254: My Two Dads Can’t Escape the Gayness of Its Title

“The Family in Question” (May 9, 1988)

It might seem like a joke today, that a show called My Two Dads is about two very hetero bachelors. But don’t let that stop you from appreciating My Two Dads for being a smarter, funnier version of Full House. They debuted the same week, and unlike Full House, My Two Dads actually acknowledges that gay people exist. In this episode, the judge who awarded them custody of their daughter is persecuted in the press as being an activist judicial who is changing the definition of a family.

Read the New York Times piece from 2022 that finally outed Ed Koch.

Listen to the Bad Gays episode about Larry Kramer, which also discusses Ed Koch.

Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan.