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DVD
Paramount
Publisher: MTV
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Welcome to the gayest of gay ghettoes, West Lahunga Beach, where Rick and Steve make their fabulously decorated double-income-no-children home. That is until Rick’s lifelong lesbian friend Kirsten asks him to be the father of her child. There’s just one catch, Kirsten’s wife Dana and Rick’s husband Steve are mortal enemies. The insults fly, nothing goes unspoken, and the ugly, bitter truth about domestic bliss never looked so cute.
Funny is funny whether you're gay or straight, and Rick & Steve is a very funny series. A comedy breakthrough in more ways than one, this stop-motion animated sitcom premiered on the Logo channel on July 10th, 2007, and "The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World" became an instant hit with Logo's target audience. The show's gay and lesbian demographic shouldn't scare off potential straight fans, however: Rick & Steve is unabashedly R-rated with its provocative and occasionally raunchy humor (this is definitely NOT a show for prudes), but it's readily accessible to any open-minded fans of The Simpsons and South Park. Expanding on an award-winning 1999 comedy short that he created with animated Lego figures, series creator Q. Allan Brocka brings refreshing candor to Rick (voiced by Will Matthews), Steve (peter Paige), and all the other plastic-toy characters who populate West Lahunga Beach, "the gayest of gay ghettoes" where Rick & Steve share their "fabulously decorated double-income-no-kids home." In the premiere episode "Guess Who's Coming for Quiche?," Rick is thrilled when his lesbian best friend Kirsten (Emily Brooke Hands) asks him to be a sperm donor so she can have a child with her partner Dana (Taylor M. Dooley), a mullet-sporting bull dyke who hates men with a passion. The only problem is that Steve and Dana can't stand each other, and much of the humor in Rick & Steve arises from their constant barrage of gay and lesbian insults. Adding to the fireworks is the co-dependent coupling of 19-year-old "club kid" Evan (Wilson Cruz) with Steve's best friend Chuck (British gay icon Alan Cumming), a "bitter old queen" who's disabled and HIV positive. Also included in the regular cast is Condi Ling (Margaret Cho), the show's resident fag hag (er, make that "alternative lifestyle companion") and Rick & Steve's occasionally magical cat Pussy, who can talk, but only when she wants to. Good writing is the foundation of any successful sitcom, and the 6-episode first season of Rick & Steve has plenty of it. Loaded with snappy comebacks, outrageous one-liners and absurd situations that somehow make sense, the series is propelled by a defiant disregard for political correctness, but its edginess (unlike the juvenile antics of South Park) derives from good-natured compassion for its mostly-likeable characters, contrasted with a low-budget aesthetic that combines Day-Glo pastels and primary colors with simple Playskool anatomy. Released almost immediately after the first season ended in August 2007, this highly entertaining DVD offers an abundance of bonus features including 12 hilarious one-or-two-minute "digisodes" originally shown on the official Rick & Steve website, a pair of informative behind-the-scenes featurettes, interviews with the voice cast, and clips from other MTV Networks programming. (Check out the clip for "Tranny 911" – it's almost as funny as Rick & Steve.) The only thing missing here is the original Rick & Steve short from 1999 --Jeff Shannon
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| Amazing Serie |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This is a favorite of mine series, very clever, acid, not so correct, funny and GAY. AMAZING.
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| Highly Original |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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For the passed few years, friends have been talking about a show on Logo, a cable channel that presents gay themed, or gay-friendly progamming.
Rick and Steve has to be one of the most original shows i have seen in years. I was hooked from the first show i watched.
I won't repeat what many reviewers mentioned, but will stress that this show at times is vulgar (thankfully), and very funny. So, it's not intended for the kiddies despite it's cartoonish look.
Knowing it takes the producers alot of time to create the show, am hoping for more. I already have Series 2.
If you prefer mindless and sometimes political humor with sexual references thrown in with tons of insults, this is for you.
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I have been waiting for this to come out it is great! I love it. Now I am waiting for sordid lives the seasons to come out.
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| LOL's and LMAO's all around |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I have never before encountered a show like this one. My older sister recommended this to me because, when I was a child, legos were my favorites to play with. I thought that this adaptation of lego life was hilarious. I recommended it to several of my friends, most of which have purchased the series since. Good job LOGO!!!
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| Rick and Steve the funniest Gay couple in the world |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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My partner and I caught a clip of this between a movie on Logo - and rented it from Netflix. After episode 1 we ordered it from Amazon - this is an hilarious show - well scripted. The humor lasted from episode to episode - and everyone Gay and Straight would find this entrancing.
The cliches are great and the puns are groaners but we are convinced if you don't roll on the floor with laughter after episode 1 - then you won't find anything humorous....
Anyone who can animate "Lego" like characters and turn them into these stereotypical but unoffensive portrayals of life in a gay village is a pure genius.
Rick and Steve may be the happiest gay couple in the world, but their bussom budies in the cast are just as cool - we loved Dana, Chuck, Evan and Kirsten too ... not forgetting Pussy ...
A witty line from the show Dana - "I won't ever mess with Pussy again"- that made our laughter lines grow bigger.
A+ and now we have season two on delivery for the 3rd ...
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