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Long-time Simpsons character becomes 8th to be killed off in over three decades
With the goodbye of seven classic characters over the years, we’ve come to the point where it’s time for another to go.
Since its debut in 1989, The Simpsons have given us plenty of laughs as children and definitely as adults, when we’ve chuckled at a reference clearly aimed at the grown-ups. The city of Springfield has become a part of the global psyche over the years and we’ve all grown to love some of the most iconic faces in all of television.
However, the time comes for everyone to say goodbye at some point, and it seems that Matt Groening’s world is no different, as The Simpsons are now getting ready to kill off one of their beloved faces.
And this one has been here since the very first episode.
Which character did The Simpsons kill off?
We have said our farewells to Edna Krabappel, Fat Tony and Maude Flanders, to name a few, but now the creators have taken the step to remove Larry Dalrymple, also affectionately known as Larry the Barfly.
Everyone knows the pub regular and Larry was the stalwart at Moe’s Tavern along with Sam. In the latest episode, Cremains Of The Day, he simply and silently passes away in the place he loved the most. Sitting at the back corner with his best friend, he hardly spoke in any episode, but that didn’t stop him from becoming a piece of the furniture on the show.
In fact, Larry only speaks in two episodes in the entire show: in the episode “Bart Gets Hit by a Car”, he says “Who’s the chick!? [wolf whistles] Woooo!” in reaction to Marge entering the bar. In “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)”, he says one word: “Colleague”.
Homer, Moe, Lenny and Carl all make the gesture of attending Larry’s funeral, only to realise they knew incredibly little about him, to which Homer asks his friends if they were “terrible people”. In his final episode, however, we learn quite a lot about him.
Shortly after Homer’s remark, Larry’s mother, Iris Dalrymple, hits the gang in the stomach when she says that “My Lawrence always talked about his best friends, the fellows at Moe’s Tavern.” We also learn that he liked fishing and that he called himself a part of the “Moe’s Bros” gang, the group of drinkers at the Tavern. Farewell, Larry.