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Episode Information |
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| Title: | In the Name of the Grandfather |
| Episode #: | 20x14 |
| Production Number: | LABF11 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday March 22nd, 2009 |
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 UK (Sky One) |
Mar 17, 2009 (Premiere!) |
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Episode Summary |
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After the Simpsons buy a hot tub and feel so relaxed in it that they forget all about Grandpa Simpson, Homer agrees to do something that will make Grandpa happy again. Grandpa wants to visit O'Flanagan's pub in Ireland for one last beer and the Simpsons travel to Ireland. While Marge and the children visit Irish landmarks, Homer and Grandpa decide to buy the pub, only to find out that pubs aren't popular in Ireland anymore.
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In The Name Of The Grandfather holds the distinction of being the first (and only) Simpsons episode that premiered in the UK and Ireland a week before it premiered in America.
| Blackboard: Four-leaf clovers are not mutant freaks
Couch: The Simpsons are dog show participants being lead on leashes by men in fancy suits. A judge awards Bart the blue ribbon, and Homer attacks him.
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The way the people are kissing the Blarney Stone is incorrect.
To properly kiss the stone you have to lay on your back and hang yourself over the edge of the castle wall.
| After Homer comes back in from trying to find customers the door is standing open but when Homer says “Look at them crowding the bar” the door is closed.
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