Apr 28, 2021
“Some of My Best Friends Are…”
(October 9, 1976)
The fifth season of The
Bob Newhart Show has a gay episode functions differently than most
other show’s gay episode. For one thing, its central gay character
is one who’d been on the show before; it’s just that no one —
neither on the show or watching the show — knew he was gay. For
another thing, it’s not the last time we see this character; unlike
most LGBT guest characters on sitcoms, his existence does not end
with the one episode that revolves around his queerness.
End of episode
question: If you were making a podcast called Gayest Video Game
Ever, what game would your talk about first?
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Read Brett White’s piece of how this episode’s Mr. Plager was the first pre-existing character on a sitcom to come out.
Watch the pilot to Carlton, Your Doorman, the animated spinoff to Rhoda that almost was.
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Xuxa has a heart AS BIG AS THE WORLD!
Bears in Games explains why Final Fight is one of the gayest video games ever.
Watch Drew’s video compilation of every LGBT joke ever on the history of The Simpsons.
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