Waylon Smithers Jr. came out of the closet in Sunday's episode. — -- After 27 years on the animated series "The Simpsons," character Waylon Smithers Jr. came out of the closet on Sunday night's ...

Waylon Smithers Jr, the loyal assistant to cantankerous billionaire Montgomery Burns, will finally find love in a landmark episode of "The Simpsons." Waylon Smithers Jr, the loyal assistant to ...

On last night’s episode of The Simpsons, Waylon Smithers, Jr. (voiced by Harry Shearer) owned up to what we’ve known about him for the better part of the past three decades: his homosexuality. After ...

Fans of The Simpsons are shocked by how different Mr. Burns sounds in the latest episode of the series. On May 12, in the episode titled “The Tipping Point,” Homer loses his mind over tipping culture ...

The Simpsons' Season 5 episode “Burns’ Heir” sees Bart (Nancy Cartwright) named by Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer), impressed by him being a “creature of pure malevolence,” as his legal heir. It’s a ...

The Simpsons’ annual Halloween hodgepodge. Phil McGraw, Richard Lewis, Fran Drescher, Sir Mix-a-lot and Maurice LaMarche guest star. (Mr. Burns and Smithers visit the morgue.) Mr. Burns: Ah, nothing ...

Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner) is interrupted by Mr. Burns (Harry Shearer) at work in The Simpsons' "Marge Gets a Job." Image via Fox The Simpsons has been a lightning rod for controversy right from the ...

In a 1995 episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns stares grimly out the window of the office of his nuclear power plant as he explains to his assistant Waylon Smithers that he cannot yet be proud of his ...

There's no shortage of iconic and critically acclaimed episodes of The Simpsons. And this makes perfect sense, as the show is now the longest-running American sitcom, with 37 seasons and almost 800 ...