History HoYay / TheSimpsons

* In[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS08E23HomersEnemy Homer’s Enemy]], Homer is very attached to Frank Grimes, much to the latter’s fury.

* Apu and Snake seemed to have evolved from adversaries to [[FriendlyEnemy Friendly Enemies]] to outright FoeYay. Their visit to a councilor in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E14YokelChords Yokel Chords]]" was [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very telling]].

** In a similar vein, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E9DonnieFatso Donnie Fatso]]", Homer teams up with the FBI to infiltrate the mob, and becomes incredibly close to Fat Tony. True, the constant touching, hugging, and kisses on the cheek could be HandWaved by Tony being an Italian gentleman, but when [[spoiler: Tony dies of a heart attack during a sting, Homer mourns like he's just lost the love of his life.]] It's rather sweet, and a tad suspect. Tony even lampshades their close bond: "[[HeterosexualLifePartners To heterosexual male friendship -]] [[BoysLove the kind the Greeks wrote about.]]"

* Marge and Sarah Wiggum become ''really'' close friends in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS32E17UncutFemmes Uncut Femmes]]". The episode even ends with them walking down the stares together while locking arms.

** At one point, the pair was watching Homer and Marge kiss: "Carl remember when we used to kiss like that [[{{Beat}} *beat*]] with our respective girlfriends?"

-->'''Marge''': Don't you push them! They've got to work it out for themselves.

** Ned declares in church that the lord is telling him to confess to something. Cut to Homer watching with fingers crossed (it's usually done for luck) and repeating "Gay...gay...gay...gay...". It's uncertain whether he's hoping Ned is gay so he can have another thing to make fun of him about or he's hoping Ned is gay because he has implied feelings towards him.

* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E22TheNedLiestCatch The Ned-Liest Catch]]" Ned finds out Edna has seen a lot of men in the past and ends up seeing them each appear on her face. Patty's face goes back to normal and she says "experiment".
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E9HolidaysOfFuturePassed Holidays of Future Passed]]", a series of Christmas cards from the Simpsons flash through to signal their aging. In two of them, Lisa is holding hands with a girl.

* Diggs (voiced by Creator/DanielRadcliffe) has a few moments of this with Bart, to the point Bart is in tears when he's taken to a mental hospital for trying to fly. The falcon is even mentioned in later episodes with Bart. He could have very well been the Veronica to Milhouse's Betty to Bart's Archie GayOption if he wasn't a oneshot character.
* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E9LisaTheDramaQueen Lisa the Drama Queen]]", Lisa becomes best friends with Juliet Hobbes, a girl with a British accent who likes roleplaying. And in their fantasy world, they're the two queens who rule over the land of Equalia. And then they run away together when Marge, fearing that their friendship is having a bad effect on Lisa, attempts to separate them...
** This is based on the plot of ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures,'' which was in turn based on a true story. The girls WERE budding baby lesbians[[note]]or at least bisexuals, given their crushes on male celebrities[[/note]] in that incident. [[spoiler: And then they killed some people.]]

* Marge and Lindsey Naegle make out during Homer's daydream in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E11HowTheTestWasWon How the Test Was Won]]".
* There's some subtext between Marge and Ruth Powers in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E6MargeOnTheLam Marge on the Lam]]". The fact that the whole episode was a parody of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' didn't help.
* There are some amazing Les-Yay undertones between Marge and Belle (the Burlesque house owner) in "Bart After Dark".

* In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E14ScenesFromTheClassStruggleInSpringfield Scenes From The Class Struggle In Springfield]], Marge reunites with her old friend from high school, Evelyn Peters, who acts like she's reunited with an old girlfriend who wants to win her back. She seems ESPECIALLY disappointed with hearing that Marge married Homer.

* Bart and Lisa suspect Sideshow Bob of kidnapping Homer in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E15WeddingforDisaster Wedding for Disaster]]". However, it turns out that he's innocent--because the day Homer was kidnapped, Bob was spending the ''whole day'' with Krusty. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JlUX0eaFk Krusty's alibi]] dives headfirst into this.

* [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E14ScenesFromTheClassStruggleInSpringfield Scenes From The Class Struggle In Springfield]], Marge reunites with her old friend from high school, Evelyn Peters, who acts VERY taken with her.

** Ned declares in church that the lord is telling him to confess to something. Cut to Homer watching with fingers crossed (it's usually done for luck) and repeating "Gay...gay...gay...gay...". YMMV on if he's hoping Ned is gay so he can have another thing to make fun of him about or if he's hoping Ned is gay because he has implied feelings towards him.

* There's some subtext between [[BiTheWay Marge and Ruth Powers]] in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E6MargeOnTheLam Marge on the Lam]]". The fact that the whole episode was a parody of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' didn't help.

* StupidSexyFlanders.

