Gayest Episode Ever

FIXED: The Simpsons Does a Riff on Lesbian Cult Classic

Note: There was an error toward the end of the original post, and because Patreon is not allowing me to swap out the file for the corrected one I had to repost.

“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...

The Simpsons Does a Riff on Lesbian Cult Classic

“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 t...

Call for Suggestions: Early Fox Sitcoms for FOX FILES!

Hi all. We are making belated progress on kicking off the new Patreon bonus series, all about the little-remembered sitcoms that aired on Fox during its early days. Obviously, we will be covering Women in Prison, but we're interesting in hearing what weirdo sitcoms you remember or even kinda-sorta remember from the first few years Fox was figuring out its identity.

Please drop a comment with shows you think we should look into!

Backdoor Pilots: Tiny Toons Tries to Spin Elmyra Off Into a Family Sitcom… Twice

“Take Elmyra Please” (February 24, 1992) and “Grandma’s Dead” (November 10, 1992)

Weirdly, Tiny Toon Adventures tried two different times to sell viewers on a different version of Elmyra that had her existing in a normal-seeming sitcom family, the Duffs. It didn’t work, and this doesn’t seem surprising, especially since the first trial ep hinges around the idea that Elmyra starring on her own show would be terrible, but that *still* didn’t stop execs from inserting Elmyr...

How Does a Conservative Sitcom Do a Gay Episode?

“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...

Heavenly Creatures Discussion Qs (plus a schedule change)

Hi, all. I decided the best way to share people’s thoughts on Heavenly Creatures would be to pose some questions here and have you respond in the comments. Please respond to one or all, with the agreement that anything posted here might be read in the episode. And remember, you can watch Heavenly Creatures here.)

But also a quick programming note: While we originally planned to post this epis...

The Gay Origins of Mister Ed

“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 outwar...

GEE Movie Club Watches HEAVENLY CREATURES

Presented for your enjoyment here is a clip from the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Despite the fact that it’s directed by Peter Jackson and stars Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, it’s not streaming anywhere handy. This is a shame, says me, because it’s not only a really good movie but it’s also part of the queer canon that I feel a lot of people younger than me have not had the opportunity to watch.

Well, here’s what we’re doing about it. Because the episode we’re coverin...

Frasier Has Two Daddies

“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 Frasie...

Sailor Moon Meets the Genderfluid Magic That Is Fisheye

“Shadow of Evil: The Trio's Last Chance” (September 23, 1995)

It’s a new year, and you’re getting a new Sailor Moon. This time, we are focusing on Fisheye, a henchman villain from the fourth season who defies categorization both in terms of his gender performance and his status as a bad guy. This one is all over the place in the best possible way, and might be the closest to a true anti-Sailor Moon the series ever gets. Seriously, we love this goofy weirdo and who he gets more o...

Seinfeld: What's the Deal With Addiction and Cashmere?

Have you ever noticed that there’s a weird relationship with Seinfeld episodes about cashmere and addiction? In this video, I explain the episodes “The Red Dot,” “The Apology,” and “The Bookstore” all feature both, with “The Sniffing Accountant” just  missing the mark because it features a mohair sweater. It’s super weird.

Listen to the Gayest Episode Ever about George seeming gay: 2024-01-09 21:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post

The Plan for 2024

Hi, all. This is a quick note to announce that we’re gearing up to resume episodes. Glen has a script due on Monday, so he’s not able to record until after then but we should be back in business pretty soon.

Here’s what to expect:

Week of January 8:

On the Patreon feed, a new Sailor Moon episode, this one looking into the genderqueer mystery that is Fisheye (and the previous Sailor Moon episode will go onto the main feed)

And then I’m doing a new video, about a...

Bob’s Burgers Celebrates Christmas at a Gay Rave

“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.

Watch 2023-12-20 22:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Frank’s Place Makes Hanukkah Gay

Hey all! Here is regular episode that should have gone live on Wednesday. Sorry it's late! You'll beginning the next episode — our 2023 finale! — on schedule next week.

“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 ofte...

Schedule change!

Hi all. This week's Patreon episode won't be going up until the end of the week, I'm sorry to say. It's a bit of a schedule jumble. After that, you'll get the Christmas episode/2023 finale next Wednesday. With Glen leaving town, we didn't get to bonus episodes I wanted to do, but will pick them up when he's back from Florida.

