Early 2000s original Disney Channel shows:
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princess-unipeg reblogged
Okay guys, I don’t normally encourage this sort of copyrighted stuff on youtube thing, please find a way to throw your money directly at this show, but I only did this because I felt like you all needed to see this right now.
This is the episode Neither Boy Nor Girl from canceled early 2000s Disney Channel show Lloyd in Space, and it is the one thing I really remembered the show for. It stuck with me when I only saw it at maybe 6 or 7 years old.
In this episode, Lloyd and space friends get into an argument with some girls, and both sides decide to ask an impartial third party alien, Zoit. Except neither side knows their gender. From there they try to figure it out using stereotypes, but Zoit goes against them all in one way or another. Then they finally find out why…
Zoit is genderless. However, Zoit will have to choose whether to be a boy or girl, biologically speaking, soon. Everyone tries to influence their choice while beginning to enjoy some activities from the other side, but in the end, it’s pretty ambiguous whether they chose anything and it’s made clear that their gender is none of Lloyd/co.s business, and certainly not as important as Lloyd and co. (clearly in the wrong) make it out to be, it does not define them. It is exists at all, it should be an afterthought. Also, Zoit is implied to be bi or pan.
This episode, brought to us by the creators of Recess in its third season during 2002 was well and truly ahead of its time. The one downside is that they constanly refer to Zoit as he/she interchangeably, but that might not even be an issue since Zoit doesn’t seem to care.