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1HoYay examples in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
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6* Lenny and Carl, to the point of it being [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. The writers have a lot of fun when writing the homoerotic subtext between them.
7-->'''Lenny:''' I can't tell where Carl ends and I begin!
8-->'''Carl:''' See, comments like those are why people think we're gay.
9** From "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter Behind the Laughter]]":
10-->'''Lenny:''' Even Bart was throwing dough around. He paid me and Carl a thousand bucks to kiss each other.
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12-->'''Carl:''' Hey, did we ever get that money?
13** 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?"
14** When Homer is organizing gay weddings but has run out of clients we get this SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}:
15-->'''Bart''': All you can do now is wait for some straight guys to turn.
16-->'''Homer''': Hmm, where are Lenny and Carl?
17-->'''Marge''': [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Don't you push them! They've got to work it out for themselves]].
18* Homer has the occasional mancrush, including many men that have an interest in Marge.
19* Nelson also seems to be an example of this trope. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E6LIttleOrphanMillie 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.
20* Bart and Milhouse in general. Bart even gives him ''roses'' in one episode!
21** Milhouse's crush on Lisa is partly because she reminds him of Bart. Bart was attracted to Milhouse's cousin, Annika, who looks just like Milhouse but older and female.
22** When Bart meets an older doppelganger of himself, he notices the man's wife looks just like Milhouse.
23** They even lampshade it now. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E14PostcardsFromTheWedge 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."
24** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E7TheTwoMrsNahasapeemapetilons The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]" 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".
25** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E19MomAndPopArt Mom and Pop Art]]": 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!"
26** Milhouse has also intoxicatedly said about Bart that "this guy here...this is the guy", was very jealous when Bart spent a lot of time with Nelson, and once jumped over a waterfall while exclaiming "I can't live in a world without Bart!".
27** This quote says it all: "Bart, when I was pushing you away I was really pushing away the thought of being without you." Yes, he (Milhouse) actually did say that. With a rather flirty pose. In response to Bart losing his friend Diggs, who pretty much replaced Milhouse until he was committed.
28* 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 one-shot character.
29* StupidSexyFlanders:
30** Of course, Homer getting DistractedByTheSexy of Ned's BriefsBoasting.
31** 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.
32** 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.
33* Skinner and Chalmers have had quite a bit of this in recent years. "We'll have to bite from each end! We'll know we're safe when our lips meet in the middle".
34** Better yet, the thing they're "biting from each end" is a cake shaped like a penis that crashed into Skinner's house while Chalmers was over for dinner.
35* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E18ChiefOfHearts Chief of Hearts]]", Homer and Chief Wiggum develop a friendship that verges on this at times.
36** 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 -]] [[LoverAndBeloved the kind the Greeks wrote about.]]"
37** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]":
38--> '''Ralph''': *pointing at a dancing topless Homer* Mommy has bosoms like that!
39--> '''Clancy''': Heh, I wish!
40* Then in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Ralph Wiggum proclaims "I like men now!" after seeing Bart naked.
41** He once referred to Bart as his boyfriend. Another time he hugged Comic Books Guy and said he'd never let go.
42* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E15HungryHungryHomer Hungry, Hungry Homer]]", while Homer is convincing Sherri to go to a dance with Bart.
43--> '''Homer:''' Who would you rather go out with?
44--> '''Sherri:''' [[PrettyBoy Tommy]].
45--> '''Homer:''' Well, duh! He's breathtaking.
46* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E4LisaTheTreeHugger Lisa the Tree Hugger]]".
47--> '''Homer:''' This is all your fault, with your non-threatening Creator/BobbySherman-style good looks! No girl can resist your charm!
48--> '''Jesse:''' This was her choice, Mr. Simpson.
49--> '''Homer:''' I'm sorry, I wasn't listening, I was lost in your eyes.
50* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E3DoubleDoubleBoyInTrouble Double, Double, Boy in Trouble]]" Bart swaps lives with his rich look-alike and during dinner, Milhouse notices Bart's 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.
51* There's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E2SimpsonAndDelilah 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.
52* On one occasion Homer commented on how attractive another man was and that he had been kissed by another man on two separate occasions. While clearly surprised, he didn't react negatively.
53* Yet another, in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E8TheHawHawedCouple 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.
54--> '''Nelson:''' Haw! Haw! I touched your heart!
55* Homer going into fanboy mode over Rainier Wolfcastle in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E23KingOfTheHill King of the Hill]]". "Oh I love your movies and your powersauce bars and your taut... rippling..." Rainier interrupts him before he can finish.
56* In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]" Nelson's gang seemed to get rather jealous when he began spending a lot of time with Lisa.
57** Nelson and Jimbo sure seem to have a lot of physical contact whenever they have scenes together. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E20WhackingDay Whacking Day]]" the bullies spend the whole episode locked in a closet together. Nelson and Jimbo hug in comfort over their personal issues.
58* Sideshow Bob has bonded quite a bit with Snake since he was in prison. They even hug during "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E21BlackWidower Black Widower]]" and Bob leaves Snake with the words "I'm going to miss you most of all, Snake."
59* Martin and Nelson have a few moments of their own, with Nelson coming off kind of {{Tsundere}}:
60** Nelson saves Martin from a Shelbyville bully in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E24LemonOfTroy 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.
61** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E19GradeSchoolConfidential 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.
62** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E12ImSpellingAsFastAsICan 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.
63* Apu and Snake seemed to have evolved from adversaries to [[FriendlyEnemy Friendly Enemies]] to outright FoeRomanceSubtext. Their visit to a councilor in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E14YokelChords Yokel Chords]]" was [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very telling]].
64-->'''Apu:''' He used to rob me two, three times a week. Now, I’m lucky if I get it once a month. \
65'''Snake:''' He never initiates it; I have to do all the work. He just stands there \
66'''Dr. Swanson:''' Now now, don’t talk through him. Talk to him. \
67'''Snake:''' Apu, sometimes when I rob you, it’s like you’re not even there. \
68'''Apu:''' That is because you are robbing my brother Sanjay. \
69'''Snake:''' Dude, I didn’t know.\
70'''Apu:''' Just shut up!
71* 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.
72* In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer’s Enemy]], Homer is '' very '' attached to Frank Grimes, much to the latter’s fury.
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77* 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...
78** 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.]]
79* 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.
80* There are some amazing Les-Yay undertones between Marge and Belle (the Burlesque house owner) in "Bart After Dark".
81* 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.
82* 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 as she says "experiment".
83* 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 [[ExperimentedInCollege during her college years]].
84* Marge and Sarah Wiggum become ''really'' close friends in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS32E17UncutFemmes Uncut Femmes]]". The episode even ends with them walking down the stairs together while locking arms.

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