Episode Notes
Chalkboard: None
Couch: Repeat of the couch gag from "Marge Be Not Proud" where Homer pulls a drain plug and everyone and everything gets sucked into it.
At fourteen words, 21 syllables, and 68 letters, this episode has the longest title in the show's history.
Episode Quotes
Burns: There, Simpson seven gone. As soon as you're in your pressboard coffin, I'll be the sole survivor and the treasure will be mine.
Grandpa: Over my dead body, it will!
Burns: Thats precisely the point! Oh, Simpson, can't you go five seconds without humiliating yourself?
(Grandpa's pants fall down with a "boing" sound)
Grandpa: How long was that?
Grandpa: So, we sealed up the paintings knowing only one of us would ever look upon them again. Ox was the first to go; he got a hernia carrying the crate out of the castle. Five more men died in the Veteran's Day float disaster of '79. Now, with Asa gone, it's down to me and Burns.
Homer: Where are you two going at this hour?
Bart: On a treasure hunt.
Homer: Oh! Can I come?
Grandpa: Only if you're ready to stare danger in the face, put your manhood to the ultimate test, and take…
Homer: Pass.
Grandpa: Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…
(children laugh)
Martin: Dickety? Highly dubious!
Grandpa: What're you cackling at, fatty? Too much pie, that's your problem!