Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is a satirical stop-motion show created by Q. Allan Brocka that airs on LOGO, the first network dedicated to all gay & lesbian programming. It focuses on a trio of couples in the "gay ghetto" of West Lahunga Beach, California (an expy for Laguna Beach). Premeiring in 2007, it has met with much critical acclaim, due to its satire not being too preachy. A third season is currently in production. The characters are:Characters:
Rick Brocka, Jr.: Steve's husband. He is a 30-year-old Filipino-American homemaker. He is also a genius, who belongs to the local all-gay chapter of Menza.
Steve Ball: Rick's husband. He is a 33-year-old real estate agent. Unlike Rick, he's a gym bunny and a bit of an airhead.
Kirsten Kellog: Dana's 28-year-old wife. She is Rick's best friend, and a self proclaimed artist. She owns a local sex toy store.
Dana Bernstein: Kirsten's 32-year-old wife. She is a self-decribed J.A.B. — a Jewish American Bulldyke. She works as a project manager for the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. She is also openly antagonistic toward Steve.
Chuck Masters: Evan's 50-year-old wheelchair-bound boyfriend. Chuck is HIV positive and paralyzed from the left testicle down.*
He was hit by a car as he was exiting the clinic at which he was tested.
He's Steve's best friend, and an angry yet truthful person.
Evan Martinez: Chuck's 19-year-old kept boyfriend. He is extremely shallow, very promiscuous and addicted to a multitude of drugs. Evan invariably spends his nights at clubs.
Condi Ling: West Lahung Beach's resident Fag Hag. She claims to be Evan's best friend and shares most of his personality traits, though he regards her as more of an annoyance. When alone, Condi is depressed and has attempted suicide in many comical ways.
Dixie: Dana & Kirsten's baby, born in the second season premiere. Originally, Kirsten was going to be artificially inseminated by Rick's sperm. However, Steve mixed some of his sperm in as well, and a bumpy car ride accidentally spilled the sample onto (into) Dana instead. Seems to be gaining mild psychic abilities.
Pussy: Rick & Steve's cat. She has human-like intelligence (at least smarter than Steve) and talks to them so frequently that it doesn't even bother them anymore.
Nightmare Fuel: For Steve anyway, the thought that so much as a single cell of his could have come into contact with Dana is enough to wake him up screaming several times.
Ancient Conspiracy: Brace yourselves — Ten thousand years ago, Earth was a technological paradise "...more advanced than Star Trek!". Also, everyone was gay. After the first heterosexual was born, everything went downhill from there. A secret society known as the "Lavendar Mafia" (of which Lance Bass is a member) preserves this secret.
Cure Your Gays: Evan tries to get ex-gay therapy so he can have sex with a woman. But instead of associating attraction to men with horrific pain, he ended up associating pain with attraction to men, and now asks to be electrocuted in bed.
Dead Guy Junior: Dana wants to name her son after her saintly dead brother, Dick. And still wants to after the baby turns out to be a girl. They settle on Dixie instead.
He and Dana used play cross-dress up as kids. Dixie was his drag name. Dick could have been Ambiguously Gay, Camp Straight or just very supportive, given how he's painted as The Messiah
Deadpan Snarker: Dana and Rick, mostly. Steve has his moments too.
Chuck!
Dirty Old Man: There's Chuck, obviously. Plus in one episode we're introduced to Rick's perverse gay uncle, who convinces men that he's actually Rick's cousin. His younger cousin.
Has Two Mommies: In season two, Dana and Kirsten raise Dixie, because Rick and Steve helped in the surrogacy, they allow the guys two have shared custody too. So Dixie has two moms and two dads.
Lorna Luft (Judy Garland's other daughter) voices Steve's ultra-conservative mother.
Insistent Terminology: Chuck does not have AIDS, he's HIV-positive. This is a bit of Truth in Television since many HIV-negative people think the two are one and the same.
Condi is not a fag hag! She's an alternative life style companion!
Law of Inverse Fertility: Taken to its logical extreme and lampshaded with Kirsten and Dana. Kirsten desperately wants to conceive but can't, even after multiple insemination attempts. Dana doesn't really want kids to begin with, but all she has to do is spill a cup of sperm on her lap, and her womb "sucks it up through three layers of denim."
Mama Bear: Rick's mother, defender of love and gay equality. Steve's mother sworn to "protecting the sanctity of my son's anus".
May-December Romance: Chuck is in his 50s, Evan is barely 19. Their relationship ends up resembling that of a man raising his grandson... only with more sex.
Nobody Over 50 Is Gay: "I am the oldest homosexual in the world! I am thirty-three!"
Ebony and Ivory are the embodiment of this trope. They refuse to check whether their infant is a boy or a girl because they believe that shouldn't be up to them to enforce gender roles, they gave the child a gender-neutral name, and insist that the child be referred to as "he and/or she". They refuse to baby-talk because it is patronizing, and they find it offensive to call a child small. They have a bank account specifically for their child's future sex change operation should he and/or she desire one.
Really Gets Around: When they still thought Dana's baby was going to be a boy, Kirsten made a list of four thousand potential names, crossing off each name if it was shared by a guy that Steve had slept with. By the time they were done, the only names left were John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Upon hearing how long Kirsten's baby-names list is, Chuck remarks "Christ, Schindler's wasn't even that long!"
Rick's favorite show is Skanky Housewives, with clips showing a red haired mother of a terrible ten year old cocaine addict who snorts drugs off of babies.
Stop Being Stereotypical: Inverted in the gang's trip to San Francisco, where they are marginalized by the locals for being "heteronormalized" (ie, not being genderqueer, and, in Kirsten and Dana's case, raising a baby).
Straight Gay: Steve repeatedly identifies himself as a straight-acting gay, and acts exactly like an idiot jock.
Suicide As Comedy: Condi, who tries to pathetically commit suicide every time a guy she dates turns out to be gay. It's now in the double digits. Everyone is so annoyed by her shooting her self in the head with glue guns that they start urging her to just kill herself already so they can watch tv in peace.
Token Minority: One of Steve's friends is the only straight guy in the show to have more than one line.
Transsexual: Rick and Steve's favorite porn star it turns out is an FTM transsexual. They repeatedly mistake him for being a lesbian.
Tropes Are Not Bad: Would you believe me if I said there was an episode with this as their moral?
Twofer Token Minority: Steve's friend who is both black and gay, who has a bit of a martyr complex. Then there's rick who is gay and Filipino, and Evan who is also Latino. Then there's Chuck who's an wheelchair bound HIV positive homosexual.
Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is a satirical stop-motion show created by Q. Allan Brocka that airs on LOGO, the first network dedicated to all gay & lesbian programming. It focuses on a trio of couples in the "gay ghetto" of West Lahunga Beach, California (an expy for Laguna Beach). Premeiring in 2007, it has met with much critical acclaim, due to its satire not being too preachy. A third season is currently in production. The characters are:Characters:
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