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Gayest Episode Ever

Podcast Gayest Episode Ever
Drew Mackie & Glen Lakin
Back 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 w...

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  • Gilligan’s Island Does a Body Swap Episode
    “The Friendly Physician” (April 7, 1966) Sure, Gilligan’s Island may have skewed family-friendly, but its love of genre parody meant that it did a body swap episode in which all of its female characters end up in male bodies. Horny! That’s enough to get our attention, even without the mad scientist bad guy with perversely vampiric sexual energy. Follow: GEE on Bluesky • Drew on Bluesky • Glen on Bluesky Listen: Apple Podcasts • Spotify And yes, we do have an official website! We even have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal. Our logo was designed by Rob Wilson. This episode’s art was designed by Ian O’Phelan.
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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm Acknowledges That a Child Seems Gay
    “Larry vs. Michael J. Fox” (September 11, 2011) For better or worse, Larry David is a truth-teller, and the fictional version of him can help but to poke at social taboos. In this Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, Larry suspects that Michael J. Fox may be using Parkinson’s to get away with bad behavior while also insisting that his latest love interest’s seven-year-old child is gay. It’s a lot, but here’s the thing: Larry is often not wrong. Read “The Great and Wonderful Wizard of Odds,” the 2000 New York Times piece on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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  • Sailor Moon Meets a Beguiling Genderfluid Villain
    We are keeping our tradition of making our first post of the new year about Sailor Moon. That ep, about the debatably trans Sailor Starlights, is now live on Patreon — at $1 for subscribers but it can also be purchased for $3 for non-subscribers. But we're putting last year's Sailor Moon ep, about the villain Fisheye, on the main feed. Important note: Due to recent political events, we’re giving all of our Patreon proceeds for this month to the Transgender Law Center.  “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 of an arc than anyone else does this season. We gave Fisheye the Leon Carp treatment, and this episode also examines the following other episodes: Meeting of Destiny: The Night Pegasus Dances (s4e1), Forest of Illusion: A Beautiful Fairy’s Invitation (s4e10), We Love Fashion: The Stylish Guardians (s4e13), Become a Prima: Usagi’s Ballet (s4e18) and Mirrors of Dreams: The Amazon's Last Stage (s4e22). Also listen to our previous Sailor Moon episodes: The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Meets a Lesbian Couple.
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  • The Grand Unified Theory of Why Frasier Seems Gay
    “The Matchmaker” (October 4, 1994) Whelp, it’s our 250th episode (sort of), and we’re celebrating by going back and reexamining our first-ever episode and, really, the reason this podcast exists in the first place: “The Matchmaker” from Frasier’s second season, which the show used to tell viewers definitively that no, despite all appearances otherwise, Frasier Crane is not gay. We’re joined again by Anthony Oliveira, who also helps us recount Frasier’s entire history of seeming kinda gay, from being metaphorically born from Diane Chambers all the way until the reboot. Buy Anthony’s new book, Dayspring. Read the New York Times article Drew mentions, “The Boys in the Writers’ Room.” Read GEE's write-up in Emmy magazine, which is basically the same thing as actually winning an Emmy.
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  • It’s All Relative Was ABC’s Attempt at a Will & Grace
    “Pilot” (October 1, 2003) Even NBC tried to replicate the success of America’s first popular gay sitcom, and this week we’re joined once again by Steven Capsuto to discuss an attempt to bring same-sex parents to prime time. It’s All Relative only lasted a season, but that’s actually longer than most LGBTQ-inclusive sitcoms that followed in Will & Grace’s wake, and for what it’s worth, its pilot shows a lot of promise. Read GEE's write-up in Emmy magazine, which is basically the same thing as actually winning an Emmy. Buy the revised edition of Steven’s book, Alternate Channels: Queer Images on 20th-Century TV. Listen to Steven’s previous episode, about Tony Randall’s Love, Sidney. Drew is pulling quotes from the following articles: “The gaying of TV / Advertisers step up as more shows step out”  (SFGate, Aug. 24, 2003) “Review: It’s All Relative” (Variety, Sep. 28, 2003) “It’s profitable to be a little bit gay” (LA TImes, Aug. 27, 2003) “Gays on TV: Hardly a Trend” (Chicago Tribune, Aug. 12, 2003)
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About Gayest Episode Ever

Back 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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