“The Great Gazoo” (October 29, 1965)Not only did the Great Gazoo mark the “jumping the shark” point for The Flintstones well before that was a term that meant anything in TV studies, but also there’s a whole queer backstory for this green imp, who’s allegedly inspired by a guy who taught [...]
“The Sponge” (December 7, 1995) You know one thing Seinfeld did right that many of its metropolitan sitcom imitators didn’t? It had mean gays — specifically Bob and Cedric, a gay couple that shows up three times throughout the series run to exert queer menace on Kramer. They figure into [...]
“The Shining Silver Crystal: The Moon Princess Appears” (November 28, 1992)It's the only Sailor Moon episode of a podcast you will hear this week featuring a surprise cameo by Mia Farrow.About a year ago, we covered Sailor Moon on our bonus podcast, The Cartoons That Made Us Gay. We kicked off [...]
Greetings! We are combatting the dead zone that is the holidays with a bonus episode: the fourth of Weirdest Episode Ever, our new Patreon series looking at sitcoms that venture into sci-fi, horror and fantasy. If you like this, you can listen to three other episodes on Patreon, with another [...]
Ho! Ho! Ho! It's time for the Monday Afternoon Movie holiday special with Sam Pancake! This week, Sam is joined by director & broadway aficionado Ben Rimalower as he takes us on a whimsical journey through the 1992 Made-For-TV film MRS. SANTA CLAUS, starring Dame Angela Lansbury and Charles Durning. [...]
“Jingle Balls” (December 13, 2001) We are closing out the year by returning to the only sitcom whose every Christmas episode is also gay: Will & Grace. It’s not great, people. And while this Laura Kightlinger-penned season for ep shows promise, it ultimately pulls back from exploring subjects that it [...]
Why, throughout history, have people tried to emulate the taste of meat? Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. South Pine [...]
And here is part two of our coverage of the 1973 TV movie LISA, BRIGHT AND DARK, starring Anne Baxter and John Forsythe. Emmy-winning producer Lisa Stockdale is back this week to help Sam pick through the last half of this mental health driven made for TV movie. The glockenspiels [...]
Content warning: In discussing plotlines on Soap, we do bring up suicide and, very briefly, sexual assault. "Episode 4.1" (November 12, 1980) * Finally! It's one of the biggest cult favorite sitcoms of all time *and* it's also a show famous for having a LGBT character in the main cast. [...]
“Jonathan the Gymnast” (November 18, 1986) Technically, Who’s the Boss? never did a gay episode, but because Danny Pintauro’s sexuality looms large over this sitcom, many episodes seem a little gayer as a result — and this episode especially so. In it, Tony and Angela step into the kitchen to [...]
