@@oluwarotimi_98 It's slang for someone being overly flamboyant with their homosexuality. Pink shorts, pink tank tops, painted nails, lipstick, glitter spraying off their every movement. Course that's an overexaggeration.
“Mothers, lock up your daughters; Smithers is on the town.” That sounded genuinely affectionate. It’s sweet to know that, even setting aside Smithers’ attraction, Burns does care about him.
Well, you have to look at the type of character Mr. Burns has. He is a reclusive control freak, who thinks of himself as a super-villain. But his good looks went out the window sometime way back in the early 1960s, when he first started losing all his hair. But even THEN, the poor guy had the tiniest jaw and chin, which still accentuated his over-bite. Now, he is nothing but an old dried up twig. And like Jacob Marley, who was the only friend Scrooge ever had, Smithers is the only friend Burns ever had. Mr. Burns is nowhere near as mean and ill tempered as Scrooge, but he is still not very “likable.” And there are a surprising number of such people who have a very awkward “disability.” Same goes for many people like Smithers.
TRIVIA TIME! In that episode, Burns originally said ".... kiss my sorry *butt* goodbye....", but it was later rerecorded, and the use of the words "butt" and "@$$" by Burns and Bart were swapped in later airings
You left the one where they go into a strip club and Smithers gets separated from Mr Burns and when Mr Burns finds him he's getting grind on by two women and he is absolutely repulsed and scared lol
It's not only that he's "attracted" to Burns, he's fucking obsessed with him, to the point where it just becomes creepy. Smithers could easily find someone way better, but he's obsessed with his 100+ year old boss.
And that Smithers was raised by Burns since his real father died saving Springfield from a meltdown when he was a baby. Dude is dreaming about porking his stepfather :o
smart_truffles That was actually more sad then funny EDIT: Thanks for the likes, but what I meant was that it’s good dark comedy and political satire. I don’t know why some clowns below this comment are saying it’s “homophobic”. They’re probably the same people who got Apu cancelled.
@@butthissureisfun5619 I'm glad somebody mentioned it, I'm also afraid homophobia won't leave the earth anytime soon... keep on fighting though we will get rid of that ignorance
S13 was deep into the Brazen Age, but they in fact made up for it with catchy wordplay rather than thick brocades of parody against the US's self-image
President Kudsi I wonder whether he knows or not. After The Burns Cage he likely knows, but in general there are moments that make me think that he totally knows (the whole sea men bit etc.), but at other times he seems to be completely oblivious, like when he was asking Smithers whether he has some gay plans for the weekend, as in like "mothers, hide your daughters" kinda way 🤣 I wonder if he knows that Smithers is gay, but is oblivious about him being in love with him, and instead he just thinks that Smithers is simply a very loyal/sycophantic worker...
@@qwertyCandy well to Burns Smithers devotion is how his ego thinks the world should act around him because hes that great. Smithers to burns is like porn for his ego.
@@FreyatheSquirrel I don't think mr burns forgets the one time they kissed (dunno what number it was, but i think it was the same episode where mr burns tells smithers he loves him when he thinks the death angle is ending earth). I don't think they ever bring it up again but I'd find that kind of experience pretty memorable for at least a few months if not years
I thought my first exposure to a regular gay person was a character from Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo. But it was actually Smithers because he never had a "big reveal", just regular gay.
I’m blue da ba dee da ba daa Im uncomfortable about that scene. They mixed up fetiches with sexual orientation. Not just because I’m gay that doesn’t mean I’m into fisting WTF?
S. AleElDestructor i’m not sooo sure about the meaning (I’m French haha) but i will try to explain lol. I think Ned was asking Homer to punch him (fisting) but since fisting is something related to sex haha. I don’t know if it makes sense but i hope i’m somehow right and helpful!
"You'd kneel before me?" "Boy, would I do." Interesting how a subtle, blink-and-miss-it blowjob joke from the golden age of _The Simpsons_ is still funnier than more blatant jokes on the subject from supposedly "edgier" comedies.
There's a lot of fanfic and fanart. Simpsons is a 30 year old show, so sometimes a generation of teen Girls will get into it and produce content like they would for any other show
In the early days, Smithers wasn't really properly gay; he was just so fanatically sycophantic that he was in love with one person: his employer. Later, they eased up and gave him a gay social life outside work: around the time of the John Waters episode. Before, he had a fetish and his fetish was cow-towing and subservience: that's why he 'loves' Mr Burns: he's evil, old, and hideous but the only thing that matters to Smithers is that he's the boss.
He was actually Closeted during the first few years. It was subtly implied that he was gay. Sam Simon, James Brooks and Matt Greoning himself finally outed Smithers in a now defunct magazine called "Warped" in 1994.
In the 90s and early 200s they alluded to him being in the closet. Because he was an upstanding man and at the time there was still stigma attached to being gay. Plus it was a good running joke. Wouldn't really work now that people are much more open and accepting of homosexuality and the PC brigade would probably be outraged if they made jokes about being gay.
Forget him just being gay, that ain't news! What gets me about this compilation is the fact that he's an absolute thirsty freak out here living his best life!😂
There certainly used to be a real magic to it back in the day, I was pretty much looking for your comment, because you are right, but it's almost just a reflection on society, there is almost nothing shocking or taboo anymore in comedy or life. Buy 25 years ago the innuendo of Smithers wanting to be with Mr Burns was HYSTERICAL and MINDBLOWING. Now in 2018 it's like, "Yeah, I could see that."
When you're a kid, the Simpsons is a cool cartoon with a bit of foul language and cool kids, when you're an adult, you get all the jokes and it makes the show ever greater...
@Ice Berg Why? Smithers isn't castrated in that scene, he's just not gay. It's a joke about "anti-gay medicines" which people have actually tried to make in real life, but in the future (that episode was set in the future) they actually invented that, according to the Simpsons, but it isn't really effective if he needs to take it every 10 minutes
I remember vividly that when I was a kid, I always used to have Smithers as an imaginary friend for some reason and all of the jokes of him being gay always used to fly over my head as well 😂 I just viewed him in the same light as any other character that was on the show at the time! He is, however, still to this day one of my favourite characters on the show and I really think that Smithers and Burns are the only highlights to me in regards to the newer seasons!
Your not the only one I used to watch the show when nothing good was on and I started enjoying it 2 years ago but Smithers being gay used to fly over my head as well
I used to have an imaginary friend from a show not The Simpsons but Sonic Boom i gad toys if them aswell Orbot and Cubot has nothing to do with gay just saying that you're not the only one that had an imaginary friend from a show
"Her name is Smithers" Considering she's a "queen" of the bees, that supposed to be a mean joke about Smithers' sexuality, but I found this scene actually very cute ^^
Haha...great compilation! Sadly, they decided to fully "out" Smithers instead of the hilarious double entendres over the years. They basically killed off a classic running joke.
"As you can see, the real deal with Waylon Smithers is that he's Mr. Burns' assistant. He's in his early forties, is unmarried, and currently resides in Springfield."
@@garyt.s.368 It wasnt, but it was in an episode which explained the simpsons. I dont remember which, though. I remember the quote begins with, "You might be wondering, what's "the deal" with Waylon Smithers?" However, he was shown to be gay later on, unlike what this quote suggests. But, it is understandable, because Smithers was only seen as gay later on.
@@venus-fe2ne It was in the 138th episode spectacular. It was a question that said, "What's 'the deal' with Waylons Smithers? You know what I'm talking about" Then he said, "I sure do" and it played a bunch of clips that made it seem super obvious that he was gay, and then said that.
