The Simpsons (Season 11) Episodes - Alone Again, Natura-Diddily, Treehouse of Horror X, Brother's Little Helper, Behind the Laughter, Beyond Blunderdom (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Coming to Homerica, Dangerous Curves (The Simpsons), Double, Double, Boy in Trouble, Eeny Teeny Maya Moe, Father Knows Worst, Four Great Women and a Manicure, Gone Maggie Gone, Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words, How the Test Was Won, In the Name of the Grandfather, Lisa the Drama Queen, Lost Verizon, Mypods and Boomsticks, No Loan Again, Naturally, Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes, Take My Life, Please, The Burns and the Bees, The Good, the Sad and the Drugly, Treehouse of Horror XIX, Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh, Wedding for Disaster. Excerpt: "In the Name of the Grandfather" is the fourteenth episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons. It first aired on Sky1 on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2009 and aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 22, 2009. It was the first episode of the show to premiere in Europe before airing on Fox. In the episode, the Simpsons buy a new hot tub and spend so much time relaxing in it that they neglect Abraham "Grampa" Simpson. Homer decides to make it up to Grampa by helping him do one thing he wants to do. Grampa reminisces about O'Flanagan's pub in Ireland where he once had the best night of his life so the Simpsons travel there. Marge, Bart and Lisa visit various Irish landmarks while Homer and Grampa buy O'Flanagan's during a night of binge drinking and soon discover that pubs are no longer popular in Ireland. "In the Name of the Grandfather" was directed by Ralph Sosa and was the first episode of the show to be written by Matt Marshall. Marshall pitched the idea in 2007 and the script was ready for a table read later that year, but the Writers Guild of America strike delayed work on the episode. Described by executive producer Al Jean as "an affectionate love letter to Ireland," the episode was inspired by a New York Times article about the effects of Ireland's smoking ban on pubs. Guest stars for the episode include Colm Meaney as Tom O'Flanagan, Glen Hansard as a street musician and Marketa Irglova as an Eastern European woman. Kenneth Branagh and Kathy Ireland were also reported to have roles in the episode but neither appeared in the final version. The episode contains numerous jokes about Ireland and references to Irish culture including the Giant's Causeway, Blarney Castle, James Joyce, Bloomsday, leprechauns, Guinness, Riverdance, U2 and the film Once. The special broadcast of the episode in Ireland was part of Fox's year-long "Best. 20 Years. Ever." celebration which commemorates the 20th anniversary of the show. To promote the broadcast, Jean,