The Associates Meets a Gay Joke It Doesn't Like

Gayest Episode Ever

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

"The Censors," (April 10, 1980)

James L. Brooks followed up the hit Taxi with another workplace ensemble that skewed decidedly fancier: The Associates featured a young and unknown Martin Short among a group of fresh hires at a Wall Street law firm. The show didn't work and is almost forgotten today. But its second-to-last episode did feature a trip to the Hollywood set of a sitcom where a producer battles an overzealous censor. There's a gay sublot, but the overall story is a cautionary tale that applies to people making TV today just as much as it did four decades ago

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0:00.0	You got money.
0:03.0	You should be feeling fine.
0:06.0	But do you know like their attitude?
0:11.0	I'm a big bird now.
0:18.0	Get Christy love. Get Christy love Get Christy love
0:23.5	The Wall Street blue
0:28.2	Yes, those young lawyers
0:32.2	Hello and welcome to
0:36.3	Gayest Episode ever, the podcast where we discuss the LGBT
0:39.3	episodes of classic sitcoms and sometimes forgotten one season wonders that you've never
0:43.4	heard of despite the fact that they feature a lot of major Hollywood talent.
0:46.5	I'm Drew Mackie.
0:47.3	I'm Glenn Lakin.
0:48.4	Glenn, what beloved TV series are we discussing today?
0:51.2	The Associates.
0:53.0	I'm willing to bet that few of our listeners have heard of this show and even few
0:57.6	have actually watched it.
0:59.2	Have we talked about it?
1:00.4	We talked about it during Mary Tyler Moore because of the James L. Brooks connection.
1:05.5	And I had expressed a desire to get into more Brooks's TV history between Mary Tyler Moore and The Simpsons.
1:12.3	Have you read his new biography?
1:13.9	I haven't.
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