Happy Endings Explores Gay Subcultures
Added 2022-01-27 08:48:24 +0000 UTCEdit/Non-Content Warning: In the original intro clip, Max references a trans slur that, if we’re being responsible, would have gotten a warning. It’s a garbage joke. I cut it from our episode, and it removed so cleanly that you have to acknowledge that it could have been removed just as easily from the original Happy Endings episode. Should you watch the Happy Endings episode, be forewarned that it does feature this pointless joke.
“Ordinary Extraordinary Love” (January 8, 2013)
Bears, twinks, otters, wolves, panthers, yetis and bunniculas. The breadth of subcultures that gay life offers is both wide and weird — and a subject rarely approached by mainstream sitcoms. However, Happy Endings brought this to broadcast in the mid-2010s, all centered around the uncategorizable Max.
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Comments
I'd buy a T-shirt with that little Max on the pocket.
Jojo
2022-01-31 06:03:04 +0000 UTCI would absolutely call into the hotline but I can't swing $10/month. :(
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2022-01-30 20:06:11 +0000 UTCEliza Coupe's new show is called Pivoting and it is fantastic.
Jojo
2022-01-30 18:01:37 +0000 UTCOh, shoot. Did not strike me as that but I see how that would not be appreciated. I’m sorry. I will fix it so that line is not something featured in a clip but I’ll also insert a note explaining how they did a trans joke.
Drew Mackie
2022-01-30 16:17:52 +0000 UTCWould have appreciated a CW for the transmisogyny of the “chicks with dicks” joke in the intro clip, guys 😞
Grace Reed
2022-01-29 19:47:06 +0000 UTCAh yes. Max is Ross. He is very disappointed by this.
Drew Mackie
2022-01-29 01:32:45 +0000 UTCThere's a scene where one of them drunkenly points to each character and says their friends character parallel. I'll look for it.
Lea Susan Engle
2022-01-29 01:01:45 +0000 UTCOMG look at Max! :) Your artist is so great.
Benjamin Rippel
2022-01-28 01:25:46 +0000 UTC
