Who's the Happiest Gay
Couple in the World? Why Rick & Steve!
by Tallulah
Givehead
Unfortunately, Ta
simply doesn't have enough money leftover after
buyin' wigs and shoes
 to
afford pay cable like the
LOGO channel ... even when everyone's all giggly
over the irreverant new series,
Rick & Steve. Luckily for me movies and TV shows
get put onto DVD so soon after they've been released
/ aired that it's not like missin'em at all!
Seein' as how this
series is animated, Ah invited some of mah little
twinkie boiz over. Ah mean, how complex can a TV
series be when its made with little animated Lego
people?
Oh. Mah. Gawd.
TWICE Ah had to go
back to fix mah mascara!
Welcome to the gayest
of gay ghettoes, West Lahunga Beach - which could
easily be mistaken for West Hollywood or Laguna
Beach, a trendy neighborhood with its own time zone
(when you leave you have to set your watch to five
minutes ago). This is where Rick and Steve make
their fabulously decorated double-income-no-children
home. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, and
the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never
looked so cute.
Rick, voiced by
virtually unknown
Will Matthews, and Steve, perpetrated by
perennial poppet
Peter Paige, have been LTRing it for seven
years—that means long-term relationship (many gays
have only heard of the
term). They live with their sometimes magical
pussycat, Pussy, in a gorgeous little two bedroom
that Steve virtually stole off the market.
Kirsten, voiced FABULOUSLY by
Emily Brooke Hands (Eating
Out,
Eating Out 2,
Boy Culture), and her butch wife Dana,
Taylor M. Dooley, have cohabitated for three
long, drama-filled but satisfying, years. Kirsten's
lifelong friend, Rick, is her first choice to father
their child. The only catch is, Kirsten's wife and
Rick's husband are avowed mortal enemies.
Steve's best friend and bad influence is Chuck,
voiced by
Alan "Why-Is-He-Famous?" Cumming, a bitter old
queen who is outspoken, HIV positive, and confined
to a wheelchair. Chuck's partner of four years is
Evan, voiced by cuite-pie
Wilson Cruz (Starring in the recently released
on DVD,
Coffee Date), a feisty 19 year-old club kid who
never sleeps. Yes. That means the ol' perv started
hookin' up with the little trollop when he was 14!
Oh. Mah. Gawd. Is THAT politically correct?
Well, for some
reason, animated characters can get away with a lot
more than human actors! Writer/Director (and
extremely
HOT and HUNKY)
Q. Allan Brocka (Hmmm. He must so love the Q
Netwerk he added a Q in front of his name!) must
know this because ALL the boundaries are stretched
in
Rick & Steve ... Ah mean, sheesh. If y'all
liked
Queer Duck, y'all will love
Rick & Steve.
This recently
released DVD contains all of Season One:
Episode 1:
Guess Who's Coming to Quiche?
The guys are hosting
a dinner party for their West Lahunga friends. The
lesbians are bringing the baba ghanouj, the quiche
is in the microwave, but the evening does not go too
smoothly...
Episode 2:
Bush Baby
So the big
cliff-hanger! Rick and Steve's sperm has spilled
onto Dana's wife-beater and nether regions... and
has perhaps gotten her pregnant (we actually didn't
see that one coming). Also, Echinacea won't stop
saying, "Bush!" after seeing the hilarious,
incoherent Dubya on TV.
Episode 3:
Damn Straights!
Kirsten is overjoyed
to learn Dana is pregnant with Rick's (and/or
Steve's?) baby. Dana? Um, not so much. Miss even
considers calling the "Bye Bye Baby" abortions
hotline. Meanwhile, Steve's
Southern-Baptist parents come to visit West Lahunga
(the only place Steve's mom can get a vaginal
renewal performed), and they still don't know Steve
is gay!
And when Chuck decides to stop Evan from taking
Chuck's meds recreationally, Evan must fake having
HIV and travel to- gasp!- straight Lahunga Beach to
get the uppers (and complimentary downers) he needs.
Episode 4:
It's Raining Pussy
Echoes of Hitchcock
in this one. All those cats... eek! Poor Dana.
We meet manipulative fag hag Condi and Dana's
Amazonian ex-girlfriend Michaela. (Holy moley!)
Condi gets a haunting from the town's resident
ghost. Plus, Dana's electrifying discovery sure
has some unintended consequences for West
Lahunga's lesbian community. Episode 3 reminds
us that there is a lot to fear in this life --
even in the cozy confines of West Lahunga Beach!
Episode
5: Save Our Seamen
Plenty of
nitrous oxide aboard the U.S.S. Corybungus.
Maybe that self-righteous Mommy Boot Camp
instructor could use a huff or two to relax.
Not that we condone that sort of thing.
Favorite moments? How about the heroic
contribution Hunter makes to a killer
whale's lunch? The glittering drag queen was
a hoot, too.
Episode 6:
Hormonally Yours
Can you believe it's
over? Let's hope there's more in store. So many
unanswered questions! What are they going to
name the baby? Who's the daddy? (Besides Chuck.)
Will Dana's hormones ever be the same? What
about Rick's libido? And will Steve ever be able
to look a garden gnome in the eyes again?
Tallulah Givehead is
a Fabulous drag queen living in Portland, Oregon
(Lord only knows why!) writing reviews of gay film
by day and tearing up the stage by night. You
can read her reviews here as well as at her blog,
QUEER VUE MIRROR.
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