Smithers was originally black with blue hair, as seen in. As he and his fellow henchmen were making their escape, he (quite literally) bumped into the Simpsons family, causing him to lose the diamond, and for Maggie to catch it. "We'll have a gay old time." [5] After coming out he later dated Julio, although Smithers's continuing feelings for Mr. Burns interfered with their relationship. Sex [13] A lesser demonstration of this challenging him was when he aided the Simpson children in giving a vital clue towards how Sideshow Bob won the mayoral race, with his reasoning behind this being implied to be disagreement with Sideshow Bob about restricting those of his "sexual lifestyle.". Eventually he became Mr. Burns' personal assistant. This drove him into a nightmare of alcohol abuse and Comedy Central viewing. As seen on Professor Frink's future machine, at age 43, Smithers has to inject himself with some concoction every 10 minutes with a syringe to be heterosexual (upon taking the injection he waves his arms in the air and shouts "I loves boobies!"). As well as physical attacks, Smithers throws a three-eyed fish at his opponent, while Burns throws exploding nuclear rods. He is unlocked upon … He shares the same surname as Hubert H. Smithers, a character from Archie Comics who is the butler of Archie's girlfriend, Veronica Lodge. Gray/tanBlue (originally) His father, Waylon Smithers, Sr., worked for Burns until he died of radiation poisoning after saving Springfield from a potential nuclear meltdown when Smithers was a baby. Dieser ist sichtlich über diese Aussage geschockt und fühlt sich ertappt. After a prolonged chase (including initially losing his quarry in the mountains before retrieving her via a hot air balloon), Smithers proceeded to fight them in Mr. Burns's office, using various bombs. [14] He is passionate about Mr. Burns and has at least occasional fantasies about the older man. The first time, he was to oversee an inspection at Sector 7G, Homer's workplace, for a worker evaluation. [42] The debate is referenced in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", when the episode host, Troy McClure is answering viewer questions, and one that is asked is "What is the real deal with Mr. Burns's assistant Smithers? So hast du deine Lieblings-Communitys immer dabei und verpasst nie wieder etwas. Al Jean, who thinks of Smithers as being a "Burns-sexual",[37] felt that had Mr. Burns been a woman, then Smithers would not be gay. Smithers appears in the first level, where Homer has to deal with him twice. The Simpsons Wrestling In The Simpsons Wrestling, Mr. Burns is one of the game's bosses, although Smithers does most of the fighting for him. He was also tasked with contacting each family relative of Mr. Burns for the various locations in the tour, and also cutting ties with each of his family members (in particular, crossing Abomnible Snow Burns from the Christmas card list and writing Ramses Burns out of his will, in particular being bequeathed his salad bowl). Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employees, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish", Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays, The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be. [38] In his first visual appearance in "Homer's Odyssey", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made African American by Gyorgi Peluce, the color stylist. Smithers doesn't actually have any speaking roles, although he does appear in the opening scene where he is at City Hall near the speech podium as Mr. Burns gives his speech unveiling the Nuclear Powered Megabuses. In 1995, when Burns tried to steal oil from Springfield Elementary, although Smithers nominally had Mr. Burns' back, he secretly was disgusted with what Mr. Burns was doing, even going as far as to, after surveying the closure/damages to the Springfield Retirement Castle, Moe's Tavern, and Springfield Elementary as a result of his slant drilling operation, sarcastically "congratulate" Mr. Burns for wiping out his "enemies" in thinly veiled contempt, and when Mr. Burns attempted to block the sun from Springfield after stealing oil from the elementary school, Smithers objected and was fired.