Oh Grow Up: Short-Lived, Underrated and Gay

“Clods and Monsters” (October 27, 1999)

Whelp, here it is: the final time this podcast is ever going to teach you about a short-lived show that you maybe never heard of.

In the grand scheme of 90s sitcoms about attractive people living in New York, ABC’s Oh Grow Up might seem like an also-ran. However, John Ducey’s Ford managed to be a more rounded gay character than most of its longer-lived contemporaries gave us in much longer runs. He comes out, he questions his place in the gay scene and he gets laid. What’s more, he very much seems like a prototype for the gay lead in Alan Ball’s follow-up TV project, Six Feet Under.

Episode artwork by Ian O’Phelan.