History Characters / TheSimpsonsNuclearPowerPlantShopkeepers

* LikesOlderMen: A gay example. Smithers is hopelessly in love with Burns, who's old enough to be his grandfather. Most episodes depict Smithers as being in his early 40s, while Burns's most common age is 104.

%%* NiceGuy: Usually.

* SaltAndPepper: Carl = black, Lenny = white.

* {{Jerkass}}: At times he is downright unpleasant in the scope of the episode.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his somewhat angry attitude at times, he shows a soft spot towards children and his close friends and customers. He also does very noble acts in the credits of "The Homer They Fall", being seen saving multiple people, putting out a forest fire, and giving food to a famished village.

-->"I've always felt like an outsider. Not Icelandic enough, not black enough. Hey, sure, I'm barfly enough, but that's not enough."

%%* TheWhitestBlackGuy: Jokes have been made about Carl being this, due to being TheGenericGuy and voiced by Hank Azaria doing a nondescript voice. His most recent ADayInTheLimelight episode was about him being this.

* TheGlomp: He has a tendency to clamor onto people during emotionally charged moments. Examples include "Blood Feud," when he gratefully gives Bart a big hug when the boy agrees to donate blood to a sick Mr. Burns, and again in the same episode, when he bursts into tears and hugs one of Burns' hired goons, as he tells him that Homer helped save Mr. Burns' life.

* DesperatelyNeedsOrders: Smithers is this, as his servitude to Burns is almost a psychological need. In "Homer the Smithers," when Burns tells Smithers to take a much-needed vacation, he begs to stay, claiming that without Burns, he'll "wither and die." Even while on vacation, he repeatedly calls Burns asking if he has any mail that needs opening.

* ExtremeDoormat: Most of the time, he's this to Mr. Burns.

* ServileSnarker: He's had a few good lines of this nature.

* TheWhitestBlackGuy: Jokes have been made about Carl being this, due to being TheGenericGuy and voiced by Hank Azaria doing a nondescript voice. His most recent ADayInTheLimelight episode was about him being this.

* AccentRelapse: Even though he is not a spy.

* AsianStoreOwner: Indian, specifically. Asia is such a large continent that the Indian subcontinent (which includes India and Sri Lanka) counts as part of Asia.

** In ''The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour'' segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E24TheSimpsonsSpinOffShowcase The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase]]", he dresses as a cowboy and sings about [[WhipItGood whipping it good]] with a liquorice whip.

* WhipItGood: Has a short song about doing this with a liquorice whip in "The Simpsons Spin Off Showcase".

** Subverted by the fact that Smithers will sometimes oppose Burns if he feels he needs to, such as trying to talk Burns out of blocking the sun over Springfield (as it "crossed the line from everyday villainy to cartoonish super-villainy"), or in going behind his back to reveal Sideshow Bob's electoral fraud to Bart and Lisa, fearing the consequences for his "choice of lifestyle" if the Republican Bob takes power.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: When Homer claimed he was what made this town great in "The Mansion Family" Marge replied "I dunno, there's a lot of buzz around Lenny".

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* FriendlyEnemy: While Burns oftens plays an antagonistic role to the Simpsons or Springfield as a whole, Smithers never fails to be friendly or at least professional to them and people as a whole, particularly while he's off the clock or even while he's still on it.

* BareYourMidriff: In a sense. His shirt is too small, so his stomach sticks out.

* HonestJohnsDealership: Herman once sold Abe a fez that he said was once worn by UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon|Bonaparte}} for a week. When Abe buys it and leaves his own hat behind, Herman then tries to pass it off as the hat UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley wore when he was assassinated.

* FatBastard: A snobby and overweight shopkeeper who insults others that aren't of his IQ level, and acts like a jerk to Bart and Milhouse even after they saved his life from a heart attack.

* GeniusSlob: Obese, dirty, has an IQ of 170.

* BareYourMidriff: Played for FanDisservice, as he's morbidly obese and his shirt is too small.

-->'''Bart:''' Hey, Milhouse, watch me make a loser lose it.\\

* OedipusComplex: Implied. In the [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E5TheBlunderYears The Blunder Years]] it's revealed that Burns basically raised Smithers, yet Smither's feelings for Burns are hardly fatherly.

* RunningGag: He often receives humiliating prank calls from Bart Simpson. He's unaware who's calling, and issues death threats to the caller.

* GayConservative: Supplemental material has stated that Smithers is a Log Cabin Republican.

* SolidCartoonFacialStubble: The only character, along with Homer and his father, who has a 5 o'clock shadow. It is depicted as a brown patch filling the area around his mouth.

-->''Moe: ''(after beating a fake Homer with a bat)'' Who is the sociopath now?

-->'''Moe: ''(after beating a fake Homer with a bat)'' Who is the sociopath now?

* BrooklynRage: Can be pissed offjust by being humiliated by a prank call and has a New York accent (since his voice is based off of ''Creator/AlPacino'').

** He's called Mr Leonard in Season 14's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E21TheBartOfWar Bart Of War]]" and three episodes[[note]]"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E2MyMotherTheCarjacker My Mother The Carjacker]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E6TodayIAmAClown Today I Am A Clown]]", "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E14TheZiffWhoCameToDinner The Ziff Who Came To Dinner]]"[[/note]] in Season 15 give that as his surname.

* ChildhoodFriends: Apparently with Homer (and Moe) according to episodes like "The Blunder Years" and "The Way We Weren't". Sort of a retcon, because there's no evidence of it in early seasons.