Gayest Episode Ever
255 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 487 ratingsBack in the day, a major sitcom doing a gay episode was a big deal. A proper gay episode would get headlines, but it would get the attention of two young guys who were still figuring things out — sexuality-wise and culture-wise. Gayest Episode Ever has screenwriter Glen Lakin and stay-at-home journalist Drew Mackie going through the great and not-so-great gay episodes of sitcoms past.
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Glen Writes a Golden Girls
March 04, 2020 06:07 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB“Vince Meat” (February 22, 2020) Have you seen that one Golden Girls where Blanche accidentally sexes a man to death and the girls have to hide the body? Well, your answer should be no, because that episode didn’t air back in the day. It's a script written by our own Glen Lakin and then, for the purposes of this episode, read by a host of our actor friends. It’s fucked-up and funny, and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate our fiftieth episode. Cast: Dorothy: Meghan Parks Ros...
¿Es Joe Un Homo?
February 26, 2020 07:19 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB“Joe Goes to Heaven” (Date Unknown, 1979) The United States’ first bilingual sitcom and PBS’s first attempt at a 30-minute comedy, ¿Que Pasa USA? proved to be a regional hit in Miami, where a local PBS affiliate created and produced the show, and then across the country as a whole. Overall, it plays out like a lost Norman Lear series centered around a Cuban-American family, and this episode revolves around the possibility that strapping young Joe may be gay. GEE regular Tony Rodriguez make...
Frank Lambert Is Worried His Son Is a Hairdresser
February 19, 2020 10:02 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB“Frank & Son” (October 18, 1991) Is Step By Step a classic sitcom? Glen says yes, but Drew says no. Listen to an episode that a different podcast that prompted us to examine paternal homophobia and a long-running but perhaps non-classic TGIF sitcom, which Drew prefers to shorthand as “shitbag Brady Bunch.” Listen to the episode of You’re Making It Worse that inspired this episode. Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter Listen: iTunes • Spo...
Drew and Glen Rank the Sexiest Sitcom Dads
February 12, 2020 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBTwo announcements: No. 1, Drew is tired and he is wanting to take a week off with an episode that requires less editing; and and No. 2, this podcast is launching a series of Patreon-only episodes where Drew and Glen discuss subjects unlikely to arise in their typical episodes. In this one, they both list off their picks for the hottest dads in sitcom history. And if you’re seeing this for the first time on the main, non-Patreon feed, then there’s already another one of these ready for your r...
Grace’s Father-in-Law Is Gay… And Also Dead
February 05, 2020 09:48 - 1 hour - 78.9 MB“Emmet’s Secret” (December 6, 1995) and “Emmett, We Hardly Knew Ye” (December 20, 1995) Even those of us who came of age in the 1990s might be surprised to find out how big a deal Grace Under Fire was in its day. The show was a huge hit, and even if it burned too bright and too quickly, it deserved its popularity because it was funnier and more heartfelt than a lot of longer-lived TV series. In this installment, we talk about two consecutive episodes that outed Grace’s father-in-law and th...
Edith Bunker’s Cousin Is a Lesbian… And Also Dead
January 29, 2020 08:04 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB“Cousin Liz” (October 9, 1977) After two years and more than a few negative comments, Drew and Glen once again focus their gaze on All in the Family, a sitcom about America’s favorite ignoramus. This episode is a sweet and it is elegant, and it shows how readily Jean Stapleton’s Edith can accept that love between two women isn’t at all different from her love for her husband. There’s no B plot and only three characters, yet this is one of the best episodes GEE has reviewed so far. If yo...
Susan’s Dad Had a Gay Affair With John Cheever
January 22, 2020 09:21 - 1 hour - 84.3 MB“The Cheever Letters” (October 28, 1992) Poor Susan Ross. If she only knew what her association with George Constanza would ultimately cost her, she would have run screaming. Early in the show’s fourth season, Susan got a glimpse of what George was capable of when he indirectly caused her dad to be outed — if not as gay then at least certainly as a one-time lover of John Cheever. Mike Ciriaco joins Glen and Drew to discuss how this episode is a Seinfeld sleeper classic, both because of and...
