Gayest Episode Ever

"Single Stamina" (November 27, 2006)

Now that HIMYM has been off the air for a full decade, it’s worth considering how this show holds up better than most from the early 2000s did. Not only did it give us Robin Sparkles, it just might be the only TV show to compare equally well to both Friends and Lost, as improbable as that sounds. This episode has Wayne Brady playing a gay character in a bit of stunt casting that worked a lot better before he came out, but it also just might be the thing that convinced Neil Patrick Harris to finally come out as well.

Listen to the newest episode of Cartoons That Made Us Gay, all about Conan: The Adventurer and the inherent gayness of the “barbarian” genre in general.

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What if we broke format to discuss America’s favorite smartypants game show? Well, we did it. And special guest Emily Heller joins us to discuss Amy Schneider, who became Jeopardy’s second-longest-running winner ever — and as a result became a household name and a trans icon. 

Listen to Emily’s Jeopardy podcast, What Is…? A Jeopardy! Podcast on Apple or Spotify!

Listen to Peaches Christ and also Drew on Matt Baume’s new My So-Called Life podcast!

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“The Courtship of Bess Richards” (October 4, 1986)

The second episode of Amen concerns Sherman Hemsley’s Ernie trying to land his choir a new singer in Nell Carter’s Bess, and the result is a comedy of errors in which both he and she perform romantic interest that neither is capable of actually feeling. The result is a WWF-style wrestling match between these two iconic sitcom stars, and we’re joined once again by Dr. Alfred L. Martin to discuss how this is rendered all the stranger because Hemsley and Carter both were closeted and therefore all too accustomed to acting out hetero identities different from how they lived privately. 

This episode mentions a TV Guide article about Sherman Hemsley’s private life that I now cannot find online. However, I bought the issue on eBay and will post as soon as it arrives. You can see Zach Wilson’s posting of it on Twitter. Thanks, Zach!

Buy Dr. Alfred’s book, The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom.

Listen to Hemsley in the performance of Purlie that Alfred mentions.

Watch a clip of Hemsley’s gay villain turn in 2000’s Screwed.

 Listen to Dr. Alfred’s previous episodes:

• Roc Has a Gay Uncle
• Moesha Meets a Gay Guy
• Sanford Arms Meets a Gay — And He’s Black!

“Menage a Phyllis” (November 2, 1974)

In the third-season episode “My Brother’s Keeper,” Rhoda famously said the word “gay,” turning a plot about her association with Phyllis’ brother on its head. Two seasons later, Phyllis shows up in another episode that discusses gay issues but weirdly doesn’t say that word. Regardless, there’s perhaps more to be made of the newsroom’s opinions about what codes as gay, and Dan Steadman returns to discuss this and what we’ll call the “Murray Slaughter problem.”

Read Dead Buckley’s 2018 piece “Queer Coding on the Mary Tyler Moore Show”

Episodes referenced:

• Dan’s previous episode, “Mike Seaver Actually Said the Word ‘Gay’”
• Our previous Mary Tyler Moore episode, “Mary and Rhoda Meet a Homo”
• Our episode “Phyllis Dates a Homo”
• Our episode “The Dream On Guy Has a Gay Dad”

“Cousin Geri” (December 24, 1980)

Fun game for listeners: Take a shot every time Drew mentions the phrase “gigantic bitch” in connection with Lisa Welchel’s Blair, who is in rare form this episode as she shuns her disabled cousin Geri for reasons that aren’t the ones you’re probably assuming. In this discussion, we bring up why Geri Jewell is a trailblazer as far as being queer and also one other thing and also why “actress recurring on Deadwood” is lowkey code for lesbian.

Erin Fletcher, we want you back for that Saved by the Bell episode.

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“Gay Bash” (November 10, 2004)

For better or worse, Drawn Together represents a very real trend in mid-2000s humor. It specifically sought out to tell the most offensive jokes it could get on air, but that’s what makes it surprising that the episode where Xandir admits he’s gay isn’t the parade of easy jokes you might expect. The B plot sucks rancid balls, to the point that we don’t even use clips from it in this discussion, but you might be surprised how this animated reality show makes its token gay a sympathetic guy.

Check out Bradley Smith’s YouTube interview with series creators Dave Jesser and Matt Silvertsein, from which we grabbed a few anecdotes about the development of Drawn Together.

Listen to our Cartoons That Made Us Gay episode about the Legend of Zelda cartoon.

Listen to the Best Movies Never Made podcast, hosted by Golan the Insatiable creator Josh Miller.

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“Dye! Dye! My Darling!” (August 2, 2000)

Spend a little time in a Daria fan community and you’ll find folks who ship the title character with her best friend, Jane. The show actually never does a gay episode and only gets the slightest bit queer in the first movie, Is It Fall Yet?, which has Jane affirming her heterosexuality despite how very queer she might seem. In this episode, we’re discussing the nonetheless existent lesbian vibes between Daria and Jane — and who better to offer input on this than Talking Simpsons cohost Bob Mackey? Sure, he’s straight, but it turns out that straight men can relate to female characters too. (We were shocked!)

As it turns out, Bob and Henry’s What a Cartoon podcast covers not only the Daria episode that immediately precedes this one, “Fire!” and also “The Misery Chick,” which as we discuss is a crucial turning point in the development of Daria Morgandorfer.

This week, Glen and Drew are guests on Talking Simpsons, discussing "Three Gays of the Condo" and why it's not great! If you need more of our voices in your life, have a listen here.

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“Lucy and Jim Bailey” (November 6, 1972)

Basically, Lucille Ball did a solid for one gay performer, but in doing this, she also helped make gays a little less scary for America. Jim Bailey was a female impersonator who who had already made appearances on late night TV for this uncanny ability to turn himself into female celebs. Lucy, however, gave him a showcase on her popular prime time sitcom, showing her viewers that not only were drag queens not scary, but in fact they can be a lot of fun.

Watch the episode of The Lucy Show where Lucy almost drowned on Tubi. And read the book that details both versions of the story on Archive.org.

What the episode of the Desilu-produced game show You Don’t Say.

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People use the term “the lost years” differently when speaking of Saturday Night Live, but this podcast is using it specifically from the time Lorne Michaels left the show after season five up until season eleven. Aside from Eddie Murphy’s presence on the show, these are the sketches that are less remembered today because they weren’t rerun on Comedy Central in the 2000s as much and they’re largely absent from the cache of episodes preserved online today. And that’s too bad, because this is when the show boasted some legends in the cast — Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Short and Damon Wayans among them, as well as queer cast members Terry Sweeney, Denny Dillon and Danitra Vance.

The sketches (and click here if you want to watch them):

• “SoHo Lesbians” (S6E10: Debbie Harry)
• “Little Richard Simmons” (S7E1: No host)
• “James Coburn Is a Homosexual” (S7E11: James Coburn)
• “Focus on Film: Making Love” (S7E12: Bruce Dern)
• “Penny Lane” (S10E11: Roy Scheider)
• “Pinklisting” (S11E1: Madonna)
• “Mr. Monopoly” (S11E12: Griffin Dunne)
• Monologue (S11E16: Catherine Oxenberg)
• “Lesbian Pick-Ups” (S11E18: Anjelica Huston)

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“Evolution” (August 19, 1999)

If you came of age in the late 90s or early 2000s, you live in a world informed by Sex and the City — whether you realize it or not. It’s probably one of the most influential TV shows to air during our lifetimes, and so it’s more than time that we look at one of its many LGBTQ-themed episodes. Joining us to discuss Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte is returning guest Gwynedd Stuart, who has big feelings about why this show matters.

Listen to Gwynedd’s previous episode about Soap.

Most of Drew’s background on how SATC ended up at HBO comes from this Vulture article. And here is the 1991 New York Times article about Woody Allen and Mia Farrow waving at each other from across Central Park.

Listen to Drew discussing Bowser, King of the Koopa, on the Retronauts podcast.

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"Homes and Jojo" (May 1, 1989)

Newhart is a show about white people who live in the snow, and while 70s-era Bob Newhart sitcom is the one pop culture remembers better, this is the longer-lived, more-Emmy-nominated of the two. What the 80s-era Bob New1hart sitcom has working in its favor are future Simpsons showrunner David Mirkin, who gives a host of wacky townspeople not unlike what you’d find in Springfield, and the duo of Julia Duffy and Peter Scolari, who male a perfect yuppie couple worthy of mockery. It’s great. Here, learn about it.

Listen to Smart Mouth, GEE”s sister show, and in particular check out the episode “Queer Food” with John Birdsall, because if you’re listening to this podcast you’re probably queer and probably also you eat food.

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“Blank Relay” (August 13, 2000)

Honestly, we could have picked just about any episode of Strangers With Candy to focus on for this podcast about queer themes, but we ended up deciding on the one where we see Jerri Blank at her most girl hungry. It’s light on Mr. Noblet and Mr. Jellineck, but we can always circle back to this one in another two hundred episodes, right?

Watch the Exit 57 “Down in the Basement” sketch, which does not translate especially well to an audio-only format.

Watch The Trip Back, the 1970 PSA featuring Florrie Fisher, the real-life inspiration for Jerri Blank.

Listen to the two-part Rasputin episode of the Unexplained podcast.

And we dropped a whole hell of a lot of Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie episodes. Here are all of them:

• Angel Dusted with Gedde Watanabe (the one where Helen Hunt doesn’t jump through a window)
• Desperate Lives with Arden Myrin (the one where she *does* jump through a window)
• It Happened One Christmas with Sarah Thyre
• The Cat Creature with Becky Thyre
• And finally Crowhaven Farm and A Vacation in Hell, both with Rose Abdoo

“Joey’s First Crush” (January 28, 1987)

Few other shows changed as much as Gimme a Break, which began as a fish-out-of-water sitcom that had Nell Carter playing mom to three white girls in California but ended up with Nell and her best friend, Telma Hopkins’ Addy, co-parenting two white boys in New York. Minus the kids, it’s basically a female-female twist on Perfect Strangers, only they don’t get steady boyfriends. Perhaps in an effort to make the show seem less gay, they tossed in a happily married character… who was played by newcomer Rosie O’Donnell. This episode, which is the second of Gimme a Break’s outings to feature actual gay characters, showcases a lot of how this show ended up pretty damn gay.

… Now that I think about it, maybe the only sitcom that changed as much over its run was Ellen — and that’s pretty notable, right?

Listen to our previous Gimme a Break episodes.

Learn all about Betty and Barney Hill in the Monday Afternoon Movie episode about 1975’s The UFO Incident.

Watch:

• Andy Gibb dueting with Nell Carter on Gimme a Break
• Gimme a Break’s famous Motown medley
• Rosie O’Donnell on Star Search

“Lisa the Drama Queen” (January 25, 2009)

So here’s an interesting one. In its twentieth season, The Simpson did an episode inspired by Heavenly Creatures, the 1994 Peter Jackson movie that has Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey playing schoolgirls who flee into a fantasy world and also each other. More than a decade later, this story would play out again, only with Lisa Simpson and a new character voiced by Emily Blunt, and that might seem like a strange combo, especially because the Simpson version nixes the sex and violence of the original, but it nonetheless works.

Special thanks to the writer of this episode, Brian Kelley, for sharing his memories of how this episode came to be.

For a limited time, you can still screen Heavenly Creatures via the GEE Patreon, but that window is closing. Info here.

