The Yes-Man Who Would Be King
The Yes-Man Who Would Be King
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The Yes-Man Who Would Be King is a Simpsons Comics story first printed in Simpsons Comics #56.
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- When Waylon Smithers finds himself next in line to succeed as King of Sweden, the people of Springfield look up to him as a leader of the town. However, the power starts to get to him, and some people don't like their new king.
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Due to Mr. Burns' elephant ivory hat rack being polished, he is without a hat rack, so he has Waylon Smithers act as his hat rack in the meantime. The next morning, Mr. Burns tells Smithers that he watched The Making of I'll Take Sweden and has Smithers go to Little Stockholm to get him some rollmops, herring-mit-brod, and aquavit. While Smithers is shopping, the shop employee realizes that Smithers is the spitting image of the King of Sweden, so she calls the Swedish embassy to let them know.
After Smithers prepares Mr. Burns' breakfast, the doorbell rings, and Smithers finds Olav Gustavson, Gretta Lillquist, and Inga Carlsdottir, who are the delegation from the Royal House of Sweden. Olav explains that the King of Sweden is at death's door, and they believe Smithers is the last in the royal line and they want to do some blood tests to confirm this. Soon, news about Smithers being royalty spreads around Springfield. Mr. Burns decides that Smithers can't be his assistant anymore since he's royalty, and he wants Smithers to have his own servants to attend to him instead. Soon, the Simpson family are brought in to be Smithers' new assistants.
Smithers' royal status leads to him getting better treatment in town and even taking part in opening ceremonies for new businesses. However, he realizes that some people still don't respect him. Wanting to change that, Smithers decides to impart his kingly wisdom on the town, first helping stop an argument between Kent Brockman and Mayor Quimby over who gets to date Miss Scissors. This leads to more people coming to him with problems, which Smithers solves. However, Lisa takes offense at the absolute power that Smithers seems to have over the town, especially as he is unelected. This leads to Lisa getting run out and banished from town. Lisa isn't the only person to take issue with Smithers, as Principal Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie also do. Lisa recruits them, and they start a group of freedom fighters to take Smithers down.
The freedom fighters come up with a plan to kidnap Smithers and send him out to sea on a boat for Sweden to pick up, believing that sending Smithers out of town this way will stop him from declaring Springfield as part of Sweden under his rule. Meanwhile, Smithers is battling his own emotions as he misses serving Mr. Burns. On the day the blood tests return, Smithers decides to look at the tests later. Meanwhile, the Springfield Anti-Monarchy League tries to kidnap Smithers, but ends up grabbing Grampa instead. Smithers turns down becoming King of Sweden, saying that the blood tests show that he's not related to the king, because he doesn't think that he's king material and he just wants to serve Mr. Burns instead. Dr. Hibbert and Olav discuss the test results, with Hibbert saying that they showed that he was indeed related to the king. Olav informs Hibbert that the King of Sweden died this morning.
As a result of Sweden having no king, the country descends into chaos, with Stockholm becoming a warzone. Meanwhile, Grampa is still stuck in a sack on a boat in the ocean.
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