Sex! Murder! Cults! Nymphomaniacs! Ninjas! Demon babies! Aliens! The sitcom Soap, which ran from 1977 to 1981, managed to parody just about every soap opera trope at some point in its run.
Not surprisingly, it often proved controversial. And like a juicy soap opera, that controversy made for some extremely surprising bedfellows — especially when it came to one of the show’s most divisive elements, the gay character.
Billy Crystal played Jodie, the gay son of one of the show’s main characters. And in the summer of 1977, the character caused a nationwide outcry. On one side were anti-gay activists, hellbent on wrestling control of the airwaves away from
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