Listen to Drew on the In Retrospect podcast’s episodes about the “lesbian/Lebanese” joke (part one & part two)

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“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (November 29, 2011

Yes, Tim Allen’s follow-up to Home Improvement got branded as the most conservative sitcom on network TV, but is that fair? We’re honestly not sure, because the ninth episode of Last Man Standing’s first season features a gay couple. We’re mostly good with how this plays out, but we also think this show changed in its second season. We’re also skimming over the second-season episode “Bullying,” which ended up arguing that it’s okay to say “gay.” Key takeaway: Tim Allen may be less conservative than Kelsey Grammer.

Listen to our Home Improvement episode.

Remember a short-lived sitcom from Fox's early days? Tell us about it (there’s a thread on Patreon that’s open to even non-members), and we may cover it for our upcoming bonus miniseries, The Fox Files!

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“Sorority House” (February 8, 1961)

A few times on this podcast, we’ve bent over backwards to find a gay interpretation of a sitcom that never did anything gay, but this is not one of those. Mister Ed was developed by Arthur Lubin, a closeted gay director who was married to a woman but eventually ended up cohabitating with a male companion. It’s interesting, then, that he’d be into making a TV show out of a story about Wilbur Post, who’s married to a woman and who’s outwardly a traditional guy even if his most significant relationship is with a male — a horse, but a male nonetheless — that he has to keep secret. Primitive though it might be, Mister Ed is actually the blueprint for more traditional magic sitcoms like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.

You can watch this episode of Mister Ed for free on archive.org.

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“Fathers and Sons” (May 3, 2003)

And we’re back! Our first regular episode of the new year returns to the first-ever show we discussed: Frasier. It’s the episode where David Ogden Stiers plays an old colleague of Frasier’s late mother who acts more like Frasier and Niles than Martin does. This is the final time the series put a spotlight on the series innate queerness, and in selecting Stiers, it also tacitly endorses the notion that his M*A*S*H character helped inspire Frasier Crane.

Listen to Unsafe Spaces, Josh Hallmark’s new true crime podcast about serial murders in Tampa’s gay community — and while you’re at it, also give a listen to his other podcast, True Crime Bullshit, about serial killer Israel Keyes.

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Listen to our previous Frasier episodes.

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“Coldhearted Uranus: Makoto in Danger” (May 14, 1994)

It’s a new year, and we’re giving you a new episode of Sailor Moon — now with 200 percent more lesbian content! This third-season episode not only showcases Haruka/Sailor Uranus and Michiru/Sailor Neptune, but also uses them as a way to explore how Makoto/Sailor Jupiter is the most queer-coded of the core five Sailor Guardians. What’s most notable about this episode, however, is the fact that the Viz dub of it actually re-writes the original Japanese dialogue to seem less homophobic than the original version was.

Read Drew’s Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games post if you want to know how the connection to Rose of Versailles.

And check out the lengthy Twitter thread posted in response to the first Sailor Moon episode, about why it wasn’t surprising to have a same-sex couple in the first season of the show.

Watch the clip comparing Molly’s original DiC accent to Mia Farrow’s.

And here’s the Reddit thread looking into how the Viz dub played down the homophobia of the original version of this episode.

Listen to the first Sailor Moon episode, about Zoisite, on the main feed *or* if you’re fancy listen to the new Sailor Moon episode, about Fisheye, on the Patreon feed.

“The Bleakening” (December 10, 2017)

We’re closing out 2023 with a two-part Bob’s Burgers Christmas mystery that also happens to be the last episode a cult favorite trans character, Marshmallow, appeared in before vanishing from the series for six years. This is basically our way of discussing the “Sheesh! Cab, Bob?” episode without having to drag you all through it, because for all its flaws, it did give the world the cherished treasure that is Marshmallow. Happy holidays!

Watch the Bob’s Burgers-Archer mashup that got Simon Chong a job making art for this show — starting with this very episode.

Totally Trans watched that Lady Ballers movie so you don’t have to!

Listen to our previous Bob's Burgers episode, about Bob's alleged bisexuality.

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A new episode on a Tuesday?! Well, the way our schedule ended up working out was that we are finishing the year with two Christmas episodes, and we figured it would be better to get those both out before the actual holiday, so you’re getting this today and then our second Christmas ep (and the last ep of 2023) on Friday. Enjoy, we hope!

“Season’s Greetings” (December 14, 1987)

Perhaps you haven’t heard of Frank’s Place. All the incentive you need for this episode is that Frank’s Place is that it won Emmys, it won critical praise, and it’s still remembered today as a showcase for a type of black American who wasn’t often depicted on the small screen. Despite all that, it only lasted a single season. Brian Cronin joins us to discuss perhaps the only sitcom episode to feature a Hanukkah dinner ruined by a coming out. And BTW, there is a twist ending we are still unsettled by.

Read Brian’s work at CBR but also at his website, Pop Culture References, which frequently dives deep into sitcom history.

Watch this Frank’s Place (and all episodes, if you want) at archive.org.

Read the LA Times piece we cite in this discussion here.

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“A Boy Like That” (April 24, 1997)

Heads up: We briefly discuss suicide episode in discussing on of this show’s cast members. If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts, the U.S. hotline to call is 988.

Well, it took us 214 episodes, but we finally arrived at Suddenly Susan. You might dismiss Brook Shields’ entry into the post-Friends landscape as an also-ran, and you are maybe right, but this first-season gay episode manages to give more depth and consideration to its one-off gay character than its fellow Must See TV alums did. That’s something. Plus Kathy Griffin is here.

Here’s the LA Times article cited in this piece, and here’s the Entertainment Weekly piece

Buy Josh Trujillo’s new book, Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben.

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1. Jamitol (S1E1: George Carlin, Oct. 11 1975)
2. Long Distance (S1E4: Candice Bergen, Nov. 8 1975)
3. Latent Elf (S1E8: Candice Bergen, Dec. 20 1975)
4. Household Hints (S1E16: Anthony Perkins, March 13, 1976)
5. The Snake-Handling O’Sheas (S2E2: Norman Lear, Sep. 25, 1976)
6. Monologue (S4E11: Cicely Tyson, Feb. 10, 1979)
7. The Ex-Police (S4E11: Cicely Tyson, Feb. 10, 1979)
8. Miles Cowperthwaite (S4E18: Michael Palin, May 12, 1979)
9. Not for Transexuals Only (S4E20: Buck Henry, May 26, 1979)
10. The Continuing Correspondences of Eleanor Roosevelt (S5E3: Bill Russell, Oct. 20 1979)

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“Nell and the Kid” (April 28, 1983)

As if network TV didn’t have enough sitcoms about non-biological parents stepping in to care for parentless children, Gimme a Break — itself a show about a woman acting as a substitute mother for three girls — has a second season episode in which Nell Carter’s character meets a spunky orphan (LaShana Dendy) and then entrusts her to the care of the neighborhood deli owner (Don Rickles). It didn’t end up becoming its own series, but Drew and Glen are pretty sure that this serves as a sort of soft launch for another show that has the same premise and which launched on NBC’s schedule the following fall.

You can watch this episode of Gimme a Break on YouTube.

Listen to us discuss Gimme a Break’s gay episode.

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“The One With the Memorial Service” (March 13, 2003)

Since Matthew Perry died, the tone of conversations about Friends has shifted from looking at all the reasons it wasn’t so great to trying to focus on the reasons we like it. That’s fair. Grief does that. But in seeking comfort in Friends, let’s not rush to thinking that Chandler Bing was something more than one long-running gay panic joke. Matthew Perry was a great comedic actor and we enjoy him delivering a one-liner with perfect timing, but we can acknowledge that without giving Friends a pass for its homophobia.

Here’s the Slate article that inspired this episode, and here’s the Substack post where it originally appeared, with its original headline.

Friends, previously on GEE:

• Everyone Thinks Chandler Is Gay
• Ross’s Lebsian Ex-Wife Gets Lesbian Married
• Rachel Kisses a Lesbian
• Ross Gellar Brings Gay Panic to The Single Guy

Listen to Magnificent Jerk, a great podcast about one woman’s journey to understand how her uncle’s autobiographical movie script became a B-action movie starring Rob Lowe.

“The Note” (September 18, 1991)

Seinfeld kicked off its third season with a rather risky premiere about George’s dick twitching during a massage from a man. What follows is a more earnest exploration of gay panic than you might expect from a Must See TV sitcom, and it happens to be the most in-depth look at George’s complex sexuality, though we will also be discussing every other time that Seinfeld implied that he’s something other than straight. An unblemished record of staunch heterosexuality? Yeah, sure, George.

There is a video companion to this episode! You can see all of the clips from the entire run of Seinfeld on the GEE Patreon! And you can view it even if you’re not a patron, because I’m nice and I want you to enjoy this episode.

Seinfeld on GEE previously:

• Kramer Gets Bullied by Mean Gays
• Elaine Dates a Gay Guy
• Susan's Dad Had a Gay Affair With John Cheever
• Jerry and George Aren't Gay, Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

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“Muffin’ Man” (March 1, 2007)

You know what’s super complicated? The Sarah Silverman Program. It’s funny, but just talking about why it’s funny in 2023 necessitates a lot of discussion of controversial topics including but not limited to ironic racism, straight dudes playing gay characters, January 6 and several people who are now canceled. Nonetheless, Drew (and not Glen, because Glen is not in this episode) is joined by Henry Gilbert to discuss why this show’s queer representation was novel and still should be important all these years later.

And yes, if you’re like “I could swear that Drew said this week would be Seinfeld,” you are correct; that episode will now be coming next week. Stay tuned!

Did you know that Henry also has a podcast? It’s called Talking Simpsons, and it’s a lot like GEE just specifically about The Simpsons. 

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Happy Halloween! You're getting this week’s episode one day early because it is, in fact, a Halloween episode.

“The Stranger” (October 25, 1985)

Benson may have been a more conventional sitcom than Soap, the show it spun off, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have its exceedingly weird moments — including this final season Halloween special in which Benson must play a trivia game with death personified in order to save the lives of 41 hapless schoolchildren. It’s basically the last moment in time an otherwise grounded sitcom could get away with this, and we’re lucky to have James Eldred on hand to discuss it. Also he suggested it!

Please don’t spoil Poker Face for him.

Also give a listen to his Cinema Oblivia podcast — and check out the episodes Drew guested on, about Switchblade Sisters and Troll.

The supercut of Kraus yelling “I can hear you” (or some variation thereof) was excerpted from this video on YouTube, posted by Undercover Budget Director. The full version is much longer.

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Want to watch this episode, which is not streaming and is hard to find online? You can do that right now on the GEE Patreon!

“Two Guys, a Girl and a Psycho Halloween” (October 28, 1998)

It didn’t want to be Friends. It really tried to give the cast real jobs, at the very least. But in the end, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place lost the workplace setting and added three more characters, essentially becoming another Friends wannabe. Along the way, however, it had some genuinely funny episodes and even did a non-canonical Halloween special that killed off the entire cast in the style of Scream-inspired 90s slasher flicks. If nothing else, give them credit for not couching their weird episode in the context of a dream.

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“Dark and Stormy Night” (October 28, 1994)

We’ve talked before how Family Matters has a more liberal take on typical hijinx than most sitcoms, but the show’s sixth season Halloween episode went full on Dracula — by which we mean Francis Ford Coppola. It’s really ambitious! And Hariette has never looked sexier! And we’re very stoked to have Michael Varrati on hand to discuss it because not everyone would be able to spot this darkling little gem hidden in the 1994 TGIF lineup.

Listen to Michael’s podcast Midnight Mass — and in particular listen to the episode all about Prom Night 2. It’s a hoot.

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“D&D” (November 18, 2021)

Beware the gay ghost!

