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Rick & Steve: The Complete First Season

Paramount, Logo / Year: 2007

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Synopsis

Welcome to the gayest of gay ghettoes, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-children home. That is until Rick’s lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten asks him to be the father of her child. There’s just one catch, Kirsten’s wife Dana and Rick’s husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, and the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never looked so cute. Click here to view the trailer!

Episode List

Episode 101: Guess Who's Coming For 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 102: Bush Baby
When the Not-So-Happiest Gay Couple strikes out on threesome-recruiting, can couples therapy provide the answer?

Episode 103: Damn Straights
Chuck's love of weed is matched only by his fondess for daytime television - now that's a great combination! When Chuck tunes in for some soap opera melodrama and catches little Timmy's cocain fits (lines off the baby), he decides to tighten the reigns on his surplus of drugs. But, without Chuck's steady stream of "medicinal" marijuana, how will Evan balance out his diet pills?

Episode 104: It's Raining Pussy
Episode 4 is all about the Poos. That's right - the dastardly feline mastermind will have her way with her foes - and we get to see it all!

Episode 105: Save Our Seamen
In the fifth episode, the gang tries out the life aquatic! Follow them as they board the gynormous USS Corybungus for a swingin' LGBT cruise! Ahoy hoy!

Episode 106: Hormonally Yours
When he realizes that he's "skinny fat," Rick decides to take herbal steroids. He's not prepared, however, for the side effects — and neither is Steve. Also, as a business venture, Steve inadvertently attends a meeting of the K-K-Gay.

Review

Brilliantly subversive, surprisingly dirty and with more insight than one would expect from plastic puppets, Q. Allan Brocka's (Eating Out, Boy Culture) "Rick & Steve" is laugh-out-loud funny. This collection of the first season of animated shorts made for Logo TV is something we want to watch again and again. It seems plastic toys can say and do the wildest things that humans wouldn't even dream of.

Rick and Steve (voiced by "QAF's" Peter Paige) are a "perfect" couple living in their gay ghetto with all their queer friends in a happy bliss. All that changes when macho Rick decides he wants to have a threesome and their lesbian friends Kirsten and Dana ask Steve for his sperm so they can have a child. The femme Kirsten wants to bear the child, butch Dana doesn't want much to do with it. At first Steve turns them down and the two search elsewhere for the seed. Their trolling at gay bars simply yields another lesbian in search of semen. It's then that Steve yields, but somehow the jizz spills on a horrified Dana who becomes pregnant! And then there are all the kooky friends including twinkie Evan and older, disabled HIV-positive Chuck. Let's just warn you that all politically correct people will be horrified by this couple and all their shenanigans. In fact, sensitive ears and minds will not want this completely offensively funny collection at all. If you know how to laugh at our own foibles and don't take life too seriously "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World" is essential.

-- Scott Cranin

Product Format Information

DVD : $14.99

Availability: Usually ships in
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Close Caption: No
Region Code: 1
UPC: 097368524248
Catalog #: DV2520012

Studio : Paramount, Logo

Languages: English Dolby Digital 2.0 (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 Original Aspect Ratio
Features:
Interview(s): With Wilson Cruz, Maragaret Cho, Alan Cumming and Peter Paige
Includes six mini-digisodes!
Featurette: The Puppet Masters and Toys Will Be Toys; Animating Rick & Steve

Customer Reviews

Downright Raunchy

Amos Lassen wrote on 02/21/2011:

“Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World: The Complete First Season”
Downright Raunchy
Amos Lassen
It’s hard to imagine the level of raunch this movie has and what makes it even more unbelievable is that the cast is composed of puppets--yet the raunch is very funny and the idea is very clever.
Rick and Steve live in West Lahunga Beach in what must be the gayest of all gay ghettoes. Their home is, of course, fabulous and they are stereotypical to the nth degree. They live a happy life except that Rick’s best friend, Kristen, a lesbian, asks him to be the father of his baby. The problem here is that Rick’s partner, Steve, and Kristen’s partner, Dana, are sworn enemies. Very quickly the insults begin and nothing is held back. The words “domestic bliss” take on an entirely different meaning.
This is one of the most subversive and risqué movies I have ever seen but I laughed all the way through. I had no idea what to expect from plastic puppets but even with the really bitter humor, the movie is amazingly funny. Q. Allan Brocka who directed both “Eating Out” movies as well as “Boy Culture” directed “Rick and Steve” as a series of animated shorts for Logo TV. And what results is a pastiche of plastic toys saying the wildest things and doing unbelievable actins that real actors would probably never attempt.
Rick and Steve are the perfect gay couple and they live a blissful life until Rick wants to have a three-way and when his lesbian friends ask for his sperm so they can have a child. When the girls are turned down, they begin to look elsewhere for a donor but what they find is another lesbian also looking for sperm. Finally Steve concedes but the semen accidentally spills on Dana, his arch enemy, and she becomes pregnant.
The ghetto also has a wild group of residents, including a twink named Evan and HIV positive Chuck and when these characters interact with the others political correctness is done away with and the unbelievable begins to happen.
This is not a film for the sensitive or the sensible. It is so offensively funny that you find yourself laughing at your own foibles and if nothing else, you learn not to take live so seriously.
The five episodes on the DVD are “Guess Who’s Coming for Quiche”, “Bush Baby”, “Damn Straights”, “Save our Seamen” and “Hormonally Yours”. The special features include a behind the scenes featurette, on the guys who make the puppets and another on those who animate them. Interviews with the cast members, 12 digisodes and a section entitled “And More Gay Crap” which includes deleted scenes. Let me add that the movie is rated for mature audiences only and the special features are unrated.