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Gee...two homophobic jokes in first 15 minutes...


I forgot this show premiered practically THIRTY YEARS AGO!

In the pilot, Gary's turned off by the lesbian phone installer and makes multiple disparaging cracks about her....then he's worried his best male friend is fantasizing about Jackie Robinson instead of Jackie Bisset.

OMG...how HYSTERICAL!! .HahahahahahahahahahahaHA (not)

I wonder if this attitude becomes a regular feature in the show...or (hopefully) it was just a tasteless blip.



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How dare you criticize It's Garry Shandling's Show...

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I realize I'm "storming the castle walls" with this brazen accusation. Yet we cannot rewrite history!

Go ahead....cast your homophobic slurs. Just like your precious Shandling!!

Clearly he is a monster. The devil himself.

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Well he does seem in an awfully bad mood (like... all the time) lately...

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When was it ever implied that the phone installer was a lesbian? She may have been a bit butch, but that was it. And the jokes about her had nothing at all to do with lesbianism, I think you're searching for something to be upset about.

And the Jackie Robinson joke wasn't any more of a gay joke than any other joke in the show. Jerry Seinfeld was right, it's going to get to the point where no comedian can make any joke without it being over-analyzed and twisted around until it becomes a supposedly racist or homophobic or sexist or ageist joke.

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Sadly, it's already at that point.

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is there a difference between prediction, subtle encouragement, and manipulation/prophecy-creating?

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All humor is subjective, some of it can be tasteless. Or inaccurate, "South Park" being an example...

But wouldn't it be like all weird and funny if some gay people laughed at gay jokes like how fat people laugh at fat jokes and other groups of people laugh at jokes aimed at their own selves? That happens, more often than when people think. It's hard, in the industry, to tailor scripts to every demographic without managing to upset everybody at some point.

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I finally saw the episode you're referring to.

Is it heterophobic if a show about two gay guys discussing men they'd want to be with say "I want Jackie Robinson but not Jackie O"? The scene you refer to is as homophobic as this response is heterophobic (which it is not). Diversity is accepting shows about straight people exist as much as gay people do and vice-versa. I didn't take the scene in any other way than a guy indirectly saying his own personal preferences, which are okay for him to have, and it doesn't mean he's phobic of other lifestlyes just because his own are different.

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Big deal, troll. You're right, we can't rewrite history to make every sitcom politically correct and thus, acceptable in today's crybaby world. And frankly, that's a good thing. If you can't laugh at yourself, that's your problem, not the rest of ours. Stick to your modern day dribble if you find older stuff too distasteful.

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