homers console at the plant isn't even plugged in, and is full of cleaning supplies. He's being paid to go to work and do nothing.
I always imagined Abe as living a similar life to Homer when he was a young man. Think of all the crazy stuff Homer has done throughout the show and compare it to Abe's stories. Homer is going to sound a lot like Abe when he explains his life to his kids and Grandchildren when he's older.
The problem with a show that's been on 30+ years where no one ever ages or changes drastically, the timeline gets skewed. I'm glad that there wasn't too many episodes that warp the timeline too badly (just "That 90's Show") and Abe can still be a WW II hero while Skinner can remain a Vietnam Vet. Though I really wish they kept Skinner's PSD flashbacks he had in the early seasons, and developed that character more with it.
Also, I just realized something. If Abe lived in Albany, I bet he'd take credit for the term "Steamed Hams."
“Skinner can remain a Vietnam vet” 🤔🤔
@@Chris-mc2dt - Hello, fellow Chris :-D
Anyway, maybe there should be a Principal Skinner history next?
Yeah I've more or less looked at the last 30 years as a very slowed down progression of time. That's why nobody appears to age, at least very much. Yay one-year lasts 30!
@@benullom2301 which just means that one year gets filled with so many anachronistic elements, that it becomes impossible to point to which one year, that one year actually is.
I still think it would make more sense if Abe was a Vietnam Vet and Skinner was an Afghanistan/Iraq Vet.
Even if the Hitler cabaret story isnt true, he still admits he wore a dress for a period of time in the 40s. Oh they had designers then.
Yeah, he cosdressed many times apparently, with the cabaret and the female basball team
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You forgot about a major part during the raising homer years. When homer was in high school Abe reveals he use to be with It. However, they changed what It was and at that time what he was wasn’t It. He even elaborates that what he believes to be It nowadays confuses and frightens him. Then he caps this revelation into His character with a dire warming born from concern that this chain of events would happen to Homer.
In a surprising sign of grandpa being really smart about how future events turn out, this does in fact happen to Homer later when he’s a father.
I don't have any kids and that happened to me. I remember when Half Life 2 and World of Warcraft were It. But now its Apex Legends and Minecraft.
No way, Crude Carl. Homer is going to keep rocking forever....forever....forever...for..ever.
@@Sewblon It happens to _everyone_. And the effect is only going to get worse with changes happening faster every decade, it seems. Wait until you realize how degenerate "It" has actually become, you'll shock yourself for seeing it, and are asking yourself how things were allowed to go so far.
@@Sewblon I honestly don't think Minecraft is 'it' anymore either. I used to play a lot of Minecraft, back in the eeeearly days. Before they added horses and bunnies and I don't know what other unneccessary shit. Now I find it confusing when my nephew talks about it and none of the old commands work anymore... I think Fortnite might be 'it'? But maybe its not. Maybe that was two years ago. Who knows. I still play Half Life 2 every 1-2 years though. So I feel ya.
@@Sewblon Minecraft's start of relevance is closer to HL2 and WoW than current year (2022), it's just THAT popular of a game
Wait, did I miss something? Did you ever mention Abe's 40 years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo? To me, that's the key line about Abe's past, the thing that explains everything about him. It's the most boring, useless job in the world and he did it for 40 years.
I knew I had forgotten something. I even used the screenshot where he mentioned it! Dang it :(
That one to me seems like one of the nonsensical ramblings, I doubt that one is true.
LMFAO As soon as I read that second line. Yeah something tells me that's the senility, but maybe that really is the only true thing that Abe ever said.
He also forgot to mention when Abe fled the battle before the Normandy landing.
@@benullom2301 It can't be the only true thing that he has said. We have met his bastards. So we know he was telling the truth about his dalliances. We also know he was partly telling the truth about climbing the Murderhorn because we found his mountaineering partner's journal. We also know he was telling the truth about stealing the paintings because he eventually found them.
I teared up around the end. Abe reminds me so much of my dad. My parents were divorced when I was very young and my dad didn’t have anywhere to go. He was basically homeless and contemplated leaving the state to find a new opportunity elsewhere. But because of me he stayed and figured it all out. We were forced to crash at people’s houses and stay at my great grandpas home for a while. But all the time my dad stuck it out and worked for us.
He’s told he several times, if not for me he would have left. But he just couldn’t do that to me.
I love my dad so much
Been looking forward to this one 😀 Grandpa's one of my favourite characters. Seeing Grandpa's random haphazard side-stories all brought together in one beautiful analysis really is a treat.