Suddenly Susan Meets a Gay

“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...

Here, Have a Bonus SNL Sketch

EDIT: Whoops, I took down the "non-offensive" part due to one of the lyrics in the song. It's been a week and my brain is bad!

Got a little behind this week, and the next regular episode won't be ready tomorrow morning. In apology, please enjoy this sketch that came up during my SNL rummaging. It features two of my all-time favorite performers, it encapsulates everything I love about them and it's even a little bit gay.

New episode live later tomorrow!

A Queer History of SNL, Part Three: The “Not Ready for Prime Time” Era

RE-EDIT: The ending got chopped off somehow, but the last 15 minutes are now back. Apologies for the back-and-forth with this.

EDIT: Whoops, the file I uploaded was missing the intro and the extra "secret" bit at the end. Have re-uploaded the correct version.

Welcome to the first of our in-depth looks at LGBTQ humor in specific eras of Saturday Night Live. Of course, we’re starting at the beginning, in the classic era, and yeah, some of them are better than you’d guess and som...

A Queer History of SNL, Part Three

Hi all. Here are the sketches we will be discussing for the third installment of our queer SNL retrospective. All of these are sketches that ran in the first five seasons of the show, which is to say the “Not Ready for Primetime” era that kicked off the series starting in 1975. We’re not covering every sketch that touches on LGBTQ subjects, but instead just doing the ones that seemed relevant to the history of the show or are ether very good or very bad. See if you can spot the bad ones...

Vote: What Should Drew and Glen Talk About This Month?

You know the drill: vote for ONE choice on this list. All of these come from suggestions on this post, minus the ones we have already done or that don't make sense for this format or that we just did not want to do.

Voting ends November 29.

Matthew Perry as drawn by Ian

I got the request to Ian for the Matthew Perry art for the Friends episode late, but I think it was worth the wait. What Ian's done really captures Perry's face in a beautiful way. It reminds me of the work of Mel Odom.

No new episode this week

Hi all. This week's Patreon episode was supposed to be the next in the SNL series, but I ran out of time and also have to get the house ready for this Thursday in addition to cooking. So we are taking this week off. We will be back with that SNL episode next week + a bonus Patreon episode.

Happy holiday, if that's your thing.

We Can Be Sad About Matthew Perry Dying and Still Think Friends Is Homophobic

“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 ...

The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: TigerSharks

"Voyage to Water-O" (September 7, 1987)

After the smashing success of ThunderCats and the middling success of SilverHawks, you’d think Rankin/Bass would have learned which creative decisions make a hit. In fact, they learned the opposite, because TigerSharks is a wet mess. It’s entertaining to discuss, for sure, but the world-building seems haphazard enough that this show didn’t end up doing the thing it was supposed to do in the first place, which is to sell toys. We’ll explain...

ThunderSharks!

There's a new Cartoons That Made Us Gay coming tomorrow, and it's one you may not have watched back in the day. So please enjoy the first episode of ThunderCats wetter, worse cousin, TIGERSHARKS!

(Yes, the title for this post says Thundersharks. That’s because I kept misremembering as that, perhaps because it’s so blatantly imitative.)

The Complete History of George Costanza’s Homosexuality (Fixed)

EDIT: There was a problem with the first version of this episode, and then Patreon wouldn't let me replace the file. So apologies for excess posting, but here is the fixed version, posted the only way they'd let me.

“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 ...

The Complete History of George Costanza’s Homosexuality

“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 staun...

Suggestions Needed for Our Next Friends Episode

So we decided that next week we should do a Friends episode, specifically to push back on some revisionist takes on the series that, in light of Matthew Perry's passing, want to remember the show as being more progressive and less homophobic. But what episode should we do? Asking you all because I know there are some people in the Patreon community that have a deeper knowledge of Friends than we do.

We were thinking about maybe doing The One With the Nap Partners (s7e6) because there's ...

George Costanza: Gay?

This week's GEE is going to be titled "The Complete History of George Costanza's Homosexuality." As such, we will be talking about the entirety of the evidence presented in Seinfeld indicating that George is something other than hetero. There's kind of a lot! And I've captured all of it in this video, which you should feel free leading up to this week's episode.

Also, there is a chance I might have forgotten something here, so if you watch this and you think I've left out a "George is g...

The Sarah Silverman Program Has Gigantic, Orange Gays

“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 2023-11-02 05:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post