After all, Larry the Barfly wasted the final 35 years of his life there before finally slumping over his bar stool and both the Moe’s crowd and the viewers at home barely noticed him.

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There’s an empty barstool at Moe’s Tavern. Fox’s long-running sitcom “The Simpsons” killed off one of its familiar characters Sunday night — Larry the Barfly. Larry, who was often ...