Waylon Smithers Jr. came out of the closet in Sunday's episode. — -- After 27 years on the animated series "The Simpsons," character Waylon Smithers Jr. came out of the closet on Sunday night ...

Smithers' sexuality has been a running gag in the show since its early episodes – from Waylon fantasising about his boss gliding through his open window at night to him being traumatised by the ...

Waylon Smithers Jr, the loyal assistant to cantankerous billionaire Montgomery Burns, will finally find love in a landmark episode of “The Simpsons.” The character, who came out in a 2016 ...

Smithers and his new boyfriend Michael De Graaf (played by Victor Garber) on 'The Simpsons.'. 20th Television/The Simpsons In season 27's low-key coming-out episode, "The Burns Cage," Homer hosted ...

Smithers has fantasized about Mr. Burns popping out of a birthday cake, naked, and when he thinks the world’s going to end in “Lisa the Skeptic,” he plants a kiss on Burns’ lips.

Waylon Smithers will find love with a new boyfriend in an upcoming episode of The Simpsons, which will explore a gay relationship on the show for the first time. Read More: Every time The Simpsons ...

And while Johnny may not fully identify with Smithers — “I’m more of a gay Lisa Simpson,” he admits — he plans to tune in Sunday. His 22nd birthday is on April 8, so the episode is “an ...

But from Smithers -- who exists to play out a mocking image of gay men -- to the hirsute, messy Max on the departed "Happy Endings" -- who was a waddling gay joke for the constantly-remarked-upon ...