Gayest Episode Ever

By Drew Mackie & Glen Lakin / TableCakes Productions

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Amy
 Sep 9, 2020
One of my absolute favorites. Drew and Glen are a great team- funny and informative.

Odoyl-Rulz
 May 26, 2020
I absolutely LOVE this podcast. Learning more about shows I loved as a kid and occasionally getting sucked into nostalgia trips = a damn good time!

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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.

Episode Date
It’s All Relative Was ABC’s Attempt at a Will & Grace
Dec 18, 2024
Bob’s Burgers Gives Marshmallow a New Voice
Dec 11, 2024
It’s a Will & Grace Thanksgiving!
Nov 27, 2024
King of the Hill Accidentally Explores Muscle Gainer Subculture
Nov 20, 2024
That Girl Meets the Cross-Dressing Cops
Nov 13, 2024
Boy Meets World Does a Scream Parody
Oct 30, 2024
Bewitched Unleashes the Gay Scourge That Is Uncle Arthur
Oct 23, 2024
Karl Is the Simpsons' First Gay Friend
Oct 16, 2024
A Different World Meets a Possible Lesbian
Oct 09, 2024
The Beetlejuice Cartoon Is Weird, Gross and Very Queer
Oct 02, 2024
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Stops Being Funny to Be Gay Instead
Sep 25, 2024
The 80s Gay Fantasia That Is Jennifer Slept Here
Sep 04, 2024
How Do You Write a Sitcom About a Gay Bashing?
Aug 29, 2024
The Complete History of Leon Carp, Roseanne's Gay Nemesis
Aug 21, 2024
Green Acres Meets a Woman Named Ralph
Aug 14, 2024
Tori from Saved by the Bell Is a Lesbian Icon
Aug 07, 2024
The Gay History of Mama's Family
Jul 31, 2024
Community’s Gay Dean Is Not Actually Gay
Jul 03, 2024
Drew Carey Has a Cross-Dressing Brother Who Just Might Be Trans
Jun 26, 2024
The Associates Meets a Gay Joke It Doesn’t Like
Jun 19, 2024
How I Met Your Mother Meets a Gay Brother
Jun 12, 2024
What’s Gay About Jeopardy(!)?
May 29, 2024
Amen’s Closeted Sitcom Star Smackdown
May 22, 2024
Mary and Phyllis Date a Possible Homosexual
May 15, 2024
Facts of Life Does a Covert Gay Episode With Cousin Geri
May 08, 2024
Drawn Together Forces Xandir Out of the Closet
Apr 24, 2024
Daria Should Have Kissed Jane Instead of Tom
Apr 17, 2024
Lucy Meets a Drag Queen
Apr 10, 2024
A Queer History of SNL, Part Four: The Lost Years
Apr 03, 2024
Sex and the City Meets an Effeminate Heterosexual
Mar 13, 2024
Newhart Meets a Gay
Mar 06, 2024
Jerri Blank Is a Pansexual Sex Predator
Feb 28, 2024
Gimme a Break Transformed Into a Lesbian Perfect Strangers
Feb 21, 2024
The Simpsons Does a Riff on Lesbian Cult Classic
Feb 14, 2024
How Does a Conservative Sitcom Do a Gay Episode?
