Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. tags: 2000s | Animated | Comedy Central “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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. tags: 90s | Animated | MTV 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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. tags: CBS | 70s “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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. tags: SNL | Queer History 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. [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. "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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “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, Telma [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “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 [...]
Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan. “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 [...]
