Waylon Smithers’ Coming-Out on The Simpsons Shows Just How Toothless the Show Is Now
The Simpsons made another certainly one of its late-period, apparently random shifts in narrative on Sunday evening by simply making Waylon Smithers, whose glass-closet homosexuality was among the show’s longest running gags, turn out.
Or, type of: He sang a track about their thwarted love for their employer, nuclear-plant magnate Mr. Burns, which Homer overheard before contriving to create Smithers up by having a good man. A minumum of one response to the episode has argued that Smithers’ not developing (into the feeling of saying aloud it more empty-calorie sentimental that he was gay) was a major misstep, but I’d argue that stopping the entire episode for Smithers to deliver a speech would have been just about the only thing that could have made. (далее…)