the 4 larry fans are in shambles

In a weird, bizarre way, Larry had been on television screens for longer than most characters/shows in American television history. And yet, he barely had a presence.

“If you said Larry the Barfly, you are wrong. He was never popular.”

There are too many people in our lives like Larry. They’re always there until they’re not.

Now that Larry's dead, Sam will fall like a domino!

NOT LARRY

It would geniunely be an interesting premise if they felt guilty enough about not interacting enough with Larry that they make a concerted effort to befriend sam

DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT! You made me think Barney was the one to go and made me relive Maude going to heaven.

I mean RIP to Larry and all, but these media outlets calling him "iconic" or "beloved" are really stretching it. He was a background for years and he rarely showed up at Moe's. Also he has barley said a single word during his appearance on the show. Its different from when they killed off Krusty's dad, he was at least are recurring character who was important in some episodes.

I actually thought it’s Barney. Still a smart character to kill of for a good storyline

Larry's the type of guy who we never talk to as a group or ever really acknowledge him, he's just there. But once he's gone, we all miss him and the group feels empty.

My family actually got really sad for Larry’s passing. That was until I told them they were thinking of Barney, and we proceeded with our day.

"Not one spot light moment" 1:38 Larry casually showing us he mastered shadow clone jutsu xD

The absence of Sam feels very intentional, since him and Larry were basically tied at the hip as characters. His absence feels correct, like he's grieving his friend privately, like lots of men his age do.

Honestly, Sam not showing up is kind of hilarious to me. It makes me imagine that Sam was to Larry what Larry is to the rest of the main barflies? Just some guy who hung around him all the time and thought they were close, but Larry barely even knew he existed.

My wife is from Spain and she always critiques when people speak Spanish in movies and tv but she clapped and said barneys Spanish was great I was so shocked

I recall reading several months ago when looking up Simpsons characters who didn't have a centric episode where a fan wrote synopsis for characters who never had one. This fan wrote about one of the barflies dying due to alcohol poison (either Sam or Larry, can't remember.) Homer swears off drinking to honor the guy only to find out the barfly considered the guys at Moe's Tavern his family. Homer starts drinking again to honor him. This fan spoke Larry's death into existence. Creepy.

"Larry and The Sapphires" sounds like a one-hit wonder band from the sixties.

Rip Larry. Gone, but only slightly forgotten.

This does remind me of a concept that you are the background character in someone else’s story

1:38, Is he there twice? Unless Larry has a twin brother...

It's implied that Fat Tony is married to a woman named Connie, and his last name is D'Amico. Which means his wife has the same name as the blonde girl who bullies Meg on Family Guy. Weird.

Man. I actually unironically really liked Larry. I just liked his and Sam’s designs. They really added a lot to the background of Moe’s and made it feel more alive, which I suppose isn’t the word Moe’s should be described as?

Not me who thought they’d just straight up kill apu…

I always thought that he was already gone, because the only two times he spoke, he was a Phil Hartman character. All the characters he did were basically retired.

The Simpsons killing off Larry is like when South Park killed off Jason White, if any of you remember him.

I like theory that Sam was just to heart broken to attended Larry funeral. It's a better answer then anything.

This show really should stop killing off characters. Like, i know Larry was just a forgotten character who barely contributed to the show at all, but him actually dying in the show means yet another fragment of the original show dying.

"Larry and the Sapphires" would be a great band name 😊

Homer not jumping on 3 felt like a good, old-school Simpsons joke.

That lack of Sam really was weird, i always felt that those two were friends so that the bar had two friend groups present rather than just one with Homer and his gang.

Before I tapped on the video: "Hans Moleman?" After tapping on the video: "Oh! That guy! Yeah, he HAS been around a long time!" There are people that are around you all the time and when they pass away, you don't notice until some time later.

I get they wanted to make it little emotional for the guys, but I honestly felt little investment in the episode. They should've Included Sam and had them call out the guys for not getting to know him and Larry, that would've made it more impactful.

PS I bet Sam will be around. My meta theory is going to the funeral would be too painful for him, or he's part of the gem smuggling and had to go into hiding once the cremation would reveal the secret. Remember as well, this is 6 AM in the morning they're at Moe's in this episode...

Kinda wish they did more with Sam & Larry. Suprised they didn't do anything with them in over 35 seasons. Like maybe instead of killing Larry off they could have had the bar regulars finding out about his loneliness/ liking for them, and maybe they could have took him on a road trip for real. Or something. I don't know, I know he was always in the background, but he does feel nostalgic in a way, like he was always there. It's like the Kwiki E Mart without the Squishee machine or the Power plant without the cooling towers. Sorry I'm just rambling while being tired as hell lol

Even though we never knew Larry I’m sure gonna miss him. R.I.P larry say hi to snowballs 1-4, Maude Flanders, Edna Karbaple, the old fat Tony and sherry bobbins for us ❤

"Those electric cars even explode quiet."

I love obscure characters, but I feel like the death of Larry is a microcosm of the show itself: a shambling zombie with nowhere else to go.