Homer Moves Into the Gayborhood
January 15, 2020 09:32 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB“Three Gays of the Condo” (April 13, 2003) Six seasons after its inaugural gay episode, The Simpsons revisited the subject matter in the age of Will & Grace, and the end result sent Homer to live with two guys in Springfield’s gay district. This one exemplifies what it meant to do a gay sitcom after the point in time when it was no longer enough to just showcase straight characters being surprised that gay people exist, but is this a worthy successor to “Homer’s Phobia”? Drew and Glen talk t...
A Very Brady Christmas Is Gay Enough, Say Drew & Glen
December 18, 2019 08:31 - 1 hour - 84.1 MBWe’re celebrating the holidays and closing out 2019 with one of our all-time favorite Christmas specials: A Very Brady Christmas, a 1988 TV movie that reunited all of the original cast that matters. If you’ve seen this special, you may be wondering what’s gay about this family holiday outing. Some stuff, we say, but perhaps most subtly the use of racecar-driving as a metaphor for Bobby Brady’s reckless homosexual lifestyle. Just go with us on this one. Listen to our interview with Stan Zi...
Ross’s Lesbian Ex-Wife Gets Lesbian Married
December 11, 2019 10:28 - 1 hour - 84.4 MB“The One With the Lesbian Wedding”(January 18, 1996) Carol and Susan forever! In our previous look at Friends, we concluded that the ten-season sitcom put homosexuality in a bad light. Around the same time, everyone else concluded that as well, but what if season two’s “The One With the Lesbian Wedding” actually doesn’t suck so hard? Emelie Burnette Battaglia Balenciaga returns to talk about the episode the second Friends episode that ties LGBT issues with a recently deceased old lady. “...
Everybody Loves Raymond’s Possibly Gay Brother
December 04, 2019 05:30 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB“What’s With Robert?” (January 10, 2000) Drew had never seen an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond before Glen pulled a gun on him and forced him to watch this one. To Drew’s surprise, this ostensibly family-friendly CBS sitcom handles gay panic a lot more thoughtfully than other shows of the era, even if it hinged around the ridiculous proposition that a man as tall as Brad Garrett might be homosexual. Support us on Patreon! Buy or rent Glen’s movie, Being Frank, on iTunes Listen to...
Gayest Game Show Ever
November 13, 2019 08:07 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBNo, this is not a deep dive into Paul Lynde’s most salacious innuendos. Instead, GEE is bidding farewell for a few weeks because Drew is heading to Japan, and we thought it would be cool to do an episode based around classic sitcom trivia, and Drew is hosting while Glen is pitted against special guest contestants Tony Rodriguez (who has guested before!) and Katherine Spiers (who hasn’t!). It’s fun, we swear, if not *actually* all that gay. Katherine’s podcast, Smart Mouth Tony’s podcast,...
Gimme a Break’s Gay Evening
November 06, 2019 08:17 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB“The Chief’s Gay Evening” (November 13, 1982) Though beloved to a certain age range of 1980s babies, Gimme a Break doesn’t get its due praise for its “serious issue” episodes. This one, in which the Chief finds out that one of his officers is gay, handles the subject matter better than many more-acclaimed sitcoms would in the years that followed. In fact, our only complaint is that this series sole gay-themed episode doesn’t feature enough Nell Carter, whom we will remind you was a star. W...
Gimme a Break’s Big Gay Evening
November 06, 2019 08:17 - 1 hour“The Chief’s Big Gay Evening” (November 13, 1982) Though beloved to a certain age range of 1980s babies, Gimme a Break doesn’t get its due praise for its “serious issue” episodes. This one, in which the Chief finds out that one of his officers is gay, handles the subject matter better than many more-acclaimed sitcoms would in the years that followed. In fact, our only complaint is that this series sole gay-themed episode doesn’t feature enoug Nell Carter, whom we will remind you was a star. W...
Endora Turns Darren Into a Homo
October 30, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB“Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall” (November 7, 1968) When it came time to pick a Halloween special for Gayest Episode Ever, the only real choice was Bewitched, a seasonally appropriate sitcom that also happens to be one of the gayest things ever broadcast on network television. In this fifth-season outing, Endora curses Darren to become hopelessly vain, and Dick York makes the decision to play his newly narcissistic character as pretty damn gay. Comedian, actor and classic TV superfan Chase Mc...
Caroline’s Assistant Is a — Wait, He’s Straight?