Wow. I surprised nobody commented on this...
its way more interesting and thought provoking than I thought it would be
hello i love your vids hope you can see this
I like how your read the absurd story lines with such a straight, deadpan delivery
Homer: "You took everything from me!"
Mr. Burns: "Who the devil are you?"
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Smithers:"That's Homer Simpson, sir. One of your employees of sector 7g."
Mr. Burns: Ah yes, Simp son. (looks over at Smithers blankly)
Smithers: He... (goes on to name all Mr. Burns' run ins with the Simpson family)
"I SEE DEATH EVERYWHERE I GO! DEAAAATH!"
"Grandpa, that's Maggie."
She is basically a Special Forces sniper, so it's not too far off.
I mean, Maggie does have an impressive kill count.
Tomato, Tomato
Maggie is the patron saint of Death.
@@Gilhelmi No, that one guy at the power plant is.
"I am the Angel of Death. The time of purification is at hand."
Grandpa Simpson is the most batshit insane character on what is already a pretty crazy show, and that's precisely why we love him.
what about Hubert Farnsworth? he's pretty insane and out of it too.
He most definitely is, but that's Futurama, not The Simpsons.
" if you don't start making more sense, we're going to have to put you in a home"
" you already put me in a home"
"then we'll put you in the crooked home we saw on 60 minutes"
"I'll be good"
Poor Grandpa even the clouds won't listen to him.
You now have 69 likes. Have a NICE day
Is that story true grampa ?...Well most of it...I did wear a dress for a period in the 40's..Oh they had designers then !!
I’m low-key kind of bummed his stint as a drag Cabaret Star in Nazi Germany was retconned. Like, that’s definitely in the top 3 of insane Abe Simpson side hustles.
Simpsons Mysteries - Barry and Sam (MOE Barflies) - Who they are actually?
YES!
My headcanon is that they're extremely messed up serial killers or something. Just look at the one with the hat. He looks like those stereotypical hitchhiker murderers.
I LOVE your idea!
Sin Talento Producciones nice maybe he has guilt over the killings and thats why he’s drowning his sorrows at the bar each night.
He might even be the “jealous jockey” who committed those murders at the murder house!
@@thecreepycuck6036 I think you're onto something there!
"Oh grandpa, you and your stories, the nurses are stealing my money, this thing on my neck is getting bigger".
Those were the true ones.
I feel like they'll change it to Grandpa fighting in Vietnam if the show keeps going.
They already got Skinner for that though.
@@peterprime2140 maybe they'll make Skinner an Iraq vet
@@adelez8573 That's what they did with The Punisher
America keeps getting itself into wars, so expect the 100th season of the Simpson to have Grandpa Simpson in Iraq...and Mr Burns in WWI
I don’t think so, in one of the videos of this channel when trying to know if the simpsons had a fixed or floating timeline one of the things that was most consistent was Homer and Marge high school years always took place in the 70s, so maybe WW2 could be like the watermark for Abe Simpson
Seeing it all laid out like that, Abe Simpson is a hell of a man. I never thought I'd be that impressed with him, but here we are.
His time in the Coast Guard is explicitly mentioned briefly in "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", on his long rambling converstation with Lisa on the phone he says "The following morning I resigned my commission in the Coast Guard, the next thing I heard, there was Civil War in Spain", suggesting he was in Coast Guard before World War II
I mean he served in every other branch so why not.
I hope they give him a good send off episode, if not i will never forgive zombie simpsons
I agree
me too
Did they announce they’re killing off the character?
@@poogmaster1 I don't believe so.
@@darthsawlex8257 Supposedly they are ending the series and the most reason season finale was an episode covering Santa's little helper's past and trauma and "Wrapped up his story arc"
Simpson Mysteries: What’s the deal with the inhabitants of Moe’s Tavern?
Larry and Sam you mean?
The guy with hat and glasses that always looks depressed!
RIP Larry!
It's amazing to realize how much Abe and Burns have been connected around the storyline
“A fit of gay panic”
That isn’t something I ever thought I’d hear about Grampa Simpson.
Now here's an interesting story behind this video.
In 1957 I remember it was.
I got up in the morning, and made my self a piece of toast.
And set it to 3 medium brown.
Simpsons history on Clancy wiggum. His age varies greatly. Sometimes he's the same age as homer and Marge, and others he's older.
If you do this with Mr burns I want to wish you luck with finding his birth year
His age ranges from 80s to earler hundreds to millenia!
Nobody's been informed, Burns is the Antichrist. Release the hounds.
He is 81 in season 2.
@@sonicmastersword8080 I'm sure he's 104 in another episode.
@@darthsawlex8257 I double checked this, Skinner confirms it in, Who Shot Mr. Burns part 1, season 6 finale.