 What are the odds that when your friend writes a book about Baron von Steuben, allegedly gay Revolutionary War hero, there would also be a current sitcom that features a gay Revolutionary War character? Pretty slim, we’d say! But this happy coincidence allowed us to not only promote Josh Trujillo’s new book, Washington's Gay General: The Legends and Loves of Baron Von Steuben, but also to dive into Ghosts, the CBS sitcom that is one of the more popular sitcoms on TV today. We’re happy to report that being a CBS sitcom means something quite different today than it did just a few years ago.

You should probably want a copy of Josh’s book. Buy a copy here!

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1. Girl With No Gaydar (S27E17: The Rock, 4/13/2000)
2. Donatella Versace (S30E18: Johnny Knoxville 5/7/2005)
3. Two Gay Guys (S32E4: Hugh Laurie 10/28/2006)
4. Deep House Dish (S32E7: Matthew Fox 12/1/2006)
5. Vincent Price Holiday Special (S34E16: Alec Baldwin 2/14/2009)
6. Stefon (S36E15: Russell Brand 2/12/2011)
7. Right Side of the Bed (S40E19: Scarlett Johansson 5/2/2015)
8. Dyke & Fats (S39E16: Louis C.K. 3/29/2014)
9. Whiskers R We (S41E13: Melissa McCarthy 2/13/2016)
10. Bowen Yang Surprisingly Gay (S46E17: Carey Mulligan 4/10/2021)

Welcome to a new season of Gayest Episode Ever. It will be a Saturday Night Live-centric season. Among the regular, sitcom-focused episodes, we will be doing periodic deep dives into the LGBTQ-focused sketches that ran on the show during its various eras. 

To kick it off (and to kick off the new season), we are starting with a two-part look at the various queer-adjacent recurring sketches from SNL. This first episode covers the launch of the show until the mid-90s, and next week’s episode will get us through the current era. Enjoy? Maybe? It’s a lot to take in, honestly, but we swear it’s worth discussion.

Here are this episode’s sketches:

1. Anita Bryant (s5e16 — Burt Reynolds, April 12, 1980)
2. Dion (s9e8 — Flip Wilson, December 10, 1983)
3. Nancy Reagan (s11e2 — John Lithgow, November 16, 1985)
4. Coffee Talk  (s16e13 — Roseanne Barr & Tom Arnold, February 2, 1989)
5. It’s Pat (s17e3 — Kirstie Alley, October 12, 1991)
6. Lyle the Effeminate Heterosexual (s17e16 — Mary Stuart Masterson, March 21, 1992)
7. Mickey the Dyke (s22e8 — Martin Short, December 7, 1996)
8. Ambiguously Gay Duo (s23e20 — David Duchovny, May 9, 1998)
9. Jeffrey’s (s26e12 — Sean Hayes, February 2, 2001)
10. Mango (s27e9 — Ellen DeGeneres, December 15, 2001)

You can watch the sketches on Patreon. You can see Drew’s master list of LGBTQ-focused SNL sketches here.

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“it takes a psycho” (April 30, 2023)

Barry is not a sitcom, though it was frequently one of the funnier shows on TV. We’re doing a bonus summer episode about it anyway because its gay character, NoHo Hank, is a rarity on TV because he’s both a villain and a person who doesn’t let his sexuality define him. That’s not necessarily a good thing, but we’re all about complex, messy queer characters, and this is one people should be talking about. Special thanks to Emily Heller for sharing her recollections of working on the show.

SPOILER WARNING: We will talk about major plot points from Barry through season three, episode four.

Read the New York Times piece on gay villains on TV.

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“The Perils of Punky” (October 20, 1985)

This might be the most famous weird episode of any TV show ever, and with good reason: it is utterly inexplicable how this parade of horrors came to be. It would be weird for any sitcom to deliberately scare its viewers, much less a show that catered specifically to kids. Wait, is the shared trauma of this Punky Brewster the reason why millennials can’t stop talking about old TV? No, really — is this why???

This is an episode of our Patreon bonus podcast Weirdest Episode Ever. Listen to the rest of those episodes on Patreon or now also on Apple Podcasts!

Check out Drew's video of all the times Brandon the dog was clearly not acting and was, in fact, actually scared of what was happening during this episode.

Most of the quotes used in this piece come from this Yahoo TV retrospective on this episode.

Watch Drew’s supercut of the Soleil Moon Frye’s pre-Punky made-for-TV horror movie, Invitation to Hell — and listen to the Monday Afternoon Movie about it!

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“Empty Nests” (May 16, 1987)

Happy summer! This is an episode of Backdoor Pilots, our summer Patreon series looking into the times famous sitcoms attempted to use a backdoor pilot to launch a spinoff. This particular example is one of the most interesting, since what aired on Golden Girls ended up being very different from the spinoff that made it to air, Empty Nest.

Here is the full list of Backdoor Pilots episodes, with links to the ones that are currently live on Patreon. More to come! 

Golden Girls, “Empty Nests”

Married With Children, “Top of the Heap”

Who’s the Boss?, “Mona”

Diff’rent Strokes, “The Girls School”

Gimme a Break, “Nell and the Kid”

Married With Children, “Radio Free Trumaine”

227, “The Audit”

The Cosby Show, “Mr. Quiet”

The Nanny, “Chatterbox”

Who’s the Boss?, “Living Dolls”

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Is there maybe some bad blood between Golden Girls creator Susan Harris and Rita Moreno, who almost starred in the spinoff? We talk about it in the episode, but I also made a video detailing this weird bit of TV history in case you’d like to explore it with visual aids.

The theme song to this series was composed and performed by Meika Grimm. The art for the series was designed by Ian O’Phelan.

“Flaming Moe” (January 16, 2011)

Today, LGBTQ characters on The Simpsons get to be more than walking gay jokes, and, really, this is one of the first episodes that shows Smithers as a (mostly) out member of the larger community in Springfield. It’s not perfect, however; there’s an homage to the 2008 film Milk that lands strangely, there’s a hetero love subplot for Skinner that takes acts two and three, and there’s a trans joke that underscores how advances in representation for LGBs didn’t include the Ts. But this episode, penned by future showrunner Matt Selman, shows the series is learning and evolving.

Watch Drew's supercut of every LGBTQ joke on The Simpsons (season 1 through 31) to get that view count over 4 million.

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“Mama Loves Mambo” (May 3, 1956)

While Ralph Kramden never met an out gay character on screen, he did once tussle with a new neighbor, Carlos Sanchez (Charles Korvin), who embodies all the traits of the “latin lover” stock character type. This includes being perceived as a threat to women while also being sensitive, empathetic and emotional — or in the midcentury binary, effeminate. We’re joined by Nu Julio himself, Tony Rodriguez, to discuss why this classic sitcom strikes a different chord than I Love Lucy, what to make of Ralph Kramden’s domestic violence threats and why you maybe didn’t see The Honeymooners in syndication back in the day.

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“Blood Crieth Unto Heaven” (January 27, 2013)

Yes, we’re giving you two American Dads this season, with this one representing how this show uses high-concept premises better than most other sitcoms. In this one, the show presents itself as a stage play, complete with all the restrictions and encumbrances that come with denying itself the ability to do quick cuts, and what results is as funny as it is bizarre. Here to discuss why this episode is a stand-out is Johnny LaZebnik, who sings the praises of Wendy Schaal’s comedic delivery.

Do you love old TV? Then check out Network 33, where you can get the series run of various classic sitcoms in a way that’s more permanent than you can get on streaming services. We are fans! And we use this site to make this show!

Should this technically be a Weirdest Episode Ever? Sure, but here’s the thing: When we label episodes in the main feed as this, you all tend to click on them less. Will dropping this on the main feed with a non-Weird title get us more listens? Only time will tell.

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Listen to Johnny’s previous GEE episode, where he discusses writing a Simpsons with his papá.

If you want to hear about another good, weird American Dad episode, listen to Talking Simpsons’ episode about “Gold Top Nuts.” Also listen to Drew and Glen on their episode about Conan O’Brien’s pilot, Lookwell.

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“Bad Girl” (November 12, 1996)

If you were not the target audience (and target age) for this live-action Nickelodeon series, you may be shocked to find out that The Secret World of Alex Mack is a sci-fi show. It’s basically Spider-Man with a baby gay lead protagonist, played with remarkable aplomb by Larisa Oleynik. We’re joined by Katie Mathewson, screenwriter on Hawkeye and the breakout hit Jury Duty, to discuss how very queer this show is — and in particular this episode, which plays out like a mid-90s lesbian teen romcom.

Check out Lizzie Borden (no, not that one), who directed this episode and may have played a role in giving it its queer vibe.

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This week, we’re joined by Matt Baume, author of the new book Hi Honey, I’m Homo, about the history of LGBTQ representation on American TV. Instead of a single episode, we’re talking about several, including some we’ve covered previously on GEE and some we have not!

• All in the Family, “Judging Books by Covers” (February 9, 1971)

• Soap, “Episode 1.8” (November 8, 1977)

• The Golden Girls, “Isn’t It Romantic?” (November 8, 1986) and “Sister of the Bride” (January 12, 1991)

• Ellen, “The Puppy Episode” (April 30, 1997)

• Will & Grace, “Homo for the Holidays” (November 25, 1999)

• Schitt’s Creek, “Honeymoon” (April 15, 2015)

Go buy Matt’s book, Hi Honey, I’m Homo!

Watch the Carol Burnette clip with Jim Nabors and Rock Hudson that Drew mentions.

Watch the Ellen DeGeners appearance on Rosie O’Donnell that Matt mentions.

And here is that Australian marriage equality ad.

Listen to that deep dive about Cool World that Drew mentions.

There are a lot of references to episodes we’ve covered previously, and check them all out here:

• Archie Bunker Meets a Homo

• Alice Dates a Gay Guy

• Gomer Pyle Writes Gay Love Letters

• Taxi Does a Bisexual Episode

• We Finally Do Soap

• Dorothy’s Friend Is a Lesbian

• Blanche’s Gay Brother Wants to Get Gay Married

• The Other Two Finds a Daddy

• Ellen Comes Out*

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“I Love You! My Dear, Dear Ukyo” (May 18, 1990)

This week, we’re pivoting away from traditional sitcoms to discuss Ranma ½, a long-running anime that combines martial arts, romance, mysticism and… zany misunderstandings that are actually very sitcom-like, when you get down to it. This series focuses on the title character, a teenage boy who due to a curse turns into a girl when splashed with cold water, so there are a bajillion ways to analyze the gender dynamics. Here to discuss this with us is Diamond Feit, an American-born writer for whom Ranma ½ was a gateway drug to not only Japanese culture but also getting xem to live in Japan.

Drew refers to a Twitter thread by Michaela Joffe about the Urusei Yatsura character Ryūnosuke Fujinami. Read that here.

Diamond refers to the list of differences between the first series of Ranma ½ and the later ones. Read that here.

And see the clip of Kodachi laughing maniacally here.

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“The Driver’s Seat” (November 30, 1993)

We’re giving another shot to Roseanne, because perhaps it’s been long enough that you all want to listen to stories about this iconic series. Perhaps not! Regardless, this show offered us Martin Mull’s Leon, who goes unsung in the annals of gay supporting characters. He’s a villain, though much of his evildoing has nothing to do with his sexuality, and in this particular episode, his gayness doesn’t even come up — which is unusual, because usually gay supporting characters on sitcoms only show up to be gay and do nothing else.

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“Gay” (November 20, 2008)

The reviews would have you believe that NBC’s attempt at an American redo of Kath & Kim was without merit and appealing to no one. We’re not so sure, and the fact that its one season on air came around the same time franchises like Real Housewives and RuPaul’s Drag Race were revving up means that there actually an audience for two women who dress trashy but who think they’re hot stuff and whose banter vacillates between friendly and bitchy. It’s not as successful as the Australian source material was, but given a chance to come into its own, could Kath & Kim U.S. grown like the American version of The Office did?

