“Landlady” (October 15, 1984)
Right at the top of its second season, Kate & Allie did the thing so many sitcoms do and put out an episode that explicitly says, “No, these characters aren’t gay.” In this case, CBS had allegedly ...
2021-05-28 02:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Alison” (May 16, 1983)
Most of you haven’t had the chance to watch Love, Sidney, the the NBC series that ran from 1981 to 1983 and which featured Tony Randall as the title character — a gay man who is out to everyone but the audienc...
2021-05-22 20:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt's another installment of our semi-regular Patreon-only series where we share what we've been watching aside from the stuff that we view specifically for GEE and then we take great pains not to mention the stuff we've watched that sucks, but if ...
2021-05-15 21:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Dr. Urkel and Mr. Cool” (November 12, 1993)
Yep, we finally figured out a way to talk about Family Matters. When Laura asks Steve why he is the way his is, he says he’s born this way — but then he uses science to become someone else...
2021-05-14 06:50:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Enter Batgirl, Exit Penguin” (September 14, 1967)
The final season of the 1966 live-action Batman series saw the debut of Batgirl, a twirling, high-kicking female hero created to get more girls invested in the series — and more ...
2021-05-06 22:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In April, we gave an endorsement to The Great North episode “Pride and Prejudance Adventure” for giving the show’s gay character...
2021-05-03 16:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post“You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me” (August 16, 1984)
Heads up: In this episode we use the “F” word — no, not that one, but the gay one — but only because the subject matter itself uses it.
This week, we look into Brothe...
2021-04-30 07:09:28 +0000 UTC View Post
A heads up: This week's regular episode will be posting tomorrow, but in the meantime we give you Drew and Glen going on several tangents.
Have you always wanted to see Shelley Long have sex with Tom Cruise? Then have we got the movie for yo...
2021-04-28 23:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostSome of My Best Friends Are…” (October 9, 1976)
The fifth season of The Bob Newhart Show has a gay episode functions differently than most other show’s gay episode. For one thing, its central gay character is one who’d been on the sh...
2021-04-22 06:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, remember when Drew and Glen discussed that one episode of King of the Hill where Peggy meets a drag queen and halfway through...
2021-04-19 20:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Pride & Prejudance Adventure” (March 14, 2021)
The Great North is not Bob’s Burgers with snow. Okay, it is a little bit, but the show has its own vibe and, more importantly for our purposes, an out gay teen as well. In the show’...
2021-04-16 00:35:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time of year again! You vote on which LGBT-focused episodes of classic sitcoms you'd be most interested in us covering this year. Vote for as many as you'd like. And if there is something not on this list that you'd like to hear, tell us...
2021-04-13 01:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Pilot” (February 28, 2001)
In the wake of Will & Grace’s success, the other broadcast networks each made efforts at their own homo-centric TV shows, and the CBS twist on this formula was Some of My Best Friends, which lasted only ...
2021-04-09 07:40:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a suggestion by Drew’s heterosexual acquaintance, we’ve decided to discuss the gayest episode of The Muppet Show we could find. Tony Rodriguez joins us for...
2021-04-02 20:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We are very pleased to congratulate Tony Rodriguez, our friend and the most-frequently occurring guest on Gayest Episode Ever, on his new job: voicing Julio on The Simpsons. Tony is a gay Cuban-American and Julio is a gay Cuban-American, so it’s...
2021-03-30 22:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhelp, we’ve made it: one hundred episodes. By which I mean that we actually hit that mark several episodes ago, by various standards, but this is when we are actually observing that this is a thing we have done repeatedly over a set amount of t...
2021-03-26 01:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe Like to Watch is a mini segment that occurs either biweekly or semimonthly, depending on how you look at it. It's just Drew and Glen discussing what all we are watching aside from the shows we focus on in the weekly GEE installments.
BTW,...
2021-03-19 23:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Heads up: This episode revolves around a funeral for a character that we are reading as trans. The humor had at the expense of the deceased may be difficult for some audience members to hear.
”Ebbtide’s Revenge” (December 15, 199...
2021-03-19 02:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
“Spell It M-A-N” (January 6, 1993)
You might be surprised to learn that Doogie Howser M.D. only lasted four seasons and 97 episodes, but perhaps because Neil Patrick Harris has continued to be famous ever since, the show casts a lot long...
2021-03-12 00:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all. Due to some schedule rearranging, this week’s Doogie Howser episode and probably the next few weeks' episodes will be arriving on Patreon slightly later than usual. Apologies in advance, but it's a change that is ultimately going to all...
2021-03-10 19:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
If you just hopped into a movie theater one weekend in 1982 and saw Night Shift, you might not expect that two of the leads, Shelley Long and Michael Keaton, would not only go on to become households names but would also outshine the guy who’s t...
2021-03-06 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“The Dance Show” (October 21, 1990)
Given the reputation of Married… With Children, you might be surprised to know that it’s treatment of a same-sex married couple is actually pretty progressive. But yeah, in spite of his many hang-u...
2021-03-03 08:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe Like to Watch is a mini segment that occurs either biweekly or semimonthly, depending on how you look at it. It's just Drew and Glen discussing what all we are watching aside from the shows we focus on in the weekly GEE installments.
Head...
2021-02-27 21:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
What does it take to get a teen-centric show like Moesha to do a gay episode? Well, we talked to the writer of “Labels,” Demetrius Andre Bady, who explains how the idea arose, how the final product differed from the original script, and what h...
2021-02-26 06:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“Three Women and a Dummy” (May 13, 1996)
Alongside Murphy Brown, Designing Women and The Nanny, Cybill was one of CBS’s female-forward heavy-hitters in the 1990s. It didn’t last as long as the other three — and yes, there’s quite...
2021-02-24 07:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“Labels” (October 1, 1996)
It’s the tale of two sitcom episodes. Depending on who you are, this is either an episode about Moesha meeting a gay teen who’s scared to come out, or it’s an episode about the dangers of gossip. Maybe it...
2021-02-17 06:40:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo this will be new to some listeners. This episode, our Patreon episode concluded with a bonus segment where Glen and I just talk about what we've been watching on TV outside of what we watch for this podcast. However, upon asking you all on Patr...
2021-02-15 23:25:26 +0000 UTC View PostHi, all. In case you didn't make it to the end of this week's Roseanne episode, we are trying out a new segment about what all else we're watching — that is, the TV shows we won't be featuring on GEE anytime soon. The thing is... we don't know w...
2021-02-12 02:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ladies’ Choice” (November 10, 1992)
Ninety episodes later, we dared to venture back to Roseanne. How does its legacy of LGBT advocacy hold up all these years later — and in light of the show’s namesake’s hard right turn into all...
2021-02-10 08:56:51 +0000 UTC View Post
“Out of the Closet” (November 1, 1976)
Rest in Peace, Cloris Leachman. She leaves behind a legacy that includes such sitcom greats as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Facts of Life, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle and Raising Hope, as ...
2021-02-03 23:10:41 +0000 UTC View Post