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* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/MattGroening had originally intended to design Karl to look like Harvey Fierstein, who objected to the idea because he felt he did not "look like gay people, how they're supposed to look." Fierstein suggested that the character be made "blond, and tall, and gorgeous, and skinny, and [given] a beautiful place to live."
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* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/MattGroening had originally intended to design Karl to look like Harvey Fierstein, Creator/HarveyFierstein, who objected to the idea because he felt he did not "look like gay people, how they're supposed to look." Fierstein suggested that the character be made "blond, and tall, and gorgeous, and skinny, and [given] a beautiful place to live."
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* ShrugOfGod: Karl is implied to be homosexual; Creator/MattGroening says that when people began asking "was he gay?" the day after the episode aired, his response was "he's whatever you want him to be." However, Groening points out, "he does kiss Homer: He does give him a nice pat on the butt" which is "beyond [what] any other cartoon" had done at the time.
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* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Harvey Fierstein plays Karl, who isn't expressly identified as gay but he does kiss Homer.
* ShrugOfGod: Karl is implied to be homosexual; Creator/MattGroening says that when people began asking "was he gay?" the day after the episode aired, his response was "he's whatever you want him to be." However, Groening points out, "he does kiss Homer: He does give him a nice pat on the butt" which is "beyond [what] any other cartoon" had done at thetime.time.
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* ShrugOfGod: Karl is implied to be homosexual; Creator/MattGroening says that when people began asking "was he gay?" the day after the episode aired, his response was "he's whatever you want him to be." However, Groening points out, "he does kiss Homer: He does give him a nice pat on the butt" which is "beyond [what] any other cartoon" had done at the
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/DanCastellaneta named this as one of his three favourite episodes.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Creator/MattGroening had originally intended to design Karl to look like Harvey Fierstein, who objected to the idea because he felt he did not "look like gay people, how they're supposed to look." Fierstein suggested that the character be made "blond, and tall, and gorgeous, and skinny, and [given] a beautiful place to live."
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/DanCastellaneta named this as one of his three favouriteepisodes.episodes.
* ShrugOfGod: Karl is implied to be homosexual; Creator/MattGroening says that when people began asking "was he gay?" the day after the episode aired, his response was "he's whatever you want him to be." However, Groening points out, "he does kiss Homer: He does give him a nice pat on the butt" which is "beyond [what] any other cartoon" had done at the time.
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/DanCastellaneta named this as one of his three favourite
* ShrugOfGod: Karl is implied to be homosexual; Creator/MattGroening says that when people began asking "was he gay?" the day after the episode aired, his response was "he's whatever you want him to be." However, Groening points out, "he does kiss Homer: He does give him a nice pat on the butt" which is "beyond [what] any other cartoon" had done at the time.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/DanCastellaneta named this as one of his three favourite episodes.
