Laverne & Shirley Check Into the Honeymoon Suite

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

"Honeymoon Hotel" (February 22, 1977)

You innocent TV Land watchers may not have suspected that there was anything queer about Laverne & Shirley, a show about two women who share an apartment and work at a brewery. Sure, they're boy crazy, but also there's this episode where they scam their way into a bridal suite and downtown Milwaukee's finest hotel. Here to help us unpack the sapphic undertones is the final girl herself, Stacie Ponder! Also: Ghosts! Farrah Fawcett! And Rosie O'Donnell!

Listen to Stacie's new podcast, Final Girl After Dark, as well as her watchthrough of the entire Twin Peaks franchise, The Detective and the Log Lady.

Listen to the What a Cartoon episode about Laverne & Shirley in the Army… if you dare!

Listen to the Monday Afternoon Movie episode with Natalie Lander.

And click here to watch the SNL sketch Drew mentions with Rosie O'Donnell, Penny Marshall and Whitney Houston.

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0:00.0	Shl meal, slow myzel, hoss in factored
0:03.8	Time to brush your teeth, wash your face, and say your prayers.
0:10.4	Join the army, you said.
0:13.2	The endangered pine weasel.
0:21.3	Hello and welcome to gayest, yes, our way.
0:26.5	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast on which we discuss the LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms.
0:28.4	I'm Drew Mackie.
0:29.3	This is normally where Glenn would say I'm Glenn Lakin, but Glenn is lost in a hedge maze this week.
0:33.8	The good news is that we have a special guest to fill the glen shaped hole in our lives.
0:38.1	And that person happens to be Stacey Ponder. Stacey, welcome.
0:41.1	Hi, thank you for having me. I'm wearing my Glenn skin suit.
0:45.5	Which I did not ask you to bring. That was just your own idea. Yeah, that was very surprising.
0:53.1	In a sense, this is a meetup that I've been waiting like 20 years for because I've been reading Final Girl, your blog, basically since it started.
1:01.6	Yeah, yeah, it's been, it's really weird to be able to sit down and have a conversation with you because I've read so many of your thoughts.
1:08.6	Oh, dear.
1:09.6	Thank you.
1:11.7	Thank you for then asking me to be on the show after having read all of my thoughts and knowing what you're getting into.
1:18.6	But my goodness, 20 years, that's crazy, right?
1:21.2	Yeah.
1:22.1	I wish I kept tabs on how many movies I saw because you recommended them. And sometimes it's just like an off-hand comment. I was like, well, I don't know that one. And I've seen many movies that are Stacey Ponder recommendations. I can't tell you for sure that the most recent one is Scream for Help, which I watched with Glenn, like two weeks ago. Because you actually said, like, maybe you should just watch the movie rather than listen to the podcast. And I'm like, you know what? I have a feeling this is going to be one that I'm actually going to enjoy. So I did pause it and then watched it and then went back and listened to the podcast afterwards. Oh, my heart soars. Like, that's the best thing is when somebody, when I love a movie and I'm like, please just watch this.
2:03.2	And then somebody does and, you know, hopefully they love it too.
2:07.0	But usually I will say, don't read this, don't listen to this.
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