If you watch TV commercials at all, you're probably already familiar with Superbad's super simple plot, but just in case you're not, it concerns a group of nerdy high school students who are invited to the first cool party of their lives. But the only way they can go to the bash (at least with any dignity) is to buy booze for everyone, which presents a challenge as they are underage. What then follows are wacky, raunchy hijinks as Seth (Jonah Hill), Evan (Michael Cera) and Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) attempt to score the liquor and make it to the party in one piece.

But there is something more to the movie in the character of Seth, a young teen whose sexuality just might be in doubt. At first glance, he seems to be as straight as they come. He's into Internet porn, he has a crush on a girl, and he even pretends to have sex with her during home economics class (though she doesn't notice).

But there are numerous of clues which lead one to believe Seth just might be queer and confused. Taken alone, these clues may not mean much, but add them up, and an interesting picture starts to emerge.

First off, Seth admits that as a child, he liked to draw penises. He didn't just draw one or two; he was obsessed with them. That penis obsession remains with him today, so much so that he can't watch Internet porn that doesn't have penises in it. (“Have you ever seen a vagina by itself?” he asks Evan. “Not for me.”) Seth also says that looking into a certain boys' eyes is as beautiful an experience as listening to the Beatles.

Other clues are even more telling: Seth is jealous his friend will be rooming with Fogell next year at college. In fact, jealous is too weak of a word. Seth acts like a lover scorned. Seth is also upset Evan is preparing to have intercourse with a girl when that was not part of their “plan.” (The plan seems to be to only have oral sex, leading one to think that Seth doesn't see oral sex as being the intimate act intercourse is. Just like Bill Clinton.)

Seth even declares his love for Evan in a scene that's more than a bit reminiscent of Brokeback Mountain. While Seth is drunk at the time, in this case, the alcohol seems like truth serum. And let's also not forget the scene in which Seth lovingly carries his best friend in his arms.

By the end of the film, the audience gets the feeling — especially in the final ambivalent scene — that Seth doesn't connect with the girl he is chasing even half as much as he does with Evan. It's somewhat frustrating because you keep waiting for Seth to realize the obvious, but he never does. Not only that, but his behavior is never really defined by the filmmakers as gay, or at the very least, as the behavior of a teen who is questioning his sexuality.

So while queer viewers might read Seth as gay or confused, the rest of the audience will likely not. Because of this, Superbad reminds me of one of those films in the pre-Stonewall era where the gayness was strongly suggested but never talked about.