Karl Is the Simpsons' First Gay Friend
Gayest Episode Ever
Gayest Episode Ever
4.8 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
"Simpson and Delilah" (October 18, 1990)
Not only the earliest gay-themed Simpsons episode we've ever done, this one is also the first gay-themed episode The Simpsons ever did. And while the enigmatic Karl doesn't get to be explicitly gay, we argue whether having a gay-coded character might have been the show's way to — in its second season and at the height of Simpsons mania — signal to grown-ups that no, despite the t-shirts, this was not a show for kids and it could operate at a higher level. But how many adults watching TV in 1990 knew who Harvey Fierstein was?
Remember when I did a supercut of all the LGBTQ jokes on The Simpsons? It still lives, even if you have to go to YouTube to watch it now for stupid homophobic reasons. It has 3.7 million views so far! I just think that's neat!
Also listen to the most recent Talking Simpsons take on this episode here.
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| 0:00.0 | A |
| 0:02.0 | SINC |
| 0:03.0 | SELF |
| 0:04.0 | SIN MAH MAH MAH M I'm... |
| 0:17.0 | ...p... |
| 0:18.0 | ...the... |
| 0:19.0 | ...the... |
| 0:20.0 | ...the... |
| 0:21.0 | ...the... |
| 0:22.0 | ...the... Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT |
| 0:36.0 | episodes of classics sitcoms. I'm Dreamacky. I'm Glenn Lakin. |
| 0:39.9 | Glenn, what little known cult favorite TV series are we discussing this week? |
| 0:43.2 | It's a little show called The Simpsons. Perhaps people have heard of it. This is our |
| 0:48.7 | ninth episode about The Simpsons. It's also the earliest episode we've covered and |
| 0:54.0 | we'll ever really cover. Of The Simpsons. Of the Simpsons. This's also the earliest episode we've covered and we'll ever really cover. |
| 0:55.1 | Of the Simpsons. Of the Simpsons. This is the first gay episode. Simpson and Delilah, season two, episode two, which I always, when I hear that title, I always think it's the one where, I always think it's the one with Homer and Princess Kashmir, but it's not. It's a Samson and Delilah reference. because Samson had hair |
| 1:12.2 | Which made him strong, yes. |
| 1:14.0 | This is the one where Homer But it's not... It's a Samson and Delilah reference. Because Samson had hair that was... |
| 1:12.3 | Which made him strong, yes. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes. |
| 1:14.2 | This is the one where Homer grows hair, but also gets a gay assistant named Carl with a K, as opposed |
| 1:19.8 | to Carl with a C, which is confusing because Carl's also kind of gay, but... |
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