God this show was great, even if / especially because sometimes it became a live action cartoon. Sadly, it has never been released on DVD. I don’t even know if re-runs are still running.
If you preferred the opening with “5 O’Clock World” by The Vogues, I got you fam:
Edit: How could I forget about the original Moon Over Parma
As you say, it wasn’t.
The Carey who wore drag was Steve (until they dropped it in later seasons for no reason)
It’s possible Drew did drag in an episode I don’t recall at present, but he didn’t even do drag in the Rocky Horror episode (content warning: donald trump is in that episode)
And they were surprisingly progressive about it, too. I don’t remember exactly how the scene went down, but I remember it being more or less something like this:
And that was it except for a “telling the parents” episode, I believe.
I need to rewatch the series before "10-4"ing that (at the very least the fact that what should be a major part of someone’s self conception was treated as a thing which could be dropped without issue or comment is troubling.)
Totally remember when Oswald got boobs though. That sort of thing plants some seeds, I tell ya. (“If you had a hand on your head we’d want to shake it.”)
Drew’s character also got civil union’d before anyone in his country could get gay married as I recall, but again I’ll need to rewatch how that was handled prior commenting.
I do remember taking issue with some of the social structures reinforced in some of the show’s humor, such as Drew looking up the definition of sexual harassment, " ‘Any unwelcome sexual advance.’? that’s every sexual advance I make!" I viewed that more as making light of sexual harassment than self-depreciation on Drew’s part.
I don’t personally care for Drew Carey—the sort of asshole who supports Ron Paul—and haven’t since he told a joke in 2003, “My girlfriend’s a Democrat; well… she hasn’t actually come out as a Democrat but she’s always bitching.” despite allegedly being critical of the united states invasion of Iraq himself.
Some of the company he keeps I fuck with so heavily it’s not like I’m calling on his canceling. He’s just that friend you wish would be a better person (and stop voting for Garry Johnson).
I’ve been watching it again, I had the impression Steve stopped doing drag cause he married Mimi and whatever reasons came up from that.
Yeah, I think that might have been the implication, but they still should have addressed how first off that’s a fucked thing to ask of someone and if they went that way they should have at least addressed how it was a very big deal for Steve to make that adjustment for her and not just dropped that aspect of the character in later seasons. In addition to questioning why Mimi had a problem with it.
It put out in the viewing audience how you can just request Queer people quit doing queer things and they can or should respond with “Okie!”` .