Not Just Bugs Bunny in Drag! (Seven Very Gay Looney Tunes Shorts)

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

It may not be news to listeners of this podcast, but the Looney Tunes cartoons can be very gay. In celebration of the nearly 800 shorts being hosted on Tubi, Drew, Glen and returning guest Tony Rodriguez look at some of our favorites that also lend themselves to a queer reading. And no, it's not all Bugs Bunny in Drag. In fact, we probably didn't pick the drag moments you're expecting. But no worries: There is zero Tweety content in this episode.

(The search function on the desktop version of Tubi sucks, so you will have to settle for mostly non-Tubi links. Oh well, we tried.)

1. To Hare Is Human: https://archive.org/details/to-hare-is-human

2. Ride Him, Bosko https://archive.org/details/reb11452

3. Hare Trimmed: https://archive.org/details/hare-trimmed-1953-restored

4. Two Gophers from Texas: https://vimeo.com/1074846138

5. What's Up, Doc?: https://vimeo.com/75457120

6. I Love to Singa: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200243359/s01-e08-mr-mrs-is-the-name-i-love-to-singa-porky-of-the-northwoods

7. Hillbilly Hare: https://archive.org/details/looney.-tunes.-s-1950-e-19.-hillbilly.-hare.-720p.-blu-ray.h-264.-aac-ma-g-chamele-0n

Transcript

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0:00.0	I gotta sing cause I'm gay, gotta sing when I feel this way.
0:19.5	And oh what heights will hit?
0:23.2	On with the show, this is it.
0:26.3	Hello, and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast in which we discuss the LGBT
0:34.4	episodes of classic sitcoms, but also sometimes classic animated shorts. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. And joining us for our special episode is the closest person we know to a cartoon, Tony Rodriguez. Wow. Thank you. Thank you both for having me back. It's definitely a compliment. I will take that as a very high compliment. You should. Can I say something before we jump into this?
0:55.5	Can we stop you? Yeah, it would be stupid to say no.
0:56.9	You could just take it out of the podcast, but you're not going to stop me from doing this now.
1:02.2	I got to sing because I'm gay.
1:06.0	I don't think what I feel this way.
1:09.8	We just lost half our audience.
1:12.6	All right.
1:13.2	So now I'm going to have to edit this episode to put that clip at the beginning so people know what you're making fun of because otherwise we're not talking about that clip.
1:19.1	To my song, I'm going to say, because I'm going.
1:45.4	That's it. That's what the world to know. I regret giving you coffee. I told you to give him decath. I don't know why you thought that was a joke. Oh, okay, I feel so much better now. Today we are discussing Warner Bros. Cartoon, specifically the shorts that are considered part of either Looney Tunes or Merry Melodies.
1:53.7	Yes, there is a difference. No, it does not matter. The reason we're doing this is that very recently, to be inherited most of these shorts.
1:57.7	Like hundreds and hundreds of these shorts. They were cast away from HBO Max.
2:18.7	Thank you, David Zaslov. Yeah, because it's, they don't want people to appreciate this stuff they just own and they took it away for no apparent reason. But To Be at least is one of the handful of repositories that we have for unwanted TV. And now they're all there. I'm going to link in the show notes to where you can watch these on TV. I think there's one that's actually not on 2B. I'll give you a link to somewhere else.
2:19.3	You can watch it though.
2:35.9	But one, there's one short that's not on 2B? I think so. So it's not everything. It's not. I tried looking for that Dracula one and it wasn't... There's the other problem with Tooby is that things are not necessarily organized in a way that's easy to find.
2:35.4	You kind of have to know what you're looking for. I search for the exact short title.
2:41.0	Is Transylvania 6, 5,000? Yeah. Yeah. Which we're not talking about, but people should still watch
2:45.8	anyway. There's some sort of body transformation in there that I guess we could argue if we
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