Since it’s not streaming anywhere and next to impossible to find online, watch this episode and the pilot here.

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“Gay” (May 23, 2002)

A smash hit in its native Australia, Kath & Kim focuses on two suburban women joined by their lack of both good taste and any sort of a clue. The second episode is just titled “Gay,” and to discuss it, we were joined by Glenn Charlie Dunks, a real-life Australian homosexual who’s spent a great deal of time thinking about art, culture and the differences between Australian and American media. He also taught us several vocabulary lessons, because as we learned, we speak English but not necessarily Australian.  

Videos referenced in this episode:

• This episode’s gay panic montage
• Weddings, the 1994 Australian special that inspired Kath & Kim
• Fast Forward’s parody of Wilson Phillips
• Fast Forward’s straight Mardi Gras sketch
• The Big Girl’s Blouse sketch Gay Olympics
• Lord of the Rings x Kath & Kim

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“An Old Flame With a New Wick” (March 1, 2004)

Despite the preconceptions you might have about Two and a Half Men, the fact remains that its first season features an episode centered on a trans man... when few other sitcoms ever bothered to tell a story about someone who’s trans and male. In fact, the previous sitcom of note to do a trans man storyline was the previous episode we had guest Henry Giardina on for: the Golden Girls episode with Gil Kessler. In this installment, we discuss why sitcoms are allergic to trans men and why Two and a Half Man, improbably, doesn’t completely fuck this up, even if it’s very early 2000s in its understanding of trans people.

Listen to Henry & co. on the Totally Trans podcats. And listen to the the trans man-centric (kinda) episode of The Golden Girls with Henry here.

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“What’s in a Name?” (February 16, 1966)

On a show all about the zany inhabitants of Hooterville, Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) stands out because the most unusual thing about her is her name. She works as a carpenter and dresses for her work, but that name alone is enough that most Hootervillians don’t know what pronoun to use for her. As we discuss with special guest Josh Trujillo, Ralph is not a trans character, but this episode about her seeking a new name so she can get married, offers enough to qualify her as interesting enough to merit her own episode of this podcast… darling.

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This is a preview for the Weirdest Episode Ever about the time Darkwing Duck did a parody of Twin Peaks. The full episode is an exclusive for patrons pledging $5 or more a month, but this preview is going on the free feed both as an enticement and also because I share some quotes from Tad Stones, creator of Darkwing Duck, about how this strange piece of TV came to be. If you want to hear the full episode, head over to our Patreon and pledge at the $5-a-month level; you’ll not only get all WEEs so far but also every episode of the new miniseries, Backdoor Pilots, launching next month.

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“Sonny Boy” (February 12, 1981)

Is it surprising that TV’s most famous drag sitcom never dared to do anything actually gay? It shouldn’t be! And for all that could end up going wrong with this premise, this episode, concerning Peter Scolari’s character having to explain to his mother why he’s wearing a dress, weirdly (and probably accidentally) gets a lot right about coming out. It’s a story about someone saying it doesn’t matter whether anyone understands your decision. As Billy Joel once said, “I don't care what you say anymore / This is my life / Go ahead with your own life / Leave me alone.”

Since Bosom Buddies isn’t streaming anywhere, you can watch this episode on our Vimeo.

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Listen to Drew talk about R.L. Stine with Kelly Nugent on the Teen Creeps podcast and talk about Jack Hill with James Eldred on the Cinema Oblivia podcast.

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“Pawnee Zoo” (September 17, 2009)

Okay, fine, we did the Parks & Rec episode you asked for, but here’s the thing: The one were Leslie Knope marries gay penguins is not the pro-gay piece of TV history you think it is. Nowhere in this episode does Leslie ever say she gives a dirty squirt about gays or same-sex marriage. The episode never takes a position, and the fact that it won a GLAAD Media Award makes it all the more galling that “Pawnee Zoo” plays out as Leslie liking positive attention but never saying a single nice thing about gay people.

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“Caught on Tape” (November 15, 2000)

John Goodman’s follow-up sitcom to Roseanne was Normal, Ohio, which only lasted seven episodes before Fox yanked it from its schedule in late 2000. Unfortunately, the take-away from its failure was that audiences wouldn’t buy a guy like Goodman playing gay, which is perhaps not one of the problems this show needed to fix? This week, special guest / homosexual academic Hollis Griffin joins us to discuss why this show didn’t work and why it’s still worth discussing as a failed imitator to Will & Grace.

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Watch the episode we’re discussing on YouTube. Also watch Don’t Ask, the unaired pilot that eventually became this show.

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“It Only Hurts When I’m Gay” (October 25, 1985)

On paper, the idea of a sitcom taking on the subject of gay bashing seems like the worst idea, but somehow Brothers — TV’s first gay sitcom — manages to tell a real story about violence against gay people while avoiding the hokey “very special episode” tropes. We’re as shocked as anyone how good this turned out, and what’s more, it’s genuinely funny without underselling the gravity of the attack.

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Please, watch this episode (and other Brothers episodes!) on YouTube. The posting we used to do this episode only had 36 views as of the time this GEE went live!

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“The Child-Stealers” (January 24, 1980)

A hundred episodes and one pandemic later, we’re finally returning to the least offensive police precinct in TV history. This sixth-season episode sees the return of Marty and Daryl, the recurring homos at the center of the previous Barney Miller we covered. What results is an interesting look at how police are able and sometimes unable to intervene with homophobia keeps a parent from seeing their child.

Listen to our previous Barney Miller episode.

Regarding the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure recommendation at the end of the episode, check out the Retronauts episode that relaunched Drew’s enthusiasm for this series. Also check out the JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer podcast.

Listen to Smart Mouth’s popcorn episode and listen to Monday Afternoon Movie’s two-parter with special guest Julie Brown!

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“Miss Piggy’s Hollywood” / “First Show” (May 14, 1989)

Better known by the segment title, Miss Piggy’s Hollywood, this mostly forgotten bit of TV history aired on NBC in 1989 and more or less works out to be the thing Drew and Glen dreamed into existence: The Comeback but with Miss Piggy. In this half-hour, you see Miss Piggy repeatedly try to assert herself in Hollywood, only to be knocked down every time. Gee, is there a reason gay men are drawn to this character who’s seeking acceptance from a society that refuses to give it to her?

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Listen to the Maintenance Phase episode about Elizabeth Taylor’s diet book.

Watch: Miss Piggy and Joan Rivers and also Miss Piggy and Herb Alpert.

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“Lucy Goes to Scotland” (January 6, 1956)

It’s our second I Love Lucy episode and also our second “It was all a dream!” installment of Weirdest Episode Ever. So what is to be made of a dream sequence where Lucy Ricardo is ultimately fed to a dragon? Perhaps not much, but if you want to approach it from a perspective of dream analysis, it’s very likely that Lucy’s sacrifice has something to do with Lucille Ball’s impending divorce and her allowing celebrity to triumph over her personal life. And that’s not even saying anything about Vivian Vance and William Frawley playing a two-headed dragon that can’t stand being yoked to its other half.

Listen to our previous I Love Lucy outing, about how it just might have made the first gay joke in sitcom history.

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Heads up! We’re talking about The Cosby Show in this episode, and therefore we’re talking about Bill Cosby’s alleged sexual misconduct. We don’t spend too much time on it. That’s mostly addressed in a different Patreon-online episode, which people supporting us at the $5 level or higher can listen to here.

This is actually the tenth installment of Weirdest Episode Ever, our newest bonus miniseries. It’s going on the main feed for scheduling reasons I explain in the intro but also this will serve as a nice intro for the next regular GEE we will be recording.

 “Cliff’s Nightmare” (January 11, 1990)

How do you follow up an mpreg fantasy that also functions as a subconscious exploration of Bill Cosby’s alleged misdeeds? How about an aborted crossover intended to promote Jim Henson’s strangest TV experiment? We couldn’t get to the bottom of exactly how this Cosby Show episode came to be and then came to air, but we can safely say that we understand why Digit and Leon didn’t crossover into the larger Muppet universe.

Watch the first episode of The Jim Henson Hour here. And watch the “lost” episode here.

Watch the video that Glen couldn't be bothered to find here.

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“Bull Gets a Kid” (November 8, 1984)

For our second look at Night Court, we opted not for the so-so trans episode “Best of Friends,” which doesn’t really improve on the “my buddy is in town and it turns out is trans” plotline done so well by The Jeffersons. Instead, we are looking at a non-gay, non-trans episode guest starring Bobby Hill herself, Pamela Adlon, as a young girl who pretends to be a boy. There’s actually a lot going on here about gender norms that makes for a more interesting talk than if we have done the explicitly trans episode, we say. Markie Post, we’ll get to you one day.

Listen to our previous Night Court epsiode. Also watch the "full cast" opening credits to Night Court, made for the GEE TV episode.

Talking Simpsons’ What a Cartoon podcast watched Capitol Critters so you don’t have to.

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“You Can’t Win ’Em All” (February 27, 1985)

Sara is a one-season sitcom that first came to our attention via a gag on The Simpsons, the context being that it wasn’t a show worth remembering. The Simpsons was wrong, however, and this Geena Davis vehicle does a lot of what we think ’80s sitcoms don’t do. Namely, it has an out gay character who is allowed to have a sex drive. He’s also more than a set of stereotypical mannerisms but he still reads as gay. And Bronson Pinchot, who one year later would become a sitcom star as Balki on Perfect Strangers, does a great job bringing dimension to this character who should have been on TV for a lot longer.

Many thanks to Steven Capsuto for collecting historical context around Sara in his amazing book, Alternate Channels: Queer Images on Twentieth-Century TV, which is a great resource for anyone studying LGBTQ representation in media. Also listen to the episode Steve did with us about Love, Sidney.

Thanks to Zach Wilson for giving us access to the video of this ep! You can watch the entire episode on the GEE Vimeo here.

Watch the credits to the also short-lived sitcom DREAMS.

Read the LA Times piece about the production of Sara.

And also have a look at the Pop Trash Museum article about Sara.

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“Valentine’s Day” (February 11, 1989)

Consider this a special Valentine’s present from us to you: your regular weekly episode, one day early! Feb. 14 marks a truly terrible holiday that we’d normally encourage you all to ignore. However, it so happens that just in time for 2023’s Valentine’s Day we were reminded of a Golden Girls episode that spins not one but four tales about this wretched holiday. Believe us: They do it about as good as any TV show ever could.

Watch Matt Baume’s video that inspired this episode, “Why Do Gay Guys Love The Golden Girls?”

Listen to “Glen Writes a Golden Girls,” which is maybe one of the best things we’ve done with this podcast, as well as all the previous Golden Girls episodes.

Submit your own suggestions for Box of Compliments compliments here.

Confused about Dana Jean Harley and fat country babies eating peaches off a hardwood floor? Watch SNL’s “Country Roses” sketch here.

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A heads up: This episode discusses sexual assault in the context of it being something that would get referenced in mid-2000s shows as a marker of being “edgy.” Also, there is a discussion of anal probing in the context of alien abduction, not to be funny but to try and understand why this is a concept that shows up on sitcoms.

 “Roger ’n‘ Me” (April 23, 2006)

As a follow-up to last week’s Great Gazoo episode, we return to American Dad to try to explain why Roger the alien is such a successful character and, really, a likely reason why American Dad show succeeds. This is an early episode exploring Roger’s relationship with Stan. And while the show suffers from being more like Family Guy than it would be even a year later, there is surprisingly nuance to the way the show deals with these two sharing what amounts to a sexual experience.

Listen to our previous episode on American Dad.

