SBG 135: Death Becomes Her

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4.7 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that hates Gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn as Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp at Ernest’s funeral? This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out and talk about why the 1992 satirical body horror-comedy Death Becomes Her Should’ve Been Gay. Although not everything in this film ages well (that fat suit was 100% not okay), the overall campiness and pure diva star power of Meryl and Goldie sharing the screen make this a must-watch in our books. Death Becomes Her feels like a love letter for every sapphic who never got over that one really intense love/hate homoerotic friendship they had growing up. From the beginning, the entire plot revolves around Helen’s overwhelming obsession with Madeline. It has been 7 years, and all Helen has thought about every single day is Madeline. While it may seem at first glance like the obsession is one-sided, Madeline clearly loves playing the games and entertaining the stalking just as much as Helen. Why is she only going after men who have literally been inside Helen? She’s being SO loud. In a wonderfully anti-BYG way, instead of Madeline or Helen dying in their eventual attempts to kill each other, they both live thanks to each having consumed a mysterious immortality potion. Though their bodies are horrifically wrecked and require a lot of maintenance not to look as dead as they are, the two have essentially bound themselves together for eternity. They go directly from hating each other to U-Hauling in the blink of an eye. By the time we see them attend Ernest’s funeral at the end of the film, Madeline and Helen are openly acting like an old married couple. We know one thing for sure, Death Becomes Her Should’ve Been Gay. You can support Lez Hang Out while unlocking a bunch of exclusive perks including access to our Discord channel, 23 and counting full-length bonus episodes, weekly ad-free episodes, and more by joining us on Patreon. You can also support the podcast by buying our original merch at bit.ly/lezmerch and purchasing our original Lez-ssentials songs for as little as $1 each on Bandcamp. Give us your own answers to our Q & Gay on Twitter @lezhangoutpod and follow along on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You can find your fav tol and smol hosts Ellie & Leigh at @elliebrigida and @lshfoster respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's hang out.
0:02.5	Let's hang out.
0:03.4	And let's talk about what lessons are found.
0:06.0	Let's hang out.
0:06.9	And let's listen to two heads me and shout.
0:09.6	Let's hang out.
0:14.2	Hey, everyone.
0:15.2	Welcome back to Les Hang Out.
0:16.2	I'm Mali Bridgeta.
0:17.5	And I'm Lee Holmes Foster, and here's what's happening this week.
0:20.4	This week in the Lesdom is a place where we can touch base each episode about things
0:28.0	going around with the podcast or otherwise. In season eight, we are still releasing Patreon
0:31.3	bonus episodes, and you can listen to those at bit.ly slash Les Patreon. We have 23 episodes
0:36.3	currently up. Also, we want to remind you that we are planning our next trip. We are going to be going to
0:41.0	France. And details are up on our website right now. So you should head to leshangoutpod.com
0:47.0	to check out the details about where we're going and when we're going so that you can start
0:52.2	planning your French excursion with us.
0:54.9	In the greater Les universe, Joy Bihar on The View, had a bit of a chaotic moment which
1:00.6	when does and she? And outed one of her co-hosts on The View, not great, Joy.
1:05.4	How do you accidentally do that? That's crazy.
1:07.7	Basically, somebody was talking about something. You're just like, oh, are you going to talk about
1:10.3	that lesbian relationship you had at Smith College? And Sarah Haynes, who's like the other host, was like, no, I wasn't. And, like, that was something I told you off air.
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