It's funny how he talks about their family history like it's an actual history lesson regardless of the strange and bizarre details added in for comic relief
GAH!
Sorry, for a second there it looked like Homer had melted.
Well, get used to it, 'cause he's livin' on UA-cam now; he ain't going back to the retirement home, until they fish his bed out of that sinkhole!
Abe is one of my favorite Simpsons side characters, probably in the top 3. Having never really watched the show past Season 14, I love all of the random tidbits about his childhood and post WW2 life. It makes me happy that he stopped being a deadbeat after Mona left. Maybe it's time to dive into that era of the show.
But a couple things irk me about his history. Why does his great-great(?) grandmother look exactly like Marge? I watched that episode when it aired and it's still jarring to me.
Second, if Abe agreed to wear a bolo tie and slippers for the rest of his life, why does he dress normally when he helps Homer buy his house? It seems like the writers wanted to explain why he dresses the same all the time, but earlier seasons made those kinds of observations in funnier ways without making some canon explanation.
Yeah, you can really tell how the Simpsons went downhill when you look at timelines like this. :D
I'd genuinely want to see a video about all the ways Mr.Burns ruined Homers life
Mr Burns needs his own video.
My grandpa died when I was only two years old. I never knew him really well, so I ended up strangely bonding with Grandpa Simpson. I would genuinely love to have a grandpa like him! Excellent character study!
I'm really glad this simpsons mysteries episode was made, i've been re-binge watching all of the Simpsons episodes recently and I kept debating if Abe was a bad father or not while also trying to piece together the timeline of events. I've been following you for a while but only just now found this video. Great timing.
Awesome video, thank you!
being raised by a single father and not knowing my mom, this shit really got to me..
I wish tying an onion to your belt would still be the style.
Are you still able to give five bees and get a quarter?
Yellow ones or white
Except the Bongo episode is contradicted by "Homer's Enemy" where Lenny and Carl state that Homer got his job by showing up on the day the plant opened. It's further supported by "The Way We Was" where high school Homer is given a brochure by his guidance counselor about jobs at the plant that will be opening soon. Although that conflicts somewhat with "I Married Marge" where Homer applies to the plant and not only does he have to apply twice, but it appears to already be well under operation when he first does so.
If i had to guess, the plant was announced when he was a kid, it was near opening when he was a teenager, and when he applied it was barely opened and still seeking new employees
@@curtailedbike4123 yeah these things take like 15 years to build and that’s without delays
That end of part 4 nuanced take on Mona and grandpas relationship was pretty great. A great perspective.
*Elim Garak:* "It's all true doctor..."
*Dr. Bashir:* "What about the lies?"
*Elim Garak:* "Especially the lies."
Wow. This made me appreciate Grampa more as a character. Good work and great video.
“Back in my day, we didn’t have none of this continuity hooey! Things just happened, and we didn’t question it darn it! That reminds me of the time I was herding Buffalo in the old west.”
Lol.
19:20 You know, Maggie Simpson has been proven time and time again to be a secret baby genius. Even at the end of the Who Shot Mr. Burns part 2 episode, we see that Maggie is implied to have maybe intentionally shot Mr. Burns. Perhaps up to that point, she was being vindictive over the lollipop that Mr. Burns tried to steal, but maybe Maggie secretly knows all the harm the Mr. Burns has done to the Simpson family and she knows all the trouble that he has caused to Homer Simpson especially.
Imagine a movie franchise on all the events of his life
That would be both hilarious and awsome! 😂
You could make a pretty compelling story about the sympathetic asshole type that he was.
Move over Forrest Gump!
this channel is exactly what I need with my Simpsons quarantine binge.
I am still going to assume that Abe totally fell 6000 ft or whatever and was jitter-buggin' that very night, people were tougher in those days.
8000, and if Homer can fall down Springfield Gorge twice in a row, then I have every confidence in Abe.
This timeline really showcases that some shows can go on for too long.
Kudos for trying to make sense of it all.
It always annoyed me how positively Mona was portrayed, given that she was the one who abandoned her son to go play hippy protester, while Abe, who stuck around to care for Homer, was portrayed much more negatively.
well, she kinda had to, as she was on the run from Mr. Burns.
@@cobb797 She was on the run from Mr. Burns because she chose to go play hippy protester.
@@redrackham6812 to stop chemical weapons development lol, that's a good thing to stop
Maybe it's because she left when Homer was so young so he doesn't remember anything bad of her. Abe was there whole time, trying his best for Homer but still being just a human. Homer remembers bad stuff of Abe because those memories are not coated with nostalgia like his memories of "dead" mother. There were good memories of him but it's easier to concentrate on negatives and that way Homer sees Abe in worse light than Mona.
is that more important than her family?@@fruttibotti1430
There is no constistency in the Simpsons, we know that by now.