Listen to the episode of Monday Afternoon Movie about The UFO Incident, with special guest Scott Philbrook from Astonishing Legends.

Read the Reddit thread “How did anal probing become associated with alien abductions?”

Listen to the Our Strange Skies podcast’s series on Whitley Strieber.

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“The Great Gazoo” (October 29, 1965)

Not only did the Great Gazoo mark the “jumping the shark” point for The Flintstones well before that was a term that meant anything in TV studies, but also there’s a whole queer backstory for this green imp, who’s allegedly inspired by a guy who taught a legendary class of CalArts animators who went on to make most of the top-grossing cinematic cartoons of the last fifty years. The fact that there’s next to nothing available online about Bill Moore only makes the mystery more enticing. We truly will have a gay old time.

Read the Vanity Fair piece on CalArts in which Brad Bird identifies the Great Gazoo as being inspired by Bill Moore.

Listen to Talking Simpsons’ What a Cartoon episode about this Flintstones milestone.

Watch the Stone Age Cartoons short “Granite Hotel,” which seems like a predecessor for The Flintstones.

Read the MeTV article about sitcom couples sharing a bed.

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“The Sponge” (December 7, 1995)

You know one thing Seinfeld did right that many of its metropolitan sitcom imitators didn’t? It had mean gays — specifically Bob and Cedric, a gay couple that shows up three times throughout the series run to exert queer menace on Kramer. They figure into a plot that’s otherwise centered on Elaine’s birth control, and their demand that Kramer wear an AIDS ribbon allows us to discuss various issues related to virtue signaling, talking talks vs. walking walks and getting called out online.

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“The Shining Silver Crystal: The Moon Princess Appears” (November 28, 1992)

It's the only Sailor Moon episode of a podcast you will hear this week featuring a surprise cameo by Mia Farrow.

About a year ago, we covered Sailor Moon on our bonus podcast, The Cartoons That Made Us Gay. We kicked off 2023 by returning to Sailor Moon, and so we decided to pop the original one onto the main feed. This one is all about the first-season same-sex couple, Kunzite and Zoisite, but if you’re into it, right now on Patreon there is a whole second episode about the other famous same-sex couple from this series, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune. Listen to that here.

And GEE will be back with a brand-new Seinfeld outing in two weeks! But if that’s too long for you, don’t forget that new episodes premiere on the Patreon feed one week early!

Miscellaneous notes:

• Yes, there is a substantial parallel between Sailor Moon and Buffy, though we’d hesitate to declare it more than a coincidence
• Kotaku’s post on the abomination that is the American pilot for a live action Sailor Moon remake
• Hello Kitty is not a cat
• Read Drew’s Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games post if you want to know how the connection to Rose of Versailles
• And check out the lengthy Twitter thread posted in response to the first Sailor Moon episode, about why it wasn’t surprising to have a same-sex couple in the first season of the show
• Watch the clip comparing Molly’s original DiC accent to Mia Farrow’s

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Greetings! We are combatting the dead zone that is the holidays with a bonus episode: the fourth of Weirdest Episode Ever, our new Patreon series looking at sitcoms that venture into sci-fi, horror and fantasy. If you like this, you can listen to three other episodes on Patreon, with another six to come in early 2023. They’re available for people supporting us at the $5 level or higher.

Here’s the full list of episodes we have done/will be doing:

• The Cosby Show, "The Day the Spores Landed" (a.k.a. the male pregnancy episode)
• I Love Lucy, “Lucy Goes to Scotland" (a.k.a. Lucy gets fed to a dragon)
• Perfect Strangers, "Aliens" (a.k.a. Balki is an alien)
• The Facts of Life, "Seven Little Indians" (a.k.a. the Twilight Zone parody)
• A Family Matters, "Stevil" (a.k.a. Steve Urkel gets a murderous puppet doppelganger)
• Benson, "Death in a Funny Position" (a.k.a. serial killer cruise ship)
• Day By Day, "A Very Brady Episode" (a.k.a. a very strange venture into Brady Bunch land)
• Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, "Two Guys a Girl and a Psycho Halloween" (a.k.a. Ryan Reynolds murders everyone)
• Punky Brewster, "The Perils of Punky" (a.k.a. the cave of horrors)
• The Cosby Show, "Cliff's Nightmare" (a.k.a. Cliff Huxtable vs. Muppets)

Here are the details on this Facts of LIfe episode:

“Seven Little Indians” (January 3, 1987)

It would be ambitious for any sitcom, much less Facts of Life specifically, to attempt a weird episode that not only satirizes 1980s slasher movies but also murder mysteries and also The Twilight Zone. For all that being packed into one 22-minute format, this one actually works pretty well. Lisa Whelchel as Blair — big-haired, wild eyed and caked with makeup — makes for a striking visual that probably traumatized a few kids back in the day.

The Facts of Life, previously:

• Blair Warner Is a Homophone
• Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Hearththrob

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“Jingle Balls” (December 13, 2001)

We are closing out the year by returning to the only sitcom whose every Christmas episode is also gay: Will & Grace. It’s not great, people. And while this Laura Kightlinger-penned season for ep shows promise, it ultimately pulls back from exploring subjects that it could have done interesting work with: Will’s apparent embarrassment at dating a more effeminate man and Jack’s misguided belief that being gay means he can do design work. At least Parker Posey saves the day with unrestrained homophobia.

Got a question you want to ask Drew? Ask anonymously here. Details for how to watch the answering session to follow.

Will & Grace, previously:

• Will and Jack Kiss on Live TV
• Will and Jack Embrace Every Gay Stereotype
• It’s a Will & Grace Christmas!

BTW, the neurological condition Drew mentions in this episode is real and is called witzelsucht.

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“A Tale of Two Lesbians” (June 19, 2009)

It’s not exactly incorrect that you can summarize The Goode Family as “What if King of the Hill but liberal?” But that description makes it seem like Mike Judge’s follow-up to KotH didn’t have potential. It did, and just a few episodes in, it was world-building in a way few other series did, by giving viewers not just one lesbian couple but two — and they were nothing alike either! Imagine! Multiple representations of female queerness onscreen at the same time! We’re joined by longtime friend of the pod Mir Knight to discuss why this series didn’t succeed.

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Content warning: In discussing plotlines on Soap, we do bring up suicide and, very briefly, sexual assault.

"Episode 4.1" (November 12, 1980) *

Finally! It's one of the biggest cult favorite sitcoms of all time *and* it's also a show famous for having a LGBT character in the main cast. The only reason it's taken us this many years to tackle Soap is that it's so much more serialized than mostly anything else we cover, so while we focus on one particular episode, we're also discussing the entirety of Billy Crystal's gay character, Jodie Dallas. Good thing we have longtime Soap fan and TableCakes' Katherine Helmond correspondent Gwynedd Stuart on hand to discuss the show in general and the awesomeness of Jessica Tate in particular.

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Also check out Gwynedd's work on Sporked.

Listen to Gwynedd’s episode of Monday Afternoon Movie about The Legend of Lizzie Borden.

See the full text of "the Soap memo." And then read the full piece on Newspapers.com (subscription required).

The Susan Harris quotes in this piece come from this 2018 Yahoo interview.

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* By some counts, this is actually episode 3.22.

“Jonathan the Gymnast” (November 18, 1986)

Technically, Who’s the Boss? never did a gay episode, but because Danny Pintauro’s sexuality looms large over this sitcom, many episodes seem a little gayer as a result — and this episode especially so. In it, Tony and Angela step into the kitchen to have a frank discussion of why Jonathan is not like other boys, and it really comes off like Who’s the Boss? is asking viewers to overlook this aspect of the character. It’s fucked up that this happened, and it’s one of several occurrences that make Drew utter the phrase “Poor Jonathan.”

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Listen to the episode of Monday Afternoon Movie about The Legend of Lizzie Borden — starring Katherine Helmond but also featuring as a guest Gwynedd Stuart, who will be our guest next week to discuss Soap.

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“Sons and Lovers” (January 16, 1996)

This is an honest-to-God follow-up to our previous Wings episode, which was all about the series antagonist, Roy Biggins, finding out his son was gay. Five seasons later, someone at Wings thought to ask “Hey, what if that gay character didn’t cease to exist the moment that first episode ended?” This episode marks one of the few times that a one-off gay character actually got to return. And yeah, we’re re-joined by Massachusetts correspondent Jonathan Bradley Welch. It’s a real journey for us all.

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Watch what remains of the attempted British remake of Wings.Buy the new issue of Beyond Sunset here.

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“The Man We Love” (June 30, 1996)

Last week, we looked at Married… With Children’s take on an anti-Friends. This week, we decided to look at the last episode of a show that aired the previous season on Fox. While it was not designed as a response to Friends, it nonetheless managed to solve some of that show’s major problems. Namely, it’s racially diverse, there’s a queer character in the opening credits, and the characters actually work. It’s also funny, and having been co-created by writers who cut their teeth on The Golden Girls, that’s no surprise. What’s more, this show features an explicitly bi character — and this is something sitcoms almost never did and still don’t.

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Watch episodes of The Crew on archive.org. And while you’re at it, watch The Five Mrs. Buchanans too.

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“Enemies” (April 14, 1996)

You may recall a late-series installment of Married… With Children that shifted focus away from the Bundys and onto an apartment of young sexy people who apparently despised each other. This was “Enemies,” a kinda-sorta send-up of Friends that never saw the light of day beyond this one episode. Our theory is that it was a reformatted spinoff that at one point was going to star Christina Applegate and that also features a guy who’s totally a stand-in for Matt Le Blanc.

All of this is our take on what would be the Backdoor Pilots Patreon-only bonus podcast that we’re starting this month. Should we do this one? Or should we do Weirdest Episode Ever?

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According to Pop Culture References, it looks like The Bob Cummings Show was the first TV show to do a backdoor pilot.

And here’s that 1996 Levi’s commercial that Drew thinks this episode is reacting to.

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“Morticia and the Psychiatrist” (September 25, 1964)

This year, we’re celebrating Halloween with one of the two most Halloween-tastic TV families of all time — and no worries, because we talk plenty about the other one too. Joining us to discuss the second episode of The Addams Family is Ted Biaselli, director of original series at Netflix, who shares some of his experience developing the new Addams Family reboot, Wednesday, and his lifelong relationship with the creepiest and kookiest family in sitcom history.

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Also, here is the blog post Drew references as identifying the Addams Family as east coast while the Munsters are west coast. 

Also:The new Halloween episode of Singing Mountain The Square Roots podcast

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“Fizbo” (November 25, 2009)

People have been asking us to cover this show basically since we started the podcast, and so this week we finally decided to cover it… by looking into an episode no one wanted us to do. In our heads, the most interesting part of the show is Cam and Mitchell, and the most interesting part of Cam and Mitchell is Eric Stonestreet’s portrayal of Cam. He’s straight, but we say he delivers a nuanced character who both embraces and defies stereotypes. Also, he’s a clown, it turns out. Which may be appropriate, depending on your point of view.

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“The Boys’ Night Out” (February 13, 1983)

More than a hundred episodes later (of All in the Family but also of this podcast), we return to the Archie Bunker primary universe to find out if everyone's favorite bigot got over his homophobia. The answer: kind of? But that is probably just the result of season after season of broadcast TV sanding off his rougher edges.

