Note: There was an error toward the end of the original post, and because Patreon is not allowing me to swap out the file for the corrected one I had to repost.
“Lisa the Drama Que...
2024-02-08 18:56:38 +0000 UTC
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“Lisa the Drama Queen” (January 25, 2009)
So here’s an interesting one. In its twentieth season, The Simpson did an episode inspired by Heavenly Creatures, the 1994 Peter Jackson movie ...
2024-02-08 03:41:06 +0000 UTC
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Hi all. We are making belated progress on kicking off the new Patreon bonus series, all about the little-remembered sitcoms that aired on Fox during its early days. Obviously, we will be covering W...
2024-02-06 22:11:54 +0000 UTC
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“Take Elmyra Please” (February 24, 1992) and “Grandma’s Dead” (November 10, 1992)
Weirdly, Tiny Toon Adventures tried two different times to sell viewers on a different version of E...
2024-02-04 23:02:31 +0000 UTC
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“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (November 29, 2011)
Yes, Tim Allen’s follow-up to Home Improvement got branded as the most conservative sitcom on network TV, but is that fair? We’re ...
2024-02-01 07:57:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi, all. I decided the best way to share people’s thoughts on Heavenly Creatures would be to pose some questions here and have you respond in the comments. Please respond to one or all, with the ...
2024-01-28 21:21:38 +0000 UTC
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“Sorority House” (February 8, 1961)
A few times on this podcast, we’ve bent over backwards to find a gay interpretation of a sitcom that never did anything gay, but this is not one of t...
2024-01-25 06:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Presented for your enjoyment here is a clip from the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. Despite the fact that it’s directed by Peter Jackson and stars Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey, it’s not stre...
2024-01-20 16:22:01 +0000 UTC
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“Fathers and Sons” (May 3, 2003)
And we’re back! Our first regular episode of the new year returns to the first-ever show we discussed: Frasier. It’s the episode where David Ogden Sti...
2024-01-17 22:42:19 +0000 UTC
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“Shadow of Evil: The Trio's Last Chance” (September 23, 1995)
It’s a new year, and you’re getting a new Sailor Moon. This time, we are focusing on Fisheye, a henchman villain from the...
2024-01-11 06:29:21 +0000 UTC
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Have you ever noticed that there’s a weird relationship with Seinfeld episodes about cashmere and addiction? In this video, I explain the episodes “The Red Dot,” “The Apology,” and “The...
2024-01-09 21:10:08 +0000 UTC
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Hi, all. This is a quick note to announce that we’re gearing up to resume episodes. Glen has a script due on Monday, so he’s not able to record until after then but we should be back in busines...
2024-01-05 02:57:24 +0000 UTC
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“The Bleakening” (December 10, 2017)
We’re closing out 2023 with a two-part Bob’s Burgers Christmas mystery that also happens to be the last episode a cult favorite trans character, M...
2023-12-20 22:42:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey 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...
2023-12-16 01:56:26 +0000 UTC
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Hi all. This week's Patreon episode won't be going up until the end of the week, I'm sorry to say. It's a bit of a schedule jumble. After that, you'll get the Christmas episode/2023 finale next Wed...
2023-12-13 02:04:25 +0000 UTC
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“A Boy Like That” (April 24, 1997)
Heads up: We briefly discuss suicide episode in discussing on of this show’s cast members. If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts, the U.S. hotlin...
2023-12-07 04:47:52 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Whoops, I took down the "non-offensive" part due to one of the lyrics in the song. It's been a week and my brain is bad!
Got a little behind this week, and the next regular episode won'...
2023-12-06 02:43:28 +0000 UTC
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RE-EDIT: The ending got chopped off somehow, but the last 15 minutes are now back. Apologies for the back-and-forth with this.
EDIT: Whoops, the file I uploaded was missing the intro and the ...
2023-12-01 03:49:08 +0000 UTC
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Hi all. Here are the sketches we will be discussing for the third installment of our queer SNL retrospective. All of these are sketches that ran in the first five seasons of the show, which is to s...
2023-11-29 02:59:58 +0000 UTC
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You know the drill: vote for ONE choice on this list. All of these come from suggestions on this post...
2023-11-25 02:35:02 +0000 UTC
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I got the request to Ian for the Matthew Perry art for the Friends episode late, but I think it was worth the wait. What Ian's done really captures Perry's face in a beautiful way. It reminds me of...
2023-11-21 19:38:11 +0000 UTC
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Hi all. This week's Patreon episode was supposed to be the next in the SNL series, but I ran out of time and also have to get the house ready for this Thursday in addition to cooking. So we are tak...
2023-11-19 19:42:35 +0000 UTC
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“The One With the Memorial Service” (March 13, 2003)
Since Matthew Perry died, the tone of conversations about Friends has shifted from looking at all the reasons it wasn’t so great to ...
2023-11-16 06:58:51 +0000 UTC
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"Voyage to Water-O" (September 7, 1987)
After the smashing success of ThunderCats and the middling success of SilverHawks, you’d think Rankin/Bass would have learned which creative decision...
2023-11-11 23:57:02 +0000 UTC
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There's a new Cartoons That Made Us Gay coming tomorrow, and it's one you may not have watched back in the day. So please enjoy the first episode of ThunderCats wetter, worse cousin, TIGERSHARKS!
2023-11-11 01:52:29 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: There was a problem with the first version of this episode, and then Patreon wouldn't let me replace the file. So apologies for excess posting, but here is the fixed version, posted the o...
2023-11-09 02:22:36 +0000 UTC
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“The Note” (September 18, 1991)
Seinfeld kicked off its third season with a rather risky premiere about George’s dick twitching during a massage from a man. What follows is a more earne...
2023-11-08 21:36:44 +0000 UTC
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So we decided that next week we should do a Friends episode, specifically to push back on some revisionist takes on the series that, in light of Matthew Perry's passing, want to remember the show a...
2023-11-07 22:13:17 +0000 UTC
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This week's GEE is going to be titled "The Complete History of George Costanza's Homosexuality." As such, we will be talking about the entirety of the evidence presented in Seinfeld indicating that...
2023-11-06 20:05:17 +0000 UTC
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“Muffin’ Man” (March 1, 2007)
You know what’s super complicated? The Sarah Silverman Program. It’s funny, but just talking about why it’s funny in 2023 necessitates a lot of discu...
2023-11-02 05:50:38 +0000 UTC
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