Hi, this is Drew, and I'm recording this in 100 degree weather, which is not fun, but that

means regardless if Labor Day has come and gone, we are still very much in summer, and you're

still getting summer reruns. I think you're going to get one more of these after this one,

and then we will be coming back with regular new episodes, the first one coming the second to last week of September

on the Patreon feed and the last week of September on the main feed. So look forward to that.

And then we'll be in regular production probably until Election Day when we've historically

taken that day off. This is a gay podcast, but it's also a TV history podcast. And one of the

things I really like about doing this is teaching people about how great sitcoms are and how they

did help change American attitudes towards LGBTQ people, but also how terrible sitcoms can be.

Sometimes they can be really, really bad.

And even when they are really, really bad, I still do love them.

And that's why I'm representing our episode about Jennifer Slept here.

This is a one-season wonder that starred, Anne Gillian, who I love dearly as an actress.

She's not really put to great use here. But she plays the ghost of a dead Hollywood starlet who is

haunting a home and only the son of the family can see her. And our take on it is that it

sort of plays out like a little gay boy's fantasy that he has an imaginary best friend who

is a dead Hollywood starlet. This show doesn't really mind as much as they possibly could out of this concept, but it is

very representative of the time when the standards for sitcoms were much lower, and that's

both a beautiful and a terrible thing.

We love Jennifer slept here, but we're the first ones to admit that it's a dopey concept

that didn't

work, even when people weren't expecting much of sitcoms. America said no to the ghost of a woman

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