Feb 07, 2024
The Gay Origins of Mister Ed
Jan 31, 2024
Frasier Has Two Daddies
Jan 24, 2024
Sailor Moon Meets a Lesbian Couple
Jan 11, 2024
Bob’s Burgers Celebrates Christmas at a Gay Rave
Dec 22, 2023
Frank’s Place Makes Hanukkah Gay
Dec 19, 2023
Suddenly Susan Meets a Gay
Dec 13, 2023
A Queer History of SNL, Part Three: The “Not Ready for Prime Time” Era
Dec 06, 2023
Gimme a Break Meets Yet Another 80s Orphan
Nov 29, 2023
We Can Be Sad About Matthew Perry Dying and Still Think Friends Is Homophobic
Nov 21, 2023
The Complete History of George Costanza’s Homosexuality
Nov 15, 2023
The Sarah Silverman Program Has Gigantic, Orange Gays
Nov 08, 2023
Benson Literally Plays a Game With Death
Oct 31, 2023
Two Guys, a Girl and a Post-Scream Slasher Halloween
Oct 28, 2023
Family Matters Does Dracula
Oct 25, 2023
Ghosts Has a Gay Revolutionary War Ghost
Oct 18, 2023
Fine, We Will Cover Ellen’s Big Coming Out Episode
Oct 11, 2023
A Queer History of SNL, Part Two
Oct 04, 2023
A Queer History of SNL, Part One
Sep 27, 2023
Barry’s NoHo Hank Is a Great Gay Villain
Aug 22, 2023
​​Punky Brewster and Cave of Horrors
Aug 08, 2023
Golden Girls Tries to Spin Off the Neighbors Next Door
Jul 25, 2023
Moe Szyslak Is Gay for Pay
Jul 11, 2023
The Honeymooners Meet a Sexually Ambiguous Latino
Jul 05, 2023
American Dad Puts on a Play
Jun 28, 2023
Alex Mack Is a Lesbian Icon
Jun 21, 2023
The Evolution of Coming Out Episodes
Jun 14, 2023
Ranma Is a Girl Sometimes
Jun 07, 2023
Leon Carp Is Roseanne’s Gay Nemesis
May 31, 2023
Kath Thinks Kim Is Gay (American Version)
May 24, 2023
Kath Thinks Kim Is Gay (Australian Version)
May 17, 2023
Two and a Half Men Meets a Trans Man
May 10, 2023
Green Acres Meets a Woman Named Ralph
May 03, 2023
Weirdest Episode Ever: Darkwing Duck Goes to Twin Peaks
Apr 28, 2023
Bosom Buddies Never Did a Gay Episode
Apr 26, 2023
Parks & Recreation Marries Gay Penguins
Apr 19, 2023
John Goodman Played Gay on Normal, Ohio
Apr 12, 2023
Brothers Brings a Sitcom Sensibility to Gay Bashing
Apr 05, 2023
Barney Miller Protects the Rights of Gay Parents
Mar 29, 2023
Miss Piggy Is a Gay Icon
Mar 22, 2023
Weirdest Episode Ever: Lucy Gets Eaten by a Dragon
Mar 15, 2023
Weirdest Episode Ever: The Cosby Show Has a Nightmare — This Time With Muppets!
Mar 08, 2023
Night Court Did a Trans Episode, But Let’s Talk About This Episode Instead
Mar 01, 2023
Before Balki, Bronson Pinchot Played Gay on Sara
Feb 22, 2023
Golden Girls Celebrates Valentine’s Day With Gay Guys, Dick Jokes and Condoms
Feb 14, 2023
A Gay Alien Makes American Dad a Good Show
Feb 08, 2023
A Gay Alien Ruins The Flintstones
Feb 01, 2023
Kramer Gets Bullied by Mean Gays
Jan 25, 2023
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Sailor Moon
Jan 12, 2023
Weirdest Episode Ever: The Facts of Life Goes to the Twilight Zone
Dec 30, 2022
It’s a Will & Grace Christmas 2: The Revenge
Dec 21, 2022
The Goode Family Meets Two Types of Lesbians
Dec 14, 2022
We Finally Do Soap
Dec 07, 2022
Who’s the Boss? Just Basically Admits That Jonathan Is Gay
Nov 30, 2022
Wings Flies Its Gay Character Back to Nantucket
Nov 23, 2022
The Crew Was Fox’s Queer-Inclusive Alternative to Friends
Nov 16, 2022
Backdoor Pilots: Married… With Children Tries to Make the Anti-Friends
Nov 09, 2022
Weirdest Episode Ever: Dick Van Dyke vs. Space Aliens
Nov 02, 2022
The Addams Family Considers Conversion Therapy
Oct 26, 2022
Modern Family Meets a Gay Clown
Oct 19, 2022
Archie Bunker Goes to a Gay Bar
Oct 12, 2022
The Gay Pre-History of Mama's Family
Oct 05, 2022
30 Rock Questions Its Sexuality
Sep 28, 2022
Nikki Explores the Gay Side of Pro Wrestling
Sep 21, 2022
Bill Dauterive Is Gay for Pay
Sep 14, 2022
Wings Meets a Gay
Aug 24, 2022
Married With Children Lets Its Out Star Play Gay
Aug 17, 2022
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Are Domestic Partners
Aug 03, 2022
Sanford Arms Meets a Gay — And He’s Black!
