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| Smithers officially came out as gay on 'The Simpsons' |
And Sunday night's adventure exemplified how the alternation is still a archetypal for added activated comedies, if one of the show's OG characters, Waylon Smithers Jr., came out as gay.
The character's female — and his longtime admiration with his boss, Mr. Burns — isn't a abruptness to admirers who've bent affluence of references in antecedent episodes. Sunday's episode, "The Burns Cage," treats Smithers' character like a commonly-known fact, as Homer tries to acquisition a new guy for his bang-up afterwards Smithers realizes his animosity for Mr. Burns will not be reciprocated.
Not alone is the adventure a refreshingly complete analysis of female on TV, but it aswell comes with a candied backstory. The episode's biographer Rob LaZebnik told the New York Post that he was aggressive by his son Johnny's own adventures with advancing out. “I am a Midwestern guy, so I don’t tend to abrasion my affections on my sleeve, but I thought, ‘What bigger way to acquaint my son I adulation him than to address a animation about it?’" he said.
"The Burns Cage" was greeted with absolute reviews from critics, with Dennis Perkins autograph for the AV Club, "The actuality that Smithers’ female is just addition actuality of activity [the Simpsons] absorb into their arrangement grants Smithers the commonplace address of getting just addition neighbor. It’s nice."
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