History Recap / TheSimpsonsS35E15CremainsOfTheDay

* TonightSomeoneDies: As in the leadup to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E1ClownInTheDumps "Clown in the Dumps"]], the creators had fun with this, with showrunner Matt Selman polling his Twitter followers on who would die in the episode: Homer, Marge, Bart, [[CListFodder or Larry the silent barfly]].

* HiddenDephs: Who knew that a mostly silent, background character could be a gem-smuggler working for Fat Tony?

Larry's funeral has a light attendance, with the only people there being Homer, Marge, Moe, Lenny, Carl, and Larry's mother. Bart and Lisa were also in attendance, but they left to crash the other funerals at the home. Reverend Lovejoy gives Homer's eulogy before being told he's got the wrong sad balding drunk, and he steps aside to let Larry's mother speak. She wants to hear memories of her son from his best friends, the fellows at Moe's. But the four of them are at a loss for words, they never really knew him. After a prompt from Larry's mom, they make up a story about going fishing with Larry. Marge calls the boys out for never taking the time to know Larry, but Moe defends himself for saying they came, unlike Barney, who was busy making a well for a village in Nicaragua. Homer says Larry just never fit in with them, they're a [[FourManBand group of four]], like the ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' women. Marge is unmoved, all Larry wanted was a connection, and yet none of the men never reached out and he he died alone among the barflies.

The four are feeling remorseful, particularly Lenny because Marge is disappointed because she thought he was the sensitive one. Larry's mom presents the men with a book from Larry's room, and inside the book is a picture of the five of them, "Moe's Bros", gathered at "my special place", Serenity Falls. Lenny gets the idea to take Larry's ashes there, because it's the sensitive thing to do. The four, no, five of them are on the move with Moe at the wheel, but with death on their minds, the non-driving non-dead members of "Moe's Bros" get out their flasks and drink.

Locked in the "frunk" of the sheriff's electric car, the four bicker, and not just over this betrayal, but over other incidents. They nudge eachother as best they could while stuck in a front trunk, then they realize this is a dysfunctional friend group when sober. Why would Larry want to be one of them? Then they overhear a phone call. The "sheriff" is one of Fat Tony's hired goons, Mickey "No Loose Ends". Fat Tony wants to spare them, but when you hire someone with the nickname "No Loose Ends"... Carl adopts Lenny's belief in ghosts, Lenny fears Moe's nothingness, and Moe makes a prayer so he can get into Homer's heaven. Homer, however, after bemoaning what he might reincarnate into based on Carl's beliefs, feels something underneath him. A flare gun!

The car comes to a stop, and Homer tries to shoot Mickey "No Loose Ends" after he opens the frunk, but he misses and sends the car over a steep hill, teetering over a cliff. Facing a variation of the PrisonersDilemma, none of them wants to doom the rest by jumping out of the car alone. Their only option is to jump out together, jumping to either salvation or the afterlife. But because Homer mistook what "on three" meant, Homer is still in the frunk, going down. Meanwhile, at the top of the hill, Mickey "No Loose Ends" gets knocked out by a fallen tree that the flare set on fire. The urn rolls down the hill and over the cliff, and into the wheel well of the car. Larry has posthumously saved Homer's life, right in front of Serenity Falls too, but Carl is disappointed that the real falls doesn't compare to Larry's picture. Then Homer realizes what Larry's "special place" really is. Larry's barstool, on the far side of the tavern, with a video screen of a pristine waterfall behind him. Carl regrets losing the sapphires, with Lenny believing they fell out of the urn, but the camera goes into x-ray mode to reveal Moe ate them so he can have them all to himself.

* DeathIsCheap: Ironically enough, given the theme of the episode, Alice Glick was shown to have died in ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E4ReplaceableYou Replaceable You]],'' but appears alive and well, complete with a speaking role, at Larry's funeral.

* LonelyFuneral: Larry's is attended solely by his mother and his fellow barflies, who barely knew him.

* PrisonersDilemma: When Mickey "No Loose Ends"'s car is perched over the cliff with the four still in the front trunk, they're faced with a variation of this situation where any one of them can jump out and doom the rest. They collectively say "No" to that and decide to jump out together. Homer is accidentally left behind because he thought the others would say "go" after the "three".

* {{Reincarnation}}: Carl believes that when someone dies, their soul becomes cosmic energy and the consciousness will eventually be reborn. Fearing death in Mickey "No Loose Ends"' frunk, Homer fears he will reincarnate into a koala with an STD.

* DeathIsCheap: Ironically enough, given the theme of the episode, Alice Glick was shown to have died in ''Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E4ReplaceableYou,'' but appears alive and well, complete with a speaking role, at Larry's funeral.

* PrisonersDilemma: When Mickey "No Loose Ends"'s car is perched over the cliff with the four still in the front trunk, they're faced with a variation of this situation where any one of them can jump out and doom the rest. They collectively say "No" to that and decide to jump out together.

It's 6 AM on a Sunday morning, and Homer, Lenny, Carl and Larry are gathered at Moe's to watch football. Seeing Homer and Carl gambling on the Jacksonville VS. Buffalo, Moe decides to gamble a single dollar on Baltimore on the next game. After a long game where the leading team changes many times, Baltimore loses to Detroit at the last second. Moe is outraged at losing a whole simoleon, and gets out his mop to force the barflies to leave. Homer, Lenny and Carl get up and are about to leave, but stop after noticing Larry isn't reacting to the mop, not even after being poked. Larry falls over, dead.

* FluffyCloudHeaven: Homer imagines the afterlife as a sports bar version of this.

Back on the road with Lenny at the wheel, Carl notices this isn't the right road. Lenny is taking the scenic route so Larry could appreciate the wildflowers, but Carl doesn't want to waste time, because he and Namia have a concert date and he doesn't want her to be left alone with her performing ex, Kool of ''Music/KoolAndTheGang''. Carl grabs the wheel, and as the van swerves, Larry's urn gets knocked about. Moe slams on the brakes, not wanting to lose the sapphires. Lenny and Carl simmer down, with Carl agreeing with whatever route Lenny wants to take. Lenny floors it, and the inertia sends the urn out the back doors of the van, spilling open, leaving the sapphires available for all to see. Moe claims it was Homer's idea to keep the sapphires secret, but before Homer violently react to the lie, they're interrupted by a sheriff, who takes the urn and the sapphires and arrests the four for jewel smuggling.

-->'''Mayor Quimby:''' You shut up, Robert F. Quimby Jr.! You are an embarrassment to this family, and that's saying a lot!