The Crew Was Fox’s Queer-Inclusive Alternative to Friends
Added 2022-11-09 03:30:43 +0000 UTC“The Man We Love” (June 30, 1996)
Last week, we looked at Married… With Children’s take on an anti-Friends. This week, we decided to look at the last episode of a show that aired the previous season on Fox. While it was not designed as a response to Friends, it nonetheless managed to solve some of that show’s major problems. Namely, it’s racially diverse, there’s a queer character in the opening credits, and the characters actually work. It’s also funny, and having been co-created by writers who cut their teeth on The Golden Girls, that’s no surprise. What’s more, this show features an explicitly bi character — and this is something sitcoms almost never did and still don’t.
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Comments
I actually didn't know they were a couple. This is the first I'm hearing of it.
Drew Mackie
2022-12-05 20:19:24 +0000 UTCOh, my God, guys, MY GUYS! While you mention Wendy and Lisa for the show's theme, and kind of lightly skim over the fact that they were in The Revolution, how on earth could you not put huge importance on the fact that they were a lesbian couple?! Just 60 more seconds of their musical background, and the fact that they were "married" for over twenty years! Never mind their playing with and producing for everyone under the sun and doing tv themes and scores left and right! But most importantly (for a gay breakdown podcast) they were . . . (best Tony imitating Blanche Devereaux) LESBIANS!
Vanessa Lopez
2022-12-05 20:09:53 +0000 UTCOkay actually no, I don't think so? We had wanted to do the alien episode and then someone else gave a vivid description of the adult baby episode. What episode were you suggesting?
Drew Mackie
2022-11-15 19:56:57 +0000 UTC*gasp!* Was that comment about me?! The Perfect Strangers episode I suggested?! The one that I think about ALL THE TIME and scared the hell out of me as a kid?!
Lea Susan Engle
2022-11-13 19:51:18 +0000 UTCDang! I missed out on so much by not having FOX until fall 1998 season.
Benjamin Rippel
2022-11-11 02:40:42 +0000 UTCI was surprised as anyone that we got to cover it!
Drew Mackie
2022-11-09 19:18:26 +0000 UTCSeeing this episode title in the feed made me unreasonably excited, especially since I had no idea this series even existed before that off-hand (off-handed?) mention in the last episode.
Erin Hardy
2022-11-09 17:28:48 +0000 UTCRight? Like… it could have been a radio hit.
Drew Mackie
2022-11-09 15:12:43 +0000 UTCOk that theme is good
Ryan Zepp
2022-11-09 12:32:51 +0000 UTCI do really like this idea, honestly, but we've got two bonus series to get through first
Drew Mackie
2022-11-09 05:38:11 +0000 UTCPlease make The Women Who Made Us (Gay) !
Barry Maher-Caras
2022-11-09 05:23:44 +0000 UTC
