Ambiguously Gay Characters on old sitcoms!- Page 3

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:26pm

Wasn't Lassie actually played by a male dog...gets you to thinking doesn't it?

also Miles Silverberg or Jim Dial or any other guy on Murphy Brown

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:29pm

Yes.. Lassie was a drag queen.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:32pm

Ah, Buddy on Family... *sighs with nostalgic pleasure*

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:33pm

Bert and Ernie
Big Bird
Elmo

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:34pm

Isn't Elmo a preschooler?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:36pm

oh please.. like you haven't seen a kid in preschool that you KNOW is gonna grow up into a screaming queen or raging dyke.

besides.. elmo is in his late 20s-early 30s.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:39pm

Did Florence on The Jeffersons EVER have a date? Sumpin goin' on there...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:43pm

Florence and Weezy were going at it - how do you think she kept her job when she never did any work?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:51pm

and with a voice and walk like she had, we KNOW that Weey was the top.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 4:56pm

I always thought Flat Florence looked at Weezy's ample breasts a little too much... I dismissed it as jealousy

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:05pm

And what about Ponch and whatsisname on CHiPS? Did they have girlfriends? Did they ever get laid?

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:18pm

they were too busy admiring each other's nightsticks

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:21pm

Anyone see the CHiPS where all these kids were getting head trauma from too much breakdancing. I vividly remember Estrada's line.."It's not dancing, John, it's an ILLNESS!"

[TGIF]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:30pm

"Wasn't Lassie actually played by a male dog...gets you to thinking doesn't it?"

Haha. Yes all the Lassies were males, but that was because they shed much less than the females.

[MaTakeALookAtMe]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:38pm

wait a minute...there was more than one lassie? This just gets worse and worse..

my fragile childhood memories have been shattered...

what about the male housekeeper guy on my Three sons?

[TGIF]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 5:57pm

Wasn't there around 5 different series of the show?

[Mamie]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 7:58pm

Niles the butler on The Nanny. In fact, there seems to be a trend here among house servants...

[Jon]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 8:03pm

Elmo is a Friend of Dorothy - literally. His best friend is his pet goldfish named Dorothy. Coincidence? I think not!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/19/04 at 8:22pm

Folks, to nitpick: I must assert that the only bonafide "out" gay gent in Mayberry was the task-master John, the skinny choir director. Anyone else remember him? He was the town "artiste" who never thought anyone sang well enough, had sufficiet commitment, and had those impossibly high standards that all gay people have and no one could come close to meeting in that sleepy burg.

He was vivid in the episode when Barney is dubbed by a backstage voice, and my own favorite, the Miss Mayberry pageant when Aunt Bea almost replaces her friend Clara. I clearly know too much about all of this, don't I? It's frightening.