Fans who have been watching the show for a long time know that Mr. Smithers is an assistant and admirer of Mr. Burns. Too much of an admirer, actually. Well, now they want to do an episode where he comes out of the closet.

http://www.avclub.com/article/waylon-smithers-will-come-out-mr-burns-simpsons-se-225974

Man, this isn't desperate... this is mega desperate. What are they going to do next? Have Sideshow Bob finally kill Bart Simpson? Oh wait....

This reminds me of that Archie comic recently with the gay dead guy. C'mon... seriously?

This is ridiculous, everybody knows that Smithers is a Burnsosexual.

They've been stretching for years. I haven't watched a new episode since last year's opener with Krusty's father dying. All that time they were building up this big "character death" and it turned out to be a minor character that almost no one remembered. I refuse to watch another episode until they end the show.

The Simpsons are like the Energizer Bunny.

They keep going and going and going...

They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas these days. 

kidcoffee wrote :

They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas these days.  -end quote

That's true for new shows as much as the old ones. Some of the stuff that passes for television on major networks is crazy. Not that we didn't have some stinkers in my youth, but man... it's reached the level of pathetic these days.

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Simpsons-Probably-End-According-Al-Jean-88647.html

Vaporman87 wrote :

kidcoffee wrote :


They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas these days.  -end quote

That's true for new shows as much as the old ones. Some of the stuff that passes for television on major networks is crazy. Not that we didn't have some stinkers in my youth, but man... it's reached the level of pathetic these days.
-end quote

Sad, but true. Of course I am amazed at how many shows from my youth I watched with rose colored glasses, but even the worst of the bunch had heart. Definitely something a lot of today's shows are missing. 

@blueluigi:

Al Jean says he's been wrong before, so...