Jul 27, 2022
Sanford Thinks His Son Is Gay (And Vice-Versa)
Jul 20, 2022
Al Borland Is a Model for the Modern American Gay Bear
Jun 29, 2022
The Nanny Has Bad Gaydar
Jun 22, 2022
NewsRadio Never Did a Gay Episode
Jun 15, 2022
Rosa Diaz Is Bi... And Brooklyn Nine-Nine Is Copaganda
Jun 08, 2022
Troy McClure Isn’t Gay, But…
Jun 01, 2022
Trailer 3.0
May 29, 2022
Janet from The Good Place Is a Nonbinary Icon
May 25, 2022
The 150th Episode Spectacular: Hot Takes
May 18, 2022
Coach Meets a Gay Guy
May 11, 2022
Girlfriends Hosts a Lesbian Baby Shower
May 04, 2022
Madame’s Place Was TV’s First Gay Puppet Sitcom
Apr 27, 2022
Just the Ten of Us Almost Did a Gay Episode
Apr 20, 2022
3rd Rock from the Sun Goes to a Gay Bar
Apr 13, 2022
Peggy Hill Had Sex With a Gay Guy
Apr 06, 2022
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Gargoyles
Mar 30, 2022
Oscar From The Office Comes Out
Mar 23, 2022
Gomer Pyle Writes Gay Love Letters
Mar 16, 2022
Becker Meets a Trans Woman
Mar 09, 2022
Philip J. Fry Accidentally Kills His Gay Grandpa (But Saves the Universe)
Mar 02, 2022
The Jeffersons Meet a Trans Woman
Feb 23, 2022
Ross Geller Brings Gay Panic to The Single Guy
Feb 16, 2022
I Dream of GEE-nnie
Feb 09, 2022
Happy Endings Explores Gay Subcultures
Feb 02, 2022
Rose Nylund vs. the Stigma of AIDS
Jan 26, 2022
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Jem & The Holograms
Jan 10, 2022
It’s a Will & Grace Christmas!
Dec 22, 2021
Totally Trans Talks All in the Family and Beverly LaSalle
Dec 21, 2021
Out of This World Does a Gender Swap Episode
Dec 15, 2021
Mad About You Hijacks a Coming Out Storyline
Dec 08, 2021
Empty Nest Uses the F-Slur
Dec 01, 2021
Bob Belcher Is Bi
Nov 24, 2021
Michelle Tanner Meets a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Nov 18, 2021
Smithers Has a Boyfriend (Interview with Rob and Johnny LaZebnik)
Nov 16, 2021
Jo Polniaczek Is a Lesbian Heartthrob
Nov 10, 2021
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nov 09, 2021
Paul Lynde Makes Halloween Gayer
Oct 27, 2021
Weirdest Episode Ever: The Terror of Zombie Sandy Duncan
Oct 20, 2021
Gloria Vane Is a Part of Frasier’s Queer History
Oct 13, 2021
Mr. Furley Tries to Convert Jack
Oct 06, 2021
Frasier’s Dad Is Dating Frasier’s Brother
Sep 29, 2021
The Other Two Finds a Daddy
Sep 22, 2021
Elaine Dates a Gay Guy
Sep 15, 2021
He-Man Fights a Gay Bunny-Man
Aug 17, 2021
Did Fraggle Rock Do an Episode About AIDS?
