Frank’s Place Makes Hanukkah Gay
Added 2023-12-16 01:56:26 +0000 UTCHey 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 incentive you need for this episode is that Frank’s Place is that it won Emmys, it won critical praise, and it’s still remembered today as a showcase for a type of black American who wasn’t often depicted on the small screen. Also it only lasted a single season. Brian Cronin joins us to discuss perhaps the only sitcom episode to feature a Hanukkah dinner ruined by a coming out. And BTW, there is a twist ending we are still unsettled by.
Read Brian’s work at CBR but also at his website, Pop Culture References, which frequently dives deep into sitcom history.
Watch this Frank’s Place (and all episodes, if you want) at archive.org.
Read the LA Times piece we cite in this discussion here.
Comments
In my life, I've never heard someone say how y'at. Where y'at is the norm though. Also, it's predominantly the West Bank accent. I'm aware this changes nothing about anything, just though I would share.
Robyn Pavlakovich
2023-12-18 20:46:47 +0000 UTCThe final episode of this show, the one in Tim Reid’s conspiracy theory, is one of my top 10 TV episodes of all time. It’s amazing.
Zach Wilson
2023-12-16 16:59:07 +0000 UTC
