Interracial relationships still a Simpsons taboo?

Jan 11, 2005, 10:49 PM ET17 posts by 12 posters
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Omniscoid3000

Of all the characters I can think of, only Apu could be considered to have engaged in interracial snuggling, both in the episode where he is a wild bachelor right before his marriage as well as when he had the affair with the Squishy girl.

But has anyone else? Has Homer ever admitted to having fantasies of African American women...or for that matter Carl? ARE Lenny and Carl the secret swingers everyone always says they are?

JsonitsacOmniscoid3000

well there was some interracial homoeroticism mentioned in BABF19, and in 3F24 Homer responds to a GBM's personal ad.

Aaron HirshbergJsonitsac

What about Marge and Kang/Kodos, whatever? There's an INTER-GALACTIC relationship.

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Tieus AlbertOmniscoid3000

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Homer and a Panda once engaged in interspecies snuggling. Does that count?

Aaron HirshbergOmniscoid3000

Three comments:

1. Abe had a fling with a woman in England. And with Adolf Hitler, IIRC. There you have it. Inter-racial relationships. 2. Purple's a race. 3. Don't forget Mr. Burns. He was the subject of a probe by J. Edgar Hoover.

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GymdandyOmniscoid3000

This is true

Carl and Lenny clearly love each other but cannot express it in Springfield

You will notice when HOMER moved in with the two gay guys it was the WHITE guy not the LATINO guy that kissed Homer.

Smithers had to pull a Michael Jackson and get his skin bleached.

As hard as it is for people to believe until very recently America was not accepting of mixed races. The 70s Show is laughable with their inter-racial dating. It would NOT have happened in that time frame.

Remember as late at the 1989 Fox had a show about a black man and a white woman (I forget the name it had Nancy Walker in it. Maybe it was called "True Colors?") and that was a big deal.

That said Springfield is a small town and you really don't see much more than Token races anyway, so perhaps it isn't a racial thing as much as a lack of opportunities.

I can think of Three African-Americans, Cosby clone --Dr Hibbert, Carl and the boxer guy Tatum, with his sterotypical "motherS of my children."

Asians -- Apu and his family and Cookie "the west side is mine."

Oh I just thought of one. The Fugu episode. Edna is getting hot and heavy with the Asian guy in his car.

BTW Darren Hayes was married to a white person, just like Homer

mbkennedyGymdandy

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Inter-racial dating was not commonly seen on television in the 70s, but certainly was happening in real life. Maybe not so much in Wisconsin, but the late 60s and early 70s, when I was in high school in New Jersey, inter-racial relationships were definitely occurring.

Marjie "Starchild" Kennedy

mitchell_learyOmniscoid3000

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Ned Flanders needs to fall on love and marry a black woman. Maybe find her when he's on a missionary assignment somewhere. And here's the opening lines between Flanders and Homer:

Homer: "Hey Flanders, what's up with the new bride."

Flanders: "Well sir, once you try black you'll never go back-a-diddly-do."

-Leary-

Aaron Hirshbergmitchell_leary

Missionary assignment, or missionary position? Joke in Playboy many years ago: "Why do I call it the missionary position? The missionary taught it to me."

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SasquatchOmniscoid3000

In the sushi-fugu episode, the head sushi chef has a hot date with Edna...

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JsonitsacOmniscoid3000

i've been remiss on reading the NG, so I don't know if anybody's commented on this, but Judge Snyder and Lindsey Nagle kissed on Sunday's epp, so I guess this "taboo" was finally broken.

NinjaJsonitsac

Lenny = White Carl = Black

(Irrelevant, I know - it just cracks me up whenever I see the episode when Homer has that written on his hand)

Walt WhitmanJsonitsac

Not Just a delivery chick. The Squshee Lady!

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