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Media of note:

• The Hollywood Reporter interview with Norman Lear about Carol O'Connor 
• Washington Post article on the cancelation of Archie Bunker's Place 
• The “Night of a Thousand Stars” video 
• Beverly LaSalle, RIP (part one) as explained by the Totally Trans podcast

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“There Is Nothing Like the Dames” (February 17, 1990)

Believe it or not, Mama’s Family has a deeply queer history. While the final result of — the syndicated revival that returned to TV after NBC canceled the it — bears little of that, this episode goes over all the ways a recurring sketch on The Carol Burnett Show originally told the story of a queer-coded artist who can’t relate to his family back home. It’s all the stranger to consider that Mama’s Family never did an explicitly queer episode, even with all those Bob Mackie costumes.

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Read the article in which Bubba actor Allan Kayser talks about his famously tight jeans.

Vicki Lawrence sings the original, non-instrumental version of the Mama’s Family theme song. But also listen to her disco banger “Don’t Stop the Music” and the no. 1 murder mystery pop hit “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.”

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“Cougars” (November 29, 2007)

As comedically successful as it might be, 30 Rock is a very straight show. That’s why our best pick for a queer episode is one where the sexually interesting narrative is the C plot and it ends with Judah Friedlander’s Frank convincing himself he can’t like guys because he doesn’t fit prescribed definition of gay. This episode is ultimately harmless but indicative of some traps later Tina Fey efforts would fall into. But hey — it’s got “Muffin Top.”

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“Stealing Nikki” (November 26, 2000)

Go figure: It’s our longest episode yet, and it’s about a show you might not even remember!

We were fortunate enough to get Talking Simpsons co-host Henry Gilbert back for a second go-around, and we decided to make use of his encyclopedic knowledge of professional wrestling. Lucky for us, there is in fact a sitcom that discusses pro wrestling and queerness in the same context, and it’s Nikki Cox two-season comedy series, which could not be more early 2000s. Even better? It aired on The WB, which allows us to discuss that netlet’s role in TV history.

Listen to Talking Simpsons, because we ripped it off in making this show.

If you haven’t yet, treat yourself to GLOW: not the Netflix version (which is also good!) but the original syndicated 80s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling show.

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“My Hair Lady” (February 15, 2004)

Welcome to season six of Gayest Episode Ever! True, season don’t really mean anything on this kind of podcast, but we are back from our summer hiatus and we’re super eager to get back into talking sitcom queerness.

We’re kicking off this season with our fourth look at King of the Hill. It’s an interesting one in that it has (presumably) straight writer Wyatt Cenac telling a story about Bill pretending to be gay, yet it’s pretty well done, in that both Glen and Drew walked away not being offended or annoyed by anything Bill says or wears. This is actually high praise for us.

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Hi. This is the fourth and final installment of our summer rerun series wherein we send out old episodes that we think are good but perhaps didn’t get all the attention they should have. This Wings episode is actually our least-listened-to episode, and we’re pretty sure that is a result of Drew naming it originally “Roy Biggins Has a Big Gay Son.” We’re betting that forefronting the fact that it’s Wings will help more people listen to it, because you’re more likely to know what Wings is than you are to remember who Roy Biggins was. Either way, this is an episode we will be revisiting in the not-too-distant future when we do the episode where Roy’s gay son comes back to the show!

See you in September with new episodes!

“There’s Always Room for Cello” (December 14, 1990)

Roy Biggins is the chuckling villain of Wings, an NBC sitcom that is a solid B but which has a reputation for being a C minus. In the second season, Roy’s son came out and Roy was given — and totally biffed — a chance to act like a grown-up. Jonathan Bradley Welch, host of that *other* gay TV podcast, A Special Presentation, is on hand to discuss growing up in Massachusetts, the charms of Crystal Bernard and which Hackett brother is hotter.

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It's another summer rerun! This time, of our 17th episode, which never really pulled in the numbers we thought it should. We swear it doesn't suck!

“Lez Be Friends” (April 28, 1997)

For many kids watching sitcoms in the 90s, Amanda Bearse would have been one of the first actors they would have known to be openly gay. That’s what makes this episode so special. She’d put in her time on Married… With Children season after season, playing Al Bundy’s sparring partner, Marcy D’Arcy. So it’s sweet that toward the end of the series, she got to play Marcy’s cousin Mandy, who is so down to hang that Al actually likes her — and she’s openly gay.

Are there more than two gay episodes of Married… With Children? Because we did the one where Al and Peggy meet a gay couple. So if you’ve got any suggestions for additional Married… episodes, we’re all ears.

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This is a summer rerun of an episode that originally aired July 30, 2018. We're posting not only because Harley and Ivy went from subtextual lovers to full on romantic partners on the HBO Max series but also because we've got a new Batman: TAS episode of Cartoons That Made Us Gay, which you can listen to here.

Excuse the echo! It was 2018 and we didn't know better!

"Harley and Ivy" (January 18, 1993)

In GEE’s first bonus episode, Glen and Drew focus on something that's not a sitcom but is nonetheless pretty damn gay — the Batman: The Animated Series installment that put a lesbianish aura around Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, which extended to the comics and ultimately made the duo a full-fledged couple years later.

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“Phil’s Assertion School (September 23, 1977)

Sanford Arms was NBC’s attempt to continue the world of Sanford and Son without either Sanford or the Son. It didn’t work, and of the eight episodes produced, only four ever aired. That said, it’s second ever installment not only introduced a gay character but also it became the first black cast sitcom to ever do a gay episode with an out gay person of color. So while this attempt at a Sanford spinoff didn’t work, it still landed its place in history. We’re joined again by Dr. Alfred L. Martin to discuss.

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Watch this episode of Sanford Arms on Vimeo.

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It's our first-ever summer rerun! And we're doing this one in preparation for a full-length, main feed bonus episode next week, where we're talking about Sanford Arms, the sequel series to Sanford and Sun. Enjoy!

“Lamont, Is That You?” (October 19, 1973)

Norman Lear for the win! This podcast probably won’t go in depth on ’90s classics like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Family Matters or A Different World because many black sitcoms of that era didn’t do gay episodes. Back in 1973, Sanford and Son did, however, and the result is classier and more interesting than what you’d see on shows ten and twenty years later.

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“Roomie for Improvement” (November 4, 1992)

Al Borland is not gay. This episode makes a point of saying that he is a heterosexual, despite how many of his (comparatively) immasculine qualities might indicate otherwise. However for some, Richard Karn’s sensitive flannel man is an example of a kind of guy some of us would grow up to like and some of us would grow up to be: big, bearded, and free to be ourselves regardless of where on the gender spectrum we ended up being. Nick Del Prince joins Drew and Glen to discuss Home Improvement, one of the most successful shows this podcast has examined so far — and easily one of the straightest.

And here’s the queer SNL think you may recognize Nick from.

Ask Harriet? No thank you, we won’t be asking her anything?

TEENAGE MUTHA!

Tim Allen has never looked sexier than he does in his mug shot.

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“A Fine Friendship” (February 6, 1995)

One hundred episodes later, we return to The Nanny to find out what happens when Fran Fine mistakes a straight guy for a gay guy. This episode essnetially works as an inverse to the first Nanny episode we covered, right down to Fran being horrified by a gay-seeming person being straight rather than delighted by a straight-seeming person being gay. 

Watch Matt Baume’s video on LGBTQ representation on The Nanny

Watch Fran Drescher’s TikTok on why The Nanny had a gay sensibility

Read Brett White’s column “‘The Nanny’ Is a Crucial Gay Text That Must Be Preserved and Celebrated”

“Halloween” (October 30, 1996)

Considering that every other major Must See TV sitcom did at least one gay episode, it’s surprising that NewsRadio didn’t — especially when you consider the fact that its lead actor, Dave Foley, jumped straight to NBC from Kids in the Hall, which experimented with gender and sexuality a lot more freely. This episode was as close as we could find to a real gay episode. And while it does feature Dave Foley donning drag once again, there’s a lot more weird stuff going on, including Phil Hartman’s character getting a premonition of his own death — about a year and a half before he’d die in real life. All this plus Andy Dick and Joe Rogan! Yeah, this is a weird episode!

Read:

Uproxx’s oral history of NewsRadio

The interview where the NewsRadio creator compares Must See TV Thursdays to a “shit sandwich”

Watch:

Dave Foley in Anne of Avonlea

Listen:

American Hysteria, the podcast all about moral panics, urban legends and  conspiracy theories — and how they shape culture.

The Science Versus episode on Joe Rogan

The Astonishing Legends episode on the alien autopsy video

Right off the top of the bat, we need to admit that yes, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a show about cops. There’s no getting around that. We try our best to discuss how to weight its copaganda status against every other aspect of the show, and while we’re not going to try to sell anyone on this show, we will say that dismissing it means skipping over one of the better episodes of a sitcom ever to address bisexuality head-on. Speaking of addressing bisexuality head-on, we’re joined by Queer Quadrant co-host Brooke Solomon to discuss the Michael Schurverse, Eleanor Shellstrops on other shows and why Stephanie Beatriz is awesome.

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Watch the weird, Latina-free Quebecois remake of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Escouade 99.

Listen to Stephanie Beatriz’s episode of Nicole Byer’s Why Won’t You Date Me?

• The strange history of the 2019 film Yesterday and Jack Barth, the screenwriter who wrote this Simpsons ep
• Mel Magazine’s history of the Richard Gere gerbil story
• Did Sylvester Stallone start the Richard Gere gerbil rumor?

• Talking Simpsons’ take on A Fish Called Selma
• The You Must Remember This episodes about American Gigolo and Body Double

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• “I’m Not a Girl” — Janet, Nonbinary Representation and The Good Place 
• What the Styling of Good Janet on The Good Place Shows About Sexist Character Design
• A Non-Binary Ode to The Good Place’s Janet
• How The Good Place Forked Up Eleanor’s Sexuality
• The Good Place’s Michael as a Transgender Allegory

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“And Baby Makes Four” (November 3, 2003)

Before she was the literal mom on Blackish, Tracee Ellis Ross was the glue holding the figurative family together for eight seasons on Girlfriends. Drew and Glen are joined by Jennifer Eden to discuss why Ross is maybe one of the better examples of showbiz royalty and why this episode of TV is unique in offering viewers two black queer women in a relationship (guest stars Dawnn Lewis and Samaria Graham). Also: William is THE WORST.

When they reunited for Blackish, the Girlfriends cast explained how their show ended the way it did.

BTW: Two more viewing suggestions beyond Girlfriends: the “Feminisn’t” episode of Blackish featuring that reunion and the “There’s Something About Dr. Mary” episode of Frasier.

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“#001” (September 20, 1982)

Look, Madame’s Place wasn’t a good sitcom, but it was the gayest puppet-focused sitcom and also a contender for one of the first gay sitcoms, on account of its draggy sensibility and the fact that the man behind Madame was one of the first openly gay entertainers. Drew and Glen discuss how weird this show is, including the fact that its antagonist is a TV executive who’s literally missing a face and who can control the weather. All this plus dick jokes.

Read a 1985 L.A. Times interview with Wayland Flowers.

Decades before Joan Rivers, Faye Emerson might have been the first female late night talk show host — and also the first late night host of any gender identity.

Watch: Bea Arthur vs. Madame and Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party.

Listen to the Round Springfield episode where Jeff Martin discusses naming Waylon Smithers after Wayland Flowers.

The anime Glen fails to name, BTW, is The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

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“Betrayal” (September 13, 1989)

You might classify Just the Ten of Us with rest of the TGIF also-rans, but trust us: this show was better — funnier, edgier and with two actual, explicit gay jokes that ran on the same night as Urkel, to say nothing of the fact that its four sexy teenage daughters gave little gay boys a favorite no matter what kind of diva they’d end up worshipping. Frankie Frascatore joins us to talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street connection, the WandaVision connection, how this one particular outing almost becomes a gay episode and why it’s maybe notable that a show about a Catholic family punishes the most religious child for being a judgmental scold.

