129: Mad About You Hijacks a Coming Out Storyline

“Ovulation Day” (January 7, 1996)

Mad About You was one of NBC’s major sitcoms in the 90s, but it hasn’t left a legacy the way many of its Must See TV mates have. We talk about why in this episode, which is actually the part one of a two-part crossover with the queer film podcast A Piece of Pie, where we’re also discussing Helen Hunt’s Oscar-winning turn in 1997’s As Good as It Gets.

As of the posting of this early Patreon episode, the corresponding A Piece of Pie episode is not yet live, but as soon as it is we will post the link here.

Subscribe to A Piece of Pie on Apple Podcasts and follow them on Twitter.

Read the New York Times’ write-up on the history of the show.

Read the Vulture piece on how Mad About You defied categorization.

Watch Helen Hunt do PCP and then jump through a plate glass window in the after school special Desperate Lives (which is actually not the angel dust movie, which is called Angel Dusted and which is also entertaining).

Finally, here is the Lincoln Center performance of Twelfth Night starring Helen Hunt.

Episode artwork designed by Ian O’Phelan.