That Girl Meets the Cross-Dressing Cops

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

"A Muggy Day in Central Park" (November 14, 1968)

A contemporary of Bewitched, That Girl aimed for a more sophisticated audience than most sitcoms of its era. Not only does it look more cinematic, in a way that sitcoms generally wouldn't until the 2000s, but it's also more clearly a feminist show, where Marlo Thomas plays a woman braving big city life on her own. This episode does that tired thing where gay men, cross-dressers, trans woman and drag queens are conflated down to a single thing, but it's nonetheless interesting to see how a progressive show handles queer things fairly explicitly in the 1960s.

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0:00.0	Make room for daddy!
0:07.0	In a land where the river runs free.
0:27.1	Isn't Danny Thomas one?
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to gayest episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBTQ episodes of classics atcoms. I'm Drew Mackey.
0:37.2	I'm a future fugitive of this nation. I'm Glenn Lakin. When we last left you, it was two weeks ago and we were saying that we wouldn't know what would happen on the other side of the election. And here we are and it sucks. If I can be perfectly honest, it seems a little trite to be talking about old sitcoms. Yeah, I hate it. I'm here against my will. At the same time, our whole point is that sitcoms are more meaningful than they might initially seem. So without dwelling on politics, too much I wanted to give this an honest effort and maybe find ways that the episode we're talking about demonstrates how change is possible, however impossible it might seem at the moment. Yes. Are we trying to be hopeful?
1:12.2	Yes.
1:12.8	Oh, good.
1:13.2	We don't really have a choice. Glenn, what TV show are we talking about this week? That girl. That is correct. Long awaited perhaps by me and me alone. But I promise this will be a good listen, even if this is a show that you have not encountered before. I think we're going to call this one,
1:26.9	that girl thinks all gay men are cross-dressers?
1:29.6	Sure.
1:30.3	I think that're going to call this one, that girl thinks all gay men are cross-dressers. Sure. I think, I think that might be one of the other. That's a long, that's a long title. Well, but we can revisit it later. That girl encounters drag. I mean, it is that, but she's not encountering performer. She thinks she's encountering like a lifestyle.
1:45.0	Yeah, I guess.
1:45.4	She's encountering like a lifestyle.
1:47.1	We'll get into that.
1:48.0	Have you ever experienced this show before watching this episode?
1:50.7	No, aside from the family guy spoofing.
1:54.3	Didn't they?
1:55.1	Family Gunn' The Simpsons both.
1:56.7	So family guy famously, Peter's wearing the same outfits as her.
2:02.0	And in the opening to that girl, she see her like skittering around Manhattan.
2:07.5	And she sees a mannequin that looks just like her in a store window.
2:11.9	And then the mannequin winks at her.
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