Listen to Frankie’s episode of Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie.

Here’s one of the sites claiming that JTTOU’s cancelation happened because it was the only non-Miller Boyet production in the TGIF block.

Watch the intro to Going Places, which didn’t.

“What Is Burn Notice?”

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“Luann Virgin 2.0” (March 11, 2001)

We’re very happy to return to Arlen, Texas, to discuss a King of the Hill episode that has a small gay subplot: Peggy technically lost her virginity before she met Hank to a friend who needed to figure out if he was gay. However, in having that thread introduce a discussion of what’s reason enough for good, red-blooded heterosexual Christians to get married, this episode (accidentally?) also makes a good argument in favor of the reasons same-sex couples wanted to get married. Wayne Trotter, we wish we’d met you.

This episode begins with a discussion of the Screenrant article that argued why Peggy Hill is a bad mom. You don’t need to read the piece to understand what we’re talking about, but if you really feel like you must there it is.

Listen to our previous King of the Hill episodes:

• Hank Hill Goes to a Gay Rodeo
• Peggy Hill Meets a Drag Queen

Yes, we said there was no episode this week, but then we realized that we had all these bonus episodes just lying around on Patreon, so here is one of those. BTW, listen to more queer readings of old cartoons here for just $1 a month.

“The Mirror” (September 11, 1995)

It is technically possible that someone could have watched Gargoyles and not realized that it was one of the horniest animated series ever. We think this episode — which has a very fey Puck teaming up with Demona to turn our heroic gargoyles into humans, loincloths still in place — helps demonstrate just how much homoeroticism was going on, both in the minds of viewers and the minds of people Want to spend more time with Goliath? Then listen to the What a Cartoon podcast's take on this very same episode of Gargoyles. (We will assert that ours is at least marginally gayer.)

Read the Polygon article about the extended Gargoyles universe that could have been. Also read about the plans for the live-action movie.

When did English-speakers decided that fairies = gay? Also read about the difference between gargoyles and grotesques. (This show should technically be called Grotesques.)

Goliath : Eliza :: Bonkers : Miranda

Watch a commercial for 1985’s English language dub, Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years.

Watch the video of Jim Nabors and Rock Hudson appearing on The Carol Burnett Show, just two years before the rumors ended their friendship

Listen to Drew talk about Pete's Dragon on the Inside the Disney Vault podcast.

Listen to the latest episode of Smart Mouth.

Find out what TV shows are part of the Tommy Westphall extended universe

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If you want to listen to us discuss a far less good episode by the same writer, listen to “Marge Simpsons Is a Homophobe and a Transphobe,” about the Simpsons episode “There’s Something About Marrying.” It really sucks! Less critical is “Drew and Glen Discuss Instrumental Sitcom Themes.”

Bender’s connection to The Breakfast Club is sourced to this Mental Floss article, which sadly does not cite its sources.

Listen to Astonishing Legends breakdown of the Alien Autopsy hoax.

Listen to Smart Mouth’s episode about how World War II made American children eat like they were going to war.

Read about the history of Japanese hydrogen balloon bombs.

Read about how studying after a test can make you retroactively do better on it, time causality be damned.

No, microwaved water is not toxic and neither are microwaves.

And listen if you dare to Tom Arnold’s rendition of “I’m My Own Grandpa” from the movie The Stupids.

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Listen to the episode of Alison Arngrim’s podcast where she interviews Veronica Redd, who played Edie.

Listen to the episode of Gender Reveal that features Diamond as a guest.

Also listen to the Trans Vagina Dialogues, a new TableCakes podcast hosted by Lindsey Deaton and featuring a weekly guest. Follow on Twitter, on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify.

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Listen to the latest episode of Smart Mouth.

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“Indispensable Jeannie” (November 25, 1968)

We’re as surprised as anyone that we’ve found an episode of I Dream of Jeannie that we can cover on this podcast. All credit goes to Brett White, who’s not only host of the Must Have Seen TV podcast but also the guy currently writing a book on the life of Hayden Rorke, who played Dr. Bellows on Jeannie but also was openly gay to the show’s cast and crew — and who pulled some important strings in TV history. This episode is even more interesting when considered in the context of Rorke’s life, but it does actually feature a real live gay joke.

Listen to Must Have Seen TV’s I Dream of Jeannie episode with Jackie Cox

Yes, the Jeannie cartoon spinoff is online in all its Mark Hamill-inclusive glory

Beware The S From Hell

Follow Brett on Twitter and also give him money to write his book about Hayden Rorke

Also follow his husband Sebastian Dekken on Twitter and buy his book on the music of Final Fantasy VI

Listen to the episode of Sam Pancake Presents the Monday Afternoon Movie about the Barbara Eden movie The Stranger Within, in which Sam followed up having Drew and Glen as guests with founding SNL star Laraine Newman, making us look like real chumps

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Read After Elton’s piece on Happy Endings opting out of a same-sex kiss in its first season

Read the NY Magazine piece on Happy Endings

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• Rest in Peace, Phyl Petrillo
• The Golden Girls Meet a Trans Man 
• Glen Writes a Golden Girls (a.k.a. “Vince Meat”)
• The Golden Girls Had a Gay Live-In Cook
• Blache’s Homo Brother Wants to Get Gay Married
• Blanche’s Brother Is a Homo
• Dorothy’s Friend Is a Lesbian

We’re not *quite* ready yet to swing into regular production, so we’re tossing up an episode of our Patreon-only bonus podcast, The Cartoons That Made Us Gay, onto the main feed. It’s the Jem and the Holograms episode that is titled “The Bands Break Up” but would me more accurately titled “Kimber and Stormer Are Gay Lesbians Making Beautiful Queer Music Together.” Intentionally gay or not, it is hard to dismiss these girls’ relationship as just platonic, to the point that we don’t have to work hard at all to find the queer elements — especially in a show that already offers a lot for LGBT viewers. Showtime, Synergy!

And if you like this episode, you might also like the newest episode of Cartoons That Made Us Gay, which is all about Sailor Moon. You can listen right now on Patreon by pledging just $1 a month. And we’re not charging you all for the next month to account for the lighter content output.

Show notes:

Watch a featurette on Jem’s speaking voice singing the main theme for the anime Project A-ko.

Read the L.A. Times story on Barbie’s victory over Jem.

Read all about Bill Sanders, creator of Jem and (we’re guessing) a gay person.

Queer readings of kids shows, previously:

• He-Man with special guest Henry Gilbert
• Fraggle Rock with special guest Matt Baume
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Dinosaurs
• 80s Cartoons with special guest Ted Biaselli
• Batman: the Animated Series episode “Harley and Ivy”

The logo for The Cartoons That Made Us Gay was designed by Jeff Hinchee. This is a TableCakes podcast.

Mental Floss has an article detailing Kellogg’s Cornflakes and their origin as an effort to get people to masturbate less.

And Daily Beast has a piece on William Faulkner’s long-term love affair with binge drinking.

Listen to the Monday Afternoon Move episode about The UFO Incident with Scott Philbrook.

Listen to the Smart Mouth episode titled “Why Are U.S. School Lunches Like This?”

Listen to the Singing Mountain episode titled “My Save Point Is a Hot Shower.”

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Apple Podcasts

Stitcher

Spotify

Google Podcasts

Also follow Totally Trans on Twitter support them on Patreon!

Watch the episode we’re talking about here (PW: garland)

And here’s the weird clip Drew mentions about the episode with the twins who materialize to sing about bad breath.

If you want to see what David Lynch TV looks like minus the macabre, watch this clip of On the Air.

Finally, here is the Lincoln Center performance of Twelfth Night starring Helen Hunt.

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Listen to Drew and Glen guest on A Piece of Pie’s discussing of As Good as It Gets here.

Subscribe to A Piece of Pie on Apple Podcasts and follow them on Twitter.

Read the New York Times’ write-up on the history of the show.

Read the Vulture piece on how Mad About You defied categorization.

Watch Helen Hunt do PCP and then jump through a plate glass window in the after school special Desperate Lives (which is actually not the angel dust movie, which is called Angel Dusted and which is also entertaining).

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1) Empty Nest is a solid sitcom.

2) Empty Nest was a strong ratings performer that often beat the show it spun off from, The Golden Girls.

3) Empty Nest was still on in 1995.

4) When it uses the “f”-slur, it actually uses it appropriately — to mark someone as being heinously gauche.

Watch the interview where Rita Moreno talks about hating the filming of the backdoor pilot to Empty Nest.

Read the Slate article about how Drew’s tweet inspired an SNL sketch.

Also read the Slate article about the history of the effeminate wrist.

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Read the Mary Sue’s piece on Bob Belcher being a bi icon, which is probably the best-written argument in favor of this.

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Submit your pitch for issue two of Beyond Sunset here. Also buy the first issue of Beyond Sunset.

Watch the unaired Full House pilot with John Posey playing the Bob Saget role

Watch a pre-Full House Bob Saget on the CBS Morning Show

Watch Lori Loughlin play Black Canary on the WB Birds of Prey before her Full House co-star Jurnee Smollett played her in the Birds of Prey movie

The history of “Yankee Doodle,” via Atlas Obscura

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Either we traveled to the future or the showrunner of The Simpsons reached out and asked us if we want to preview a new Smithers-centric episode airing this Sunday. Maybe both? This new episode happens to be written by Rob LaZebnik (a straight) and Johnny LaZebnik (his son, a gay), and we spoke with both of them about how they write together, what it’s like growing up gay in the shadow of Smithers and what it means that Helen Lovejoy is down with the gays. 

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Watch “Smithers & Beyond: Every LGBT Joke on The Simpsons” if you haven’t already and you have 2.5 hours to kill.

And if we’re talking about stuff we did, listen to the “Glen Writes a Golden Girls” episode.

Also listen to the story about how Gayest Episode Ever helped get Tony Rodriguez cast as the  new Julio on The Simpsons.

We are extra special stoked on the art for this episode, which if you’re not seeing on your podcast app of choice you should check out on the main website. It’s by Ian O’Phelan, who has done all the episode art this season and whom you should hire to draw more cool stuff. Check out his art here.

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True, the first episode of The Facts of Life is the one that comes closest to addressing LGBT issues, but so much of Jo and Blair’s relationship treads close that we are returning to discuss Nancy McKeon’s two-part introduction to the show. Librarian and Facts of Life scholar Erin Fletcher joins us to discuss the many layers to Jo and many lines that, upon second thought, seem like they might be double entendres.

Listen to our first Facts of Life episode, “Blair Warner Is a Homophobe”

Read The L Chat, a message board charting a longstanding history of queer women shipping Jo and Blair

Watch Facts of Life co-creators Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon playing hetero husband and wife on The Ed Sullivan Show

Watch Sara Gilbert tell Lisa Whelchel on The Talk that yep, Jo was gay

“Literally the gayest ship that has ever existed” but also this Jo/Blair montage set to “Good for Me” by Amy Grant

“the story inside my head of how jo and blair get together (aka the /real/ facts of life)”

Willona vs. Chip Fields on Good Times

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It’s finally here: The Cartoons That Made Us Gay, our new Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast, focused on queer readings of the cartoons of our youth. While this series will comprise ten episodes only available on our Patreon feed, we’re putting the first part of the first episode on the main feed to show off what we’re doing. 

To listen to the full version of this episode, all you need to do is pledge $1 a month on Patreon and subscribe to the Patreon-only feed for fancy people in your podcast app of choice. It’s easy! You should do it! But we’re biased!

This episode focuses on the 1987 run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — specifically “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko,” which is all about Mike being drawn to the man (or man-gecko) of his dreams, and we couldn't think of a weirder way to kick off this new podcast project. In doing this episode, we hoped to make this cartoon series accessible even for people who have never watched the show, but let us know how we did.

