Electric love

Electric love

Lifting up the screen of the night

Look down, feel around

Do what I do to goodbye

Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBTQ episodes of classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackey. I'm Glenn Lakin. Glenn, what TV series are we discussing this week? Boob's Burgers. That is correct. It is an episode of Bob's Burgers that just aired a few weeks ago. Oh, I didn't know. Is that recent? Yeah, it was like the first episode in November. And we're covering it because I think it was a lovely piece of TV.

And it showed how a long-winning series can make amends by changing a character,

changing the way a character works on a show in a very positive way.

This is not the episode we were planning to do this week.

If you've been keeping count of episodes, you might be expecting we would have done something else. And we built the episode that we postponed. Got it. So we're still doing that. That was a scheduling thing where. It was my fault. Well, we have to have, like, it's not an episode I can do without you. And it's also an episode we have to have a guest for. And this particular guest and Glenn just couldn't find a day that week. So we're going to do this episode and said as our season finale. So in lieu of a Christmas episode, it'll be doing this episode. It'll be a good way to say goodbye to 2024. Goodbye forever. In broad strokes, Glenn, what did you think of this, Popper Burgers? I thought it was very sweet. It was nice to mix of sweet and funny. In a way that I think, like, King of the Hill can do a mix of sweet and funny, but I feel like not many other animated sitcoms can pull off the sincerity. Like, the Simpsons might have early on, but I feel like the Simpsons can't quite land something like this now.

Well, I think what Bob's Burgers does successfully the way that Early Simpsons,

well, actually Mid-Simpsons did is they really fleshed out the community.

Like, I love King of the Hill, obviously, and the cast expanded as the series went,

but there aren't a lot of side characters in the town.

I could just name off the top of my head.

But Bob's Burgers has quite a few.

Simpsons really did flesh out a big cast of characters, and this is the show giving

a moment to marshmallow who's been recurring on the show and then disappeared from the show

for a number of years and then comes back in a good way.

And it is like worth comparing to marshmallow's evolution the way that they evolved Apu on the Simpsons,

where Apu was initially a bit character and sort of a joke character.

And then for whatever reason the writers liked writing him and people like seeing him.

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