10 Times The Simpsons Ruined Homer's Life
7. Abe Telling Him He Had Been An Accident
As we’ve just seen, Homer regularly emphasises to Bart that he had been an accident when the boy crosses his father. Hypocritically, though, when his own father tells him the same thing about himself, Homer considers it a grievous insult.
Homer and Abe don’t have a very close relationship at all, and there’s a good deal of resentment there. Homer has attributed his own shortcomings as a father to the fact that he didn’t have a positive male role model of his own during his childhood. By the same token, Abe often grumbles about the fact that Homer very rarely visits him in the retirement home.
One of their few adventures together, selling Grampa’s magical love tonic together in “Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy,” almost ends in disaster. As they get into an argument on the road, Abe states that ‘Simpson and Son’s Revitalizing Tonic’ is the only reason he had Homer in the first place: he was an accident. Enraged by this revelation, Homer abandons his father on the road and drives away.
The pair later reconcile (somewhat), but not before simultaneous, separate accidents that burn down their family home.