Coming up next: Jem and The Holograms!

The logo for The Cartoons That Made Us Gay was designed by Jeff Hinchee.

Show notes that will make more sense if you listen to the full episode on Patreon:

In case you're not familiar with the “Asian cliche” musical motif 

Harry Nilsson’s “The Point” 

Listen to Matt Baume’s interview with Cam Clarke 

Was April O’Neil whitewashed?

Queer readings of kids shows, previously:

• He-Man with special guest Henry Gilbert
• Fraggle Rock with special guest Matt Baume
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Dinosaurs
• 80s Cartoons with special guest Ted Biaselli
• Harley & Ivy

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It’s the first TableCakes crossover! But is Gayest Episode Ever making an appearance on Monday Afternoon Monday or vice versa? Who cares! The point is that Sam Pancake — actor, comedian and host of MAM — is discussing The Paul Lynde Halloween Special with Drew and Glen in all its vintage bonkers badness. If there is one significant difference in this episode, it’s probably that it’s light on clips because 1) the jokes aren’t great and 2) Sam does a good enough impression of Paul Lynde that he can spare you from having to listen to the original audio.

Watch this special right now on YouTube, if you want to for some weird reason.

Subscribe to Monday Afternoon Monday and, in particular, listen to Drew’s episode about the Valerie Harper made-for-TV shocker Don’t Go to Sleep. Also the episode with Drew “Other Drew” Droege is great.

Listen to Deep Cuts & Superficial Wounds’ three-hour all-music, no-talk Halloween special

Listen to the Singing Mountain Halloween finale

Listen to Smart Mouth episodes: Circus Peanuts / Persimmons / Chocolate Chip Cookies / Ice Cream Floats

Listen to the previous GEE episodes about Jennifer Slept Here and Bewitched.

Also here is the clip from The Critic that Drew mentions.

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We had to break format to do it, but at long last, we are talking about The Hogan Family… a.k.a. Valerie, a.k.a. Valerie’s Family. And yes the history of how this one sitcom had three different names is explained, but more to the point we ask why a show that killed off its title character would choose to confront its young viewers just a few weeks later with zombie horror — and worst of all, the Zombie Sandy Duncan.

The Associates, the lawyer sitcom starring Martin Short and created by Hogan Family creator Charlie Hauck is, after all, available on YouTube.

Jaime Weinman’s 2008 Maclean’s piece on why Valerie Harper left the show provided many details in my recapping on the incident.

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This unsold pilot, featuring JoBeth Williams as an aging actress in 1930s Hollywood, represents writer Joe Keenan’s attempt at selling NBC a TV series with a gay sensibility back in 1993. And while Gloria Vane never made it to air, its legacy lives on in Frasier, as Keenan joined the Frasier writers’ room and ended up penning some of the series queerest and most farcical episodes. Even without that Frasier connection, however, Gloria Vane would still merit its own very special episode, because it’s very funny and very queer.

Watch the Gloria Vane pilot on YouTube.

Watch Dear Diary, the unsold Bebe Neuwirth pilot that won an Oscar.

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Heads up: The gender politics in this one are all fucked up, and a lie results in a character getting misgendered in a way that won’t be funny to every listener. However, it’s not the whole of the episode. When Mr. Furley catches Jack necking with a woman, Jack lies and says this woman is actually a man. Naturally, Mr. Furley offers to teach Jack how to be heterosexual.

Listen to the What a Cartoon episode on Laverne and Shirley in the Army and get a nice primer on the extended Happy Days universe.

Listen to our previous Three’s Company episode.

Listen to an NPR piece on Jim Sullivan’s UFO.

Smart Mouth is back! Listen to it! Monday Afternoon Movie is also back! Listen to it! Also Singing Mountain is ending! Listen to it!

Support us on Patreon!

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It’s been far too long since we did a Frasier episode, and so we’re returning with a good one, in which Martin (John Mahoney) plays gay and pretends that Niles (David Hyde Pierce) is his boyfriend. It’s a great farce, and as special guest Anthony Oliveira points out, it’s one of the best Joe Keenan-penned episodes of the show.

Beyond Sunset is live! Buy issue one here!

Listen to Anthony’s Patreon podcast, The Devil’s Party.

Watch the pilot for Gloria Vane, a Joe Keenan script that didn’t go to series but did result in him writing for Frasier and also in Gil Chesterton and Bebe Glazer becoming characters on the show.

What the fuck is Einstein on the Beach?

Previous Frasier episodes:

• Frasier’s Boss Is Gay
• Frasier Has a Gay Dream
• Frasier Dates a Gay Guy

Smart Mouth is back! Listen to it!

Monday Afternoon Movie is also back! Listen to it!

Also Singing Mountain is ending! Listen to it!

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

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“Pat Connects With Her Fans” (August 26, 2021)

The Other Two is not a gay show, necessarily, but one of the two titular characters is gay, and through him this sitcom explores aspects of gay life that most shows don’t. Its current season has Cary (Drew Tarver) explore what kind of gay man he wants to be, and this episode in particular does that through a wacky sitcom misunderstanding that’s both expertly crafted and that could only work in a gay context. We love it, and we think you should watch this show.

Help us decide which series we’ll be covering for our new Patreon-exlucsive podcast, The Cartoons That Made Us Gay. 

Read the Buzzfeed article about this episode.

Watch the SNL sketch “Do It on My Twin Bed,” written by Chris Kelly Sarah Schneider.

“He’s gay / he’s blind”

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

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And… we’re back. Welcome to season five of Gayest Episode Ever, which is a lot like the previous seasons but with a few streamlining improvements. Our first episode looks at an Elaine-centric Seinfeld in which it’s supposed that a straight woman can cure a gay man if she tries hard enough and Melrose Place is a show that heterosexual men watch only in secret.

Listen to our previous Seinfeld episodes: Susan’s Dad Had an Affair With John Cheever and Jerry and George Aren’t Gay, Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That 

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

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“Quest for He-Man” (October 5, 1983)

A thousand gay nerds debating on a thousand twitter threads could come up with any number of candidates for the gayest episode ever of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, but the one we’re talking about with Talking Simpsons co-host Henry Gilbert is the one where our hero travels through a swirling rainbow hole to an alternate dimension ruled by a gay-seeming bunny-man who loads a phallic rocket full of his precious, life-giving fluid, and no, we’re not making any of that up.

Follow Henry on Twitter, and listen to Talking Simpsons, What a Cartoon and his show’s various Patreon-only projects.

Listen to our “Glen Writes a Golden Girls” episode, featuring Ted Biaselli, executive producer of Masters of the Universe: Revelation. Also listen to our “Cartoons That Made Us Gay” episode, also featuring Ted.

Listen to episodes of Monday Afternoon Movie.

Read Drew's Shelley Long essay.

Read the Men’s Health article “Who’s Afraid of a Gay He-Man?”

Read about the Bo Derek Dazzler movie that never was.

Read all about Plundor the Spoiler, and here’s the source for Paul Dini basing Plundor off Binky from Life in Hell.

Watch the “Laughing Prince Adam” video. In fact, what the episode we’re discussing right now, for free and fully legal, on YouTube.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

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”Gone But Not Forgotten” (February 16, 1987)

Surprise! We’re back! And we brought Fraggles with us!

In the final season of Fraggle Rock, the episode “Gone But Not Forgotten” features Wembley making a new friend in Mudwell the Mudbunny, who knows he will soon die. Mudwell’s passing and Wembley’s grief serve as not only a general life lesson for young viewers but also a parallel for the life of Richard Hunt, the openly gay Mupetteer who voices Mudwell, who lost his own partner to AIDS not long before this episode was filmed and who would die as a result of AIDS not long after. Matt Baume, queer sailor of the pop culture seas, joins us to discuss how Fraggle Rock goes deeper than you might expect.

Watch Matt’s videos

• Richard Hunt, the gay man behind the Muppets
• Star Trek's First Gay Ship-Mates? The Star-Crossed Romance of Garak & Bashir
• What Makes Disney Villains So Gay?
• Rocko’s Modern Life: Cartoons Coming Out of the Closet
• Plus there’s more on his YouTube channel and even more on his Patreon

Also watch the video for Ben Folds’ “Do It Anyway” — featuring the Fraggles!

Watch Jim Henson’s memorial service, where Richard Hunt makes a prescient speech

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

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“There’s Something About Marrying” (February 20, 2005)

Gayest Episode Ever would not exist without The Simpsons — mostly because we stole Talking Simpsons’ podcast format and applied it to LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms, and Talking Simpsons would not exist without The Simpsons. But cultural and personal importance aside, there comes a time to point out when a thing you love screws up, and this episode — the one that should be about Marge disapproving about Patty marrying a woman but ends up being a nasty little parable about transphobia — is not the series’ best moment, despite promising bits in the first two acts. We’ve brought in both hosts of the Totally Trans podcast — Ada-Rhodes Short and Henry Giardina — to discuss why Marge really sucks and why the episode’s conclusion is hard for some trans folks to watch even today.

Listen to some of Henry and Ada-Rhodes’ favorite episodes of Totally Trans:

• Spuds MacKenzie
• Wolverine
• The Dean from Community
• Hamlet
• Ferris Bueller
• Holly Golightly

Read the New York Times article “The Secret History of Leviticus” — the "exception that proves the rule" article about the old testament outlawing homosexuality.

Listen to the summer/pride episode of Deep Cuts and Superficial Wounds, Drew’s 80s music podcast. 

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

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This episode’s outro track is “Summer Time” by Plastic Mode: Apple Music • Spotify

“Family Gay” (March 8, 2009)

Is it anticlimactic to say that this episode of Family Guy is not as terrible as you might expect? It concerns Peter being injected with the gay gene and becoming temporarily gay, and for the Seth MacFarlane of it all, this one gets some stuff right, lands a few decent jokes, biffs some bad ones and sometimes sacrifices laughs altogether to shock, horrify or offend. In short, it’s typical Family Guy.

Listen to Drew and Glen on You’re Making It Worse.

Listen to the summer/pride episode of Deep Cuts and Superficial Wounds, Drew’s 80s music podcast. 

Read the New York Times article “The Secret History of Leviticus” — the "exception that proves the rule" article about the old testament outlawing homosexuality.

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

Follow: GEE on Facebook • GEE’s Facebook Group • GEE on Twitter • GEE on Instagram • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter

Listen: iTunes • Spotify • Stitcher • Google Play • Google Podcasts • Himalaya • TuneIn

The episode’s outro track is “Desire” by Yoh-Yo, which is not on any of the streaming services so why not listen to it on YouTube?

“Woman Gets Plastered, Star Gets Even” (January 23, 1997)

There was a time when two different networks were trying to push Téa Leoni as a sitcom star. The Naked Truth’s three seasons spanned ABC and NBC, and while it didn’t launch Leoni to TV success at this point in her career, Glen and Drew share a love of all things Téa with our guest, comedian H. Alan Scott. This episode is one of the more forgettable gay sitcom episodes sure, but there’s something to learn from the sitcoms that manage to make LGBT themes seem boring and banal. Right?

Listen to H. Alan’s podcast, You’re Making It Worse.

Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.

Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank.

Support us on Patreon!

Follow: GEE on Facebook • GEE’s Facebook Group • GEE on Twitter • GEE on Instagram •  Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter

Listen: iTunes • Spotify • Stitcher • Google Play • Google Podcasts • Himalaya • TuneIn

The episode’s outro track is “Follow Me” by Giusy Dej, which is not on any of the streaming services so why not listen to it on YouTube?