Elaine Dates a Gay Guy
Added 2021-09-09 03:56:20 +0000 UTC(“The Beard,” February 9, 1995)
And… we’re back. Welcome to season five of Gayest Episode Ever, which is a lot like the previous seasons but with a few streamlining improvements. Our first episode looks at an Elaine-centric Seinfeld in which it’s supposed that a straight woman can cure a gay man if she tries hard enough and Melrose Place is a show that heterosexual men watch only in secret.
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Oh, strange, I never thought of either of those ways to think of the word "beard." I have always interpreted the term "beard" as meaning something that a gay man would grow to appear more traditionally masculine to hide his gayness (which when the term was coined seemed to be synonymous with femininity); thus, a fake girlfriend would act as his beard.
Kacey Spadafora
2021-09-13 17:55:12 +0000 UTCMy theory on <i>Seinfeld</i> vs <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i> is that <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i> is much more directly engaging in politics and showing its characters not only being awful on a personal level, but interacting with systems of power in ways that reveal them to be blinkered and entitled. Their goals in many episodes are more about seeking power or interacting meaningfully with the world around them. On <i>Seinfeld</i> the stakes are much more personal and the characters aren't concerned with the world outside their little bubble, so the politics are subtler. <i>Seinfeld</i> does episodes where they interact with specific queer people, but <i>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</i> does episodes about the Gang treating queer people as a monolith with which they can curry favor. It forces you to think about these people not just as awful, but awful in very specific, highly politicized ways, and I think that makes it a lot more obvious when the show is being politically incorrect on purpose.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2021-09-11 23:48:58 +0000 UTCAlso I had kind of the opposite experience with “beard” as a kid. My aunt yelled at me for not knowing what it meant. Thank you for validating that it was common for an 11 year old in 1997 to not know its meaning.
Kat Heagberg
2021-09-09 23:34:45 +0000 UTCMatthew Bourne’s Swan Lake! Omg that jogged a memory when they mentioned it on the podcast. I wrote so many papers about it in Dance History class in college.
Kat Heagberg
2021-09-09 23:32:49 +0000 UTCSeason five! Exciting
Blandon
2021-09-09 17:14:08 +0000 UTCI've seen gay swan lake, once live but I also saw it on YouTube a while back, dunno if it's still there 🤔
Daniel Price
2021-09-09 16:15:32 +0000 UTCApologies. Will fix.
Drew Mackie
2021-09-09 14:27:31 +0000 UTCHi guys! Just a heads up, the fade in for the outro music is really loud in this episode. Not sure if it’s on purpose but I had to rush to turn off the pod.
G
2021-09-09 14:24:27 +0000 UTC
