Childhood activities are revisited on tonight's Modern Family after Manny discovers he's a natural at fencing and Mitchell remembers ice skating with his sister.
But first, we've got a double soap day as The Young and the Restless makes a return to the Queerview and Noah starts filming on As the World Turns. Be sure to join us for an ATWT liveblog starting at 2PM Eastern!
The Young and the Restless (CBS) Check local listings
It's been a while since we've seen Phillip deal in a major scene but today we're supposed to start seeing more of Phillip for the next few weeks, as today Chance finally lets out some of the angry words he's been holding back.
As the World Turns (CBS) Check local listings
As Noah begins to start working on his student film, Luke gets back to worrying that Mason is using the project to undermine their relationship.
Mercy (NBC) 8:00 PM EST
While there's no sign of gay nurse Angel will get to do more than crack a couple jokes as a conversation passes him by in tonight's episode, I figure some gay viewers will be interested that Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss will be a part of the story.
Elisabeth Moss in tonight's Mercy
Modern Family (ABC) 9:00 PM EST
So far, we've seen a number of relationships within the Pritchett family explored but one glaring omission so far has been siblings Mitchell and Claire. I'm hoping revisiting the their childhood skating activities as "Fire and Nice" gives us a chance to explore their relationship.
Top Chef All Stars Dinner (Bravo) 10:00 PM EST
As the Vegas season heads towards the finale, Bravo revisits the series' past by catching up with some of the cheftestants from earlier series including Dale Levitski and Hung Huynh from the Miami season.
Chelsea Lately (E!) 11:00 PM EST
Ross Mathews returns to the panel tonight as Valerie Bertinelli chats with Chelsea.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS) 12:35 PM EST
Tonight Stephen Fry will be chatting with Craig. Two lively, smart and very funny guys talking, this should be fun. Hopefully, his recent Twitter ruckus will come up.
Daytime Preview for Thursday, November 5
That Morning Show (E!) 6:00 AM EST
Gay-fave Tori Spelling is scheduled to stop by.
The Bonnie Hunt Show (syndicated) Check local listings
Nate Berkus will be visiting Bonnie today.
The View (ABC) Check local listings
This could be interesting. Sir Ian McKellen is on Thursday's guest list which probably means the View ladies will be discussing The Prisoner.
As the World Turns (CBS) Check local listings
Luke's suspicions about Mason as he starts pointing fingers and screaming "J'accuse!" Okay, maybe he only goes that far in my imagination.
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Mitchell and Claire have
Glee?
Does it return tonight?
Next week, unfortunately...
Tonight the schedule promises a World Series game but if there wasn't a game tonight we'd be getting a repeat of "Mash-Up"
young restless gay phillip
No...
oh thanks Anthony for clearign that part up
South Park
I Love South Park
Even when they don't convince me, they always show that they've really thought about the issue, not just parroted convenient politics.
(Although I think tackling the "that's gay" issue would have been more topical than "fag.")
The gist of the argument I got from last night, taking away the various jokes, is that A) people are going to call each other bad names, B) stopping the next generation from viewing "fag" (or, assumably, gay) as a generic insult instead of a sexuality issue is a lost cause, especially because "fag" has always been a fluid word), so C) gay people should accept the inevitability and move our efforts to emphasizing the distinction.
It's not one of their stronger arguments. I don't think the other usages are as separate from anti-gay sentiment as they believe, any more than telling a man to "stop acting like a bitch" is free of misogyny. And certainly, you can't just abruptly decide that a word isn't going to have emotional sting any more. (Although I suppose deciding that it SHOULDN'T have emotional sting is the first step in that direction.)
I think the part of the argument that carried the most weight for me is the inevitability of the new ways the words are used. I've been in a number of battles over word usage, sometimes liking the new word or usage, sometimes not. But *every single time*, the new usage won out. I suspect trying to convince the younger generation that "gay" and "fag" don't mean what every single person their age that they know uses it to mean may be a lost cause. At least until the terms go the way of Phat and gnarly.