History Recap / TheSimpsonsS7E22

* GenerationXerox: Many of the Flying Hellfish are the fathers of several Springfield citizens (specifically Barney, Skinner, and Chief Wiggum) and strongly resemble their modern counterparts. There's also mention of a Commander Flanders, even though "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Hurricane Neddy]]" establish that Flanders's father was a beatnik (unless he became a beatnik after the war or it was his grandfather).

'''Ox''': Uhh, essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of [[SophisticatedAsHell all them purdy pictures]].

* BittersweetEnding: Grandpa loses the paintings to the State Department who returns them to their rightful owner, but is able to triumph over Burns and regain Bart's respect.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Grandpa and Mr. Burns are tussling over a set of paintings that they stole from a German castle, but Abe was actually following the rules of the tontine up to that point, and Mr. Burns, in addition to already being overwhelmingly rich, tried to kill his CO ''and'' his grandson.

* NoodleIncident: The Veterans' Day Float Disaster of '79, which somehow killed five members of the Hellfish (Including Skinner, Barney, and Wiggum's apparent parents).

* PetTheDog: While he is later [[WouldHurtAChild willing to kill Bart]], Burns treats him affectionately when he offers to join him, and apologises for waking up Lisa.

* {{Tontine}}: It's revealed that Abe Simpson and Mr. Burns served together during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and their squad (the Flying Hellfish) acquired a set of priceless German paintings, with the agreement that the last member of the Hellfish to die would get them. It ends when just as Abe manages to claim the paintings by "discharging" Burns, the State Department shows up, confiscates the paintings, and presents them to a descendant of their original German owner for diplomatic purposes. The descendant is not too worried about their safety, either.

* {{Tontine}}: It's revealed that Abe Simpson and Mister Burns served together during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and their squad (the Flying Hellfish) acquired a set of priceless German paintings, with the agreement that the last member of the Hellfish to die would get them. It ends when just as Abe manages to claim the paintings by "discharging" Burns, the State Department shows up, confiscates the paintings, and presents them to a descendant of their original German owner for diplomatic purposes. The descendant is not too worried about their safety, either.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Mr. Burns' tearing a hole in Bart's and Maggie's rooms is never mentioned again.

* PapaWolf: After Burns tries to kill Bart, [[LetsGetDangerous Grandpa ties a grappling hook to Burns' boat, waterskis using his slipper, and pulls his way to Burns' boat, coming on board, and kicking the crap out of him]].

** Chief Wiggum's father was also a screw-up, Skinner's father was also a ridiculed tight-ass and Flanders' father was in some way better than his Simpson comrade (being a Commander to Grandpa's Sergeant).

* ExactWords: When he was a WWII sergeant, Grandpa Simpson and his Flying Hellfish platoon establish a tontine for German artwork, as proposed by Mr. Burns, with the last remaining Hellfish member receiving the tontine. In the present-day, Burns tries to murder Grandpa in order to make himself the last remaining Hellfish, and in the end, Grandpa invokes his authority as sergeant and has Burns kicked out of the platoon, thereby taking away Burns' claim to the tontine.

* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Asa Phelps' funeral is held when it's rainy.

** The descendant of the original owner of the paintings. He is completely ungrateful to the State Department officials who got them back to the point of insulting them, cares more about keeping the compact disc player that is in the trunk of his car pristine than the priceless paintings that are being loaded there and mocks Grandpa and Bart for having a heartfelt moment.

* GenerationXerox: Many of the Flying Hellfish are the fathers of several Springfield citizens (specifically Barney, Skinner, and Chief Wiggum) and strongly resemble their modern counterparts. There's also mention of a Commander Flanders, even though "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Hurricane Neddy]]" establish that Flanders' father was a beatnik (unless he became a beatnik after the war or it was his grandfather).

'''Ned''': You ever operated a power boat?\\

* NoodleIncident: The Veterans' Day Float Disaster of '79, which somehow killed five members of the Hellfish (Including Skinner, Barney and Wiggum's apparent parents).

* PaperThinDisguise: Mr. Burns, Smithers and the assassin they hired to kill Abe disguise themselves as Marge Bart and Homer respectively to get into the nursing home where Abe lives. Abe isn't fooled...[[ComicallyMissingThePoint because his family never visits.]]

* {{Tontine}}: It's revealed that Abe Simpson and Mister Burns served together during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and their squad (the Flying Hellfish) acquired a set of priceless German paintings, with the agreement that the last member of the Hellfish to die would get them. It ends when just as Abe manages to claim the paintings by "discharging" Burns, the State Department shows up, confiscates the painting and presents them to a descendant of their original German owner for diplomatic purposes. The descendent is not too worried about their safety, either.

-->'''Judge Muntz:''' Why, just this morning I sentenced my 46th man to death. (laughs) No, 47th.

* RealityEnsues: It's revealed Abe's World War II Infantry squad found a cache of priceless paintings in a German castle and hid them, setting up a Tontine to determine who would eventually claim them. Once Abe claims the paintings, State Department agents immediately show up to confiscate them since--war or not--those paintings were stolen and hands them to the descendant of their rightful owner.