October 23, 2019 07:07 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB“Caroline and the Gay Art Show” (October 5, 1995) Okay, hear us out. I know you’re seeing that we did an episode about Caroline in the City and asking yourself why we would consider it a “classic” sitcom,” but there’s actually a lot going on here. Malcolm Gets played Caroline’s assistant, Richard, with a flair befitting a theater vet, but his chemistry with lead Lea Thompson didn’t read as romantic to many viewers. So why did they make Caroline and Richard pair off? And why did the third e...
Suzanne Sugarbaker Accidentally Dates a Lesbian
October 16, 2019 07:07 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB“Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend” (April 9, 1990) The previous Designing Women made Drew cry, but this one is far tamer and far more in line with what we’d consider sitcom-ish. In this Delta Burke showcase episode, Suzanne Sugarbaker attempts to make a friend outside Sugarbaker & Associates — and ends up finding a former pageant friend who’s now an out lesbian. This episode does gay panic from the female perspective and largely holds up today… except for the episode’s final line. Buy t...
Ellen Comes Out*
October 09, 2019 07:01 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB“Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah” (May 7, 1997) At long last, we’re bowing to audience requests and giving you the one where Ellen comes out… to her parents. No, it is not “The Puppy Episode,” the one where Ellen came out to Laura Dern and also the world; it’s the episode that aired one week after that one, when she came out to her parents. “The Puppy Episode” is a part of TV history, but this one is maybe a more realistic look at the ongoing, constant process of coming out. The Los Angeles L...
Dinosaurs Uses Vegetarianism as a Metaphor for Homosexuality
September 11, 2019 08:58 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MB“I Never Ate for My Father” (October 2, 1991) When Robbie Sinclair fails to kill his first live prey, he begins to wonder if he might be more herbivorously oriented — and that fits in really well with this episode’s extensive use of vegetarianism as a metaphor for homosexuality. (But also drug use and communism, because America.) Buy the DVD of Glen’s movie, Being Frank Buy or rent Being Frank on iTunes Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space. Support us on Patre...
The Gayest Saturday Morning Cartoon Episode Ever
August 28, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB”Odyssey of the Twelfth Talisman” (September 28, 1985) Once upon a time, there was a Saturday morning cartoon based on Dungeons & Dragons, and in its final few episodes it had one of its male characters hit it off with a one-off NPC who was witty and matched him, insult for insult. This one-off also happened to be male, and whether by accident or whatever, the resulting episode plays out kinda like a male-on-male romcom that just happens to be situated in medieval fantasy setting. Don’t wo...
The Golden Girls Had a Gay Live-in Cook
August 07, 2019 07:47 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB“The Engagement” (September 14, 1985) The pilot to Golden Girls features a fifth roommate who did not make it into the rest of the series: Coco the gay live-in cook, played by Charles Levin. The actor recently died, and in part because it’s timely and in part because Drew feels bad about his jokes that Coco was lost at sea, our first off-season episode is a Coco-centric look at this first-ever Golden Girls. Read Drew's interview with Golden Girls writers. Buy a copy of Jim Colucci’s aw...
Frasier Has a Gay Dream
July 16, 2019 07:47 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB“The Impossible Dream” (October 15, 1996) The finale to the second season of GEE begins how the first one began: with Frasier. Two years after the episode that said, “No, Frasier isn’t gay,” the show backed up a little and asked “But what would you say if he was maybe?” Also it’s revealed that Gil Chesterton has a more toned chest than any of us would have expected. Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space: Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Tw...
Everyone Thinks Chandler Is Gay
July 09, 2019 08:50 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB“The One Where Nana Dies Twice” (November 10, 1994) Hey, have you heard about this show called Friends that’s about people who are friends? Emelie Burnette returns to talk about how the first gayish outing of this landmark sitcom gets some things right, some things wrong. We don’t settle the “Is Friends homophobic or transphobic?” debates but we do at least find an answer to the “Is Rachel Green Jewish?” debate? “Homophobic Friends,” compiled by Tijana Mamula Why Friends is “Hugely Tr...
The Living Single Girls Throw a Lesbian Bridal Shower
July 02, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MB“Woman to Woman” (March 21, 1996) Don’t think of it as another Golden Girls or Designing Women, because Living Single is actually the show that originated the model for Friends. Yeah, Friends is just an all-white Living Single, and this episode proves how the original can handle a coming out story a lot better than its imitator. Dr. Justin Young joins Glen and Drew to talk Tootie, Latifah, Cousin Pam and Dr. Mary. Watch Justin’s movie, That’s Me on the Right Check out A Love Bizarre, d...
