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2024-05-17T22:12:59Z

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{{Tapped Out Quest
|name = The Lard Of The Rings
|image =
|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
|requirements =
|characters = [[Strongman Homer]], [[Mr. Burns]]
|optional =
|previous =
|next =
}}

'''The Lard Of The Rings''' is a questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}} content update. It requires [[Strongman Homer]] to be obtained.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Greetings! I am a circus strongman, the 13th most popular sideshow at the circus.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|But the guy who eats glass is retiring soon, so I’ll be moving up the list.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I have the strength of [[Hercules]]! And like Hercules, I have been tasked by the gods to perform Twelve Labors.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Unlike Hercules, I’ll probably only get through five of them.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Help me achieve my First Labor: impressing rubes with a feat of strength!}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Impress Rubes with His Strength|12 hours}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|What will be the second Labor of Homercles? If I can earn the gods’ favor, they will grant me a boon…}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Perhaps a leotard that doesn’t bind up in the crotch.}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
{{TB|Strongman, I have an eight-headed hydra that will take all your strength to defeat.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|{{*}}Gasp* You mean… the [[octuplets]]?!}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
{{TB|Yes! My kids broke into the bulk Halloween candy and now they’re going crazy in my store on a total sugar high.}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
{{TB|Do whatever you must. As a loving parent I ask only this: keep the windows closed so I don’t hear them screaming.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Battle Apu’s Octuplets|60 minutes|a [[Kwik-E-Mart]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I almost had them trapped behind the Squishee machine, but then they beat me up and stole my weight belt.}}
{{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
{{TB|Beating up an employee… sometimes my kids make me proud.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Who’s got a Labor? Looking for a Labor.}}
{{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
{{TB|Hey, strongman! I bought a bunch of horse meat from this Greek guy, Diomedes, for my new signature Krusty Whinniewich.}}
{{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
{{TB|How’d you like to tenderize it by pounding it with your fat fists?}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|They’re not fat, they’re full-figured.}}
{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 7 and Build the Krusty Burger}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Punch Meat in the Freezer|4 hours|[[Krusty Burger]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Well, I made a lot of progress. The meat used to be tough as boot leather, now it’s only tough as shoe leather.}}
{{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
{{TB|Another Krusty Burger disaster. I guess the moral is, don’t look at Greeks bearing gift horses for the mouth.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I gotta get one of these labors right, or I’ll never get my boon from the gods. And I want boon! Major boon!}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Strongman, I have lost one of my hounds. For your next task, you must travel into [[Hell]], find him, and bring him back.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I get finding a lost dog, but what’s the “travel into Hell” part?}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Well, he’ll only come to my voice. So you must carry me pick-a-back while we search…}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
{{TB|And the entire time I’m going to complain about the cost of employee health and pension benefits.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|So cruel! Still, eyes on the boon. Eyes on the boon.}}
{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 11 and Build the Cooling Towers}}<br>{{Task/Job2|Make Strongman Homer Piggyback Mr. Burns|24 hours|[[Mr. Burns]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
{{TB|Oh, my poor little doggie, you look so tired. Just clamp your jaws on the Strongman’s leg and he’ll drag you home.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|I’m so sick of doing labors! Who’d’ve thought they’d be like work!}}
{{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
{{TB|I’ve got a job for you. I need you to kill a bull in my tavern.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Kill him yourself. The next feat of strength I’m doing is thunder farts.}}
{{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
{{TB|Nah, I mean killing a “Duff Bull”, the new beer from Duff. “There’s no bull about Duff Bull.” Or some such.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Finally a labor that involves getting drunk, like my regular job.}}
{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 15 and Build Moe’s Tavern}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Drink Duff Bull|8 hours|[[Moe's Tavern]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|After the task is complete:|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
{{TB|Well, counting up the empties on the bar, I’d say you finished the Twelve Labors of Homercles.}}
{{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
{{TB|Let’s go for forty-seven.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
The quest name is a reference to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