Thank you. I never even realized that there was a Larry. And using Elenor Rigby as the song was genius

Another one of those "The Simpsons does something worth while except with the character that isn't really a big part of the universe and no one really knows to try and keep relevancy" type things. Clown in the Dumps springs instantly to mind.

Larry the Barfly died in the bar and was buried along with his name Nobody came Ol' Reverend Lovejoy whipping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave No one was saved...

"And Moe? He just triggered me right down to my core." "It's just a sad, silent void: nothing. And it's not even a regular nothing; it's an absence of everything." No wonder I always liked Moe so much. I hate how relatable that opinion is to me.

For Sam, they could have just said that he's helping Larry's mom out at home while she was grieving.

They could’ve said Sam was dead too. Like when they said Larry was unloved they could’ve said “what about that one guy he always hung out with?” Then cut to his tombstone or something and they’re like “oh.”

They should have had a tag with Sam and Fat Tony. Tony says, "With Larry gone, you're promoted to jewel smuggling." Sam nods and begins swallowing gems. We hear him swallowing gems all through the credits.

I think if they wanted to correct the plot hole of Sam not being in the episode, they could have just said he was with Barny. Writes the two characters out and shows that Sam also had a friend that Larry didn't have.

Hey why we all gunna gunna forget that the sea captains parrot also died! That legitimately made me sad RIP SEA CAPTAINS PARROT!

I feel like adding Sam would have really cheapened the whole “you never got to know or notice Larry” thing. Also it would have made it less tragic like “well he had at least one actual friend”. The episode keeps a better melancholy when it’s just these guys not realizing

Now i really feel old. I've been watching Simpsons long enough to know the character by name and face just by causally watching the show for 35 years. Damn and while everyone is like "who?" it still hurts watching a character you've seen all your life, even if they didn't do or say much, die.

i clicked on this video like "not carl not carl not carl not carl"

The one thing I found weird was the slight inaccuracy at the top of the episode. The Jaguars did play at Wembley in the 2023 season, but it was against the Falcons. The Jaguars/Bills game took place at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. (Also the Detroit/Ravens game went the other way IRL)

Okay, yeah. That hug after they all said "no" was the most wholesome thing I've seen in a bit.

Larry will return in a Halloween episode I'm almost 100% sure of that.

It's nice to see a new episode video. You haven't made one in a while. Can't wait for more.

Despite only being a background character that never gets a line its still feels very sad to see Larry go, he is like that guy who is always present at your usual hangout place but you never did interacted with him personally but always see him there, now that he's gone you can't help but feel something is missing. This really shows that you should always appreciate the people in your life big or small of an impact they had.

I admit even I completely forgotten about Larry even though I’ve seen him in and off back in the old days of the series. They really went out of their way to make his passing really freaking sad. We gotta applaud the writers this season for stepping up and doing something different to effect the audience

"In American cartoons, characters don't die. They just get hurt and come back later" *The American cartoon:*

I haven't kept up with the show in years but I heard about this one and immediately wondered if Sam was included. I'm super disappointed to learn he wasn't, and even more so to learn that Barney hasn't been relevant since 2003! That's just rotten, if I'm being honest.

I haven’t seen this episode yet so I genuinely believed it was Barney 😂 Where is he?

I feel like the Simpson writers are just trolling us with how they refuse to kill off any major characters and go out of their way to kill off minor ones like with Larry and Krusty’s dad a few years back.

Wow, the Simpsons just killed another secondary character no one really cared about just to gain relevance again, who could have imagine it.

"NOT LENNY!!!!" 😧😧😧 oh, you said Larry... okay then.

We actually get an accurate time when he dies in the episode. When Moe is ranting about his dollar bet, we see Larry looking on with a vacant expression as per usual, but most importantly he's actually holding his beer. He's alive. The next time we see him just a few moments later, his hands are folded and he's staring dead-eyed ahead with a slackened jaw. He died roughly when Moe was swinging his mop around at Homer, Lenny, and Carl, and that was likely the last thing he ever saw.

I think a good way to have written this episode, not that this was bad, because I think many can relate to this in some way, but, perhaps what would have worked would have been, after the funeral, Sam going "He loved you guys, and you barely acknowledged him for years." Which would then go into flashbacks of Larry trying to talk, or do nice things for the guys at the bar and often being ignored (something I feel many of us at one time or another could understand or have personally been through), but other times being somewhat recognized, and for a guy who feels incredibly lonely, even the tiniest amount of kindness was enough for him, living his days at the bar hanging with everyone, even if he wasn't along for the ride on bigger adventures, it was just enough for him to be there with people who did pay him attention here and there. The guys would then realize how much they screwed up and want to set things right by Larry by fulfilling his final wish. I think this would have been a stronger way to right the episode, but I still give the writers credit for actually making people care about a character that had no real impacts other than just being another one of Springfields familiar faces.

I've watched over 20 seasons of this show and have absolutely no recollection of this guy

I watched this episode yesterday, and damn, seeing a character get killed off the series is so upsetting!