Will and Jack Kiss on Live TV
June 25, 2019 07:30 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB“Acting Out” (February 22, 2000) In this episode, Drew tries really hard not to not trample your warm, fuzzy feelings about Will & Grace. But even if you don’t think this show lands its jokes often enough, you can’t argue that it did a lot to increase the visibility of gays — white, male, metropolitan, wordplay-loving gays. Megan Mullally for president. Check out A Love Bizarre, downtown Los Angeles’ new queer art space Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Twitter ...
The Gang From Taxi Meets a Bisexual
June 18, 2019 19:03 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MB“Elaine’s Strange Triangle” (December 10, 1980) Elaine is digging her new boyfriend, but it turns out her new boyfriend is also digging Tony. This, the first episode to address the subject of bisexuality, is often a more thoughtful and nuanced exploration of straight characters’ discomfort around anything queer… but then Tony and Alex go to a gay bar and the episode takes a hard turn. Oh, and were you aware of how hot 1980-era Christopher Lloyd was? Check it out. Check out A Love Bizarre...
Interview: Glen Lakin, Hollywood Screenwriter
June 14, 2019 09:02 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBGlen Lakin is more than a mere podcast host. He’s also a screenwriter whose first movie — Being Frank, starring Jim Gaffigan and Logan Miller — opens in theaters today, June 14, in Los Angeles and New York. (More cities to follow, don’t worry.) Yes, we’re using this podcast to let Glen talk about his movie, but take solace in the fact that Drew had to twist his arm to do it. This short promotional interview has Glen talking about how he came up with this story about a suburban dad’s second f...
What’s Gay About Mr. Belvedere?
June 11, 2019 10:34 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBThis series about a British butler managing an American family ran on ABC for six season and for several years more on weekday afternoons in syndication. And while the show is fairly well-remembered today, some viewers might not realize how very gay this show is: from its premise to its lead character to its lead actor to the history of the Mr. Belvedere character going back forty years before this sitcom debuted. Child Celebrities Opposed to Kirk Cameron The opening credits to Jennifer ...
Mr. Roper Has a Gay Awakening
June 04, 2019 08:11 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB“Strange Bedfellows” (October 4, 1977) Some people think of Three’s Company as being a show that hinges on zany misunderstandings that could be solved if one character just said one thing. That’s not the case with this second-season episode, in which Mr. Roper wakes up in bed with Jack, who, we should remember, has told his landlords he is gay. What follows is actually a tighter-plotted TV episode than you might expect. Check out A Love Bizarre, downtown Los Angeles’ new queer art space ...
Murphy Brown Has a Gay Co-Worker
May 28, 2019 08:22 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB“Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are” (March 9, 1992) Just when you think Murphy Brown’s take on a gay episode is overstuffed with heteros sharing bad information about alternative lifestyles, the last scene gives the one-off gay character some earnest, heartfelt lines. In the end, Murphy Brown did the gay character good. Queer culture impresario Matt Baume joins Glen and Drew to talk Candice Bergen, Faith Ford and gunge. (Look it up.) Culture Cruise, Matt’s YouTube series about gay pop...
Blanche’s Homo Brother Wants to Get Gay Married
May 21, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB“Sister of the Bride” (January 21, 1991) The Clayton Hollingsworth story comes to an end with an episode about same-sex marriage before even the term “commitment ceremony” came into the popular lexicon. Tony Rodriguez joins us to discuss the ways that this episode shows how The Golden Girls was ahead of its time in so many ways, “ah so” notwithstanding. Read Drew's interview with Golden Girls writers Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space Support us on Patreon! ...
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay
May 14, 2019 08:48 - 1 hour - 117 MBWarning! Warning! You are encountering an atypical installment of this podcast. Instead of the discussion of sitcoms, this one concerns the discussion of 1980s cartoons — and with none other than leading ’80s cartoon authority and Netflix director of original series Ted Biaselli! Animated conversation includes but is not limited to He-Man, She-Ra, Jem, ThunderCats, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, Beverly Hills Teens, SilverHawks, TigerSharks, Paw Paw Bears, Kidd Video and Du...
