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Her design talent has won her numerous awards and accolades including a medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show. One thing that "Homer The Smithers" surely demonstrates is that Smithers is irreplaceable in his role, because there's nobody else in the world who could possibly show Burns the same level of unflinching devotion. At the beginning of the episode, it does appear as though Burns has something resembling legitimate concern for Smithers' welfare - he can see that Smithers is at risk of burning out, and in desperate need of a vacation. But that's all undercut by what happens on Smithers' return, when Burns has decided that he can function on his own and no longer needs a personal assistant, whereupon he shows the soft-throated Smithers just how sharp his wolf teeth are, callously casting him aside as if he were nothing. In the end, Smithers' years of extraordinary loyalty and back-breaking labor mean zilch to Burns. Which, really, should have us questioning if we actually want to see Smithers restored to his old position by the episode's conclusion.

Not to mention that Burns proves so painfully out of touch with the real world that Homer even gets the rare opportunity to be the smart one in the room - he's shrewd enough to know why Burns' request for a dodo egg is definitely off the menu, for example.

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Due to any one of these reasons, it has often been the case in the past that sustainable packaging solutions have been dropped halfway through the process. On the DVD commentary for "Homer The Smithers" (aka episode 3F14) showrunner Bill Oakley introduces the episode by explaining that it represented an ambitious attempt, as The Simpsons coasted through its seventh season, to bring the series "back to the family". It's as baffling a statement as I think you can make about "Homer The Smithers", of all episodes, because it really has bupkis to do with the family. Four of the unit it finds all but zero use for, and the other, despite getting title billing and a generous amount of screen time, is effectively a pawn in a story built around testing the bond between two typically inseparable supporting characters. If anything, it takes the focus further away from the family than any other episode that season, with the possible exception of "A Fish Called Selma".