Ahh, nothing is more soothing than your daily Simpsons theory. I love your vids! ❤❤❤

I mean if they really wanted a heartfelt moment have it be that moe finally lost his battle with his depression and he finally off himself leading everybody in town to look and see hey we need to do something about this so it doesn't happen to anyone again

You know what they should have done in The Simpsons episode where they talk about Larry's death they could of showed Sam and him standing up and talking about him cause what about if they were friends since kindergarten or if they were drinking buddies you know some extra lore. Because then Larry could have had a true real friend that remembers him since they always sat next to each other in Moe's tavern. He could have said something to the guys and how Larry meant so much to him and stuff you know like a friend cuz what about if they were friends since like kindergarten before they met Homer and the guys. Cause then he could have had a true real friend that cared cause Homer and the guys barely noticed him or remembered him

No Sam? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

I appreciate that you're keeping the receipts, as it were, in regard to the background characters. I had no idea that Sam or Larry even had names, and so (if I'd seen it) this episode just would have come off as introducing a character to kill them off and spin it into an emotional tear-jerker. A la Ponce de Leon in OG Clone High. Except that one was calling the trope out rather than indulging in it.

They should’ve done like a 5 second post credit scene with Sam walking in wearing a hawaiian lei like he just got back from vacation, he looks around, and asked ‘hey wear Larry?’

I don’t think I ever knew this guy was named Larry until this episode. The concept of sending off a character as intentionally bland and undeveloped as him is kinda goofy, but it does lead to a good story for the Moe gang. One of the best this season. (Though the previous ghost kitchen episode maybe hit a bit harder.)

An easy solution would have been to have Fat Tony putting the screws to Sam til he got the sapphires. This would have explained his absence while doubling down on how oblivious the guys have been. Why isn't he in the drawing? Because he drew it. At least, that's my head canon til we see him again ( if we see him, thanks to Moe. )

Surprised you didnt mention how Moe spoke of how he has nothing but the bar, meaning his marriage... doesn't seem canon :(

I love this episode. It’s all about friendship and I’ve been wanting to subscribe to you for a long time, but I didn’t have an account but keep up the good work. I love your.

I think it would've been better if it was mr burns

You know it's not a real character when they can have a scene like 1:38 and the guy shows up twice in the same frame.

1:38 Larry loved the beer so much, he decided to come to Moe's twice at the same time.

I thought it would be Marge's mother who died with the reason being you won't be able to tell the difference between hers and Marge's voice anymore.

Why did I click this thinking "So this is what they decided to do with Apu?"

Maybe Sam was in jail for also doing the same secret job Larry had done?

This episode was genuinely so heartbreaking and yet so realistic The fact that larry was left unoticed and forgotten by those closest those who he considered his friends the segment where the parody of Eleanor Rigby plays is so depressing that he's just observing his friends having fun or hanging out. And the fact that he was observing every conversation every good night out and was not once either invited or spoken too It makes it even more depressing when larry wrote in a book that moes was the place he felt the happiest where he felt like he belonged but yet no one batted an eye It was scary how realistic the episode was. Larrys death was eerie, each characters reaction was realistic. Lennys guilt and immediately treating larrys remains like if larry was still alive and carl denying it and brushing off carl for example. The episode was genuinely the most real and scariest simpsons has been in a while because i relate to larry. I had friends who just ignored me even though i cared about him alot like larry did. Rip Larry. You're not forgotten to us

They should’ve given him an episode where he hangs out with the guys so that way when he actually dies, they feel more sad instead of just scrambling trying to think of some way to say oh how he was a good guy

Sam wasn't here because Moe was was adamant about him getting out of here and taking his Sacagawea dollars with him.

1:38 there’s two Larry’s 💀

5:23 brit girl right here. Your videos are the only way i get to experience season 35 as we don't have it on disney Plus in the uk. So thank you for giving us brits a look into season 35

Larry has been with us since forever. Larry basically is us. We are larry.

Who tf is larry lol

Never thought that Larry Died R.I.P. We hardly knew him but it was still a good episode

Even though I haven't kept up with the newer stuff, this still caught me by surprise, and does get me curious on checking what's been going on as of late. Still, may Larry rest well.

I cant say that i was a big fan of Larry but its always sad to see a Simpsons character die. Especially one that's been around for so long. It would have been nice to see a Sam and Larry background episode though. RIP Larry

This is what the show has reduced to. Killing off background characters and they can’t even include the background character Larry was paired with. The show hasn’t been good since the movie.

I'm been watching the show since I was 2 years old and yet I don't remember this character

Simpsons fact the voice actor of Lary is the same one who voices Ned Flanders, Mr Burns, Lovejoy, and Skinner talk abot range.

So sad Larry dont have more screen time in the Simpsons history and in the end they made this awesome Episode. 2:17 that is a cool artstyle. Lol the scene with ralph is so random, the conspirachy guys are waiting... 8:18 this scene looks so familiar, like from a older Episode.

Best part? Graggle Simpson’s eulogy was wholesome and ensures we all remember Larry *…wait a second*

I hope they keep Larry’s Urn in Moe’s in future episodes

Kinda wish they did a thing were sam and barney might of felt larry and moe were the main 4 of there own story and then larry might of not felt the same way to barney and Sam felt about him not really caring for them explaining there exit from the episode

And I thought it would have been Apu since he's been strangly missing for years now! Doh!