Exclusive: Disney Channel Breaks New Ground with Good Luck Charlie Episode (Gay Couple)

TV Guide ^ | June 20, 2013 | Michael Schneider

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In a first for the Disney Channel, next season an episode of Good Luck Charlie will feature a family with two moms.

Producers are currently casting the couple, with production set for next week. The episode will air in early 2014 as part of Good Luck Charlie's final season. Because Good Luck Charlie is coming to a close, the characters are only expected to appear in this one episode.

In the storyline, parents Amy and Bob Duncan (Leigh-Allyn Baker and Eric Allan Kramer) set up a playdate for preschooler Charlie (Mia Talerico) and one of her new friends. When the kid arrives, the Duncans learn that Charlie's pal has two moms. That's fine, but the potential new friendship is put to the test as one mom chats with Amy, and the other is stuck listening to Bob's dull stories.

The playdate is actually the secondary story in the episode, as much of the action will center on Teddy (Bridgit Mendler) and her best friend Ivy, as Ivy prepares to head off to college.

But Disney Channel understands the groundbreaking nature of featuring a same-sex couple on one of its sitcoms and took extra care in crafting the episode. "This particular storyline was developed under the consultancy of child development experts and community advisors," a Disney Channel spokesperson says. "Like all Disney Channel programming, it was developed to be relevant to kids and families around the world and to reflect themes of diversity and inclusiveness."

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Walt is rolling in his grave. That's what I am talking about when they say that redefining marriage won't affect Christians. It will and does. It affects businesses who are opposed to those relationships. It affects children who are deprived of a mother and father. It affects children who in the schools are taught about homosexual sex and homosexual relationships. It now affects children watching a TV show on a kids' channel. When you say that homosexual relationships and "marriages" are no different from a moral standpoint (moral relativity in action), then these relationships have to be taught as though they're equal and portrayed as though they're equal. No one can object without being called discriminatory, a homophobe, a bigot, and whatever other insult the libs can think up.

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Ping!

[Finatic]

bummer, my kid watches is and so far its been a pretty good, family friendly show. guess we arent watching the final season in my house.

[ConservativeInPA]

I am glad my kids were guided to intellectual programming with real violence like I had when I was a kid.

[RginTN]

Children can’t be children anymore with sickos imposing on them adult sexual issues. Parents, relatives have to monitor childrens tv. Sad.

[DoughtyOne]

Disney has become so family Fiendly.

[DoughtyOne]

Not only that, but you have to watch the whole show before allowing your kid to watch it. These kids shows are sometimes so juvenile it’s excruciating to watch them if you’re an adult. And once the show has aired, how do you let the kid watch it then?

Unless the network replays it, the kid is out of luck, and the adult watched for nothing.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Better to just shut off the television then, buy DVDs of Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry.

[petitfour]

Bye bye, Charlie! Not that we watch it anymore. But it was a decent and funny show.

And hubby was ordering up cable for the Fall so he could watch college football. I just told him I have no interest in funding Disney or its sister stations such as ESPN.

[ejonesie22]

“This particular storyline was developed under the consultancy of child development experts and community advisors”

Well I know I feel better...

[DoughtyOne]

Frankly, and sadly, yes.

I noticed some bad stuff creeping in to the Saturday morning cartoons too when my kids were young about 30 years ago.

It was Leftist bilge, and was not necessary. They just couldn’t take a pass on spinning things in the children’s programming to blur issues.

[DoughtyOne]

BTW: I should clarify that I didn’t mean to imply Disney was doing it on the Saturday morning shows.

[Mastador1]

Like I said in a early post I don’t let my Grandson watch anything on the Disney channels unless I check it first. Almost all of their “kids” shows are assinine or teach kids to be disrespectful and the use of twenty somethings to play the part of young teens is ludicrous. These shows are not “Disney” they are indoctrination.

[wastoute]

My wife is getting frustrated with me. She likes to watch at least one show in the evening to wind down. At the first queer reference I get up and leave. I will not take it anymore.

[GOP Poet]

I am glad my kids were guided to intellectual programming with real violence like I had when I was a kid.

Exactly and don't forget the old days of heterosexual soft porn ;). Viewing real violence and soft porn are both considered good 'ole, healthy growing up these days in comparison.

[metafugitive]

Walt is rolling in his grave.

Walt would be rolling over in his grave if were buried.

Walt is in a freezer waiting to be unthawed and brought back to life.

It is probably costing Disney Corp a 100k a year to keep him properly frozen and not become freezer burnt.

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My Mom and I are both adults and really like the show as it is funny, clean, and generally, family friendly. I have read other adults on a TV forum like the show as well.

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Oh, right. I forgot about him being frozen.

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RE :”Exclusive: Disney Channel Breaks New Ground with Good Luck Charlie Episode (Gay Couple),”

Annette Funicello once said that when she moved from Disney to Beach Party movies that Walt Disney personally told her that as a member of the Disney family she will always represent their values and he asked her to always act in accordance to them.

We have truly gone to hell.

[BigCinBigD]

Disney. (Spit!)