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Geraldo Rivera

Character Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Status:	Alive
Occupation:	Attorney Journalist Author Reporter Talk show host
First mentioned:	"Stark Raving Dad"
First appearance:	Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies

Geraldo Rivera is an American attorney, journalist, author, reporter, and talk show host.

History

When Homer was in a mental hospital their phone had Rivera on speed dial.^[1]

During the heyday of The Be Sharps, one song that Homer tried to write had the lyrics, "There was nothing in Al Capone's vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault".^[2]

Non-canon

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed in-universe.

In Homer's dream, Bart watched The Tonight Show during one of Johnny Carson's Carnac the Magnificent sketches, where he reads what is written inside an envelope. Carnac said Geraldo Rivera, Madonna, and a diseased yak, then somebody in the audience started to laugh.^[3]

In one of his Christmas origins stories, Grampa said that Rivera had discovered cookies in Al Capone's vault in 1987, after they had been banned since 1929.^[4]

Behind the Laughter

Homer's songwriting lyric and the cookie discovery recounted by Grampa both refer to the television special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults (hosted by Rivera), where after a huge media buildup the vault was anticlimactically discovered to be empty except for dirt and debris.

Appearances

Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" (mentioned)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (mentioned)
Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" (mentioned)
Comic story – Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies

References

External links

Geraldo Rivera at Wikipedia

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[1] "Stark Raving Dad"

[2] "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"

[3] "Treehouse of Horror II"

[4] Grampa's Christmas Origins: Christmas Cookies

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