Facts of Life Does a Covert Gay Episode With Cousin Geri

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

"Cousin Geri" (December 24, 1980)

Fun game for listeners: Take a shot every time Drew mentions the phrase "gigantic bitch" in connection with Lisa Welchel's Blair, who is in rare form this episode as she shuns her disabled cousin Geri for reasons that aren't the ones you're probably assuming. In this discussion, we bring up why Geri Jewell is a trailblazer as far as being queer and also one other thing and also why "actress recurring on Deadwood" is lowkey code for lesbian.

Erin Fletcher, we want you back for that Saved by the Bell episode.

Follow: GEE on Facebook • GEE's Facebook Group • GEE on Twitter • GEE on Instagram • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter

Listen: Apple Podcasts • Spotify • Google Podcasts • Himalaya • TuneIn

And yes, we do have an official website! We even have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal. Our logo was designed by Rob Wilson. This episode's art was designed by Ian O'Phelan.

This is a TableCakes podcast.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and there you have, the facts of life, the facts of life.
0:10.0	When the boys you used to hate you date, I guess you best investigate, the facts of life, gotta get them right.
0:18.0	There's a time you gotta go and show you grow and now you know about the facts of life
0:23.6	The facts of life
0:25.6	When the world never cease
0:29.6	To be leaving up to your dreams
0:33.6	It's time you started finding out what everything is all about
0:38.3	We're all about you
0:41.3	You
0:43.3	All about you
0:45.3	All about you
0:50.3	It takes a lot to get all right
0:53.3	When you're learning the facts of life
0:57.5	Learned the facts of life
1:01.0	Hello and the facts of life
1:05.0	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever
1:09.9	The podcast where we discuss the LGBT-focused episodes of classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. This week, we are once again returning to the halls of the Eastland School to discuss the facts of life, which we've talked about a lot more than I thought we would have on this podcast. Three times? Four times. Oh. Yeah. I forgot him. Oh, yeah. Two regular episodes and then weirdest episode and backdoor pilots both. Yes, that's yes. But our sixth ever episode of this show was about Facts of Life, our guest was Steve Yockey, and we talked about how Blair is a monster, which is going to be a major theme in this episode. A homophobic monster? A homophobic monster. poetic monster and also like she's a gigantic bitch and like i have in my notes probably a dozen times
1:47.6	Blair is a gigantic bitch, because that really could have been the name of the show, honestly. They didn't know when they were cast. Now she's a misunderstood gigantic bitch. Yes. Yes. I mean, she still gets to be that. We'll talk about the specific way in which she's a homophobic bitch in that first. The pilot to Facts of Life, the first episode we ever get of the show. And then I thought that was going to be our only episode that we do of Facts of Life because when we started this podcast, the idea was we would do explicitly gay episodes. And that one comes pretty close. And they never really talked about homosexuality on the show, but her bullying of poor Cindy is about as close as you get. And then
2:22.8	listener Aaron Fletcher wrote in and convinced me that we should do the episode that introduces
2:27.4	Joe because it would allow us to talk about the Blair Joe dynamic. And that was really
2:31.7	interesting. And it's actually one of our better listen to episodes we've ever done because people
2:35.9	love to read about the shipping of Blair and Joe.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gayest Episode Ever, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gayest Episode Ever and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.