Fox’s animated cartoon comedy–The Simpsons–holds the record for the longest-running scripted television series in history. What started as a humorous portrayal of a turbulent nuclear family quickly developed into much more, complete with witty satire and a peculiar prophecy. Characters in the most recent episode, Cremains of the Day, had to confront the death of Larry the Barfly–one of its fictitious characters. He appeared in the show’s inaugural episode, the 1989 Christmas special Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. Since it is not the just-another-character of just-another-show, we’ve got a lot of explaining to do.
Unexpectedly, a character who largely affects Homer and his friends but has little bearing on the show overall was killed off in The Simpsons season 35 episode 15.
Among the barflies who often visited Moe’s bar was Larry Dalrymple, also referred to as Larry. He was frequently spotted with his closest friend Sam, and he was usually just a background figure at the pub, attracting little attention to himself. In actuality, Larry had just two lines in the entire series and didn’t converse with Moe, Carl, Lenny, or Homer.
In the episode, Homer, Moe, Lenny and Carl attend his burial. Realising how little they had known about him despite their long friendship, Homer wonders whether they could have been “terrible people.”
Despite making many appearances, he didn’t really add anything to the plot. That does not, however, imply that Homer or the others didn’t care about him. As it turns out, Larry loved the barflies and referred to them as “Moe’s bros,” considering them to be his best friends.
In the most recent episode of The Simpsons, Larry played his first and last significant role. Following Larry’s funeral, the barflies from Moe’s Tavern, including Moe himself, take a road trip to disperse his ashes. They meet Larry’s mother Iris Dalrymple along the way and learn that Larry enjoyed fishing. He regularly told her stories about his Moe’s Tavern friends and they now realise Larry thought of them as his best friends.
However, as the episode showed, Homer and the others didn’t exactly view it that way. A montage shows several instances in which Larry regrettably continued to drink by himself while Homer and the others had been hanging out together on the trips shown in the series.
They decide to scatter Larry’s ashes at Serenity Falls, a location that Larry had dreamed he and his bros would visit one day after Marge makes them all feel bad for not realising how sad Larry was.
In addition to dealing with the tragedy that affected them more than they anticipated, Homer and his buddies truly become closer on the journey, and it is revealed that Larry was part of a jewel smuggling operation.
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