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Difference between revisions of "The Rocket's Red Glare"

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{{TB|The Fourth of July is coming! When Americans celebrate their country by brazenly flaunting their contempt for its anti-fireworks ordinances!}}
 
{{TB|The Fourth of July is coming! When Americans celebrate their country by brazenly flaunting their contempt for its anti-fireworks ordinances!}}
 
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{{TB|nd Apu’s All-American Kwik-E-Mart and Fireworks Megastore leads the way! I’d better get in costume.}}
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{{TB|nd Apu's All-American Kwik-E-Mart and Fireworks Megastore leads the way! I'd better get in costume.}}
 
{{TBT|Message}}
 
{{TBT|Message}}
 
{{TB|You'll find a new outfit for Apu in your inventory!}}
 
{{TB|You'll find a new outfit for Apu in your inventory!}}
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{{TB|My fireworks customers demand the biggest explosions, triggered by the most unpredictable fuses money can buy!}}
 
{{TB|My fireworks customers demand the biggest explosions, triggered by the most unpredictable fuses money can buy!}}
 
{{Tapped Out All-American Apu Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|If this town doesn’t lose at least three fingers every year, I haven’t done my job.}}
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{{TB|If this town doesn't lose at least three fingers every year, I haven't done my job.}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make All-American Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks". The task takes place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] and takes 24 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make All-American Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks". The task takes place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] and takes 24 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TH|After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
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{{TB|{{*}}yawn* I can’t sleep -- the noise from all these fireworks is keeping me awake.}}
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{{TB|{{*}}yawn{{*}} I can't sleep -- the noise from all these fireworks is keeping me awake.}}
 
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{{TB|You’re the one lighting them! You can stop any time you like!}}
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{{TB|You're the one lighting them! You can stop any time you like!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon‎}}
 
{{Tapped Out Homer Icon‎}}
 
{{TB|If I stop blowing up M-80s even for a moment, then the Soviet Union wins and our Founding Fathers got their heads chopped off for nothing.}}
 
{{TB|If I stop blowing up M-80s even for a moment, then the Soviet Union wins and our Founding Fathers got their heads chopped off for nothing.}}
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{{TB|Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.}}
 
{{TB|Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.}}
 
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{{TB|Well, that’ll be nice. They’re kind of a nuisance.}}
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{{TB|Well, that'll be nice. They're kind of a nuisance.}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎|Angry}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎|Angry}}
 
{{TB|Nuisance? You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?}}
 
{{TB|Nuisance? You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?}}
 
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{{TB|It’s the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering! Time to round up the likely suspects.}}
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{{TB|It's the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering! Time to round up the likely suspects.}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders". The task requires [[Ned]] and takes 8 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders". The task requires [[Ned]] and takes 8 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TB|This holiday is proving most profitable!}}
 
{{TB|This holiday is proving most profitable!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|I’ve traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see…}}
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{{TB|I've traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see...}}
 
{{Tapped Out All-American Apu Icon‎|Worried}}
 
{{Tapped Out All-American Apu Icon‎|Worried}}
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{{TB|Great Ganesh! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I’d better hide the evidence.}}
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{{TB|Great Ganesh! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I'd better hide the evidence.}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
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{{TB|Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon! I know you’re the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!}}
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{{TB|Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon! I know you're the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|Come clean -- you’re the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic ‘Pu.}}
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{{TB|Come clean -- you're the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic 'Pu.}}
 
{{Tapped Out All-American Apu Icon‎}}
 
{{Tapped Out All-American Apu Icon‎}}
 
{{TB|I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!}}
 
{{TB|I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|I’m an old-timey cop. Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.}}
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{{TB|I'm an old-timey cop. Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
{{TB|And we call it by its proper name: good ol' red-blooded, American racism.}}
 
