| | |  | DVDs | Home » » » » Rick & Steve - The Complete First Season | | | | | | | Description: | | 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. | | | Product Details: | | | Format:
| Color, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| MTV | | Run Time:
| 132 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| August 28, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 32 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
 ( 32 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Think of it as the gay "Simpsons" ...Sep 04, 2007
By Bob Lind
"camelwest"
In the gay enclave of West Lahunga, "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World" (2007) are your typical thirtysomething guppies, complete with an attitudinal spoiled cat named Pussy. Rick is the sensitive one, a trendy Fillipino-American computer programmer, deeply in love with Steve, a gym-obsessed hottie who sells overpriced houses to the locals. Rick (or is it Steve?) is the father of the child being co-parented by their best friends, Kirsten (a boyish lipstick lesbian) and her partner Dana (a sarcastic self-described J.A.B., Jewish American Bulldyke.) They're also friends with Chuck, a 50ish HIV+ paraplegic, and his shallow but devoted 19 year old boytoy, Evan, and neighborhood "fag hag" Condi Ling.
When I caught the first episode of this series on LOGO, I was a bit taken aback by the rather unapologetic and definitely non-PC tone of some of the humor, including the stereotypes (Rick and Steve are shallow, often sex-obsessed, don't know what end of a hammer to hold, and depend on Dana to do any minor repairs around the house) and the concept of having a character with HIV, now healthy on the new drugs, using his antibody status as a way to get extra attention and considerations from others. I relaxed a bit by the second episode, and began to better understand and appreciate the intentional "in your face" tone of the show that made the humor work all the better. (Apparently, I'm not the only one who found this taking some getting used to, as actor Peter "Queer As Folk" Paige - the voice of Steve - mentions in the DVD extras, that the intent was to make a gay urban Simpsons, where you can get away with things using cartoon characters that you wouldn't dream of doing with live actors. For example, we laugh at Homer stranging his son Bart, but could you imagine the outcry if John Goodman had stranged a misbehaving DJ on "Roseanne"?) It is indeed a topical, creative, daring and highly original series, dealing humorously with a myriad of situations including GLBT cruises, ageism, swinging, codependence, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. My personal favorite of the six episodes is #2, which features an Ebony and Ivory, an interracial lesbian couple, who carry political correctness to a hysterical extreme, in that they don't want to even know their own baby's gender (They close their eyes when they change diapers) in order to avoid possibly pushing him/her into any stereotypical "gender roles."
The episodes are still on rotation on LOGO-TV, with some clips also available for free on their website. But I recommend renting or buying the (rather bargain priced) DVD, for all six episodes as well as some interesting extras, including segments on how the stop-action annimation is done, interviews with Peter Paige (Steve), Wilson Cruz (Evan), Alan Cumming (Chuck) and Margaret Cho (Condi), and 12 brief "digisodes" that were not aired. With well-deserved extra points for originality and chutzpah, I'll give it five stars out of five.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Dead-on satire and humourJul 11, 2007
By Chuck Leduc
This stuff is hilarious. Originally a set of stop-motion shorts, they've been adapted into a season of animated shows. The humour is so dead-on it hurts.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Rick and SteveJun 30, 2008
By RicknSimon
"Gay Aussies"
This animation is awesome - can't get enough of it and each time that we watch it we find more to laugh about. Really well worth adding to a collection and can't wait for series two.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Nothing is sacred, but it's all funnyJun 15, 2008
By Amelia Mavis
"Lakota Girl"
Irreverent doesn't even begin to cover it. No topic is off limits in this series and stereotypes are skewered left and right.
Easily shocked and offended? Go elsewhere. But if you can laugh at yourself and even more at everyone else then you'll love this series as much as I did.
I just hope there's more to come.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Hillariously Funny!Jun 09, 2008
By Timothy W. Taylor
This is not a video for kids. But if you are gay or have a gay apprecieation for hummor it is hillarious~!
See all 32 customer reviews on Amazon.com
| | |
|
