NewsRadio Never Did a Gay Episode
Added 2022-06-11 03:55:16 +0000 UTC“Halloween” (October 30, 1996)
Considering that every other major Must See TV sitcom did at least one gay episode, it’s surprising that NewsRadio didn’t — especially when you consider the fact that its lead actor, Dave Foley, jumped straight to NBC from Kids in the Hall, which experimented with gender and sexuality a lot more freely. This episode was as close as we could find to a real gay episode. And while it does feature Dave Foley donning drag once again, there’s a lot more weird stuff going on, including Phil Hartman’s character getting a premonition of his own death — about a year and a half before he’d die in real life. All this plus Andy Dick and Joe Rogan! Yeah, this is a weird episode!
Read:
Uproxx’s oral history of NewsRadio
The interview where the NewsRadio creator compares Must See TV Thursdays to a “shit sandwich”
Watch:
Listen:
American Hysteria, the podcast all about moral panics, urban legends and conspiracy theories — and how they shape culture.
The Science Versus episode on Joe Rogan
The Astonishing Legends episode on the alien autopsy video
Comments
I’m guessing others already advised on this but Stephen Root and Margo Martindale indeed play husband and wife who are parents to a gay man in the Netflix movie Uncle Frank. If you’d like to see him as a one dimensional 1970s Southern homophobe there’s your chance!
knope2001
2022-06-16 10:35:39 +0000 UTCLow-key same here. I think I dropped a Kisney quarter point.
Drew Mackie
2022-06-12 23:52:59 +0000 UTCDave's drag on KitH was a bisexual awakening for one of my female friends
nina matsumoto
2022-06-12 23:35:37 +0000 UTCWelcome to the club
Drew Mackie
2022-06-12 20:37:43 +0000 UTCBruce McCulloch is indeed the cute one.
Corrie Hill
2022-06-11 18:56:14 +0000 UTCI was curious what episode you were going to do. I rewatched this kind of early into lockdown, so it was at least at a point where I was aware enough of your podcast to keep an eye out to suggest episodes and didn't remember thinking there were any.
Robyn Pavlakovich
2022-06-11 09:04:01 +0000 UTC
