Gay TV Recap: Frisky Dingo gets a gay character

Adult Swim's Frisky Dingo is a strange and crude animated comedy focused on the rivalry between an incompetent, shallow and foolish supervillain, Killface, and an equally dumb and self-centered hero, Xander "Awesome X" Crews. The series' humor varies, and depends on both crude plot twists as well as the clash between mundane reality and the series' unrealistic setting.

Frisky Dingo has turned towards politics for its second season. After accidentally solving global warming, Killface is recruited to run for President even though his understanding of politics and social issues is limited to yelling "But I stopped global warming!" whenever people aren't being reverent enough.

The latest episode, however, saw Killface survive an assassination attempt, which he deemed a miracle, leading him to find religion. He pours into the Bible for the first time and, even though his campaign manager warns him, "You have to be subtle about" religion, he quickly takes on plenty of extremist Bible-based positions. He starts out with an anti-gay stance, but quickly moves on to offending other groups.

He tells an environmental conference, "If you want an alternative fuel source ... just burn all your books. This baby is all you need." At a meeting of the National Organization of Ladies, he warns them "It says right here in Deuteronomy, 'A woman must not dress like a man' I see a lot of pants out there, ladies," and suggests that breast cancer is God's wrath for not wearing a dress more often.

He is chased out of a speech at a synagogue when he tells the audience, "When you step into that booth on election day, ask yourself one question, 'Why? Why did you people kill him?'" Basically, Frisky Dingo took the argument that asked why one gets to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to take literally and pushed it to a comedic extreme while also mocking how anti-gay politicians will talk around their other bigotries while feeling free to demonize gays openly.

The episode takes a turn, however, when Killface's son, Simon, comes out to his father. (Prompting a newspaper headline, "GAAAAAAAAY!") Deciding he can't reconcile his Christianity with his love for his son, Killface renounces his newfound religion -- just as a missile strikes him in the chest.

While Frisky Dingo has thrown more than a few gay jokes out there, this was the series' gayest episode yet. It'll be interesting to see where scene-stealing Simon goes from here, as he's easily one of the strangest gay characters on television. At the least, that's one more gay character on cable TV.