‘SIMPSONS’ SMITHERS COMES OUT. The new episode, premiering this Sunday, is titled “The Burns Cage,” and it is inspired by the personal story of one of The Simpsons writers.

The Simpsons will give Smithers a new boyfriend in an upcoming episode and we hope this cool guy sticks around for a long time. The post THE SIMPSONS Is Giving Smithers a Rich, Suave Boyfriend ...

A review of ’The Simpsons’ episode "The Burns Cage," where Waylon Smithers comes out to Mr. Burns.

It took 26 seasons, but a “Simpsons” character is finally ready to reveal the show’s worst-kept secret. Mr. Burns’ personal assistant, Waylon Smithers Jr., will finally come… ...

After 27 seasons of not-so-subtle hints on The Simpsons, longtime Springfield resident Waylon Smithers Jr. will finally come out and reveal to viewers he is gay in an episode inspired by a ...

One of the longest-running plotlines on The Simpsons took a major step forward Sunday when Waylon Smithers, personal assistant to the evil billionaire Mr. Burns, finally came out to the people of ...

And Sunday night's episode exemplified how the series is still a model for other animated comedies, when one of the show's OG characters, Waylon Smithers Jr., came out as gay.

When Waylon Smithers Jr. finally comes out Sunday night after 27 years in the closet on “The Simpsons,” he won’t be the only one celebrating. Longtime show writer Rob LaZebnik tells The Post ...

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 ...

The sexual orientation of The Simpsons’ Smithers, acidic assistant to perpetually prickly billionaire Montgomery Burns, has long been an open secret. He’s constantly spotted in Springfield’s ...

Smithers coming out is just another example of The Simpsons using the zeitgeist to make up for lazy writing. Being pro-LGBT is great, but not at the expense of good narrative ...

Why, after 27 years on the air, do Simpsons fans still stick around? Because the characters' backstories are so much more colorful than Springfield yellow.