My Two Dads Can't Escape the Gayness of Its Title

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

"The Family in Question" (May 9, 1988)

It might seem like a joke today, that a show called My Two Dads is about two very hetero bachelors. But don't let that stop you from appreciating My Two Dads for being a smarter, funnier version of Full House. They debuted the same week, and unlike Full House, My Two Dads actually acknowledges that gay people exist. In this episode, the judge who awarded them custody of their daughter is persecuted in the press as being an activist judicial who is changing the definition of a family.

Read the New York Times piece from 2022 that finally outed Ed Koch.

Listen to the Bad Gays episode about Larry Kramer, which also discusses Ed Koch.

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0:00.0	You can count on me
0:04.0	No matter what you do
0:06.0	Charles in charge of our days
0:10.0	And our night
0:12.0	You'll be easy but you have to play
0:16.0	The head is that you do
0:19.0	You're not dreaming it It's among dreamers.
0:23.1	You can count on me. No matter where you go, you can't help on me.
0:30.8	And talk show mainstay, Dr. Joyce Brothers.
0:33.3	I brought my own mic.
0:35.5	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT episodes of classic sitcoms. I'm Drew Mackey. I'm Glenn Lakin. And Glenn, what TV show are we at long last discussing this week? My two gays. Try it again. My two dads. Common misconception. That's right. We are finally doing this series that people have been asking us to do for a long time, not because it's a gay show, but because it sounds gay and it seems like you should be very close to what we do on this podcast.
1:02.5	In another time, it would have been a gay show. As this episode indicates, it probably should have been a gay show. And it was something it was on the minds of the people who made it, even if they were taking pains to remind us that it is not a gay show. It is kind of inconceivable now to think back that there was a sitcom called My Two Dads, that it was not about a gay couple. But yes, just as Full House was about three swinging bachelors co-parenting in San Francisco, but none of them are gay. My two dads is about two single straight men who live together and co-parent a young daughter. In Soho. In Soho. By the way, how much time do you think there was between the premiere of Full House and the premiere of the show? Two days. It was the same week. Yeah. Which is why I think next week we're going to do a special.
1:47.7	Okay.
1:48.5	On the 80s trend of sitcoms where children are being raised by non-standard parents
1:54.2	because it comes up a lot.
1:55.6	And I think there is a specific reason why this is happening.
1:58.3	And it's not why people think.
1:59.9	So stay tuned for that. different sort of episode from us.
2:02.9	Speaking as someone who was alive, though, when the show was on the air, and remembers when
2:06.5	you just wouldn't see gay characters on TV, much less on a family show, it does still
2:10.2	seem weird to me now that it was called My Two Dads, and they're just straight, and they
2:15.0	keep telling us they're straight.
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