Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
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| Original title | Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World |
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| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| year | 2007 |
| Episodes | 14 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Comedy |
| idea | Q. Allan Brocka |
| production | Pamela Post |
| music | Meiro Stamm u. a. |
| First broadcast | July 10, 2007 on logo (USA) |
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Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World 's a in stop-motion produced process Canadian television series. The director is Q. Allan Brocka .
The series, of which two seasons have already been produced, has been running on the television channel Logo since 2007 . In Germany, the series was broadcast on TIMM TV from 2008 to June 2010 . The first short films were animated with Lego figures and building blocks. Later episodes use their own figures, but their design is still based on Lego and Playmobil figures .
action
The television series Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World uses the animated characters to focus on the coexistence of the gay couple Rick and Steve as well as the gay couple Chuck and Evan and the lesbian couple Dana and Kirsten . All three couples live in the fictional lesbian and gay district of West Lahunga Beach . In the animated sitcom, the everyday life of the three couples and their friends and families is discussed. The title of the TV series is meant slightly ironic, as the example of the three main couples shows the typical relationship problems with which (but not only) gays and lesbians are confronted. For example, Dana and Kirsten decide to have a baby with the help of a sperm donation from Rick , and there is a large age difference of 31 years between Chuck and Evan .
The series is aimed at an adult television audience and is politically incorrect in the style of humor. In some areas it is similar to the style of the animated series South Park .
main characters
All the main characters represent more or less exaggerated stereotypes of the gay and lesbian scene: Rick is the intellectual, refined and effeminate type, while his partner Steve embodies the down-to-earth proll who avoids gay behavior (' straight-acting '). In contrast to the celebs Chuck and Evan, who have a sexually open relationship, these two represent the 'stuffy' gay couple who, for example, furnish their cat with a complete 'nursery'. Sexually, too, the roles are clearly assigned and are often discussed: Rick is 'Bottom', Steve is 'Top'. The pair of women is also a caricature of lesbian stereotypes: Dana is the 'butch', i.e. the man-woman, while Kirsten is the sensitive young woman. As an important supporting character, Condi should be mentioned, a heavyweight ' Fag hag ' who always chases after gay men.
Cast and dubbing
The series was set to music at the Elektrofilm. Oliver Feld wrote the dialogue books and directed the dialogue.
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Rick Brocka | Will Matthews | Monty Arnold |
| Steve Ball | Peter Paige | Oliver Field |
| Kirsten Kellog | Emily Brooke Hands | Dascha Lehmann |
| Dana Bernstein | Taylor M. Dooley | Martina Treger |
| Chuck Masters | Alan Cumming | Thomas Hailer |
| Evan Martinez | Wilson Cruz | Dirk Stollberg |
| Condi Ling | Margaret Cho | Daniela Reidies |
Web links
- Official website of Rick & Steve ( Memento of December 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (December 2008) (English)
- Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World in Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Rick & Steve. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .