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The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 17
Episode Title: Old Money
Episode Plot
Grampa, after another lackluster Sunday outing with the family, falls in love with Beatrice Simmons when their pills are mixed up at the Retirement Castle. They fall in love and go on a date, leading up to her birthday on a Sunday.
However, Homer makes Grampa come on the family outing to the Discount Lion Safari and locks him in the car, causing him to miss Bea's birthday. At the refuge, the family's car becomes stuck in the mud and, to make matters worse, hungry lions begin circling the car, trapping the family in the car overnight. After a hunter helps run the lions off the next morning, Grampa returns home expecting to see Bea. However, Homer pulls up just in time for the ambulance to pull away. It turns out that Bea has died of a burst ventricle (though some say a broken heart) when he was out with the family.
Grampa is saddened, attends her funeral, and is very angry with Homer, refusing to speak to him, as Grampa blames Homer for preventing him from attending Bea's birthday party and being with Bea in her final moments.
Grampa then receives Bea's inheritance of $106,000 from Lionel Hutz. First, he looks at buying things for himself, until Bea's ghost suggests that if he is not happy spending it on himself, that he give the money to worthy causes. (His inheritance is slightly reduced because he spent $400 on a fez that Napoleon supposedly once wore). After interviews with many people across Springfield, Grampa attempts to double his money by gambling at a casino, but Homer stops him and just in time, since Grampa would have lost the entire inheritance at the roulette wheel.
Grampa, having forgiven Homer decides to spend the rest of the inheritance on renovating the retirement home, and adding a new room named the Beatrice Simmons Dining Room.
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