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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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The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Saint Seiya
Have you ever heard of DEATH QUEEN ISLAND?
Saint Seiya is one of the most popular, most long-running anime series that American viewers haven’t heard of. Despite immense popularity in Europe, South America and the parts of North America that aren’t the U.S. or Canada, the series took forever to get to English-speaking territories, as Knights of the Zodiac, and it just never took off the way it should have. That’s too bad, because Saint Seiya is very good and very gay. In this episode, we’re diving deep on one of the strangest sibling relationships ever depicted in mainstream anime: that of effeminate, beautiful Andromeda Shun and his hunky “brother,” Phoenix Ikki.
These are the episodes we’re coving:
S1E5, “Miraculous Revival WIth Cosmic Friendship”
S1E6, “Phoenix: The Warrior Who’s Come Back From Hell”
S1E7, “Gold Cloth Gets Stolen”
S1E8, “Defeat the Shadow Army: Black Saints”
S1E15, “The Mystery of Ikki Is Now Unveiled” -
Drawn Together Forces Xandir Out of the Closet
“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 episode where Xandir admits he’s gay isn’t the parade of easy jokes you might expect. The B plot sucks rancid balls, to the point that we don’t even use clips from it in this discussion, but you might be surprised how this animated reality show makes its token gay a sympathetic guy.
Check out Bradley Smith’s YouTube interview with series creators Dave Jesser and Matt Silvertsein, from which we grabbed a few anecdotes about the development of Drawn Together.
Listen to our Cartoons That Made Us Gay episode about the Legend of Zelda cartoon.
Listen to the Best Movies Never Made podcast, hosted by Golan the Insatiable creator Josh Miller.
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Daria Should Have Kissed Jane Instead of Tom
“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 queer in the first movie, Is It Fall Yet?, which has Jane affirming her heterosexuality despite how very queer she might seem. In this episode, we’re discussing the nonetheless existent lesbian vibes between Daria and Jane — and who better to offer input on this than Talking Simpsons cohost Bob Mackey? Sure, he’s straight, but it turns out that straight men can relate to female characters too. (We were shocked!)
As it turns out, Bob and Henry’s What a Cartoon podcast covers not only the Daria episode that immediately precedes this one, “Fire!” and also “The Misery Chick,” which as we discuss is a crucial turning point in the development of Daria Morgandorfer.
This week, Glen and Drew are guests on Talking Simpsons, discussing "Three Gays of the Condo" and why it's not great! If you need more of our voices in your life, have a listen here.
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Lucy Meets a Drag Queen
“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 appearances on late night TV for this uncanny ability to turn himself into female celebs. Lucy, however, gave him a showcase on her popular prime time sitcom, showing her viewers that not only were drag queens not scary, but in fact they can be a lot of fun.
Watch the episode of The Lucy Show where Lucy almost drowned on Tubi. And read the book that details both versions of the story on Archive.org.
What the episode of the Desilu-produced game show You Don’t Say.
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A Queer History of SNL, Part Four: The Lost Years
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 presence on the show, these are the sketches that are less remembered today because they weren’t rerun on Comedy Central in the 2000s as much and they’re largely absent from the cache of episodes preserved online today. And that’s too bad, because this is when the show boasted some legends in the cast — Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Billy Crystal, Joan Cusack, Robert Downey Jr., Martin Short and Damon Wayans among them, as well as queer cast members Terry Sweeney, Denny Dillon and Danitra Vance.
The sketches (and click here if you want to watch them):
“SoHo Lesbians” (S6E10: Debbie Harry) “Little Richard Simmons” (S7E1: No host) “James Coburn Is a Homosexual” (S7E11: James Coburn) “Focus on Film: Making Love” (S7E12: Bruce Dern) “Penny Lane” (S10E11: Roy Scheider) “Pinklisting” (S11E1: Madonna) “Mr. Monopoly” (S11E12: Griffin Dunne) Monologue (S11E16: Catherine Oxenberg) “Lesbian Pick-Ups” (S11E18: Anjelica Huston) Go shop at our TeePublic store!
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American Dad Does a Meta Backdoor Pilot
“Top of the Steve” (March 18, 2019)
Animated sitcoms like playing with corny TV conventions more than live-action sitcoms do, and maybe none has more fun with the sitcom genre itself than American Dad. In this episode, Steve nearly spins off into his own series, but unlike every other entry in our Backdoor Pilots series, he’s actually aware of what’s happening to him. It’s a weird one-off that gets meta in the way that’s very typical of Seth MacFarlane show.
And this is the last of the Backdoor Pilots series — this one is technically a bonus episode — so we’re making it available to everyone who supports us on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. The rest are behind the pay wall. New bonus series coming!
The theme song to this series was composed and performed by Meika Grimm.