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Gayest Episode Ever

Drew Carey Has a Cross-Dressing Brother Who Just Might Be Trans

Gayest Episode Ever

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8568 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

"Drew's Brother" (November 19, 1997) 

We finally did it! We not only found the perfect guest for this episode — writer, performer and UCB alum Joan Ford — but we also got the chance to tell the world that The Drew Carey Show deserves to live it. It's not only the most successful Friends clone but also the only one that sustained a whole series about working class young people. And in its third season, it introduced Drew's brother Steve (John Caroll Lynch) who is a cross-dresser who might just be a transwoman. What's more, the show pairs Steve off with Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney), who is dragtastic and deserving of queer icon status in her own right.

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0:00.0

Sorry, Kenny, your drag is old, our drag is new.

0:10.0

Moon over, Parma, bring my love to me tonight.

0:16.0

All this energy calling me back where it comes from.

0:42.7

Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms, including some shows that I've wanted to talk about for years

0:46.5

and we're just now getting the chance.

0:47.9

I'm Drew Mackie.

0:48.7

I'm Glenn Lakin.

0:49.6

And today we are discussing the Drew Carey show.

0:51.6

And I'm not only excited because my name is also Drew, but also because we have a first-time guest, comedy writer, writer, performer, Joan Ford. Hello. Hello. Hi, guys. Thanks for having me. I think I told you this the last time you did a podcast with me, but I think you have a strong name in that I always want to say the first and last name together. I get that a lot. Yeah. It just sounds, it just sounds right.

1:12.0

I don't know why, but that's what most people just want to do the full thing.

1:15.6

And I allow it.

1:18.0

Let's get John Ford on the phone.

1:19.8

You have a career that I think the podcast listeners, our podcast listeners, will think is really interesting because the three most recent completed things

1:28.6

on your resume are Thundercatch Roar, DC superhero girls, and Tiny Tunes Lunaversity.

1:33.5

Yes, yes.

1:34.1

There's some like little things in between that, but those are the three big ones as of late.

1:38.6

We are, we are a nostalgia podcast, and those three items seem to be very thoroughly soaked in

1:42.7

nostalgia and also updating nostalgia

1:44.3

for today. Yeah, yeah. Each one kind of gave its own little spin on what the property was

1:51.5

and is and, you know, some more appreciated than others. But yeah, RIP Thundercat Roar. RIP

1:57.7

Thundercats Roar, wherever it exists. I don't know if it's accessible at all anymore.

2:02.9

For a while, you could get it on. You could pay like $199 per episode on Amazon, and now I don't even know what's on there. I think I bought the episode that has Mandora. Is that her name? Yes, yeah, Mandora, the evil chaser. Yeah, because we did Mandora for, We have a Patreon podcast called Cartoons that Made Us Gay, and we did the Mandor episode.

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