Small Wonder Celebrated an 80s Kid Who Was Different
Gayest Episode Ever
Gayest Episode Ever
4.8 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
"The Neighbors" (September 14, 1985)
"Victor / Vicki-toria" (February 14, 1987)
"The Bad Seed" (November 7, 1987)
Ignore whatever you might have heard about Small Wonder and focus instead on how the show spotlighted Vicki (a.k.a. V.I.C.I), a kid who was labeled as different just for acting the only way she knew. As a result of being defiantly resistant to social norms, Vicki has become iconic to all sorts of 80s kids also failed to fit in, and in this episode, we'll make the argument for the ways she speaks to queer audiences. Tiffany Brissette, you should have been a star.
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| 0:00.0 | She's a small wonder |
| 0:05.0 | She's stonautom |
| 0:07.0 | She's stonastic made of plastic Living in a real world |
| 0:24.6 | Chikili pe chickle |
| 0:26.6 | She's the small wonder |
| 0:32.6 | brings love and laughter |
| 0:36.6 | everywhere brings love and laughter everywhere. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT |
| 0:46.4 | episodes of classic sitcoms, but although sometimes we bend the rules to find a way to discuss |
| 0:50.5 | pop culture of securities that no one a few years older or younger than us will have |
| 0:53.5 | even ever heard of. I'm Drew Mackie. I'm Glenn Lakin. Glenn, what are we discussing |
| 0:58.0 | that we can be fairly sure that no other podcasts will be discussing this week? I'm actually, |
| 1:02.5 | oh, this week. I'm not certain that people don't, aren't clamoring to discuss this, but we are |
| 1:08.3 | finally, finally, finally talking about Small Wonder. |
| 1:12.8 | Is it weird that it took us this long to get to Small Wonder? |
| 1:16.9 | Yes. |
| 1:18.0 | I would have loved to have had it in the first season of the show, which was only 10 episodes. |
| 1:21.7 | Ten episodes that are like specifically about like definitely gay episodes. |
| 1:26.8 | Yes. |
| 1:27.4 | As opposed to what we're talking about today, which is like one of the loosest interpretations of queer representation I think we've ever done. |
| 1:36.0 | But yes, it's loose. |
| 1:38.0 | But I argue that Vicky, the robot, is actually kind of a role model for little gay kids? |
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