It was very offensive, and you don't think that's going to affect ratings?" DeGeneres further noted what she believed to be hypocrisy on the part of ABC, citing episodes of ABC series The Drew Carey Show and Spin City which included two men kissing (the Carey episode was even promoted using the kiss).
Silver compared the psychological process of medics' career socialisation with the battered child syndrome, citing episodes of abuse and neglect to which students are subjected, gradually turning their initial enthusiasm into depression or fear, as with abused children [ 23].
General McNeill said last year was "a very difficult year" for Pakistan and cited episodes of militancy including "a huge spike in suicide bombers, the Red Mosque events, some 250 Pakistani soldiers captured by about 20 militants, some forts laid siege to".
The police cited no major episodes of violence as of early Friday evening.
Others in the city cited anecdotes about episodes of witchcraft as their reasons for keeping their distance from Guidestones Road.
Reviews of the episode were mixed, citing the episode as "a pleasant surprise".
WBMA-LP, the ABC affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, even refused to air the first run of the episode, citing conservative values of the local viewing audience, which earned the station some infamy and ire in the LGBT community.
He added that while the character has "an adult sensibility about a lot of stuff", he and the writing staff try to "look for ways to bring her back down to earth," citing the episode's depiction of Louise "fighting against growing up", with Tina acting as "her strange ambassador into that world... in some ways, you couldn't ask for a better guide".
The Hartford Courant concurred in this assessment, citing the episode as the most memorable of one of the season's most daring new series.
Mr. Patane cited how, years after episodes of his season were broadcast, he saw an MTV promo that asked, "Is she really a man?" in reference to his statuesque former girlfriend, to whom he was engaged when the show was filmed.
Catharine Lumby of the University of Sydney cited the episode as an example of good satire as it "managed to explore a lot of [homosexual] issues in quite a deep way without being overtly political", which she claimed, along with the episode's humor, made its anti-homophobia message more successful than that of other gay-themed shows like Queer as Folk.
