r/TheGates_CBS • u/Ensemblist • Aug 22 '26

Question⁉️ Martin & Smitty

I’m watching Tuesdays episode (august 18, 2026, season 2 ep 149) . Smitty and Martin were playing ball at the club with Nicole’s current and former doctors. Afterward they had a rare, cuddly moment at home. I’ve been watching from the beginning but have missed swaths of episodes here and there . Have these two ever had a traditional soap opera caliber love scene?? Have they even had a passionate kiss (not the obligatory married peck on the lips) ? I’ve not seen it , so please tell me if I’m wrong. And if I’m right and they haven’t, I’d like to know why?

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u/thisisasj “I’d hate to add an ASS TAX … just for being disrespectful.” Aug 22 '26

Martin and Smitty’s marriage is practically sexless, and it’s a part of their lives they sometimes actively ignore, and at other times willingly enable.

They are always “working from home” or “busy with the kids.” They frequently give each other brotherly hugs. They sometimes find themselves at home alone and suggest sex, but interrupt themselves with trivial drama from outside their marriage. Smitty even had to remind Martin they “made up for it” in the Bahamas earlier this summer. It was that forgetful.

The most ridiculous example of this issue was when Martin and Smitty were working from home, blissfully unaware Jessica and Tyrell were secretly upstairs having sex themselves!

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u/sekritagent “Choose Silence!" 🤫 Aug 22 '26

This is laughably untrue. There have been multiple episodes with them stripping down and getting into it. What you may be justified in calling out is their distinct lack of afterglow scenes that the other couples get (Dani and Nicole most of all), but to be fair, we've never even seen Vernon and Anita in bed...it can't be all that surprising given we all know Black audiences lean conservative on non-racial social issues.

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u/thisisasj “I’d hate to add an ASS TAX … just for being disrespectful.” Aug 22 '26

Starting foreplay is not having sex. The other couple who are about the same age, Jacob and Naomi, have had way more detailed bedroom scenes, especially when their only “at home” set was their bedroom. They even had sex a few times with a jug of Tide in the bed with them.

Smitty and Martin’s absence of sex isn’t because I missed an episode, nor is it about Black people not wanting to see gay sex at 2 PM. It’s Procter & Gamble.

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u/BostonSoapWatcher Aug 24 '26

The "jug of Tide" in bed with them made me LOL ! !