Blanche’s Brother Is a Homo
May 07, 2019 09:21 - 1 hour - 93.1 MB“Scared Straight” (December 10, 1988) When Blanche’s brother comes over and comes out, Blanche shows that southern hospitality has its limits. It’s a classic story about homosexuality being accepted — but only to an extent. Burgeoning podcast star Tony Rodriguez joins Glen and Drew to talk about the best-ever gay-focused episode of a sitcom to also have a B plot about a death premonition dream. Read Drew's interview with Golden Girls writers Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new q...
Maude’s New Friend Is a Homo
April 30, 2019 10:23 - 1 hour - 85.3 MB“Maude’s New Friend” (December 2, 1974) And then there’s Maude! Bea Arthur teaches us all a valuable lesson about how liberals can also be prejudiced in this third-season episode that’s all about Maude trying and failing to celebrate a newfound homosexual acquaintance. This episode is pretty wild, as Glen puts it, and it holds up better than a lot of TV airing ten and twenty years later. #breadsandwich Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space Support us on Patreon! ...
Roy Biggins Has a Big Gay Son
April 23, 2019 09:12 - 1 hour - 116 MB“There’s Always Room for Cello” (December 14, 1990) What smells like Wario + Newman + extra farts? It’s Roy Biggins, 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 ...
What’s Gay About the Dick Van Dyke Show?
April 16, 2019 08:07 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB“The Ballad of the Betty Lou” (November 27, 1963) In this shorter episode, Gayest Episode Ever is looking at The Dick Van Dyke Show, a beloved series that is never explicitly gay but it occasionally features some implicitly gay elements — and may also once made a semen joke. Watch a clip of the apparent semen joke Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter Listen: iTunes • Spotify •...
Marcy D'Arcy Has a Lesbian Cousin
April 09, 2019 09:43 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB“Lez Be Friends” (April 28, 1997) For a lot of ’80s kids, Amanda Bearse was one of the first gay people they ever heard about. And while Bearse came out in 1993, she got to put LGBT themes in the spotlight in a 1997 episode in which she plays both Marcy D’Arcy and her lesbian cousin, Mandy. It’s a product of its time, for sure, but at its heart is a fairly thoughtful depiction of a happy, function person who’s better off for having come out of the closet. Bonus points for Elaine Hendrix. ...
Sanford Thinks His Son Is a Homo (and Vice Versa)
April 02, 2019 09:53 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB“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. Check out A Love Bizarre, Los Angeles’ new queer art space: Support us on Patreon! Fo...
Joey Lawrence Has a Gay Secret Admirer
March 26, 2019 09:44 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB“Double Date”(January 31, 1994) Whoa. Blossom was famous for two things: hats and Very Special Episodes. And while its gay episode is suspiciously lacking in hats, it seems like its several Very Special Episodes rolled up into one. In addition to featuring Joey Lawrence’s character as the recipient of a love letter from his male teammate, it also features teaching moments about childhood racism and butt touching (respectively). Does it work? Kinda no, but it’s interesting how much it packs...
Peggy Hill Meets a Drag Queen
March 19, 2019 11:06 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB“The Peggy Horror Picture Show” (January 28, 2007) When Peggy Hill mistakenly shops at a store for drag queens, she gets mistaken for one. And while that might seem like hokey sitcom setup, this eleventh-season King of the Hill episode manages some real emotions and some perspectives on gender you wouldn’t have seen on TV at the time. Sam Pancake’s podcast, Monday Afternoon Movie TalKing of the Hill’s first episode What a Cartoon’s King of the Hill episode The model sheets cauti...
Rebecca Howe Suffers From Gay Blindness
March 12, 2019 16:00 - 53 minutes - 72.8 MB“Rebecca’s Lover... Not” (April 23, 1992) Gayest Episode Ever kicks its hiatus into the gutter with the first installment of it second season. And yes, we’re back in Boston with Cheers, but it’s a very different show in its tenth season — and featuring not Shelley Long but Kirstie Alley as the barmaid having to address her feelings about homosexuality. Harvey Fierstein guest stars in an episode that has connections to both She-Ra and Fright Night, and that makes for a big gay win Listen ...