** In the same episode, Patty and Selma bought robots programmed to love them. Selma has a male robot, and Patty has a female robot (although that's not too surprising, as Patty already came out as gay in "There's Something About Marrying" (2005 episode)).

--> '''Homer:''' This is all your fault, with your non-threatening Bobby Sherman-style good looks! No girl can resist your charm!

** When Homer is organizing gay weddings but has run out of clients we get this CrowningMomentOfFunny:

* There's "[[Recap/heSimpsonsS2E2SimpsonAndDelilah Simpson and Delilah]]", where Homer meets Karl. Karl helps him work to the top, writes his speeches for him, then tells Homer he isn't a fool. Why not? Because his mother told him never to kiss a fool-- which he does then. Homer also accidentally blurts out "I love you Karl- I mean, Marge" when a singing telegram guy shows up at their door.

* Smithers' relationship with Burns can be seen in this context. Originally, Smithers' character was supposed to be an exaggeration of the YesMan (the sycophantic worker who always sucked up to his boss) and was later his personal servant when Burns was shown more at home than in his office at work, but then came gags like Smithers going to The Maison Derriere just to please his parents -- and being disappointed in it -- in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E5BartAfterDark Bart After Dark]]", Smithers cringing and moaning as female strippers gyrate all around him in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love," Smithers imagining Mr. Burns jumping out of a cake in only a sash and seductively singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. Smithers" (as seen in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]"), Smithers having a computerized version of Mr. Burns on his desktop that says, "You're quite good at turning me on" (as seen in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy]]"), Smithers' vacation at an island of men in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E17HomerTheSmithers Homer the Smithers]]", and the "flying in through the window" fantasy (as seen in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E7MargeGetsAJob Marge Gets a Job]]"), and soon, you have obsessive viewers wondering if Smithers is gay and in the closet or [[SingleTargetSexuality if he has a massive crush on his boss, regardless of gender]]. Considering that recent episodes have Smithers openly admitting that he's gay (something that was even a plot point in one episode), it's probably the former.

* Smithers' relationship with Burns can be seen in this context. Originally, Smithers' character was supposed to be an exaggeration of the YesMan (the sycophantic worker who always sucked up to his boss) and was later his personal servant when Burns was shown more at home than in his office at work, but then came gags like Smithers going to The Maison Derriere just to please his parents -- and being disappointed in it -- in "Bart After Dark," Smithers cringing and moaning as female strippers gyrate all around him in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love," Smithers imagining Mr. Burns jumping out of a cake in only a sash and seductively singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. Smithers" (as seen in "Rosebud"), Smithers having a computerized version of Mr. Burns on his desktop that says, "You're quite good at turning me on" (as seen in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"), Smithers' vacation at an island of men in "Homer the Smithers," and the "flying in through the window" fantasy (as seen in "Marge Gets a Job"), and soon, you have obsessive viewers wondering if Smithers is gay and in the closet or [[SingleTargetSexuality if he has a massive crush on his boss, regardless of gender]]. Considering that recent episodes have Smithers openly admitting that he's gay (something that was even a plot point in one episode), it's probably the former.

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** When Homer is organizing gay weddings but has run out of clients we get this Crowning Moment of Funny:

* Nelson also seems to be an example of this trope. In the episode, "Little Orphan Millie", where Milhouse's parents go missing, Nelson (as well as Bart) are a part of the crowd during school that fawn over Emo Milhouse.

** They even lampshade it now. In the episode "Postcards from the Wedge", Bart has to get a rectal thermometer check-up from Marge in his bedroom, and Lisa replies "Just close your eyes and think of Milhouse."
** In the episode where Apu gets married, Milhouse arbitrarily shows up, and the guys on the commentary track chalk it up to his being Bart's "plus one".
** And when thinking of things to make Homer mad so he can have inspiration for his outsider art, Bart says, "Well, I'm flunking math, and the other day, I was a little attracted to Milhouse!"

* Diggs (voiced by Daniel Radcliffe) has a few moments of this with Bart, to the point Bart is in tears when he's taken to a mental hospital for trying to fly. The falcon is even mentioned in later episodes with Bart. He could have very well been the Veronica to Milhouse's Betty to Bart's Archie GayOption if he wasn't a oneshot character.
* In "Lisa the Drama Queen", Lisa becomes best friends with Juliet Hobbes, a girl with a British accent who likes roleplaying. And in their fantasy world, they're the two queens who rule over the land of Equalia. And then they run away together when Marge, fearing that their friendship is having a bad effect on Lisa, attempts to separate them...

** Homer has also kissed and hugged Ned, filmed him naked in the shower, and Ned puts up with every JerkAss thing Homer does and is generally very kind to Homer.