{{Tapped Out Quests/Treehouse of Horror 24}}
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 |name = The Lard Of The Rings
-|image =
+|image = [[File:Tapped Out Strongman Homer Sidebar.png|x100px]]
 |level = 5
 |update = {{TOCU|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}}
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 |characters = [[Strongman Homer]], [[Mr. Burns]]
 |optional =
 |previous =
 |next =

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 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|So cruel! Still, eyes on the boon. Eyes on the boon.}}
-{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 11 and Build the Cooling Towers}}<br>{{Task/Job2|Make Strongman Homer Piggyback Mr. Burns|24 hours|[[Mr. Burns]]}}|colspan=2}}
+{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 11 and Build the Cooling Towers}}<br>{{Task/JobDual|Make Strongman Homer Piggyback Mr. Burns|24 hours|[[Mr. Burns]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
 {{TB|Oh, my poor little doggie, you look so tired. Just clamp your jaws on the Strongman's leg and he'll drag you home.}}

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 {{TB|Greetings! I am a circus strongman, the 13th most popular sideshow at the circus.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|But the guy who eats glass is retiring soon, so I’ll be moving up the list.}}
+{{TB|But the guy who eats glass is retiring soon, so I'll be moving up the list.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|I have the strength of [[Hercules]]! And like Hercules, I have been tasked by the gods to perform Twelve Labors.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Unlike Hercules, I’ll probably only get through five of them.}}
+{{TB|Unlike Hercules, I'll probably only get through five of them.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|Help me achieve my First Labor: impressing rubes with a feat of strength!}}
@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 {{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|What will be the second Labor of Homercles? If I can earn the gods’ favor, they will grant me a boon…}}
+{{TB|What will be the second Labor of Homercles? If I can earn the gods' favor, they will grant me a boon...}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Perhaps a leotard that doesn’t bind up in the crotch.}}
+{{TB|Perhaps a leotard that doesn't bind up in the crotch.}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
 {{TB|Strongman, I have an eight-headed hydra that will take all your strength to defeat.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|{{*}}Gasp* You mean… the [[octuplets]]?!}}
+{{TB|{{*}}Gasp{{*}} You mean... the [[octuplets]]?!}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
-{{TB|Yes! My kids broke into the bulk Halloween candy and now they’re going crazy in my store on a total sugar high.}}
+{{TB|Yes! My kids broke into the bulk Halloween candy and now they're going crazy in my store on a total sugar high.}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
-{{TB|Do whatever you must. As a loving parent I ask only this: keep the windows closed so I don’t hear them screaming.}}
+{{TB|Do whatever you must. As a loving parent I ask only this: keep the windows closed so I don't hear them screaming.}}
-{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Battle Apu’s Octuplets|60 minutes|a [[Kwik-E-Mart]]}}|colspan=2}}
+{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Battle Apu's Octuplets|60 minutes|a [[Kwik-E-Mart]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|I almost had them trapped behind the Squishee machine, but then they beat me up and stole my weight belt.}}
 {{Tapped Out Apu Icon}}
-{{TB|Beating up an employee… sometimes my kids make me proud.}}
+{{TB|Beating up an employee... sometimes my kids make me proud.}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}
@@ Line 58: / Line 58: @@
 {{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Who’s got a Labor? Looking for a Labor.}}
+{{TB|Who's got a Labor? Looking for a Labor.}}
 {{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
 {{TB|Hey, strongman! I bought a bunch of horse meat from this Greek guy, Diomedes, for my new signature Krusty Whinniewich.}}
 {{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
-{{TB|How’d you like to tenderize it by pounding it with your fat fists?}}
+{{TB|How'd you like to tenderize it by pounding it with your fat fists?}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|They’re not fat, they’re full-figured.}}
+{{TB|They're not fat, they're full-figured.}}
 {{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 7 and Build the Krusty Burger}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Punch Meat in the Freezer|4 hours|[[Krusty Burger]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Well, I made a lot of progress. The meat used to be tough as boot leather, now it’s only tough as shoe leather.}}
