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Brothers (US) :: Donald's Air Force Blues (02x17)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Donald's Air Force Blues |
| Episode #: | 02x17 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday October 02nd, 1985 |
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Episode Summary |
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Four of the Air Force pilots Donald served with in Vietnam are in town for an air show. Donald wrestles with whether to tell his buddies he's gay.
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Donald: (seeing Cliff dressed exactly like him) Imposter! I am the rightful queen of Philadelphia!
| Joe: What is is with women? Take away their uniforms and what would they be?
Penny and Kelly: Naked.
| Donald: It's shopping time, Clifford. Let's make like the Spanish Inquisition and hit the racks.
| Cliff: What do you call it when a homosexual's not sure he's gay anymore?
Lou: A light at the end of the tunnel.
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Episode Goofs |
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The Air Force flyers are thought to be Blue Angels; however, the Blue Angels are not the Air Force's precision flyers. The Blue Angels are Navy flyers (the Air Force's precision flying team is called the Thunderbirds).
| Ed's hair is too long to be military regulation.
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Cultural References |
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Donald: Fine. We'll tell them we're Spin and Marty.
Spin and Marty was a TV series. It was originally seen as a segment of The Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s.
| Lou: What is Fire Island?
Cliff: It's sort of a gay national park.
Fire Island is a national seashore in New York. Two areas of the seashore are considered vacation spots for gays.
| Lou: Oh, Don-Don! Is it true you ain't a fag no more?
Donald: Sure, and the Osmonds are doing Oh! Calcutta!.
Oh! Calcutta! was a ground-breaking sex play in the early 1970s. The Osmonds, a family of Mormons, are known for their clean-cut reputation.
| Donald: How did you know I was gay?
Shelley: Because you knew all the lyrics in Pajama Game.
The Pajama Game was a Broadway play that ran from 1954 to 1956. It won three Tony Awards in 1955, including one for Best Musical. The original play featured John Raitt (father of Bonnie Raitt). A movie version of the play, starring Raitt and Doris Day, was released in 1957. Famous songs from the play include "Hey There" (a #1 hit for Rosemary Clooney, a version of which was heard in the episode I Remember Papa) and "Hernando's Hideaway." The 2006 Broadway version starred Harry Connick Jr. and won a Best Revival Tony.
| Lou: As Harry Belafonte once said, "Here come da banana boat."
A reference to "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)", Harry Belafonte's best-known song, a #5 hit from 1957.
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Donald was a lieutenant in the Air Force.
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