I saw the last part of an interesting show tonight. It would haven't been that interesting except that it's Valentine's Day. The show was Wheel of Fortune. Instead of the usual contestants, there there were three groups of two: two female couples and one male couple. I was immediately impressed to see that television had come so far as to have a Valentine's Day program of gay couples. Then I realized the name of the event was "Best Teen Friends." Hmmm. One wonders if that was the original intent of the show. Or did the sponsors chicken out at the last minute and say, "We can't have a gay Valentine's Show. Call it 'Teen Best Friends.' Nobody will notice." Perhaps it was show featuring teens and their best friends, but why would the producers have such a show on the year's most romantic occasion? And why did the couples seem so eager to hug more enthusiastically than they did? And what super-straight guy is going to tell his friends, "Todd and I are going on Wheel of Fortune on Valentine's Day?" There's more to this story, don't you think? I hope so because it might mean a very important breakthrough for commercial television.
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