{{TB|And we call it by its proper name: good ol' red-blooded, American racism.}}
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{{TH|After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
{{TH|After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
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{{TB|Rex Banner! I’ve discovered the identity of the fireworks smuggler. It’s Ned Flanders! Quick, drag him down to the station and interrogate him for hours!}}
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{{TB|Rex Banner! I've discovered the identity of the fireworks smuggler. It's Ned Flanders! Quick, drag him down to the station and interrogate him for hours!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|Let’s go, boys!}}
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{{TB|Let's go, boys!}}
 
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{{TB|And… he’s gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let’s buy some boom!}}
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{{TB|And... he's gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let's buy some boom!}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Rex Banner's task requires [[Ned]] and takes 8 hours. The Springfield Residents' task takes place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] and takes 60 minutes.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Rex Banner's task requires [[Ned]] and takes 8 hours. The Springfield Residents' task takes place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] and takes 60 minutes.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
{{TH|After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon|Angry‎}}
 
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{{TB|Hands where I can see them, Apu! I’m taking you in!}}
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{{TB|Hands where I can see them, Apu! I'm taking you in!}}
 
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|Wait! That man is innocent!}}
 
{{TB|Wait! That man is innocent!}}
 
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{{TB|I’ve just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits “the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4.”}}
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{{TB|I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits "the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4."}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|What’s so special about the Fourth of June?}}
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{{TB|What's so special about the Fourth of June?}}
 
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{{TB|June 4th was King George III of England’s birthday.}}
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{{TB|June 4th was King George III of England's birthday.}}
 
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon‎}}
 
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon‎}}
 
{{TB|Springfield was the only town in the nation that voted 182 times to return to British rule.}}
 
{{TB|Springfield was the only town in the nation that voted 182 times to return to British rule.}}
 
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon‎}}
 
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon‎}}
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{{TB|We’ve always been America’s cowards.}}
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{{TB|We've always been America's cowards.}}
 
{{Tapped Out Rex Banner Icon‎}}
 
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{{TB|Well, if memory serves, there’s one thing this town is still good for.}}
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{{TB|Well, if memory serves, there's one thing this town is still good for.}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make Rex Banner Eat a Banana Kaboom". The task takes 4 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Make Rex Banner Eat a Banana Kaboom". The task takes 4 hours.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TB|Woo-hoo!}}
 
{{TB|Woo-hoo!}}
 
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{{TB|I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration…}}
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{{TB|I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration...}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Both takes take place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. Apu's task takes 12 hours and the Springfield Residents' task takes 60 minutes.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Tasks:''' "Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Both takes take place at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]. Apu's task takes 12 hours and the Springfield Residents' task takes 60 minutes.|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
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{{TB|...}}
 
{{TB|...}}
 
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{{TB|Hey! It broke! …Lousy British workmanship. Ah well, might as well put this somewhere.}}
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{{TB|Hey! It broke! ...Lousy British workmanship. Ah well, might as well put this somewhere.}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Place the Liberty Bell".|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Task:''' "Place the Liberty Bell".|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Place:''' [[Liberty Bell]]|colspan=2}}
 
{{THT|'''Place:''' [[Liberty Bell]]|colspan=2}}

Revision as of 14:36, May 8, 2024


The Rocket's Red Glare
Tapped Out Quest Information
Level: 5
Update: 4th July 2013
Requirement(s): myPad
Required characters: All-American Apu
Rex Banner
Ned

The Rocket's Red Glare is a temporary questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the 4th July 2013 content update. It unlocks All-American Apu, Rex Banner and the Nighthawk Diner.

Dialogue

Pt. 1

After starting the update
Apu The Fourth of July is coming! When Americans celebrate their country by brazenly flaunting their contempt for its anti-fireworks ordinances!
Apu nd Apu's All-American Kwik-E-Mart and Fireworks Megastore leads the way! I'd better get in costume.
Message You'll find a new outfit for Apu in your inventory!
New Skin: All-American Apu
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 2

After tapping on All-American Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu My fireworks customers demand the biggest explosions, triggered by the most unpredictable fuses money can buy!
All-American Apu If this town doesn't lose at least three fingers every year, I haven't done my job.
Task: "Make All-American Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks". The task takes place at the Kwik-E-Mart and takes 24 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 3

