Are They Lesbians?
I saw 1 episode are they lesbians
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They pretended to be in one episode, but aren't really.
shareI remember reading an interview with Curtin several years after the show ended, and she said something about how the network "chickened out" and put them in separate beds, but that she always assumed they were a couple. Or something like that.
So, it might be like the title character in "All About Eve", where the studio made the director remove everything in the script that revealed Eve's lesbianism, and he only managed to sneak in one hint at the end with the girl who visits Eve. This is discussed on the commentary track.
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"If Curtin really did say that, my guess is she was joking. Both Kate and Allie were married before, both dated men during the series and Allie got re-married toward the end of the series. "
This hardly qualifies them for not being lesbians, or bisexual. However, you're right in one thing--they both went out with men. If they were a "couple," why would they be going out with anyone, of either sex? Jane Curtin probably found the question just about as stupid as the people who continually as if characters are gay all the time on the IMDB boards.
Trust me, guys, if a character is gay, it's not going to be something you have to spend more than about two seconds trying to figure out. It's not one of those things that somewhere during the fifth episode of the ninth season, you're watching a show and suddenly say "Hey! She's a lesbian!"
I remember that episode. Their landlord, a woman in her sixties, threatens to make one of them leave under the terms of the lease, so they say that they're a couple. The landlord immediately runs upstairs and produces... her female partner.
Kate and Allie try to play along when the landlord and her partner get them involved in the "mature lesbian" social scene, but realize that they can't keep it up. I remember - I have to paraphrase here - an exchange between Kate and Allie -
"We have to tell them."
"I know."
"You know, I really like them."
"So do I."
They tell them, there are hurt feelings, but as K & A point out, they did it so as not to be split up. And, after all, "Who are you to say who family should be?" The episode closed with Kate and Allie, firmly straight but not narrow, dancing arm-in-arm at the dance to which their landlord and her partner - their friends - had taken them.
Probably one of the best gay-themed episodes of a network show I've ever seen.
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So just because two women move in together it makes them Lesbians? Grow up.
I've had a pain in the a$$ for the past 45 years! You got any soup for that?
I've had a pain in the a$$ for the past 45 years! You got any soup for that?
Great sig. Seeing as one of Frank's highlights was Marie's cooking, I'd say, "kind of ''yes'" to his question. (Well, it was more of a zing.) Plus, as Robert said, "that stuff will grow back a lung." Great EBLR episode. share
I never watched this show when it was on, but I saw it for the first time yesterday. I saw a little bit of a lesbian feel about the two women. It was quite obvious, but they didn't want to toss it in your face.
sharelol, like the episode where they went to marriage counsling
shareIf they were gay, and married to eachother. in what way would that have changed the plot of the show, and would it have lasted as long as it did?
That's something I've always wondered.
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It wouldn't have made it because just like today people are not tolerant.
I believe they had a mutual feeling but it could not be done on tv in that time. Maybe today tho.
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They were just best friends.Known each other for years.Alot of hedro sexuel woman move in together.Just because people (Two women,two men,a man and a woman,a homosexuel man or woman sharing a place with the same sex) doesnt mean thier got romantic feelings for each other
shareThis is a remarkable subject. With a war goin on etc, it is certainly worth discussing.
Sure they are lezbians.
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Wow, what burning ctiticism. You missed your calling !
Who said anything about 'terrosists' winning? There are a few wars going on in the world. Maybe you are a terrosist ! So, do you think they are Lesbians and what if one ran for congress and her sexual preference came out and .......? Nah lets stick to the catering business. Say in the Attic, Alex its safe there.
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This is such a dumb argument and people said the same thing about The Odd Couple too. No, they were not lesbians.
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would that be the amount of times they whent down to the laurndry room to to "talk".
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IF the show were remade today it'd most likely be done with them expressly a couple
as it was made in the 80s they were very clearly straight BFFs sharing the home to save money