History Main / GayBarReveal

* Some off-screen hilarity on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank ends up talking with a gay couple about dog breeding and, wanting to chat more, asks, "Do you and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint your brother]] have a time to grab a beer?" The couple says they know a place, and later Hank relates the advice that he got from them... "before it all went horribly wrong."

* Some off-screen hilarity on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank ends up talking with a gay couple about dog breeding and, wanting to chat more, asks, "Do you and [ComicallyMissingThePoint your brother] have a time to grab a beer?" The couple says they know a place, and later Hank relates the advice that he got from them... "before it all went horribly wrong."

* ''Film/WaynesWorld2'' features a scene where Wayne, Garth, and two of their friends disguise themselves as a construction worker, a police officer, a biker, and a sailor to spy on Wayne's girlfriend. When they are discovered they take cover in an establishment called "The Tool Box" which turns out to be a gay bar. When the DJ sees what Wayne and company are wearing, he shines the spotlight on them and cranks up the Music/VillagePeople's "YMCA" which leads to a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] scene where the heroes perform the dance associated with the song.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' [[SadistTeacher Mr(s). Garrison]] (a post-op male-to-female {{Transsexual}} who's into men) gets invited to a "girl bar." (S)He is initially freaked out to realize it's a lesbian bar, but winds up sleeping with a woman by the end of the night, leading to a ComingOutStory...again.

* In the ''{{SanityNotIncluded}}'' comic "Bar", where Lyle is sitting at a (supposedly) obvious gay bar.

* Parodied on the UK sketch show ''Radio/GoodnessGraciousMe''. Two underage boys want to be served drinks in a pub, so to look older, they wear glasses (and can't see a thing.) When they remove the glasses, they realize it's actually a gay bar full of VillagePeople lookalikes, and run away screaming.

--->'''Worker:''' "We work hard, we play hard."

-->'''CampGay Bargoer''': You mean it's not? Ugh. Wrong again,"Gay Guide to Springfield".

-->'''Homer:''' There's something bothering me about this place...I know! [[SubvertedTrope This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!]] Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!
-->'''Random Lesbian:''' What was her problem?

** It gets flipped around in the episode "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses">

** A planned but scrapped joke in "Flaming Moes" had a couple of gay guys entering Flaming Moes thinking it was a gay bar and leaving disappointedly. The censors wouldn't allow it.

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* In ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' Richard says that his father warned him never to go to the Enchanted Forest and that Dad and his friend "Uncle Keith" once went there on a camping trip and Keith never came back. It turns out that the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BTjLZlIO0 Enchanted Forest]] is a pub, with an all-male clientele.

* The Music/CharlieDanielsBand song "Uneasy Rider '88" is about two Texas good-ol-boys who find themselves in a gay bar. One catches on sooner than the other.

* In the ''OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' episode "Go West, Young Man", Del and Rodney go to a wine bar, and while Rodney has his drink, Del tries to chat up two characters in dresses we only see from the back. He quickly returns.

He finds himself a bar or club with broad strapping patrons, perhaps full of bikers or steel workers, deep bass music and [[FreudWasRight tall erect steel bars]] for extra manly effect.

** Also on the ''Simpsons'' episode "Homer's Phobia" (where Homer makes friends with a kitschy antique store owner who looks like [and is voiced by] John Waters, but breaks off the friendship when he finds out that John is gay and Bart may be influenced by him), Homer takes Bart to a steel mill, intending to straighten him out by showing manly straight guys at work. However it turns out to be a gay steel mill that turns into a gay dance club/bar after the work day is over.

* {{Subverted}} [[PlayedForLaughs For Laughs]] on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.'' Homer, having been banned from Moe's and looking for a new watering hole, is the only man in a very obviously lesbian bar.

* The spinoff series ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' has an episode where Cleveland and his friends accidentally go to a gay bar, oddly one of the "signs" is fat chicks. It's also where Cleveland discovers that his co-worker Terry is gay.

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* One of the more famous examples is the Blue Oyster Bar, a RunningGag from the ''PoliceAcademy'' movies. JerkAss characters will oftentimes be tricked into heading there, only to end up in the tight embrace of ManlyGay bikers, who are really good at the tango.

* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', showing a chicken alone in a bar full of cows coming to the realization that she has wandered into [[IncrediblyLamePun a hay bar.]] Another has a dog realizing he's in a stray bar.

* The bar where Stifler shows off his dancing skills in ''AmericanPie 3''. This being Stifler, he didn't realize which kind of bar it was until the others told him to look around and pay attention. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Oh. My. GOD!"]].

* ''[[WaynesWorld Wayne's World 2]]'' features a scene where Wayne, Garth, and two of their friends disguise themselves as a construction worker, a police officer, a biker, and a sailor to spy on Wayne's girlfriend. When they are discovered they take cover in an establishment called "The Tool Box" which turns out to be a gay bar. When the DJ sees what Wayne and company are wearing, he shines the spotlight on them and cranks up the Music/VillagePeople's "YMCA" which leads to a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] scene where the heroes perform the dance associated with the song.

* In ''The Heavenly Kid'', Bobby Fantana finds out that the bar that he once hung out in while he was living had turned into a gay bar in the 1980s.

* Happens in ''MySistersKeeper'', when Julia goes to a bar. When she asks if it's a gay bar, the bartender sarcastically replies, "No, this is a bar for cops."

* Played with in ''Houston Knights''. A detective goes to question two people exiting a pickup bar, only to find they're both women. His partner is surprised when he later turns up with information he got from the lesbian bar. "I like a challenge."

* The CharlieDanielsBand song "Uneasy Rider '88" is about two Texas good-ol-boys who find themselves in a gay bar. One catches on sooner than the other.

* One ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' sketch had [[FunnyForeigner Miss Swan]] end up in a [[UnusualEuphemism "monkey in the bush"]] bar. She led them in a rendition of ''[[{{ABBA}} Dancing Queen]]''.

'''Stiles:''' ''[surrounded by drag queens]'' [[DeadpanSnarker Man, nothing gets past those keen werewolf senses, huh, Scott?]]

* ''TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' - Fat Freddy goes home to Cleveland and stops for a drink in what he realizes is "a honky bar", inadvertently angers the blue-collar clientele, and gets booted out. He heads to what appears to be a young person's bar which is full of vicious bikers who beat him up. He staggers to a place called "The Gilded Lily" and thinks "Well, this looks like a nice clean place. At least I won't get assaulted here."

* The spinoff series ''TheClevelandShow'' has an episode where Cleveland and his friends accidentally go to a gay bar, oddly one of the "signs" is fat chicks. It's also where Cleveland discovers that his co-worker Terry is gay.