Fired Up Had the Best Gay Character on Must See TV

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

"Truth and Consequences" (September 29, 1997)

Though it didn't even get a chance to finish out its second season, Fired Up was one of the rare Must See TV sitcoms to feature two female leads. What's more, the recurring gay character, Shannon (played by Mark Davis), is unusual in that he's out, confident and going about his life in a way you just didn't see on other NBC shows of this era. What's even odder is that his traditionally masculine dad (Jonathan Banks) loves his son and supports his career as a drag performer. Can we thank Arleen Sorkin for this?

See the photo of Mark Davis looking hunky as hell here.

See all the episodes of Fired Up – including the ones that didn't air on NBC — on archive.org.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:02.0	Hello and welcome
0:06.0	But to roll a life's waiting
0:08.0	Thank God for a friend like you
0:12.0	You're not alone
0:15.0	MUTTY TV
0:17.0	It's Thursday
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast on which we discuss the LGBT
0:24.1	episodes of classic sitcoms, but also sometimes also rants from the must-cTV era.
0:28.5	I'm Drew Mackie.
0:29.3	I'm Glenn Lakin.
0:30.2	Glenn, what overlooks sitcom are we discussing today?
0:32.8	Well, Drew, we're discussing Fired Up, and I am fired up to talk about it.
0:38.0	It's a great intro.
0:38.8	That's very good.
0:40.3	So you obviously remember the show.
0:42.4	I do remember the show.
0:44.0	I love this show.
0:45.7	Why?
0:46.6	I don't know.
0:47.6	There was just something about tuning in to this show with really no context for like really any of these people,
0:57.6	this concept, and just kind of being like very charmed and wowed by like the,
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