
It acquired a Nielsen rating of 8.3, and was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired. The staging in several scenes was based on DC Comics's Sgt. The animation of the episode has been praised for its action and underwater scenes.

It was inspired by several stories about lost art surfacing. The episode was written by Jonathan Collier and directed by Jeffrey Lynch. Bart eventually joins Grampa in a daring mission to recover the paintings. To escape death, Grampa moves into the Simpsons' house, where the family lets him live in Bart's room. Burns wants the paintings as soon as possible, he orders Grampa's assassination. In the final days of the war, the unit had discovered several paintings and agreed on a tontine, placing the paintings in a crate, and the final surviving member would inherit the paintings. Burns as the only living members of Grampa's war squad, the Flying Hellfish. In the episode, one of Abraham "Grampa" Simpson's fellow World War II veterans, Asa Phelps, dies, leaving him and Mr. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 28, 1996. " Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" is the twenty-second episode of The Simpsons' seventh season.

" Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"." The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".Everyone and everything gets sucked down the drain. Homer notices a plug in the middle of the floor and pulls it. "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"
