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"Rick and Steve" Season 2 premieres tonight: Sneak peek

For those of you suffering from severe potty-mouthed gay doll withdrawal, I have great news: tonight the second season of Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World premieres on Logo (our parent company).

I'm actually looking forward to the series' return, as I found Season 1 to be pretty clever. And from the looks of this preview clip (where a star-struck Evan goes head-to-head with Perez Hilton and other superbloggers) they are still going after some of our favorite targets.

Enjoy, after the break!

Brand new "Rick & Steve" Halloween digisode



Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World will be returning to Logo (our parent company) soon, but the dirty little dolls have whipped up a special Halloween-flavored digisode in time for the annual celebration of all that is inappropriately sexy ... including Jesus!

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  • Video: Sneak peek at "Who Doesn't Love Sperm?" from "Rick & Steve" Season 2

    Considering that we have potty mouths and like to play with dolls, it should be no surprise that we're excited that Rick & Steve, Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is returning to Logo (AfterElton.com's parent company) for another season on November 11th.

    After the break, check out an exclusive sneak peek at "Who Doesn't Love Sperm?" from the Season 2 premiere, as well as a video of out voice talents Peter Paige and Wilson Cruz introducing the new season.

    Creating a gay Game of Life

    A Japanese company has announced that they will be selling a Game of Life customized to your specifications. Along with the option to add pictures of yourself and your loved ones to the box and gameboard, this version will also allow you to dictate what 56 of the 99 spaces on the game board will say. The price tag on a personalized game is a bit high ($350), so it's for dedicated fans only.

    That got me thinking, though, about the kind of spaces you might come up with if you wanted to create a gay version of Life. Here are some thoughts of what might fill a gay Game of Life:

    • Win a reality show where you fool a woman into thinking you're straight. Collect $10,000 in winnings, but give each player $1,000 to buy your dignity back.
    • Adopt a cynical, gay, teen runaway. Collect $1,000 in gifts from each player, but lose a turn spent trying to convince your adopted son you won't abandon him like his birth parents and many foster parents did.
    • You and your partner get in a fight while playing The Game of Life when he grabs a pink peg instead of a blue one upon landing on the "get married" space. Lose a turn.
    • An anonymous delivery of pear and Gruyere pie precede a sudden burst of energy. Take another turn after breaking out into a chorus of "Morning Has Broken".

    • You take your partner to meet your Gay Men-zuh group. His lack of brainpower is mistaken as a dry sense of humor an invited to join the group. Pay $100 to the bank to cover his membership dues.
    • Get left behind on a deadly television satellite by your time traveling companions and overshoot your return trip. Start over.
    • The neighborhood revolts over the ugly fountain on your front yard. Pay $500 to the bank for Neighborhood Association fees.
    • Bust out your Tammy Wynette-obsessed cousin from the mental hospital. Collect $250 when you rent out the spare bedroom to him.
    • Settle a potential harassment lawsuit after your boss outs you so that he can demonstrate his gay-friendliness. Collect $25,000.

    How would you make a gay-customized Life game board? Let us know in the comments!

    Logo slates Season Two of Rick & Steve in its new animation offerings

    I've made no secret that I'm a big fan of Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, the wickedly funny satire from Eating Out and Boy Culture director Q. Allan Brocka. Today, Logo (our parent company) announced that we can look forward to seeing more Rick & Steve, as the show will be returning for a second season in the summer of 2008. The second season will consist of eight episodes, two more than the first season.

    Logo also announced two more gay-themed animation projects. One is Tinseltown, the Hollywood satire from the Jim Henson Company we told you about earlier. If you need more reason to get excited about Tinseltown, I just learned that it's co-written by Sordid Lives creator Del Shores.

    We can also expect more of Small Talk, which was part of last week's Alien Boot Camp. The Small Talk short films all focus on two gay male friends who comment on the goings-on at the gym, steamroom or other locations.

    You can already check out Small Talk at AlienBootCamp.com. A 12-minute pilot of Tinseltown will air on tomorrow night's Alien Boot Camp and will available to watch online the following Monday, November 5.

    See that picture at the top? I'm up there dancing with Evan and Condi over the news of all this animated goodness.

    Rick & Steve quiz: Which plastic homosexual are you?


    For those of you who have been wondering which of the crass plastic figures on Rick & Steve, The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World you resemble most, here's some great news: now a handy online quiz will tell you just that in a few simple clicks!