Aug 04, 2021
Marge Simpson Is a Homophobe and a Transphobe
Jun 30, 2021
Peter Griffin Becomes a Gay
Jun 23, 2021
The Naked Truth Has Two Pretend Gays (Zero Actual Gays)
Jun 16, 2021
Boy Meets World Accidentally Does a Trans Episode
Jun 09, 2021
Kate & Allie Meet a Lesbian Couple
Jun 02, 2021
Love, Sidney May Just Be the First Gay Sitcom
May 26, 2021
Family Matters Never Did a Gay Episode
May 19, 2021
Batgirl Is a Little Gay Boy’s Fantasy
May 12, 2021
Brothers May Just Be the First Gay Sitcom
May 05, 2021
Interview: Great North Writer Charlie Kelly
May 03, 2021
Bob Newhart Treats a Gay
Apr 28, 2021
The Great North’s Ham Tobin Is a Well-Rounded Gay Teen
Apr 21, 2021
Is It Transphobic? Talks King of the Hill
Apr 19, 2021
Jason Bateman Played a Gay for Five Whole Episodes
Apr 14, 2021
Liberace Hosts The Muppet Show
Apr 07, 2021
Drew and Glen Don’t Talk About Any Episode in Particular
Mar 31, 2021
Did Gayest Episode Ever Get Tony a Job on The Simpsons? (Yes, It Totally Did)
Mar 30, 2021
Rest in Peace: Phyl Petrillo, Dorothy Zbornak’s Trans Sister
Mar 24, 2021
Doogie Howser’s Best Friend Is a Homophobe
Mar 17, 2021
Al and Peg Bundy Meet a Gay Couple
Mar 10, 2021
Cybill Befriends the Gay Waiter
Mar 03, 2021
Interview: Demetrius Andre Bady
Feb 26, 2021
Moesha Meets a Gay Guy
Feb 24, 2021
Roseanne’s Friend Is a Lesbian (Later Bi)
Feb 17, 2021
Phyllis Dates a Homo
Feb 10, 2021
Patty Bouvier Has a Girlfriend + Every LGBT Joke on The Simpsons Ever
Jan 28, 2021
Frasier Dates a Gay Guy
Dec 23, 2020
Will & Jack Embrace Every Gay Stereotype
Dec 16, 2020
A.C. Slater Was Gay for Zack Morris… for Five Seconds
Dec 09, 2020
The Golden Girls Meet a Trans Man
Nov 25, 2020
ALF Never Did a Gay Episode
Nov 18, 2020
Spin City Stumps for Same-Sex Marriage
Nov 11, 2020
Jennifer Slept Here Is a Little Gay Boy’s Fantasy
Oct 28, 2020
It’s a Living Waits on a Trans Woman
Oct 21, 2020
Penelope Alvarez Is the Mother of a Queer Teenager
Oct 14, 2020
Julia Sugarbaker Dates a Possible Homosexual
Oct 07, 2020
The Dream On Guy Has a Gay Dad
Sep 30, 2020
Rachel Kisses a Lesbian
Sep 23, 2020
Diane Chambers Revisited (An Episode That Glen Can Actually Listen To)
Sep 21, 2020
Mike Seaver Actually Said the Word ‘Gay’
Sep 16, 2020
Norm Peterson Is Gay for Pay
Sep 09, 2020
In the House Made RuPaul Play a Heterosexual
Sep 02, 2020
Introducing the Shelley Longcast!
Aug 31, 2020
Finch’s Buddy Is Trans
Aug 26, 2020
Alice Dates a Homo
Aug 19, 2020
Eric Forman’s New Buddy Is a Homo
Aug 12, 2020
Trailer 2.0
Aug 08, 2020
Superstore Is Queerer Than You Think
Aug 05, 2020
Mr. Belvedere Discourages a Teen from Being Gay
Jul 29, 2020
M*A*S*H Saves a Gay
Jul 15, 2020
Roc Has a Gay Uncle
Jul 08, 2020
Too Close for Comfort Does an Episode About Male Rape
Jul 01, 2020
I Love Lucy Makes the First Gay Joke in Sitcom History
Jun 24, 2020
GEE TV
Jun 18, 2020
WKRP LGBTQ+
Jun 17, 2020
American Dad Steals a Gay Couple’s Baby
Jun 10, 2020
Herman’s Head Meets a Lesbian
Jun 03, 2020
Maude Goes to a Gay Bar
May 27, 2020
Old Christine Is Married to a Woman
May 13, 2020
Drew and Glen Rank Instrumental Sitcom Themes
May 08, 2020
What’s Gay About Scooby-Doo?
May 06, 2020
Hank Hill Goes to a Gay Rodeo
Apr 29, 2020
Night Court Has a Night With a Gay
Apr 22, 2020
Barney Miller Meets a Homo
Apr 15, 2020
Mr. Humphries Is a Poof
Apr 08, 2020
Will Smith Is Uncomfortable Playing a Gay Character Onscreen
Apr 01, 2020
The Nanny Meets a Lesbian
Mar 25, 2020
What’s Gay About Perfect Strangers?
