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Gayest Episode Ever

Gayest Episode Ever

By: Drew Mackie & Glen Lakin
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Back in the day, a major sitcom doing a gay episode was a big deal. A proper gay episode would get headlines, but it would get the attention of two young guys who were still figuring things out — sexuality-wise and culture-wise. Gayest Episode Ever has screenwriter Glen Lakin and stay-at-home journalist Drew Mackie going through the great and not-so-great gay episodes of sitcoms past.All rights reserved Art Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Ellen Won't Say Gay on Christmas

    Ellen Won't Say Gay on Christmas
    Dec 23 2025

    "Ellen's First Christmess" (December 17, 2001)

    Yes, we're closing 2025 with a lump of coal rather than a sugarplum fairy. Believe it or not, Ellen Degeneres had a second sitcom between her first one and her reign as the iron-fisted queen of daytime. It's mostly lost in the shuffle today, but we're taking a look at her Christmas episode to point out how she chose to shut up about her sexuality this time around. Was it worth it? No.

    See you in hell, 2025.

    We have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal. Our logo was designed by Rob Wilson. This episode's art was designed by Ian O'Phelan. Sound cues for this podcast were composed by Meika Grimm.
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • The Golden Girls Meet a Gay… for the Final Time?

    The Golden Girls Meet a Gay… for the Final Time?
    Dec 10 2025

    "The Artist" (December 19, 1987)

    Over the years, we've shared a lot of laughs with the girls on the laini, but our journey with the four horniest seniors in the history of Miami has come to an end, as "The Artist" is the final gay episode of The Golden Girls that we have much to say about. It's a slight episode, in terms of gay rep, but it actually has a lot to say about the show and the way gay men relate to it, we'd rager.

    Links what Drew discusses:
    Drew on Super Mario Moment podcast (video and audio)
    Drew on Cinema Oblivia
    Drew on Call Me By Your Game
    Drew on What a Cartoon
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Happy Endings Comes Out for Thanksgiving

    Happy Endings Comes Out for Thanksgiving
    Nov 27 2025

    "More Like Skanksgiving" (November 20, 2012)

    Here you have it: the one other gay-themed Thanksgiving episode of a sitcom. Three seasons in, this one reveals heretofore-unheard canon that the Happy Endings characters exist as they do solely as a result of MTV's The Real World — and that Max things he might have been the first gay person on TV. Meanwhile, no one is remarking how Jane's 2002 raver outfit is one of the more explicitly bisexual things she's ever done on this show, and we at one point meet her ex-girlfriend.

    Listen to our previous Happy Endings episode, and if this one isn't Thanksgiving enough for you, check out our Bob's Burgers bi Thanksgiving extravaganza.

    We have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal. Our logo was designed by Rob Wilson. This episode's art was designed by Ian O'Phelan. Sound cues for this podcast were composed by Meika Grimm.
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    1 hr and 21 mins
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I came across this podcast in the beginning of the pandemic after I decided to do a google search about James Avery and if he was gay, and this episode showed up on the search results, after that I became pretty much hooked. Love this podcast….from Fraggle Rock to Boy Meets World…I love the analysis and discussions presented. Genius.

Gay episode of Uncle Phil introduced me

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