Simpsons to feature gay wedding

[Mike Daniels]

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/28140.htm

July 27, 2004 -- SOMEONE on "The Simpsons" is com ing out of the closet and could get married.

"Simpson" producers, including creator Matt Groening, let the news slip out at the San Diego Comic Conven tion over the weekend. But they did not say who it would be.

The way-too obvious choice would be Waylon Smithers, evil nuclear-power tycoon Montgomery Burns' timid toady — who for years has harbored a not-so-secret love for his fragile, scheming century- old boss.

Smithers sexuality has long been a line of discussion among Simpson aficiona dos. And he's professed his love for Burns several times just before disaster seems about to strike. ..... (continued in link)


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I'd say that it's likely to be Lenny and Carl although that would only be slightly less obvious than Smithers.

My guess is they'll take a more obscure character - one that won't have to be followed up every week.

If it's not Lenny and Carl I'd go with Eddie and Lou of the Springfield PD

Any other possible candidates?

[neuvocat]

1. I'll bet its Moe the Bartender.

Just to throw people off.

[tcfrogs]

2. Patty

or Selma, I can never remember which is which.

[Beetwasher]

3. Yeah, that's my guess. The one who never got married

as opposed to the one who always get's married...

[No2W2004]

Patty is the one.

Patty & Smithers were riding on the "Still in the closet" float during the Springfield Gay Pride Parade.

[Mike Daniels]

7. You can tell by the earrings - Selma's usually have an S shape

Selma's also the one who married Sideshow Bob and Troy McClure.

[Catfight]

4. Flanders seems pretty hididdlydoo gay to me too! The marriage

could have been a fiasco.

[tridim]

12. Flanders would be the ultimate

I'd love to see that!

Side show Mel is a good candidate too.

Didn't Rod and Todd both appear gay in a flash-forward segment once? Maybe it was a dream sequence, I can't remember. Milhouse has documented homosexual tendencies in his permanent record.

[Mike Daniels]

18. I think Flanders is too risky

It would be a surprise but I think you'd run into too many problems with viewers since you'd be mixing Rod and Todd into the equation. The Simpsons pokes fun at both sides of the spectrum but they've never really been that forward in terms of advancing any particular agenda.

Is there a regularly occuring gay couple on live TV sit-coms/dramas who have kids? I wouldn't know as I don't watch too much outside of FOX on Sunday.

If not, I don't think the Simpsons are going to aim to be that groundbreaking by giving R&T two dads.

[Catfight]

26. It'd be groundbreaking, Flanders married, finally comes to terms

he is gay, besides, a right winger good ol' christian man coming out...what's better than that? I'm sticking with Flanders!

[realisticphish]

25. ah

but milhouse is obsessed with Lisa..so maybe he's bisexual?

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[bluestateguy]

5. Lenny and Carl

Smithers would be too obvious. Lenny and Carl could be bi, but I could see them marrying.

[LiberalTechie1337]

6. Smithers

it's so obvious, no one would expect it!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. Homer's Mom, maybe?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Homer's mom has got it goin' on.

[tcfrogs]

10. The voice is Glenn Close right?

eom

[Screaming Lord Byron]

11. Uh-huh.

[Mike Daniels]

13. Oooh. Good one

Since Homer's the one doing the weddings that would be an interesting approach to the story.

[name not needed]

14. I say it's Principal Skinner

or possibly Groundskeeper Willy. Or maybe its the ultraconservative Sideshow Bob.

[tcfrogs]

15. Maybe Ms. Hoover?

[LSdemocrat]

16. Possibly that one neighbor that Marge went Thelma & Louise with

[AntiCoup2K4]

17. Principal Skinner!

Remember the Terminator spoof where the robotic Homer scanned Skinner and rated him as a "possible Homer-sexual" ?

[LiberalTechie1337]

24. Didn't Skinner marry Krabappel

[No2W2004]

28. Almost....

Skinner got cold feet, then Edna decided she didn't want to get married.

[LuminousX]

19. Most likely one of the gay guys that let Homer live with them

They'll become kinda sorta recurring characters like the nerds Homer went to college with.

[Lautremont]

20. The Sea Captain

and he's going to marry Handsome Pete. "Arr! A quarter! He'll be dancin' for hours!"

[TheMightyFavog]

21. What about the McBain guy?

He has done gay porn in the past.....

[Atlas Mugged]

22. My money's on Lenny and Carl, too

They've been getting really "thick" in the last two seasons. And, besides, it would also be interacial, making it even more of poke in the eye to the Born Again Taliban.

[TrogL]

23. The comic book guy

and somebody unexpected

[name not needed]

27. It could be Jon, that guy Homer thought was making Bart Gay

Or maybe its somebody from the steel mill.