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In the episode, Roseanne was caught off guard when she realized that Sharon, the lover of her other gay friend, Nancy Sandra Bernhard , had taken a real liking to her. As the two sat alone at a table, Sharon told her that they ought to hang out more often together, then kissed her tenderly for about five seconds.

Suzanne Westenhoeser, a lesbian comic, also took issue with the episode--but for a different reason. He currently is a staff writer covering television for the Calendar section, and has also written extensively about trends and cultural issues in the entertainment field.

All Sections. As a pre-teen, this was about the sexiest scene I had ever seen. Some other very good kisses that are also a lesson in the allure of mutual attraction and agreement: when Ashley Banks first sweetly kisses that kid who wanted to blow in her ear on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — hey, at least he asked first — and on Euphoria when Rue suddenly kisses Jules and then immediately apologizes.

It then turns into an electrifying kiss that is so good, Guzman smiles partway through and the duo forgets they are in a room full of people. Plus, now that the future of onscreen kissing is in question as Hollywood adjusts to COVID protocols , we gotta take all the kisses where we can get them. Things That Are Also Good:. And yes, there is so much great kissing.

Defunding the police. That was a wonderful message to send. The show's producers, meanwhile, were concerned about one of the main episode elements: Humanlike aliens dressed as ancient Greeks that torture the crew with their telekinetic powers and force the two USS Enterprise crew members to kiss. Worried about reaction from Southern television stations, showrunners filmed the kiss between Shatner and Nichols — their lips are mostly obscured by the back of Nichols' head — and wanted to film a second where it happened off-screen.

But Nichols said in her book, "Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories," that she and Shatner deliberately flubbed lines to force the original take to be used. Despite concerns from executives, "Plato's Stepchildren" aired without blowback. In fact, it got the most "fan mail that Paramount had ever gotten on Star Trek for one episode," Nichols said in a interview with the Archive of American Television.

Officials at Paramount, the show's producer, "were just simply amazed and people have talked about it ever since," said Nichols. While inside the show things were buzzing, the episode passed by the general public and the TV industry at that time almost without comment, said Robert Thompson, a Syracuse University professor of television and popular culture.

The kiss heard around the world eventually did In , the year before "Plato's Stepchildren" aired, the Supreme Court struck down nationwide laws that made marriage illegal between blacks and whites, between whites and Native Americans, Filipinos, Asians and, in some states, "all non-whites.

In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark , written circa the 1st century, Judas betrays Jesus by identifying him with a kiss so that armed men can take him away and eventually kill him. May Irwin and John C. Rice, stars of the short film, "May Irwin kiss," by Thomas Edison's studio. The first people to smooch on film were May Irwin and John C. On stage, no one thought the kiss was that sensational.

Hefner Moving Image Archive. In , film historians rediscovered the footage, which was filmed by a white man named William Selig in Chicago.