* KarmaHoudini: Though Grandpa did beat him up and humiliate him, Mr. Burns got away scot-free with his attempted murder on Grandpa.

* {{Tontine}}: It's revealed that Abe Simpson and Mister Burns served together during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and their squad (the Flying Hellfish) acquired a set of priceless German paintings, with the agreement that the last member of the Hellfish to die would get them. It ends when [[spoiler:just as Abe manages to claim the paintings by "discharging" Burns, the State Department shows up, confiscates the painting and presents them to a descendant of their original German owner for diplomatic purposes. The descendent is not too worried about their safety, either.]]

* GenerationXerox: Many of the Flying Hellfish are the fathers of several Springfield citizens (specifically Barney, Skinner and Chief Wiggum) and strongly resemble their modern counterparts. There's also mention of a Commander Flanders, even though "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song]]" and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E8HurricaneNeddy Hurricane Neddy]]" establish that Flanders' father was a beatnik (unless he became a beatnik after the war or it was his grandfather).

** The descendant of the original owner of the paintings. He is completely ungrateful to the State Department officials who got them back to the point of insulting them, cares more about keeping the compact disc player that is in the trunk of his car pristine than the priceless paintings that are being loaded there, and mocks Grandpa and Bart for having a heartfelt moment.

* KarmaHoudini: Though Grandpa did beat him up and humiliate him, Mr. Burns got away scott free with his attempted murder on Grandpa.

''(Ned throws him the keys, who keeps frowning and sawing the boat's chain)''

* RealityEnsues: It's revealed Abe's World War II Infantry squad found a cache of priceless paintings in a German castle and hid them, setting up a Tontine to determine who would eventually claim them. Once Abe claims the paintings, State Department agents immediately show up to confiscate them since war or not, those paintings were stolen and hands them to the descendant of their rightful owner.

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: After the State Department takes the paintings and Bart points out that this makes the whole adventure AllForNothing, Grandpa says he's still glad because Burns didn't got the paintings and he got to spend time with his grandson.

** The descendant of the original owner of the paintings. He is completely ungrateful to the State Department officials who got them back to the point of insulting them, cares more about keeping the compact disk player that is in the trunk of his car pristine that the priceless paintings that are being loaded there, and mocks Grandpa and Bart for having a heartfelt moment.

Mr. Burns sends assassins after Grandpa when he becomes the only person standing between him and a collection of priceless paintings that the two looted during the Second World War. With Bart helping him, will Grandpa recover the paintings in time, or will Burns beat him to it?

* DisproportionateRetribution: Burns ''pointed a gun at Bart, and later kicked him into the Hellfish safe, which nearly drowns him'' just for insulting him.

* EvilIsPetty: And how! Burns is a ''multi-billionaire'', and yet is willing and able to commit murder just because it would let him "win" the {{Tontine}}.
* ExactWords: The last remaining Hellfish member will receive the tontine. Grandpa has Burns kicked out of the Hellfish, thereby taking away Burns' claim to the tontine.

* GenerationXerox: Many of the Flying Hellfish are the fathers of several Springfield citizens (specifically Barney, Skinner and Chief Wiggum) and strongly resemble their modern counterparts. There's also mention of a Commander Flanders, even though "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baaaadassss Song" and "Hurricane Neddy" establish that Flanders' father was a beatnik (unless he became a beatnik after the war or it was his grandfather).

* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: Asa Phelps' funeral.

* LonelyFuneral: Asa Phelps' funeral has only Abe and Burns attending, with Lovejoy monotonously reading off his life history, and Burns isn't there to pay respects to Asa.

* RealityEnsues: Grampa and Bart defeat Burns, but that doesn't change the fact that he's not actually the rightful owner of the paintings, and the State Department promptly confiscate them to return to the descendant of the original owner.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: For different reasons, both Milhouse's and Nelson's grandfathers compare themselves to {{Superman}}.

* {{Tontine}}: One involving Burns and Grandpa Simpson and a collection of stolen paintings.

* WouldHurtAChild: Mr. Burns is willing to possibly kill a child [[DisproportionateRetribution just for insulting him]].

** The descendant of the original owner of the paintings. He is completely ungrateful to the State Department officials who got them back to the point of insulting them, cares more about keeping the compact disk player that is on the trunk of his car pristine that the priceless paintings that are being loaded there, and mocks Grandpa and Bart for having a heartfelt moment.

* AndTheRest: In the flashback, Abe lists off the Hellfish, finishing with a hurried "there was also Griff, Asa, Ox and Etch".

* NoodleIncident: The Veterans' Day Float Disaster of '79, which somehow killed five members of the Hellfish.

* PetTheDog: While he is later [[WouldHurtAChild willing to kill Bart]], Burns treats him affectionately when he offers to join him, and apologises for waking up Maggie.

* [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Amazingly Embarrassing Grandparent]]: Grandpa to Bart at a Grandparent's Day at Springfield Elementary:

* LongTitle: The full title of this episode is "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in, 'Curse of the Flying Hellfish.'" It's often shortened to just "Raging Age Simpson" or "Curse of the Flying Hellfish" by fans.

** Mr. Burns. He is willing to murder his commanding officer (and his grandson) over some priceless paintings that he probably already has copies of due to his extreme wealth.