# Hot Gay Action on "The Simpsons!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612 "2003-04-14T12:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/61 "2003-04-15T13:10:58Z")
Help! What did CBG say as he was being carried off the field at Medeval Times? ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/62 "2003-04-15T13:14:00Z")
Thanks **Amp**! I must have had those two episodes mixed up in my head. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/63 "2003-04-15T13:14:50Z")
> [@](#): > > My wife and I watched this ep with our 11-year-old son. We didn’t appreciate having our kid have to watch men kissing each other. It felt kinda forced, like the writers had some kinda agenda or something. Do you feel that way about a man and a woman kissing? If not, why not? As a gay man, I get really, really steamed when some people treat same-sex affection as something shameful that must be hidden from the impressionable. Love is love, and the genders involved don’t matter. Grow up. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/64 "2003-04-15T13:25:11Z")
My son enjoys the Simpsons; I watch along with him, interspersed with reading. I paid it no mind, its not like my son or anyone will turn gay from watching that. Its a cartoon Its an opportunity to discuss the subject If its not funny, my son doesn’t pay it much mind, anyway. Lighten up dude. ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/65 "2003-04-15T13:29:13Z")
[jasper] Complain about the gay kiss? You bet, that’s a paddlin’. [/jasper] ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/66 "2003-04-15T13:49:32Z")
Lenny was married. There was even a scene of him shaving his wife’s legs. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/67 "2003-04-15T13:59:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > \*\*Help! What did CBG say as he was being carried off the field at Medeval Times? \*\* All he said was “Oh. Oh, lordy.” I just checked my copy of the episode to be sure. He mumbled it quietly enough that I can see how you might think he said something more substantial. Homer: “Who made you Judge Judy and executioner?” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/68 "2003-04-15T14:08:02Z")
**Vanilla** , are you competing with **Polycarp** for the Best Christian of the Year Award, or something? ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/69 "2003-04-15T14:19:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\* (Although I did like it at the end when she blew up at him in the medieval-themed restaurant.) \*\* “Reverend and Mrs. Lovejoy . . . Principal Skinner . . . Duffman . . .” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/70 "2003-04-15T15:20:19Z")
You guys missed the best lesbian joke from a past episode: [Ellen DeGeneres & Anne Heche]“WE’RE LESBIANS!”[/Degeneres & Heche] ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/71 "2003-04-15T17:22:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\ ***Vanilla** , are you competing with **Polycarp** for the Best Christian of the Year Award, or something? \*\* Religion bashing? I thought you were better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/72 "2003-04-15T18:09:22Z")
_Huh?_ For the first time in my life, I _wasn’t_ being sarcastic, and this is the thanks I get! ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/73 "2003-04-15T18:24:06Z")
I heard you loud and clear, **Eve**. **blanx** gets my laugh of the morning for quoting Jasper. No one ever quotes Jasper. Or maybe I’m all hot and bothered after the lesbian triple-post. Naughty. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/74 "2003-04-15T18:46:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gobear \* > \*\*Do you feel that way about a man and a woman kissing? If not, why not? > > As a gay man, I get really, really steamed when some people treat same-sex affection as something shameful that must be hidden from the impressionable. Love is love, and the genders involved don’t matter. > > Grow up. \*\* I liked the John Waters gay ep just fine. It was the tone of the whole thing: “Watch these two men kissing – it’ll be GOOD for ya!” Pfui. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/75 "2003-04-15T18:53:21Z")
And so it was. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/76 "2003-04-15T18:59:47Z")
**Eve** , sorry if you weren’t being sarcastic. **Evil Captor** , you must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/77 "2003-04-15T19:03:10Z")
It must be my “sneer lines.” Naturally misleads people. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/78 "2003-04-15T19:11:38Z")
…from _Bart to the Future_ - Blind Smithers gives Bart money for “not outing Rod & Tod” who are on the front lawn polishing a desk. (Which I always thought was a reference to the brothers from _Antiques Roadshow_, but I didn’t think they were gay so it always sorta confused me). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/79 "2003-04-15T19:37:20Z")
While we’re (more or less) on the topic, I was surprised to see [this story at CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/15/television.kiss.reut/index.html) today: > [@](#): > > Daytime television viewers – considered to be among America’s most conservative audiences – will see their first on-screen lesbian kiss next week, ABC television said Monday. I’m stunned over here. With all the steam & melodrama, there hasn’t been a lesbian kiss before? They got around to plotlines about angels and vampires before they went for the easy gaysploitation angle? I’m quite honestly bumfuzzled. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612/80 "2003-04-15T19:50:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*…from _Bart to the Future_ - Blind Smithers gives Bart money for “not outing Rod & Tod” who are on the front lawn polishing a desk. (Which I always thought was a reference to the brothers from _Antiques Roadshow_, but I didn’t think they were gay so it always sorta confused me). \*\* Actually, that’s blind _Flanders_. It’s an easy mistake, what with all the Smithers/Flanders Slash sites on the web. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-gay-action-on-the-simpsons/168612.md?page=5)