Mar 20, 2020
Drew and Glen Answer Listener Questions
Mar 18, 2020
Glen Writes a Golden Girls
Mar 04, 2020
¿Es Joe Un Homo?
Feb 26, 2020
Frank Lambert Is Worried His Son Is a Hairdresser
Feb 19, 2020
Drew and Glen Rank the Sexiest Sitcom Dads
Feb 12, 2020
Grace’s Father-in-Law Is Gay… And Also Dead
Feb 05, 2020
Edith Bunker’s Cousin Is a Lesbian… And Also Dead
Jan 29, 2020
Susan’s Dad Had a Gay Affair With John Cheever
Jan 22, 2020
Homer Moves Into the Gayborhood
Jan 15, 2020
A Very Brady Christmas Is Gay Enough, Say Drew & Glen
Dec 18, 2019
Ross’s Lesbian Ex-Wife Gets Lesbian Married
Dec 11, 2019
Everybody Loves Raymond’s Possibly Gay Brother
Dec 04, 2019
Gayest Game Show Ever
Nov 13, 2019
Gimme a Break’s Gay Evening
Nov 06, 2019
Endora Turns Darren Into a Homo
Oct 30, 2019
Caroline’s Assistant Is a — Wait, He’s Straight?
Oct 23, 2019
Suzanne Sugarbaker Accidentally Dates a Lesbian
Oct 16, 2019
Ellen Comes Out*
Oct 09, 2019
Dinosaurs Uses Vegetarianism as a Metaphor for Homosexuality
Sep 11, 2019
The Gayest Saturday Morning Cartoon Episode Ever
Aug 28, 2019
The Golden Girls Had a Gay Live-in Cook
Aug 07, 2019
Frasier Has a Gay Dream
Jul 16, 2019
Everyone Thinks Chandler Is Gay
Jul 09, 2019
The Living Single Girls Throw a Lesbian Bridal Shower
Jul 02, 2019
Will and Jack Kiss on Live TV
Jun 25, 2019
The Gang From Taxi Meets a Bisexual
Jun 18, 2019
Interview: Glen Lakin, Hollywood Screenwriter
Jun 14, 2019
What’s Gay About Mr. Belvedere?
Jun 11, 2019
Mr. Roper Has a Gay Awakening
Jun 04, 2019
Murphy Brown Has a Gay Co-Worker
May 28, 2019
Blanche’s Homo Brother Wants to Get Gay Married
May 21, 2019
The Cartoons That Made Us Gay
May 14, 2019
Blanche’s Brother Is a Homo
May 07, 2019
Maude’s New Friend Is a Homo
Apr 30, 2019
Roy Biggins Has a Big Gay Son
Apr 23, 2019
What’s Gay About the Dick Van Dyke Show?
Apr 16, 2019
Marcy D'Arcy Has a Lesbian Cousin
Apr 09, 2019
Sanford Thinks His Son Is a Homo (and Vice Versa)
Apr 02, 2019
Joey Lawrence Has a Gay Secret Admirer
Mar 26, 2019
Peggy Hill Meets a Drag Queen
Mar 19, 2019
Rebecca Howe Suffers From Gay Blindness
Mar 12, 2019
Fresh Off the Boat Outs the Girl Next Door
Oct 15, 2018
Interview: Stan Zimmerman
Oct 01, 2018
Harley and Ivy Are Domestic Partners
Jul 30, 2018
Diane Chambers Is an LGBT Ally
May 10, 2018
Jerry and George Aren’t Gay, Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
May 03, 2018
Julia Sugarbaker Plans a Gay Funeral
Apr 26, 2018
Homer Simpson Is a Homophobe
Apr 19, 2018
Blair Warner Is a Homophobe
Apr 12, 2018
Mary and Rhoda Meet a Homo
Apr 05, 2018
Archie Bunker Meets a Homo
Mar 29, 2018
Dorothy's Friend Is a Lesbian
Mar 22, 2018
Roseanne Gets Kissed by a Lesbian
Mar 15, 2018
Frasier's Boss Is Gay
Mar 09, 2018
Trailer
Mar 02, 2018