Thursdays with Abie
"Thursdays with Abie"
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Episode Information
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Intro
In the intro a different music plays and cuts right to the house probably due to time restraints.
Plot
Grampa is sitting on a bench waiting for his family when a thoughtful-looking man named Marshall Goldman approaches him and asks to hear about his life. Grampa tells Goldman about the time he was on a World War II battleship, which was hit by an enemy torpedo, and Goldman, a human-interest columnist, publishes it in The Springfield Shopper. Later, Grampa meets Mitch Albom (guest-voicing as himself) and shares another story with Goldman for a follow-up article. Homer becomes jealous of Grampa’s newfound fame and seeks a surrogate father. But when Homer discovers a draft of Goldman’s third story, saying that Grampa dies at 3:00 that day on the train, Homer catches the train and stops Goldman from killing Grampa. In a sub plot, Bart gets to take Larry the lamb home for the weekend, and while Lisa is taking Larry for a stroll, he falls into the drain. Bart goes into the drain and rescues Larry.