    Now, be prepared, because you may hear something you don't want to hear. For example, apparently I'm a Chuck, the crank in the wheelchair voiced by Alan Cumming. As the quiz puts it:

    "Crass, witty, and able to interrupt a boring proceeding with a loud yawn and a fart, you're really just an old softie at heart. Sure, you might be happier without all those damn people in your life yammering all the time, but then who would you complain about?"

    I don't know what's scarier ... the implication that I fart in public or that I'm voiced by Alan Cumming. This is even worse than the time I took the "Which Golden Girl Are You?" quiz and I was Rose Nylund, when EVERONE knows I'm Dorothy Zbornak.

    Anyway, take the quiz for yourself and find out which character is your alter ego!

    Is a "Fag Hag" backlash brewing?

    We've come a long way from the heady days of Will & Grace, when "fag hags" (or "queer peers," as my best college female friend used to say) were all the rage. Back then, fag hags were a great way to give gay male characters on television and in movies a story arc without it involving sex, dating, kissing, or any gay or same-sex interaction at all.

    But everyone now agrees we've moved waaaaaay beyond the fag hag, dramatically speaking. In fact, there may even be a fag hag backlash brewing. In "It's Raining Pussy," the most recent episode of Logo's (AfterElton.com's parent company) Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World, Condie Ling (voice by Margaret Cho, the best casting choice since Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl) is Rick's "alternate lifestyle companion."

    Alas, her 17th boyfriend has come out, forcing her into a series of increasingly desperate suicide attempts (she is more or less saved at the last minute by a visit from the ghost of a previous suicide-commiting fag hag from the 70s -- but this is definitely not your typical ghost-of-Jacob-Marley type encounter!). This is funny and all, and it's impossible to take offense at it when the show is satire and the whole point of the show is to send up gay stereotypes.

    But let's face it, between last year's Adam & Steve and the two scheming fag hags on Ugly Betty, "alternative lifestyle companions" suddenly aren't being portrayed in such a good light. Was this inevitable given the sacharine overkill of the Will & Grace years (the torch of which Debra Messing is still carrying in her recent mini-series, The Starter Wife)? Or is this the start of some kind of open season on fag hags on television and in movies?

    If so, count me out. After all, the Kathy Griffins of the world loved us long before the "Modern Love" column of the New York Times. Besides, don't we owe them something for taking us to the prom?

    Queerview television guide for August 14

    Laughing Matters: Gay Comedy in America (Logo) 8:00 PM EDT
    A comedy special featuring Alec Mapa and Bob Smith, among others? I am so there.

    Flipping Out (Bravo) 10:00 PM EDT
    Jeff Lewis continues to deliver the drama as he considers the value of having a psychic bless a house and fights with his business partner (not to mention ex-boyfriend) about who gets to live in the biggest estate they've worked on so far. For a preview of the episode, check out below the jump.

    Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in all the World 10:00 PM EDT
    Has this comedy only been on a one-week break? Because I feel like I've gone without this hysterical animated comedy for much longer. This week's episode finds the characters enjoying a gay cruise with the boys attending the Seamen Dance, while Kirsten and Dana attend Mommy Boot Camp class. After the jump, check out a video on how the puppets are created, courtesy of the series' website.

    Get your funny on with Rick & Steve!

    Come on, admit it. You know you think you're funnier than everyone else, right? Heck, I bet you're dying for a crack at writing the BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! (Well, forget it! That baby is mine!). But thanks to Logo (AfterElton.com's parent company) and the creators of Rick & Steve you've now got your chance to create your very own comic and show the whole world just how freakin' hilarious you are! Just visit their site, create your own comic, then pop back over and upload it for all of us to judge harshly enjoy! I'll even go first!

    Yeah, yeah — Charles Schulz just rolled over in his grave! So come on! Show me you can do better! If there is a really good one by Thursday evening, I'll post it in my BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! column and you'll be famous! Or something.

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  • Queerview television guide for July 31

    Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (Logo) 10:00 PM EDT
    Margaret Cho's character finally make an appearance in tonight's episode -- Cho plays Condie, a clingy "lifestyle companion" who has a history of dating men who turn out to be gay.

    Flipping Out (Bravo) 11:00 PM EDT
    Bravo's newest series focuses on an out real estate investor who "flips" houses for a living. In the tradition of Blow Out and Work Out, he's got a flair for the dramatic with obsessive-compulsive tendencies to boot. There are a few other gay men in the mix as well, and one cranky cat.

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