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 ...

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...

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-sort...

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...

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 co...

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 Heaven...

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 bu...

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�...

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 Mart...

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...

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 becau...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 u...

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...

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 rummagi...

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 o...

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 co...

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 n...

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.

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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...

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 entertai...

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 tha...

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 ...

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 th...

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 ...

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 v...

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...