archiving deleted gay material it has been suggested the two are gay or suffering from gender confusion rod stated in 'tis the fifteenth season he was jealous of girls because they get to wear dresses in bart to the future an episode depicting the future ned thanks bart for not outing rod and todd who are shown bare chested washing a cabinet in a slightly feminine way whilst wearing tight denim cut off shorts and sporting mustaches known as the castro clone style fashionable in gay culture in the s and popularized by freddie mercury rod and todd are both extremely sheltered from girls as their father consider girls to be a temptation along with rock and roll music in another future set episode future drama bart's girlfriend mentions she wants to make love to him on prom night and becomes disappointed when he denies her she says i never had this problem with todd flanders implying a strong though latent sexuality in the boy also in home away from homer ned moves away and then moves back to springfield when announcing this to the boys rod says he has a girlfriend benjiboi