I would like to know when exactly the concept was thrown out the window, e.g what is the latest episode which can be set in a coherent universe.
Whenever the writers stopped giving a shit, which seems to be around or before season 10. Whenever they stopped caring about what Groening had made up rules for
Really there were inconsistencies from the first season onward - at no point did they expect this to go on as long as it did and, it's a cartoon - who needs consistency and logic!
The problem is it happens multiple times. There is consistency in parts but the whole is shattered.
I still firmly believe Trash of the Titans (season 9) to be the last episode of the Simpsons. They all technically leave the real Springfield (by 5 miles at least) and everything after that had an odd feeling, like they entered the matrix. TLDR: Old man (me) yells at cloud
@@TheBisness eh I guess but King of the Hill, Lost our Lisa and especially Natural Born Kissers are great to
I mean the name of the splatoon "Flying Hellfish" can be a mesh up of his careers in the army. Flying for pilot and hellfish for navy.
Part 1: I think Grampa was born around 1910 - 1913.
Part 2: He probably served in the Navy for the first few years and then by 1944, he transferred to the Army.
Part 3: Probably enlisted in the Air Force during the Korean War (1950 - 1953). So he probably stayed in the Air Force until about the mid 1950s.
Part 4: Homer was born about the mid 1950s.
Part 5: Wellll, I ran out of theroies here.
He also won the Iron Cross as a minesweeper directing several tank crews to their deaths
LOL, while I don't think any US troops won German awards the Germans did recommend (via the red Cross) several Americans for US bravery awards most of which were granted. I guess when you impress your enemies so much they find it necessary to recommend you for a medal you probably earned it.
I feel like this is a job only comic book guy could tackle, god bless you, you care more about the shows continuity and characters than the post season twelve curators of it
Love these videos. Back in my day...
you're so political you can't even spell it correctly
Which was the style at the time
- Back in my day, Videos were called “flickerin’ Funnies” and you had to go to the theatre to see them.
You couldn’t hear them, so we always made up our own dialogue; my buddy Danny Baldy was great at adding political subtext into Steam Boat Willie... that mouse hated those damn Commies!
Now of course, when the funnies first started they weren’t that popular, “a gimmick” everyone said, so A dedicated team of animators and I decided to make a funny that would really show those big-wigs in Hollywood what the genre could be... and so in 19-Dickity-6 we created, Toy Story.
The film cost 50 thousand Bees to make, and is responsible for my crippling alcoholism and dependency on morphine to this day...
So Anyway, that’s how I founded Pixar and filed for chapter 11 the next year... left with absolutely nothing but the left shoe that Walt Disney gifted to me before the operation to freeze his head.
I loved his head
Please god, I wish one day for another head like that.
They don’t give head like they used to.
@@NumbSkull2602 LMFAO
Abe mentioned that he made the tonic before homer. That's why they had him
Also the other massive question is this: they still maintain Mona and Abe got married in the 50s, but as of 2020 Homer is canonically 40, meaning he would have to be born in the 1980s and that kinda shoots that entire Mona-Hippie association in the foot.
Yeah but that also shoots the entire “show started in ‘89” thing too. Floating timelines gonna float.
Yeah and I said it somewhere else where one year of the character age lasts 30 years of our time. Time around them continues to flow.
If bart was 10 then he would’ve been born in 2010. The series started in 89
@@Chris-mc2dt Yeah but the problem is when a specific character gets linked to a specific event or time period, and that character's appearance and backstory remains enshrined as canon.
Because now Homer was born aprox. 11 years after the Woodstock Festival where Mona took him as a toddler. And apparently she left when homer was 9 so she'd have committed her Flower Children inspired act of sabotage around 1989 to 1990.
All of Springfield stopped aging after 1989 and became functionally immortal.
The fact that Burns have been a personal nemesis of both Mona and Abe (on several counts) directly and indirectly making homer's life worse through this, and later went on to have confrontation with both Bart, Lisa, Maggie and even Santa's little helper, making Homer's life more complicated in the present... All of that make the fact that he still can't remember who Homer is both even more sad and even more hillarious.
" I would've preferred it if homer shot mr burns"
Well, his daughter is the one who shot him, so I guess that counts?
Intergenerational surrogate revenge perhaps?
