It's been a loooong time since I have seen the show and I was pretty young when it was on. What's the call?
shareOf course, otherwise he'd have been gettin busy with the Rush sisters.
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I doubt it, I think he was just supposed to be an idiot. Granted I too was young, but somehow I don't think a gay character would have gone over well in those days. If he was I figure it was one of those things they kept quiet about.
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He actually did not seem gay on the show. Maybe in real life. YOu guys watch too much tv or look too much into things that aren't really there. Do you guys also watch gay shows like 7th heaven and Dawson's creek. I sure don't.
shareOkay, Starships-1 - you're crazy. Listen, I loved this show and YES - you could tell that in real life Jim J was a homosexual. Just like on Who's The Boss it was clear that the little boy (came out as a teenager) was 'off' and it rubbed off into his acting. Like Seinfeld, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that I'm just saying ... it is what it is.
As for the show, there's an episode where he's going to marry Lisa so she can stay in the country but also because he loves her. She tells him he's very special and she knows that he loves her but isn't 'in love' with her.
The E True Hollywood Story points out that Jim J and Ted Knight were great friends but Ted kinda 'looked the other way' and didn't want to believe. The Lisa story was a way to help his character throw off the hounds, but his lack of acting ability allowed us to all see through the facade and know he was gay. Keep in mind, in the original series Monroe was introduced as a nice young man who was infatuated with the blond daughter - then friend - then friend of the family.
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I would have to go back and watch all six season, but on the first season Monroe was not gay. He was infatuated with Sara. He followed her around like a puppy. Later in that season he hooked up with the sister of the old guy who lived in the apartement were Ted's daughters lived. He was not gay at least early on but maybe came out later in the series but that does not jive with the story of how his character was introduced.
shareIn other words, Ted Knight ran the show and his show wasn't about to have an openly gay regular - so Monroe was represented as a very nice young man, innocent to a fault.
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From what I heard, Ted Knight had no idea Bullock was gay in real life, and was stunned to learn he was.
So, to sum it up in legal terminology: Get lost, you bum.
Wasn't he molested by a bunch of women at some point?
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"Love means never having to say you're ugly." - the Abominable Dr. Phibes
You kids were not old enough to remember but throughout the entire run of the show monroe was never gay nor was he introduced as being gay. He was introduced as being retarded or weird. BIG DIFFERENCE. He added the comic relief that this bland show needed. When is Season 3 coming out on DVD, we're all dying to see it.
shareHe wasn't introduced as being retarded! He might have been simple, like a Gilligan-type.
(BTW I'm 39 yrs old)
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"Love means never having to say you're ugly." - the Abominable Dr. Phibes
But, you understand my point, he was not introduced as gay just some sort of idiot.
shareThere was an episode in the first or second season where Monroe and Ted are trapped in a room or soemthing of that nature, and Monroe tells Ted that he has been seeing a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist said he may be gay.
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I don't recall an episode like that I think you are confusing Too Close for comfort for Three's company which was also shown right after that on FOX I think.
shareWell there was definitely SOMETHING wrong with him on that show.
yeah, he was suppose to be WEIRD or something
shareWhen this show came out in 1980 I was only 8 years old at the time so I did not know anything about a person being gay. I am not 35 years old and when I would see J.M. J Bullock I knew he was gay by the way he acted and he admitted that he was gay as well.
I do think his character Monroe was suppose to play a bumbling idiot like Gilligan did on Gilligan's Isle. He did make the show very funny you know.
Why did you the show took place in SF? There was not a single episode where he was featured with a female in heterosexual setting. I think it was implicit in the show that Monroe had another part of his life (hitting gay bars or whatever gays do) that was not shown on the show.
shareMonroe had a girlfriend in the final season. The Rushes hired a Latina housekeeper who inexplicably likes Monroe.
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Monroe was innocent and moronic. Look at the way Henry treated him with annoyance at his goofiness. There was even an episode where Monroe got assertive training and he started to hit on Sarah, so obviously he wasnt gay. Theres too much narrowness in focal point.
shareThe same way "Boner" was not "gay" on Growing Pains, Monroe was not on the series.
It may not have been explicit as such but it was pretty obvious to me that he was "gay" or "queer" and i was only a little kid when the show came on, but look at the facts that he always hung around these two hot sisters and i don't ever remember him hitting or making a move on either one of them and Ted's character always seemed annoyed and repulsed by him and since he was "conservative" on the show you could put two and two together.
Also in three's company Jack was supposed to be gay so he could live with two females but he was always bringing girls home and flirting with his roomates.
And of course that too had an older male who lived in the same building who was annoyed with Jack.
Since the shows are so similar it can hardly be a coincidence.
Monroe was NOT "gay"...the character Monroe continually expressed interest in women, right up until the final season where he fell for Mexi-maid. He was interested in women, but Monroe was just too bumbly, awkward, naive and insecure to do anything about it...
The problem is that the actor who PLAYED Monroe didn't do all that great a job of hiding his gayness. I watched this show when I was in the 2nd-3rd grade and I admit I had a crush on Monroe because I thought his awkward ways were endearing and thought if only he had straightened up his posture...maybe I shouldn't say "straightened" lol. Perhaps I should say if Monroe were to stop slouching, wringing his hands & looking meek, he could be a very handsome dude. I was jealous of Mexi-maid and thought it was her fault the two of them had no chemistry... but then again, all of these were observations that occurred before I knew what gay even was.
Now that I'm grown and am catching up on the reruns, I can TOTALLY see it. It's not hate, it's stating the obvious. His gayness showed through even while playing a straight character who liked girls. What was interpreted as naivety towards women was really disinterest and it's as plain as day to me now. The awkwardness towards women however WAS real and was only genuine element he projected into the character lol. Sorry, Mexi-maid! I can see it really wasn't you!