Fresh Off the Boat Outs the Girl Next Door
October 15, 2018 07:01 - 56 minutes - 77.2 MB“A League of Her Own” (November 17, 2017) For the second of the “off season” bonus episodes, Drew and Glen wanted to compare how a modern day, family-friendly sitcom compares with the classic versions they discussed in the first season. They picked ABC series Fresh Off the Boat, which in its fourth season had a prominent character — Nicole, the “Winnie Cooper” of this flashback series on whim the lead character has a crush — come out as a lesbian. The storyline is handled very well, and wh...
Interview: Stan Zimmerman
October 01, 2018 23:41 - 1 hour - 101 MBA veteran sitcom writer, Stan Zimmerman is one half of the duo that penned the script for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the episode of Roseanne in which the main character is kissed by a lesbian. In this interview, Stan talks about the process of writing that episode and riding through the controversy surrounding it, but he also offers behind-the-scenes insight from his time on Golden Girls, the gay-centric Showtime series Brothers, his efforts to get his sitcom project Silver Foxes on a screen n...
Harley and Ivy Are Domestic Partners
July 30, 2018 07:19 - 50 minutes - 69.2 MB"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. Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter Listen: iTunes • Spotify • Stitcher • Google Play •...
Diane Chambers Is an LGBT Ally
May 10, 2018 08:35 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MB"The Boys in the Bar" (January 27, 1983) When Sam Malone makes a show of supporting his newly out former teammate, the regulars at Cheers worry that bar will suddenly go queer. It's another case of straight hysteria and straight histrionics, but luckily it's Diane Chambers to the rescue. The first season of Gayest Episode Ever closes out with a remarkable installment of one of Drew and Glen's favorite shows and singing of the praises of Shelley Long, patron saint of suffering creatives eve...
Jerry and George Aren’t Gay, Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
May 03, 2018 09:20 - 1 hour - 108 MB“The Outing” (February 11, 1993) Seinfeld won a GLAAD award for this episode all about how even the most well-meaning straight people would be horrified to be mistaken for gay. It helped popularize “not that there’s anything wrong with that” and, to a lesser extent, “single, thin and neat” as 90s-era gay catchphrases and also managed to spin a whole half-hour with minimal presence of actual LGBT characters. Emelie Burnette, copy editor to the stars, joins Glen and Drew to talk about what t...
Julia Sugarbaker Plans a Gay Funeral
April 26, 2018 09:51 - 1 hour - 88.8 MB"Killing All the Right People" (October 5, 1987) In one of the most devastating sitcom installments ever aired, Sugarbaker & Associates plans the funeral of a young gay man dying of AIDS. This is *VERY* *SAD* episode, and we want you to know that it might choke you up, should you be the type who listens at the gym. That said, there's a lot to learn from this episode of Designing Women, both in what a TV show had to do in 1987 to make straight audiences pay attention to AIDS and how TV has ...
Homer Simpson Is a Homophobe
April 19, 2018 07:36 - 1 hour - 108 MB"Homer's Phobia" (February 16, 1997) Hot stuff, coming through! At long last, Homer Simpson asks the difficult question, "Hey, what if Bart is a homo?" This episode has none other than John Waters on hand as the primary non-Smithers Springfield queer, and the result is one of the better gay outings of the entire '90s. Learned person Dr. Bryan Wuest is on hand to help Glen and Drew talk through camp, kitsch and all manner of gayness. Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew ...
Blair Warner Is a Homophobe
April 12, 2018 15:50 - 1 hour - 93.2 MB"Rough Housing" (August 24, 1979) You probably remember The Facts of Life, but you may not know that the show's first season introduced a whole slew of characters who wouldn't make it to season two and also that the first-ever episode dealt with Blair's homophobia toward a tomboyish classmate that didn't even turn out to be a lesbian. Playwright and Supernatural writer Steve Yockey joins Drew and Glen to talk whether Blair is a monster, whether Mrs. Garrett crosses a line addressing Blair'...
Mary and Rhoda Meet a Homo
April 05, 2018 09:47 - 1 hour - 114 MB"My Brother's Keeper (January 13, 1973) Actor and comedian Sam Pancake joins Glen and Drew to talk about this third-season episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which the last-minute revelation that Phyllis' brother is gay gets the biggest laugh of the show. That said, this is a sweet take on a gay episode that aired when most sitcoms didn't do them. Topics discussed include Bridget Loves Bernie, "Ode to Billy Joe," Murder by Death, the theme song to Phyllis' spinoff and how Gavin MacLe...