Hi, this is Drew, and you're listening to another rerun. If you didn't know, we're going to be

running reruns of some of our more beloved episodes, beloved by us at least. And the one you're

getting today is an episode about Jennifer Slept Here, which is a sitcom. Most people didn't know

existed. And once you heard the premise, you probably didn't believe it was real.

It is real. It was the peak of bad NBC in the 80s before NBC got good and decided to make good

sitcoms again. I have a soft spot in my heart for this show because it starred in Angelian, who was an actress.

I really wasn't aware of until I started doing this podcast. And Jillian, in case you don't know, was better known as one of the leads on It's a Living, which was a show I was briefly fascinated with. I'm still fascinated with it. I still love it. But it's essentially a show about waitresses working at a restaurant at the top of the Bonavitra Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. And in many ways, it's Golden Girls before Golden Girls was Golden Girls. We did an episode about that one. I was actually fairly transphobic, that I wasn't nuts about that. And I've continued to watch It's a Living on streaming services, hoping they'll do another gay episode, but I'm getting close to the end of the last season. I don't think they did a natural gay episode. They just did that one transphobic episode,

which is a bummer. But after we did, it's a living in earnest on this podcast, we did Jennifer

slept here as our Halloween episode. In case you didn't know, it's about a ghost. Jennifer slept here

because she lived here, and then she died there.

Specifically, she was struck by an ice cream truck, and her ghost now inhabits home that's

being resided in by a suburban family, and only the son can see her.

And she guides him.

And there's literally nothing explicitly gay about this show, except for the fact that it does read

like a little gay boy's dream. And most teenage gay boys would love to have a magical

Hollywood starlet who is a ghost as a secret best friend. There's something undeniably gay about that.

If you don't agree, then I don't know why

you're listening to this podcast. Anyway, this episode was number 86. It aired during our

extremely protracted COVID season. When I think about how many episodes we did during that season,

I kind of can't believe I didn't go crazy, although maybe explains why I lost my mind now.

Anyway, one of the things I've really loved about doing a guest episode ever is teaching people about shows that they probably didn't know.

And I think this is probably the most obscure of all the ones we did alongside like Maddab's Place and the Good Family and Normal Ohio, any of which we might see in subsequent reruns.

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