Bonus Video! A Jared Leto jump-scare from before he was famous

I'm sure you are aware already, but I was late getting to this video and cannot open it. I'm getting a warning saying that the video contains content from SESAC. Figured I'd post something in case others are gett8ng it too. Searched here and in discord, but didn't see anything on it.

"Hello welcome to the party! Marta - Marla was it?" "It's Cheryl." 😂 this tickles me

Sexy voice

So, fun fact, this week was the 30th anniversary of ER's premiere! ER is my comfort show (and if you want an incredible retrospective podcast with queer creators and viewpoints, check out Setting The Tone: An ER Podcast) so seeing this bonus video was super fun! There's actually a lot of queer content throughout ER, including, as Trevor mentioned, Laura Innes's character of Dr. Kerry Weaver. In the first season there's actually a very humanizing (for 1994) episode where one of the main patients is a Black trans woman. And honestly? ER continues to do a lot of queer-focused content throughout the series. Because it was the mid-90s, there's also a LOT of groundbreaking content around HIV. It may be a LOT (331 episodes over 15 seasons!) but I HIGHLY recommend ER as a show that did really well (for its time) with queer content.

One more thing... the competent doctor (played by Laura Innis) is Dr. Kerry Weaver, whose was a pretty ground breaking Queer character in her own right. She comes out as a lesbian in the 7th season after falling in love with the staff psychiatrist (played by Elizabeth Mitchell - who was Juliet on "Lost"). She later enters into a relationship with a firefighter, Sandy, (played by Lisa Vidal) which occurs over several seasons and was one of the most visible gay relationships on network TV at that time. They have a child in the 9th season, making it one of the first network shows to prominently highlight a lesbian couple parenting.... before Sandy is killed in the 10th season (because gays could just never have a "happily ever after" in the late 90s early 2000s). Her death starts a courtcase arc with Kerry fighting it out for custody of her son with Sandy's parents. Kerry wins, and she eventually leaves the show in the 13th season with her son, a new job offer, and a new love interest. So, maybe she did get her happily ever after in the end...

Jared Leto has gone pretty much full parody at this point in his career, but no matter how many weird Mobius-type career choices he makes, nothing can ever overshadow his work in Requiem for a Dream. He was simply riveting. I was glad that I could turn you onto that ER episode episode Matt. Looking back at it now, it is indeed a tiny, inconsequential storyline. For me then though, seeing it as a mostly closeted teen who was terrified to say I'm gay to an adult, it was literally everything. I came out to a teacher a few months after watching this episode, and it was on my mind when I did it. Sometimes it is the smallest bit of representation that makes all the difference. The desk manager, Jerry in the show was played by Abraham Benrubi. I missed seeing him in Wings, but I did see him in a show that he filmed at the same time called "Parker Lewis Can't Lose". That the was the first "grown up" show that my parents let me watch, and while it was a blatant rip-off of "Ferris Bueller's Day off", I remember loving that show so freaking much, and particular Abraham's character on it. The fact that he was a supporting character on ER was actually why I started watching it, and obviously, I'm glad I did.

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