Mr. Belvedere Meets a Kid With AIDS
Gayest Episode Ever
Gayest Episode Ever
4.8 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
"Wesley's Friend" (January 31, 1986)
Yes, it's this episode. If you've seen any bit of it, it's probably the one line delivered by the focus character, and while we will admit it's a major groaner, it's not representative of this whole episode. No, this is a Mr. Belvedere "very special episode" that has its heart in the right place and which mostly lands well all these years later.
This is our second Mr. Belvedere outing, and yes, the first one really is about Mr. Belvedere discouraging a teenager from being gay.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a grand life. |
| 0:02.0 | It's a grand life. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a grand life. |
| 0:13.0 | The |
| 0:14.0 | City gonna need and I heard the call. |
| 0:20.0 | There were a man for the job in the city hall |
| 0:22.0 | There were lots of people who are putting him down |
| 0:24.1 | For the shorts of style |
| 0:25.2 | He took the crown. |
| 0:26.6 | He's no mayor |
| 0:28.1 | I just might live a good life yet |
| 0:31.8 | Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever |
| 0:34.8 | The podcast where we discuss the LGBT |
| 0:36.5 | Episodes of Classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. Glenn, what TV show are we talking about for the third time today? Mr. Belvedere, I can't remember. I remember one of them. I don't remember the other one. I remember the ballet dancer. The one where Mr. Belvedere discourages a teenage boy from being gay. We did an early one because we thought there was no way to talk about Mr. Belvedere. So we did like the prehistory of Mr. Belvedere, which I'll recap here. But we didn't think there was an episode to do and then somehow we figured out there is this episode. Well, we knew about this episode. I think we just didn't want to do it too early in our run. I knew about this episode. The episode we're talking about today. Yeah. I meant the discourages from me. Yeah. So this is not a gay episode. This is a follow-up to something that we started right after Betty White died. We wanted to talk about a Rose-centric Golden Girls, and we ended up doing |
| 1:30.1 | the one where Rose takes an AIDS test because it's a really good showcase for Rose being |
| 1:37.2 | something other than a punchline, and Betty White gets to do some real good acting. And we had the |
| 1:41.1 | intention of doing more AIDS-HIV-themed episodes. We just didn't. |
| 1:46.3 | So this is the first time we're actually returning to that and doing a second AIDS-themed episode. |
| 1:51.0 | Which in the 80s and 90s were how a lot of sitcoms chose to discuss the topic through the lens |
| 1:58.2 | of straight people. Yeah. So, I mean, that's worth talking about because it is rare that we get an AIDS theme episode |
| 2:06.8 | that has gay characters dealing with it. |
| 2:11.0 | And there's sort of a lot to unpack there. |
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