41: Everybody Loves Raymond’s Possibly Gay Brother

“What’s With Robert?” (January 10, 2000)

Drew had never seen an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond before Glen pulled a gun on him and forced him to watch this one. To Drew’s surprise, this ostensibly family-friendly CBS sitcom handles gay panic a lot more thoughtfully than other shows of the era, even if it hinged around the ridiculous proposition that a man as tall as Brad Garrett might be homosexual.

Watch Being Frank, that movie Glen wrote, either on DVD or on digital.

Listen to Underbelly L.A., the new TableCakes podcast about crime and L.A. history.

Also listen to Fruitbowl, Dave Quantic’s oral history of gay sex.

This episode’s outro track is Hawai, by a band that is apparently also called Hawai.