***SIMPSONS SPOLIER** The character who comes out of the closet is...

[joeybee12]

...Patty Bouvier!

She meets a lady golfer, and Homer becomes a minister so he can perform the first animated gay wedding.

[peekaloo]

1. "there goes my last lingering thread of heterosexuality"

kinda parallels Tracey Ullman's show doesn't it......


edit: voiced by same actress who played golfer girlfriend on TU.

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, they already sort of outed her with this line a few years back!

[Mike Daniels]

3. That line was uttered in Season 4 (Treehouse of Horror)

the segment with the evil Krusty doll that tries to kill Homer.

No, I'm not a total Simpsons geek either. I just started watching the 4th Season DVD set a few weeks back and so that episode is still fresh in the memory bank.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. not that there's anything wrong with that....

but this kind of shock value writing (death of maude, skinner a fake, barney dries out) is one of the many things wrong with the show. character development is one thing, but having a character come out as an event is just sad

[DS1]

18. Barney drying out was one of the funniest episodes ever

of course, which a sad side over all the lost time.

[baba]

5. I had my suspicions.

I was pretty sure it would be Patty. My husband was thinking Moe....

[ThorsHammer]

6. I thought she had already been outed, or hinted at....

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Boo! Too obvious!

Especially after the writers hinted at her orientation in the past. I was expecting a swerve.

[ThorsHammer]

8. That's what I'm thinking too (post 7)

I expected someone like Ned Flanders, or Mr. Burns, which would really be a surprise.

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. I heard the early line was on Barney.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. Maybe the absence of a swerve was the swerve.

This was your CPD Zen Moment of the Day.

[Longgrain]

10. I wanted it to be grandpa

After all he is the president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. Boy the fundie are gonna freak.

So glad we threw them that curve with Sponge Bob.

[davidinalameda]

13. how sweet

but too obvious

[Lex]

14. Obvious would've been

Smithers.

He's still in the closet, isn't he?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

15. I want Lenny and Carl to come out

that'd be sorta unexpected

[Emops]

16. I would've guessed Bart.

After all, a gay steel mill can be tempting.

[giant_robot]

17. Another Simpson's rumor from a flimsy unsubstantiated source:

I heard on the radio today that in a future episode this season, we will find out Comic Book Guy's real name.

[jeff30997]

19. I bet it's Clark Kent.