On another occasion, Lenny and Carl are at the Springfield Baseball Stadium, watching the Kiss Cam, and Lenny says: "Remember when we used to kiss like that, Carl? With our respective girlfriends?" Lenny once said he can't tell apart the remains of his sculpture with Carl's remarking "I don't know where Carl ends and I begin!", An irritated Carl interjects "it's stuff like this that makes everyone think we're gay." Īt the same time, there have been many scenes that counter the homoerotic narrative. When various characters looked at the stars to "see into their souls" during a blackout in Springfield, Lenny sees an image of Carl, and Carl sees an image of himself. When Homer asks Lenny what Carl thought of it, Lenny replies "You know, we've never discussed it."
Lenny once dreamily recalled carving " Mount Carlmore", a huge bust of Carl in the side of a sandstone cliff, during "one wonderful summer". Lenny seems to deeply idolize Carl, yet Carl is usually indifferent or oblivious to the attention. There is a constant allusion to homo-eroticism in Lenny's and Carl's relationship, although no one seems to care much about it, particularly Carl. Aside, due to Wiggum becoming Police Chief again, this may be one of the reasons SpringShield was shut down. When Fat Tony and several others criminal chiefs started to aim towards SpringShield due to making a far better job than the actual police, Carl and Lenny, fearing for their lives, literally locked themselves up in one of the station's cells, leaving Homer on his own. However, Carl is also a person with a coward streak. He is also Homer's friend, and it was shown that Carl's willing to help Homer in several different jobs, such as when he and lenny helped Homer run the private security company SprinShield, a company created due to the police forces incompetence. He is Lenny's best friend, often being seen with him. On one occasion, he makes everyone in Moe's Tavern cry and then turns to the camera, explaining: "See, this is why I don't talk much." Flashbacks show them as friends during childhood and high school, and they all began working at the nuclear power plant around the same time.Ĭarl often serves as a taciturn, straightforward man to Homer and company, probably because of his harsh but true opinions of others. Lenny, Carl and Homer have apparently been friends for most of their lives.
He holds a master's degree in nuclear physics and is fond of bowling and drinking at Moe's Tavern. Carl is an African American Buddhist who apparently grew up in Iceland (he once nostalgically referred to his "Icelandic boyhood").
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