The upcoming episode, titled “Portrait Of A Lackey On Hearth,” was written by longtime sequence author Rob LaZebnik and his son Johnny LaZebnik, who impressed him to write down Smithers’ authentic coming-out episode.
“So typically, homosexual romances are a subplot or alluded to or proven in some type of montage or as a punchline,” Johnny LaZebnik advised the New York Submit this week.
“And what I feel I used to be actually enthusiastic about, with this episode, we get to see — with out spoiling an excessive amount of — the start, center and who is aware of the way it ends of a homosexual relationship, of actually stepping into the nitty-gritty of how homosexual individuals date, how they meet, what it is like.”
In keeping with the episode synopsis: “Smithers finds real love with a well-known dressmaker, however will his new relationship destroy Springfield?”
His new boyfriend is vogue mogul Michael De Graaf, voiced by Victor Garber.
Garber, the overtly homosexual star of International’s “Household Legislation,” advised the New York Submit he was “crucially necessary that these tales are acknowledged,” including that each time he performs a homosexual character “it brings again sure emotions I had as a younger actor the place I could not be homosexual.”
Smither’s sexual orientation was an open secret on the present for years. Earlier than his official popping out in season 27, his utter infatuation with Mr. Burns was depicted in elaborate fantasy sequences.
