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More Nanny, and a Little Nicktoons Sneak Peek
🕑 Added 2021-05-10 19:30:25 +0000 UTCHello Patreon friends!
I hope you had a lovely weekend. Did you got to a farmers market? You should go to a farmers market. They have radishes.
ANYWAY! I wanted to share with you some more bits and bobs that I discovered while researching my video about The Nanny, but that I wasn't able to include in the final video. And as luck would have it, members of this here Patreon (like you!) get to see those fun little tidbits; check out their sly reference to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and also the gay joke hidden away in the forgotten show that launched Fran Drescher's TV career. You can access the video here.
And! Also! I'm hard at work on a new video about queer characters on '90s animated TV shows. Big thanks to the viewers who suggested that I take a look at Rocko's Modern Life and got me sniffing down this trail!
I'm deep in the research phase now, so if you know of LGBTQ+ moments from '90s cartoons, please send them my way. I'm looking for stuff like the un-lesbianned characters from Sailor Moon; the closet-clown episode of Rocko; and even stuff that wasn't confirmed until years later, like Lexington on Gargoyles. Send me whatever comes to mind!
And thanks again for everything, friends! Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go turn all these radishes that I bought into majestic crystalline structures for Fraggles to eat.
Matt
Comments
Matt Baume
Argh, sorry that's happening! I've added a link to the text here, and I'm going to check in with Patreon to see if we can figure out why that's happening.
quarridors
Hi Matt, could you add the direct link to the video in the body of the post or in a comment? On Android clicking the video embed on this post produces a message saying the video embed code is invalid.
Matt Baume
Ahhh this is very helpful, thank you!
Billy (aka siatabiri)
Oh, Cardcaptors (maybe early '00s?) de-"gayed" a bit of the relationships, as Touya and Yukito were together pretty clearly, Tomoyo had a pretty clear crush on Sakura, and Li had a crush on Yukito while all of this was downplayed in the US version.
Billy (aka siatabiri)
Even though he was pretty confirmed as straight later on there's an episode of Angry Beavers where Norbert reveals he has always wanted to be a Lippizaner stallion. There was a reference to Randall having a Japanese husband in a... Questionable cutaway in Clerks : the Animated Series. Zoisite in Sailor Moon was originally a man, with a gay relationship with... Malachite?