* In the episode “Chief of Hearts”, Homer and Chief Wiggum develop a friendship that verges on this at times.
** In a similar vein, in the episode "Donnie Fatso", Homer teams up with the FBI to infiltrate the mob, and becomes incredibly close to Fat Tony. True, the constant touching, hugging, and kisses on the cheek could be HandWaved by Tony being an Italian gentleman, but when [[spoiler: Tony dies of a heart attack during a sting, Homer mourns like he's just lost the love of his life.]] It's rather sweet, and a tad suspect. Tony even lampshades their close bond: "[[HeterosexualLifePartners To heterosexual male friendship -]] [[BoysLove the kind the Greeks wrote about.]]"
** "In Alone Again, Natura-diddly":

* Marge and Lindsey Naegle make out during Homer's daydream in "How the Test Was Won".
* There's some subtext between [[BiTheWay Marge and Ruth Powers]] in "Marge on the Lam". The fact that the whole episode was a parody of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' didn't help.

* Then in TheMovie, Ralph Wiggum proclaims "I like men now!" after seeing Bart naked.

* In "Hungry Hungry Homer", while Homer is convincing Sherri to go to a dance with Bart.

* In the episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger".

* In one episode Bart swaps lives with his rich look-alike and during dinner, Milhouse notices Barts' beautiful "half-siblings". He says they're beautiful, but then says just the girl, he didn't notice the beautiful boy. He says with a dreamy look on his face.
* There's an episode where Homer meets Karl. Karl helps him work to the top, writes his speeches for him, then tells Homer he isn't a fool. Why not? Because his mother told him never to kiss a fool-- which he does then. Homer also accidentally blurts out "I love you Karl- I mean, Marge" when a singing telegram guy shows up at their door.

* Yet another, in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": Bart becomes Nelson's "best friend", and it's played exactly like a relationship, with lines like "I've known him for ages, but we met at a party and hit it off right away" and jealousy over Bart 'flying kites' with another boy. Complete with a ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' homage at the end.

* Homer going into fanboy mode over Rainier Wolfcastle. "Oh I love your movies and your powersauce bars and your taut... rippling..." Rainier interrupts him before he can finish.
* In "Lisa's Date With Density" Nelson's gang seemed to get rather jealous when he began spending a lot of time with Lisa.
** Nelson and Jimbo sure seem to have a lot of physical contact whenever they have scenes together. In one episode the bullies spend the whole episode locked in a closet together. Nelson and Jimbo hug in comfort over their personal issues.
* Sideshow Bob has bonded quite a bit with Snake since he was in prison. They even hug during the episode "Black Widower" and Bob leaves Snake with the words "I'm going to miss you most of all, Snake."

** Nelson saves Martin from a Shelbyville bully in "Lemon of Troy" when the two are paired up on a mission to rescue Springfield's stolen lemon tree. Martin is overjoyed and Nelson is mostly embarrassed rather than enraged.
** In "Grade School Confidential", Nelson's the first person Martin gives an invitation to his birthday party despite Nelson's repeated attempts to brush it off.
** In "I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can", they went to space camp together. Martin even held Nelson's hair while he had motion sickness, and when Nelson tells him to shut up he follows up with "commander", sounding embarrassed.
* Apu and Snake seemed to have evolved from adversaries to [[FriendlyEnemy Friendly Enemies]] to outright FoeYay. Their visit to a councilor in "Yokel Chords" was [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very telling]].

* In "The Ned-liest Catch" Ned finds out Edna has seen a lot of men in the past and ends up seeing them each appear on her face. Patty's face goes back to normal and she says "experiment".
* In the 2011 Christmas episode, a series of Christmas cards from the Simpsons flash through to signal their aging. In two of them, Lisa is holding hands with a girl.

* In a later episode, Homer and Chief Wiggum develop a friendship that verges on this at times.

--> '''Ralph''': *pointing at a dancing topless Homer* Mommy has a torso like that!

* There's probably some subtext between [[BiTheWay Marge and Ruth Powers]] in "Marge on the Lam". The fact that the whole episode was a parody of ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'' didn't help.

** In the same episode, Patty and Selma bought robots programmed to love them. Selma has a male robot, and Patty has a female robot (although that's not too surprising, as Patty already came out as gay in "There's Something About Marrying" (2005 episode).

* In the 2012 Christmas episode, a series of Christmas cards from the Simpsons flash through to signal their aging. In two of them, Lisa is holding hands with a girl.
** In the same episode, Patty and Selma bought robots programmed to love them. Selma has a male robot, and Patty has a female robot (although that's not too surprising, as Patty has been implied to be a lesbian/bisexual on multiple occasions).

* Yet another, in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": Bart becomes Nelson's "best friend", and it's played exactly like a relationship, with lines like "I've known him for ages, but we met at a party and hit it off right away" and jealousy over Bart 'flying kites' with another boy. Complete with a BrokebackMountain homage at the end.