72: Superstore Is Queerer Than You Think

“Gender Reveal” (April 12, 2018)

This week, Glen and Drew are joined by Karen Tongson, chair of the Gender and Sexuality Studies department at USC and the co-host of the Gen X pop culture podcast Waiting to X-Hale. We asked Karen what show she’d most like to discuss, and she chose Superstore, the current NBC ensemble comedy. Not only does it have a queer Asian lead character, but as Karen points out, there’s a lot of ambient queerness on the show, in addition to one of the more diverse casts on a sitcom today.

Watch Smack the Pony, the all-female British sketch comedy show Drew is always trying to get you to watch.

Lauren Ash’s performance as Scorpia on the new She-Ra is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

The phenomenon of melon babies, however, is decidedly not wonderful.

The episode’s outro track is “Baby on Fire” by Ottomix and P.K. Seigel. (Apple Music / Spotify / Amazon Music)