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 Cast includes peter paige, margaret Cho, lorna luft, billy west
directed by q allan brocka
AVAILABLE ON IMPORT
I’m a sucker for a good animated series and Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World is not only good – it’s great. It’s also offensive, silly and laugh-out-loud funny. And Series 1 is available on DVD now and won an animation award in Italy recently.
Rick & Steve, who are anything but the happiest gay couple in the world, are the brainchild of Q. Allan Brocka.
LOGO, the US cable channel aimed at the GLBT audience, commissioned the first series which aired in 2007.
There’s a joyous, prime colour kiddie quality to Rick & Steve but the storyline is anything but childish. Filipino-American computer genius Rick and Steve, his almost thick-as-shit real estate boyfriend, decide to donate sperm to their lesbian friends Kirsten and Dana.
Trouble is bulldyke Dana can’t stand fluffy gym gay Steve. When Rick and Steve decide to mix their love juice together in a sort of sperm stew, it’s Dana who becomes pregnant through the unlikeliest of accidents.
Rounding out the couples is 19 year-old drug-crazed twink Evan, who’s in a relationship with 50-year-old paraplegic and AIDS sufferer Chuck, voiced by Alan Cumming.
But my favourites are the obnoxiously PC dykes Ebony and Ivory whose baby Echinacea they refer to as she/he because they have avoided looking at her/his genitalia to determine her/his gender as they don’t wish to influence the child’s behaviour. [BL]
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