After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu Stocking this many explosives in such close proximity to cigarette-smoking twelve-year-olds is dangerous.
All-American Apu I better sell these fireworks fast!
Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Both takes take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. Apu's task takes 12 hours and the Springfield Residents' task takes 60 minutes.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 4

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark
Homer *yawn* I can't sleep -- the noise from all these fireworks is keeping me awake.
Lisa You're the one lighting them! You can stop any time you like!
Homer If I stop blowing up M-80s even for a moment, then the Soviet Union wins and our Founding Fathers got their heads chopped off for nothing.
Lisa Maybe some coffee will wake you up. And help you make some sense.
Task: "Build the Nighthawk Diner". It takes 24 hours.
Build: Nighthawk Diner
New Character: Rex Banner
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 5

After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark
Rex Banner Citizens of Springfield, fear not! No longer will airborne displays of Technicolor splendor haunt your nights!
Lisa Federal agent Rex Banner!?
Rex Banner Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.
Lisa Well, that'll be nice. They're kind of a nuisance.
Rex Banner - Angry Nuisance? You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?
Rex Banner It's the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering! Time to round up the likely suspects.
Task: "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders". The task requires Ned and takes 8 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 6

After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu This holiday is proving most profitable!
Rex Banner I've traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see...
All-American Apu - Worried Great Ganesh! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I'd better hide the evidence.
Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 7

After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark
Rex Banner Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon! I know you're the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!
Rex Banner Come clean -- you're the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic 'Pu.
All-American Apu I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!
Rex Banner I'm an old-timey cop. Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.
Rex Banner And we call it by its proper name: good ol' red-blooded, American racism.
Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 8

After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark
Homer Rex Banner! I've discovered the identity of the fireworks smuggler. It's Ned Flanders! Quick, drag him down to the station and interrogate him for hours!
Rex Banner Let's go, boys!
Homer And... he's gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let's buy some boom!
Tasks: "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Rex Banner's task requires Ned and takes 8 hours. The Springfield Residents' task takes place at the Kwik-E-Mart and takes 60 minutes.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 9

After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark
Rex Banner - Angry‎ Hands where I can see them, Apu! I'm taking you in!
Lisa Wait! That man is innocent!
Lisa I've just found an old town law from 1803 which expressly permits "the sale and detonation of pyrotechnic devices for one month following June 4."
Rex Banner What's so special about the Fourth of June?
Lisa June 4th was King George III of England's birthday.
Lisa Springfield was the only town in the nation that voted 182 times to return to British rule.
Lisa We've always been America's cowards.
Rex Banner Well, if memory serves, there's one thing this town is still good for.
Task: "Make Rex Banner Eat a Banana Kaboom". The task takes 4 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Next Quest: Paranoid Android →

Pt. 10

← Previous Quest: Paranoid Android
After tapping on All-American Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu Now that this awful business with the authorities has blown over, it's time to restock!
Task: "Make All-American Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks". The task takes place at the Kwik-E-Mart and takes 24 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 11

After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu I am happy to announce I am open for business once again!
Homer Woo-hoo!
Homer I haven't blown anything up in a couple of hours, this was starting to feel like a Canada Day celebration...
Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Both takes take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. Apu's task takes 12 hours and the Springfield Residents' task takes 60 minutes.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 12

After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu This has been the most profitable Fourth of July ever!
All-American Apu Where else but America can an Indian man make money selling Chinese fireworks to patriots?
All-American Apu I love this horrible country!
Task: "Make All-American Apu Display Patriotism". The task takes 8 hours.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10

Pt. 13

After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
All-American Apu What the-? This isn't the shipment of fireworks I ordered!
Lisa Oh my! It's the original Liberty Bell - and still intact!
Professor Frink It would seem that the bell has been transported through time, I deduce-
Homer We don't always need an explanation! All I need to know is that there's a bell and that I'm going to ring it!
Homer ...
Homer Hey! It broke! ...Lousy British workmanship. Ah well, might as well put this somewhere.
Task: "Place the Liberty Bell".
Place: Liberty Bell
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10


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