The “You Oughta Know” singer felt “amazing” about her guest role in a season 3 episode of the iconic HBO series.

Alanis Morissette pitched herself for Carrie’s ‘lesbian moment’ on Sex and the City

The “You Oughta Know” singer felt “amazing” about her guest role in a season 3 episode of the iconic HBO series.

September 9, 2026 1:30 p.m. ET

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Alanis Morissette and Sarah Jessica Parker on ‘Sex and the City’. Credit:

- Alanis Morissette appeared on the Sept. 9 episode of Call Her Daddy.

- The singer revealed that she pitched herself for her guest spot on *Sex and the City* as one of Carrie’s love interests.

- “I said, ‘Might it be a nice time for Carrie to experience a lesbian moment?’” she said.

Alanis Morissette oughta know who could have swept Carrie Bradshaw off her feet: the singer herself.

The “You Oughta Know” and “Head Over Feet” musician revealed on the Sept. 9 episode of Alex Cooper’s *Call Her Daddy* podcast that she threw her hat in the ring to play one of Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) love interests on *Sex and the City*, which led to her guest spot in a season 3 episode.

“I reached out to them and I said, ‘Might it be a nice time for Carrie to experience a lesbian moment?’” Morissette, a fan of the HBO comedy, laughed. “And they said, ‘Why yes, we were thinking the same thing.’”

Morissette appeared in the episode, “Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl...,” in which Carrie struggles to reconcile with the knowledge that her new beau, Sean (Eddie Cahill), is bisexual. The budding relationship quickly falls apart after a game of Spin the Bottle, during which Carrie is kissed by Morissette’s Dawn.

Alanis Morissette on ‘Call Her Daddy’.

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Cooper was shocked to learn that Morissette might have engineered the scene, though the Grammy winner doesn’t take full credit.

“I think we literally had the same idea at the same time,” Morissette said. “That happens. ... It was a win-win.”

The episode is perhaps as well known for the starry cameo as it is for serving as evidence for viewers calling into question Carrie’s authority as a sex columnist. During the episode, she espouses multiple biphobic views, from questioning whether “bisexuality exists” to dubbing it “a layover on the way to Gaytown,” sentiments challenged by close friend Samantha (Kim Cattrall).

Alanis Morissette; Sarah Jessica Parker.

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Toward the end of the episode, when Dawn’s bottle spin lands on Carrie, the latter tries to stave it off.

“It’s OK,” Dawn insists with a smile. In voiceover, Carrie deadpans, “Of course it was OK. I was an Alice in Confused Sexual Orientation Land,” just as Dawn kisses her. Afterwards, Carrie’s voiceover determines, “It wasn’t bad, kind of like chicken.”

Noting the rarity of seeing “a bisexual character written into television” at the time the episode aired in summer 2000, Cooper asked Morissette what it meant “to be a part of a moment like that.”

“It’s amazing, yeah,” Morissette said. “Anything that opens up and pulls us out of the locked binary is a loving act, I think.”

“Do you think you knew, though, at the time, like how groundbreaking that would be when people saw it on TV?” Cooper asked.

“Was it groundbreaking?” Morissette laughed, quipping, “I just drop mics and keep walking.”

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During *Wall Street Journal*’s Future of Everything Festival in 2018, Parker discussed the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and acknowledged the tunnel vision *Sex and the City* often exhibited with regard to both race and sexuality.

“I think Carrie Bradshaw is very much a product of her generation,” said Parker, who would reprise the role on *And Just Like That...*, which aired from 2021 to 2025.

“And I think her conversations about sexual politics and intimacy spoke to the years she spent, you know, as always, those years prior to being a young adult, inform your worldview. ... This city has changed an enormous amount politically, and economically, and socially, and I think it would be a different show, frankly.”

Elsewhere during her appearance, Parker added, “There were no women of color, and there was no substantial conversation about the LGBTQ community.”

Watch Morissette on *Call Her Daddy* above.

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