“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 ep

Daria Should Have Kissed Jane Instead of Tom

8 days ago 2h 28m

“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 quee

Lucy Meets a Drag Queen

15 days ago 1h 37m

“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 appe

A Queer History of SNL, Part Four: The Lost Years

22 days ago 1h 49m

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 pres

Sex and the City Meets an Effeminate Heterosexual

Mar 13th, 2024 2h 21m

“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, a

Newhart Meets a Gay

Mar 6th, 2024 1h 39m

"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 B

Jerri Blank Is a Pansexual Sex Predator

Feb 28th, 2024 1h 27m

“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.

Gimme a Break Transformed Into a Lesbian Perfect Strangers

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 39m

“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,

The Simpsons Does a Riff on Lesbian Cult Classic

Feb 14th, 2024 1h 43m

“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 schoolgir

How Does a Conservative Sitcom Do a Gay Episode?

Feb 7th, 2024 1h 39m

“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 Stand

The Gay Origins of Mister Ed

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 35m

“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 g

Frasier Has Two Daddies

Jan 24th, 2024 1h 34m

“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

Sailor Moon Meets a Lesbian Couple

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 31m

“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 Moon Meets a Lesbian Couple

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 49m

Bob’s Burgers Celebrates Christmas at a Gay Rave

Dec 22nd, 2023 1h 41m

“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

Frank’s Place Makes Hanukkah Gay

Dec 19th, 2023 2h 4m

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 th

Suddenly Susan Meets a Gay

Dec 13th, 2023 1h 41m

“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 final

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

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 51m

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 some of them are so much

Gimme a Break Meets Yet Another 80s Orphan

Nov 29th, 2023 1h 26m

“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

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

Nov 21st, 2023 1h 45m

“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. Gri

The Complete History of George Costanza’s Homosexuality

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 58m

“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 Mu

The Sarah Silverman Program Has Gigantic, Orange Gays

Nov 8th, 2023 3h 15m

“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

Benson Literally Plays a Game With Death

Oct 31st, 2023 2h 5m

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 m

Two Guys, a Girl and a Post-Scream Slasher Halloween

Oct 28th, 2023 1h 9m

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

Family Matters Does Dracula

Oct 25th, 2023 1h 48m

“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 Co