35 years after his introduction, The Simpsons just killed off a character who’s been there since episode 1

RIP Larry Dalrymple. The Simpsons has killed off one of its oldest characters, who’s been in the show for 35 years and made his first appearance in the show’s very first episode.

Larry was a regular at Moe’s Tavern who was mostly seen propping up the bar with a pint of Duff Beer. Fittingly, then, it’s in Moe’s Tavern that he died suddenly in the latest episode of season 35, titled ‘Cremains of the Day’. The rest of the episode sees Homer, Moe, Lenny, and Carl attend Larry’s funeral and set out to scatter his ashes – but they soon discover that his urn contains something else, too…