# Just try to tell me Mr. Roper isn't gay! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501 "2007-06-10T20:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/1 "2007-06-10T20:56:47Z")
Yep, that’s about it…me thinks he doth protest too much! He acts like a cootie-fearing second grader when pursued by Mrs. Roper! Maybe this belongs in MPSIMS, because I can’t think of anything pointless-er or mundaner, but it involves a TV show, so I stuck it in here. I loves me some Three’s Company and I don’t care who knows it (except my husband!) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/2 "2007-06-10T21:07:18Z")
Most homophobic minister in the U.S.: Fred Phelps His daughter who currently leads the church: Shirley Phelps **Roper** That show was a prophecy, but I just can’t decipher it. I think the strip poker episode with Lana and Furley contains the primer, but I’m not certain. I know for a fact that the life insurance episode of _The Ropers_ spinoff predicted the Internet and Quentin Tarantino. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/3 "2007-06-10T21:15:28Z")
You don’t have to be gay to be sexually repulsed by Mrs. Roper, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/4 "2007-06-10T21:56:14Z")
No, it’s simply that in sitcoms like Three’s Company/The Ropers or Married With Children, it’s supposed to be hilariously funny that a married man subconciously resents his marriage and expresses it by having no sexual attraction to his wife (though he drools over any other woman), leaving her pantingly sex-starved. Har-dee-har. Yep, a real knee-slapper allright. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/5 "2007-06-10T22:11:05Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] You don’t have to be gay to be sexually repulsed by Mrs. Roper, though. [/QUOTE] I’ve always wanted to bang a skeleton with a red afro that’s dressed in a dashiki so I’m alright with her. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/6 "2007-06-10T22:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] I’ve always wanted to bang a skeleton with a red afro that’s dressed in a dashiki so I’m alright with her. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s always a chance you could hook up with Callista Flockheart at Mardis Gras. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/7 "2007-06-10T22:29:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Just try to tell me Mr. Roper isn’t gay! Um, okay: Mr. Roper isn’t gay. What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-try-to-tell-me-mr-roper-isnt-gay/407501/8 "2007-06-10T22:38:50Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] I’ve always wanted to bang a skeleton with a red afro that’s dressed in a dashiki so I’m alright with her. [/QUOTE] I bet it was the addition of the crocheted shawls that cinched it for you, wasn’t it?