Waylon J Smithers, Jr., usually referred to by simply his surname, is a recurring fictional character in the long-running animated series The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.

Smithers is an obedient and sycophantic assistant to Mr. Burns.

Waylon Smithers is Burns ' devoted executive assistant.

Although he is not openly gay, Smithers frequents Springfield's gay village and goes on a vacation to a male-only resort.

Smithers is shown to have a passionate and deep love for Mr. Burns and his sexual orientation has been characterized by the writers of the show as " Burns-sexual ".

" Smithers has openly declared his love for Burns on at least two occasions, such as in " Lisa the Skeptic ", when, believing the world is ending, Smithers says " Oh, what the hell!

Burns himself has been involved with several women and in " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", Smithers is noticeably disgusted when Burns starts looking for a female companion.

In " Homer the Smithers ", Burns orders Smithers to take a vacation and Homer Simpson is hired as a temporary replacement.

Smithers ' official job at the power plant appears to be that of executive assistant, which he says is " actually about 2, 800 smaller jobs " responsible for monitoring employee attendance, and is often a disciplinarian and has won dozens of employee of the month awards.

Smithers has the largest collection of Malibu Stacy dolls in Springfield and is the president of the Malibu Stacy fan club.

Smithers is an obedient and sycophantic assistant to Mr. Burns.

Smithers ' sexual orientation has often come into question, with some fans claiming he is a " Burns-sexual " and only attracted to his boss, while others maintain that he is, without a doubt, gay.

In the first scene, Smithers is told about the rebellion by an old woman, and then has a lengthy conversation with Jones.

:: February 23 – Alamo messenger Launcelot Smithers carries to the people of Gonzales, the Colonel William Barret Travis letter stating the enemy is in site and requesting men and provisions.

Smithers explained that disconnection was an everyday part of life in Saint Hill, " It goes round by word of mouth when someone is an outcast.

Snowball I is mentioned for the first time and Waylon Smithers can be heard over the speaker at the power plant, but he is not seen.

Smithers is a city in West Virginia, along the Kanawha River.

In the 1990 episode " Simpson and Delilah ", the character Karl ( voiced by Harvey Fierstein ) kisses Homer, while the recurring character Waylon Smithers is often shown to be in love with his boss, Montgomery Burns, initially suggestively and since then more overtly.

Aubrey Beardsley started to write an erotic treatment of the legend which was never to be finished due to his illness ; the first parts of it were published in The Savoy and later issued in book form by Leonard Smithers with the title Under the Hill.

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

In his first visual appearance in " Homer's Odyssey ", Smithers was mistakenly animated with the wrong color and was made an African American by Gyorgi Peluci, the color stylist.

'" In a 2006 study conducted by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, it was determined that nine of the 679 lead and supporting characters on scripted broadcast television were gay or lesbian, but Smithers was not included.

A list published in 2008 by the same organization included Smithers ;< ref >

Shortly afterwards, Hector uncovers an apparent plot by an old, trusted employee, Mr. Smithers, to steal cash from the bank, and alerts Mr. Bagby.

Beardsley converted to Roman Catholicism in March 1897, and would subsequently beg his publisher, Leonard Smithers, to “ destroy all copies of Lysistrata and bad drawings ... by all that is holy all obscene drawings.

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Coincidentally, voice actor Harry Shearer, who does the voices of Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders on The Simpsons, played the character Frankie ( a precursor to the Eddie Haskell character ) in the pilot episode of Leave It to Beaver.

Harry Shearer, the voice of Mr. Burns and Smithers, could not attend the table read for the episode, so his parts were read by Dan Castellaneta ( the voice of Homer ).

Dan Castellaneta occasionally fills in for Shearer at table reads and voices Smithers.

#" Happy Birthday, Mr. Smithers "-Harry Shearer

The idea for Smithers ' orientation came from Sam Simon, who proposed that Smithers should be gay, but the writers should never draw too much attention to it and should try to keep it in the back of their heads.

The idea for Smithers ' orientation came from Sam Simon, who proposed that Smithers should be gay, but the writers should never draw too much attention to it and should try to keep it in the back of their heads.

Al Jean, who thinks of Smithers as being a " Burns-sexual ", felt that had Mr. Burns been a woman, then Smithers would not be gay.

The first and last scenes feature a character named Smithers, a white trader who appears to be part of illegal activities.

Also in 1984, The Mail on Sunday interviewed Gulliver Smithers, a former Scientologist who had left the group's base at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead at age 14.

* Kay Cousins as Irate Mother ( of " Percival Smithers ", the ill-mannered kid who tells " Santa Corwin " that, for a Christmas present, he wants " a new front name ")

Jan Smithers was one of the few WKRP cast members who was the first choice for the role she played ( Gordon Jump being the other one ).

In " Homer the Smithers " he is seen in the opening scene with his arm around a woman who appears to be his girlfriend.

Smithers, an Australian comparativist working on native histories, argues that Windschuttle's political agenda shows a ‘ discomfort with the way the " orthodox school " by inflating Aboriginal deaths, impugns Australian identity and its virtuous Anglo-Saxon origins .’ Windschuttle's book plays to ' the white wing populism of white Australians, who feel their racially privileged position is under attack .’ By reaction, Smithers argues, Windschuttle highlights ' the nation ’ s virtues ’, privileging the opinions of settlers and colonial officials, ' while rejecting Aboriginal oral histories.

The pilot episode was directed by Grant Rule, an Executive Producer of Countdown, it was shot in an old warehouse in Pyrmont and starred Terry Serrio from the Elks and Joy Smithers, who would later star in Bangkok Hilton mini series with Nicole Kidman.

In this film, MacDonald plays a hitman who becomes engaged to the leading lady, played by Smithers.

Some of these character traits came from the actress who played Bailey, Jan Smithers, who was herself involved with animal-rights and clean-energy causes ; as with many of the WKRP characters, elements of the actor were incorporated into the character, giving the character more depth as the show went on.

Jan Smithers was one of the few WKRP cast members who was the first choice for the role she played ( Gordon Jump being the other one ).

The game ends with the player ( s ) having a showdown with a bomb throwing Smithers and then finally Mr. Burns who is in a plutonium-powered armored fighting vehicle.

In the 19th century, the Priapeia were translated into English by Leonard Smithers and Sir Richard Burton ( the latter of whom also freely translated The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ), who provided numerous glosses concerning the sexual practices and proclivities that are referenced in the poems.

Frustrated, Smithers is instead forced to fire Karl, who has sacrificed his own job to save Homer's.

A poor London orphan, Samuel Smithers found refuge and work as a lab assistant with a famous botanist who was researching the intelligence of plant life.