Lo que es curioso ya que en un episodio admite que el fue el que le disparo e inculpo a Maggie
Yesss a new video! Grandpa Simpson certainly is the most interesting imo. I would love Martin next.
hello again
Old Man Yells At Cloud
That cloud was a nuisance and you know it... I'm tired of seeing people making light of an absolute issue.
Superb music choices, man. So many songs I didn't expect to ever hear in a video
Aww now I'm sad, Homer, Mona and She's backstories always get me emotionally. I know it's realistic for families to be troubled but it's still so sad to see a cartoon character go through this. I just want to give them all a hug and make them happy.
Wow, Grandpa's story actually got me teary-eyed. I wasn't expecting that.
About the same for the first time in Simpsons history I actually felt sympathy for the old guy. That really says something about him though. Even after life had pretty much destroyed him, he still did the best he could for Homer. Except destroying his passion of gymnastics, Homer really would have had something there.
@@benullom2301 I was a bit sort of bitter about it and also forgot a few of his things but often he completely did lied to Homer about Mona too. But at the same time with how he word it in the story makes total sense and understanding.
I also do miss Mona allot as well as other characters that died in the show or the voice actor did..
@@benullom2301 I also naturally loved Mona each time she returned back and Homer was for a very long time trully happy, more so I enjoyed her constant fighting over the overbloated greedy capitalism that mr burn is and all of his naturally questionable actions he committed
100th like
Glad to know I'm not the only one...
I can’t believe i watched this whole video, Keep making hits like this.
you forgot to mention how his story started in 19-dickety-two. He had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". He chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…
Haha 😆
Another masterpiece my man TheRealJims keep up the good work.
According to the episode where he writes Itchy & Scratchy episodes, apparently Abe spent 40 years as a night watchmen at a cranberry silo.
Nice work, your videos keep getting better and better.
It’s a good day when Real Jims uploads a simpsons video
Imagine being the person to just make all this random stuff up, and then have all these people try to dissect and analyze it all.
Abe Simpsons is by far my favourite character. Thanks for making this video!
Who would ever guess grandpa’s life story is this consistent and logical?
Hey, Jims, this has been a favourite video of mine. I love Abe, not only is he my favourite Simpson, but somehow he's the one I relate to most. (I'm not old and senile, I'm 24!)
Have you considered doing an episode about Futurama? Or even a spin-off series? I think it would be really cool even just to have a 10-20 minute video explaining your thoughts on that show.
Anyway, you're an awesome UA-camr, I'm always excited to watch your videos! Eagerly waiting for the next one, as always.
My God modern Simpsons seems all the more cringe inducingly awful when juxtaposed with seasons 1 through 12.
Riding sharks!? Well guess you got to do something after jumping em gets old...
I had a shark fin on me shoe, which was the style at the time
you get used to it.
The shark story may not have actually happened
@@Pandosyanna I guess? But, then you stop watching. I felt a certain connection to the show as I'm only a few months older than it. I haven't really paid attention to it since my early teen years. I'll still watch anything from 2000 and before any time it's on.
@@jr2904 okay!
"You can march 'em off a cliff. You can send 'em to die on some godforsaken rock. But for some reason, you can't slap 'em. Now apologize to that boy immediately."
wow I never thought of how sad and tragic their relationship is.... somber
Bless your heart for creating this video I always wondered what the full time line was like
Ah Simpsons Mysteries. We've been apart for far too long...
Alright I'm done - either this is the greatest Simpson's UA-cam Fan Channel, making this man an absolute Godsend to us Real Simpsons' fans or I'm suffering from a very bad fever which threw me into a coma and now I am dreaming. Every time I say TheRealJims can't out match the video he just made - two months later he takes my words and dances a jig on them. Wow, just Wow! This is fantastic!
Interesting video, although I believe you left out a part, in 1957 it was where he got up and made himself a piece of toast, setting it to 3 medium brown.
You glossed over the most detailed part of Abe's history that could help date his stories: his trip to Morganville to acquire a new heel for his damaged shoe, which has the following dating references:
-It occurred before Morganville changed names to Shelbyville
-Ferry rides cost $0.05
-Nickles had bumblebees on one side
-wearing an onion on one's belt was the latest fad
-white onions were rare due to wartime shortages
-yellow onions were plentiful
The riding sharks in the navy thing definetely happened, we see one of the sharks at a beach at the end of that episode.
I love your intro. The music the imagery. Its perfect.
[Mona] was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
I've been meaning to watch this video since you first uploaded it, but it just took a long time to finally sit down and watch the whole thing. Now that I have watched the entire video I feel like I definitely missed out at the time but now I'm just happy I finally saw it. Really well done and I knew about some of these things, but there was actually a lot I either didn't know or just forgot about so this was definitely as you said very interesting