Grant Show first took our breath away (as he did Kelly Taylor's) on an episode of 90210, which was of course the launching pad for the ultra campy, soon-to-become-legendary Melrose Place. He oozed sex appeal and as Jake Hanson he bedded every woman on the show ... and gave every gay man in America something to think about in bed every night.

Luckily, Show is back on television in CBS's new retro-drama hit Swingtown and while some things seem the same (he's still sexy as hell and shirtless in a pool), some things have clearly changed.

Set outside Chicago at the Bicentennial, Show plays Tom Decker, one half of a suburban swinger couple that seduces anything that moves, including their new neighbors, and apparently a man or two.

According to a recent Associated Press article, Grant will be swinging his bat for both teams:

"When Trina Decker's ex-boyfriend pops up around episode six with aspirations of rekindling their high school romance, he ends up bedding both of the Deckers.

"Trina and I pretty much do everything together," says Show, flashing a grin that exaggerates his 'stache. "That, I think, is the craziest thing I've done on the show. It's probably going to flip America up and down the most. It's sort of left to the audience as to how far that goes, but I think that's going to be controversial."

Raise your hands if Swingtown just went from "must see TV" to "must DVR and rewatch over and over TV". If the creators of the show and CBS are paying attention, please write in some man-on-man action between Show's Decker and the repressed Roger Thompson (played by the ever-so-handsome Josh Hopkins); now that would be dy-no-mite!

Thanks to Sister Shoelace for the tip!

I'm a day late on this, but was anyone else vaguely annoyed by the minor "gay" sub-plot on Monday's episode of How I Met Your Mother? Desperate for money, Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lily (Alyson Hannigan) decide to try to sell Lily's paintings. They have the usual sitcom-y back luck ... until Lily manages, to her delight, to sell a painting to the arbiters of truly good taste, a "GAYCWK" — a Gay Couple Without Kids.

But Marshall loves the painting and wants it back, so he goes to visit the gay couple's apartment. After Marshall inquires about the painting — "the one in the nice frame" — one of the gay guys says (in a queeny, lascivious voice):

"Talk about a nice frame! You are a big one, aren't you? My, my. And you're married to that little bit of a thing. How does that work? I'd like to find out."

The show pretends that Marshall, an obviously married, heterosexual man, would flattered by this creepy, totally inappropriate sexual attention, rather than having him give the correct response, which would be to tell the gay guy to go f*#& himself.

I confess: I hate gay-guy-hitting-on-straight-guy humor. I hate it when frat-boy comedies cement the rock-solid heterosexuality of their main characters by having them get hit on by, and then rejecting, some queeny stereotype of a gay guy.

(For the record, I also hate it when drag queens get cheap laughs by making double entendres to the hapless straight guy in the audience. Passive aggressive much?)

Anyway, you can tell who has the real power in Hollywood by looking atwho the sexual predators tend to be in movies and one television: women and gay men. Um, yeah, cause that's the way it is in real life.

This whole thing was beneath How I Met Your Mother, which, after the brilliant new Robin Sparkles video "Sandcastles in the Sand" a few weeks ago, had been on something of a winning streak.

I mean, the gay couple wasn't just creepy-lascivious, they were literally limp-wristed!

I refuse to blame Neil Patrick Harris for this — hey, he's just another actor on the show. But did the whole thing strike anyone else as a series of gags straight out of the 1980s?

We all know there are no accidents when it comes to editing reality shows so it's interesting that during the Survivor's intro, out gay Mormon Todd Herzog was introduced right alongside Survivor's Christian talkshow host Leslie Nease.

And I don't think they wound up on the same tribe — Fei Long — by accident either. The other tribe is Zhan Hu, but from here on out I'm referring to them as Feng Shui (easier to remember) and John Who as that was what I thought Jeff Probst said every time.

Depending on your point-of-view, Leslie didn't come off so hot even before the tribes were dropped off in the middle of nowhere. During a "welcoming ceremony" at a Buddhist temple, Leslie got overwrought at being asked to kneel in front of a statue of Buddha because the Bible forbids her to bow down before no other gods. Said Leslie, "'I'm not a religious person, but I have a relationship with Jesus Christ, and the only time I'm gonna put my face on the floor is for him."

I so relate! I'm not a drinker, but I do drink daiquiris occasionally, and it's only for a great strawberry daiquiri (or six) that I'm going to put my face on the floor!

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