+{{TB|Well, I made a lot of progress. The meat used to be tough as boot leather, now it's only tough as shoe leather.}}
 {{Tapped Out Krusty Icon}}
-{{TB|Another Krusty Burger disaster. I guess the moral is, don’t look at Greeks bearing gift horses for the mouth.}}
+{{TB|Another Krusty Burger disaster. I guess the moral is, don't look at Greeks bearing gift horses for the mouth.}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}
@@ Line 77: / Line 77: @@
 {{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|I gotta get one of these labors right, or I’ll never get my boon from the gods. And I want boon! Major boon!}}
+{{TB|I gotta get one of these labors right, or I'll never get my boon from the gods. And I want boon! Major boon!}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
 {{TB|Strongman, I have lost one of my hounds. For your next task, you must travel into [[Hell]], find him, and bring him back.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|I get finding a lost dog, but what’s the “travel into Hell” part?}}
+{{TB|I get finding a lost dog, but what's the "travel into Hell" part?}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|Well, he’ll only come to my voice. So you must carry me pick-a-back while we search…}}
+{{TB|Well, he'll only come to my voice. So you must carry me pick-a-back while we search...}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|And the entire time I’m going to complain about the cost of employee health and pension benefits.}}
+{{TB|And the entire time I'm going to complain about the cost of employee health and pension benefits.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|So cruel! Still, eyes on the boon. Eyes on the boon.}}
 {{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 11 and Build the Cooling Towers}}<br>{{Task/Job2|Make Strongman Homer Piggyback Mr. Burns|24 hours|[[Mr. Burns]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Mr. Burns Icon}}
-{{TB|Oh, my poor little doggie, you look so tired. Just clamp your jaws on the Strongman’s leg and he’ll drag you home.}}
+{{TB|Oh, my poor little doggie, you look so tired. Just clamp your jaws on the Strongman's leg and he'll drag you home.}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}
@@ Line 98: / Line 98: @@
 {{TH|After tapping on Strongman Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|I’m so sick of doing labors! Who’d’ve thought they’d be like work!}}
+{{TB|I'm so sick of doing labors! Who'd've thought they'd be like work!}}
 {{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
-{{TB|I’ve got a job for you. I need you to kill a bull in my tavern.}}
+{{TB|I've got a job for you. I need you to kill a bull in my tavern.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Kill him yourself. The next feat of strength I’m doing is thunder farts.}}
+{{TB|Kill him yourself. The next feat of strength I'm doing is thunder farts.}}
 {{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
-{{TB|Nah, I mean killing a “Duff Bull”, the new beer from Duff. “There’s no bull about Duff Bull.” Or some such.}}
+{{TB|Nah, I mean killing a "Duff Bull", the new beer from Duff. "There's no bull about Duff Bull." Or some such.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
 {{TB|Finally a labor that involves getting drunk, like my regular job.}}
-{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 15 and Build Moe’s Tavern}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Drink Duff Bull|8 hours|[[Moe's Tavern]]}}|colspan=2}}
+{{THT|{{Task|Reach Level 15 and Build Moe's Tavern}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Strongman Homer Drink Duff Bull|8 hours|[[Moe's Tavern]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{THT|After the task is complete:|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Moe Icon}}
-{{TB|Well, counting up the empties on the bar, I’d say you finished the Twelve Labors of Homercles.}}
+{{TB|Well, counting up the empties on the bar, I'd say you finished the Twelve Labors of Homercles.}}
 {{Tapped Out Strongman Homer Icon}}
-{{TB|Let’s go for forty-seven.}}
+{{TB|Let's go for forty-seven.}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
 }}

The Lard Of The Rings - Revision history

Solar Dragon at 21:10, April 21, 2025

SolarBot: /* Pt. 4 */replaced: {{Task/Job2 → {{Task/JobDual

SolarBot: replaced: ’ → ' (29), … → ... (4), “ → " (3), ” → " (3), * → {{*}} (2), {{{{*}}}} → {{*}}

Solar Dragon: Created page with "{{Tapped Out Quest |name = The Lard Of The Rings |image = |level = 5 |update = {{TOCU|Treehouse of Horror XXIV}} |requirements = |characters = Strongman Homer, Mr. Bur..."

SolarBot: replaced: ’ → ' (29), … → ... (4), “ → " (3), ” → " (3), * → {{}} (2), {{{{}}}} → {{*}}