Funny / Fellow Travelers

• The Smash Cut from Tim and Mary at a political event to Tim's hands gripping Hawk's bare butt as they engage in enthusiastic oral sex in the hallway of Hawk's apartment. The humor is heightened by "Take the 'A' Train" (an upbeat, cheerful tune) playing on the soundtrack.
• There is one at the end of Tim and Hawk's tearjerking argument in episode 3: Tim expresses his desire to eat a meal in a restaurant with Hawk, saying that he could pretend to be Hawk's cousin. Hawk counters that his younger lover would need to pose as his nephew instead. They both seem amused and possibly slightly aroused by the idea of posing as uncle and nephew.
  Tim: We have never eaten in a restaurant! And men do eat in restaurants. I could be your cousin.
  Hawk: Nephew.
  Tim: From the poor side of the family.
  Hawk: [smirking] Obviously.
• In 1979, a disco song titled "Relight My Fire" plays diegetically as Hawk experiences erectile dysfunction while Craig goes down on him.
• While the context of the White Night Riots is far from funny, Jerome and Marcus have the following heartwarming and humorous exchange about Frankie in episode 7:
  Jerome: That queen can scrap.
  Marcus: Tell me about it. I live with him.
• There is a bleakly humorous moment in the finale when Lucy visits Tim in the hospital. She talks about how Hawk's enduring love for Tim always got in the way of the commitment he'd made to her. Tim says that it's not a contest and she responds, "Of course it is. It always has been."
• In 1957, Hawk describes Lucy's musical taste to Tim: "It's Brahms or Cole Porter at our house. Although I suspect, when I'm not home, she puts on that Elvis character."
• In episode 8, the sight of Tim intentionally dribbling milk down his chin is enough to make Hawk sigh with desire.
• Another darkly funny example is when Hawk insists that he is the "epitome of marital fidelity" right before he and Tim engage in passionate extramarital sex in Hawk's pied-à-terre in D.C.. (Additionally, a musical motif titled "The Epitome of Marital Fidelity" plays during their lovemaking.)

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