Plot
After another lackluster Sunday with the Simpson family, Grampa meets Beatrice "Bea" Simmons, a resident at the Springfield Retirement Castle. They go on a date and fall in love. When Bea's birthday arrives on a Sunday, Homer makes Grampa come on a family outing to the Discount Lion Safari, because he thinks Grampa is making up that he has a girlfriend. The outing causes Grampa to miss Bea's birthday. At the safari, the family's car becomes stuck in the mud and lions begin circling it, trapping the family overnight. After a worker helps run the lions off, Grampa returns home expecting to see Bea. However, Homer pulls up just in time for the ambulance to pull away. Jasper tells Grampa that Bea died of a burst ventricle when Grampa was out with the family. He is very saddened by her death and attends her funeral. Grampa is furious with Homer and refuses to speak to him, as he blames Homer for preventing him from attending Bea's birthday party and being with Bea in her final moments and swears never to forgive Homer leaving Homer very saddened.
Grampa receives Bea's inheritance of $106,000 from Lionel Hutz. First, he looks at buying things for himself, but doing so brings him no joy. While on a roller coaster, Bea's ghost appears and suggests that if he is not happy spending it on himself, that he spend the money with other people. She also tells him to forgive Homer because deep down Grampa still loves him. After interviews with many people across Springfield who only want to spend Grampa's money on things for themselves, Lisa suggests that he should give the money to worthy causes. Feeling he doesn't have enough money to help as many in need of help as he can, Grampa attempts to double his money by gambling at a casino but Homer stops him — and just in time, since Grampa would have lost the entire inheritance at the roulette wheel. Grampa forgives Homer and decides to spend the rest of the inheritance on renovating the retirement home and adding a new room named after Bea.
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