Green Acres Meets a Woman Named Ralph
Gayest Episode Ever
Gayest Episode Ever
4.8 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
This is a summer rerun of an episode that originally went live in May 2023. It's good even if you think you don't care about Green Acres, we swear!
"What's in a Name?" (February 16, 1966)
On a show all about the zany inhabitants of Hooterville, Ralph Monroe (Mary Grace Canfield) stands out because the most unusual thing about her is her name. She works as a carpenter and dresses for her work, but that name alone is enough that most Hootervillians don't know what pronoun to use for her. As we discuss with special guest Josh Trujillo, Ralph is not a trans character, but this episode about her seeking a new name so she can get married, offers enough to qualify her as interesting enough to merit her own episode of this podcast… darling.
Since this episode originally went life, Josh's book, WASHINGTON'S GAY GENERAL, went on sale. GO BUY IT!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Drew with yet another summer rerun. Unless you missed the announcement, |
| 0:05.3 | summer reruns is when I repackage episodes that for one reason or another didn't do so well. |
| 0:10.9 | And usually, I assume it's my fault because of the way it ended up on the feed made people say, |
| 0:17.0 | I don't want to listen to that. In this case, the episode you're about to hear is our first episode with Gus, Josh Trujillo, and it's about Green Acres. I think it's a really good episode. Unfortunately, when it first went on the feed, I gave it the title Green Acres never did a gay episode, which is technically true. But as I said, with the previous summary run, when a show doesn't do a gay episode, it doesn't mean we're not |
| 0:38.6 | talking about gay stuff. A lot of times we're talking about how certain characters or certain |
| 0:43.5 | situations fit a gay theme, but the episode just falls short of doing anything that qualifies |
| 0:49.0 | is arguably gay. In this case, our conversation centered around a female character |
| 0:53.2 | named Ralph. |
| 0:59.1 | And that is a really interesting prospect, considering the time period that Green Acres was airing. |
| 1:08.3 | And in this episode, Ralph does an interesting job of demonstrating a desire to perform femininity, but like also an inability to perform femininity. |
| 1:12.3 | And I think there's a lot of interesting conversations to have about this person regarding them being possibly non-binary or gender non-conforming or just maybe |
| 1:19.7 | gender fluid. There's interesting things going on here. So I'm putting it back on the feed with a |
| 1:24.5 | more interesting title, which is Green Acres meets a woman named Ralph, which I think gets to the point a lot better. Again, I think it's my fault. It didn't do well the first time out of the gate because I titled it something that was not appealing. I don't think it was Josh Trujillo's fault. Oh, you're about to listen to the episode. Maybe listen to the episode and tell me if you think that maybe it was Josh's fault. I'm open to that interpretation as well. Anyway, in other news, |
| 1:48.4 | the follow-up to last week's Save by the Bell episode, which was not a summary rerun in case you |
| 1:52.5 | missed it, is now live on both Patreon and Apple Podcasts. It is Glenn and I talking about the |
| 1:58.4 | Save by the Bell Saturday morning cartoon preview special |
| 2:00.9 | and also doing a little quick history of Saturday morning cartoon preview specials in general, |
| 2:06.2 | which is a weirder and older form of television than you might expect. |
| 2:12.4 | Pretty nice little talk there available on the least expensive tiers on both Patreon and Google Podcasts. |
| 2:18.8 | So go check that out if you want a little bit more from us. |
| 2:22.0 | Roll that rerun. |
| 2:24.4 | Someone is going to be very lucky marrying a lady carpenter who can fix things around the house. |
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