Doogie Howser’s Best Friend Is a Homophobe
Added 2021-03-12 00:24:25 +0000 UTC“Spell It M-A-N” (January 6, 1993)
You might be surprised to learn that Doogie Howser M.D. only lasted four seasons and 97 episodes, but perhaps because Neil Patrick Harris has continued to be famous ever since, the show casts a lot longer of a shadow than it might otherwise. This fourth-season episode deals with Vinnie (Max Casella) being horrified to learn that his college roommate is gay, and because NPH is himself an out gay man, it plays out a lot different today.
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Comments
Wait did he???
Drew Mackie
2021-03-14 03:43:33 +0000 UTCYears later, Neil Patrick Harris would play a character with a very different reaction to pasta puttanesca.
Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns
2021-03-14 02:50:30 +0000 UTCI *thought* there had been a woman who played Hedwig. Thanks for saving me a Google and subsequent rabbit hole.
Lea Susan Engle
2021-03-12 21:21:45 +0000 UTCThe theater man in me was thrilled with the brief Hedwig discussion! (I directed a production here in Utah in 2019) Of note, Taye Diggs, who you mentioned, was a replacement Hedwig in the same run and production that NPH originated. And the woman who played Yitzhak had a short run as Hedwig as well. The gender discussion around that show is interesting. I wish there was a way (other than Riverdale) to hear a deeper discussion of it on your cast.
Kacey Spadafora
2021-03-12 19:12:17 +0000 UTCSuch a great discussion about the boundaries of the sitcom genre. For what it's worth, I never thought of it as a sitcom, rather as a half-hour medical dramedy. It certainly has humorous elements, but I'd argue that it lacks the jokes and it spends more time on the dramatic elements than the comedic ones, but that varies by episode. I shared your surprise that "Doogie" had 4 seasons-- when I discovered that fact, many, many years later. It premiered during my sophomore year in high school and I was a big fan. But by about a month or two into the second season, it dropped off my radar for the most part. I didn't discover his later adventures or the conclusion of his character arc until it was streaming on Hulu. As happened many times with other shows over the years, it was as if I assumed that the show had simply ended because I was no longer interested in watching it. In my mind I'd always pair this show with "Life Goes On," as they both premiered in the fall of 1989. But that show certainly hasn't had the same staying power.
VeeAaaRrr
2021-03-12 18:16:22 +0000 UTCI watched this with my family and remember my mom telling me to stop talking because I was distracting her from Doogie's slow typing. I was almost nine when it premiered and ended up liking it and had NPH pictures on my wall from BOP and Tiger Beat. Many happy memories. THEN I decided to rewatch it last year, and was shocked at the weird, gross, uncomfortable, stat-rape storyline IN THE PREMIERE. It was so bizarre. An elaborate prank to give a kid a boner and undress him while adults watch. What??
Lea Susan Engle
2021-03-12 09:53:14 +0000 UTC
