"Beautiful People" Recap and Video-Post (2.2): "How I Got My Plumes"

The only thing you need to know about “How I Got My Plumes” is that Simon and Kylie go to Eurovision. And interestingly, that’s NOT the only thing that makes this the gayest episode of Beautiful People ever.

Simon and Kylie are dreaming of taking their newly formed boy-band to Eurovision while also crushing on the new, hot teacher (which, in itself, is amazing – can you imagine an American show having its gay teenagers “go there”?). Meanwhile, Andy is enjoying a particularly emotional opera with his butch new neighbor, Ross.

Such is the world of Beautiful People.

Ross and Andy

When Debbie invites Ross and his wife over for dinner, it sounds like she’s inviting them over for an orgy (“stuff the chicken,” “spit-roast”). Even Simon thinks they’re having a key-party.

DeGrassi High, this ain’t. Only on British TV are the shows about teenagers as racy as anything you’ll see in Sex and the City.

It turns out that Ross is the partner of the hot teacher: they’re a gay couple – “gay-bors,” Debbie says.

And still the double-entendres roll! Andy’s been “stuffing the chicken right up to the elbow” and he “swings both ways.”

Hot for teacher...

Before long, we see the gay couple squabbling about genital warts, Ross grabbing Andy’s dick, and Ashlene saying, “I’m really knowledgeable about gay stuff and s**t. So which one of you’s the bloke and who’s the bitch?”

In other words, Beautiful People is treating its new gay characters in a completely politically incorrect way -- exactly like every other character on the show!

Interestingly, in the scene after Ross feels him up, Andy is in bed with Debbie reading … gay erotica author John Rechy! No wonder Ross was confused.

Lamenting the disaster of dinner with the gay-bors, Simon imagines that he comes from a family of sophisticates – the kind that might, you know, enter Eurovision as an Abba-like family singing sensation. My only complaint with this clip of Simon and the rest of his reimagined Doonans performing on Eurovision is that it didn’t go on for, say, three hours.

At the Eurovision contest itself (where, as a complete aside as always, Simon manages to get the “plume” of the episode’s title), Simon and Kylie somehow end up on stage while one of the contestants is doing her encore. In other words, they DO end up performing on Eurovision.

And my very favorite part of what may be this show’s strongest, funniest episode to date? Andy, watching Simon’s out-there performance on Eurovision at home, declares, with a huge, totally approving smile on his face, “My son rocks!”

And in case you missed the episode, here it is. Enjoy!