Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MTV
• DVD Release Date: August 28, 2007
• Run Time: 132 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000RZIGY0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,397 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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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

Product Description

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.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Think of it as the gay "Simpsons" ..., September 4, 2007

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Bob Lind "camelwest" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rick & Steve - The Complete First Season (DVD)

In the gay enclave of West Lahunga, "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World" (2007) are your typical thirtysomething guppies, complete with an attitudinal spoiled cat named Pussy. Rick is the sensitive one, a trendy Fillipino-American computer programmer, deeply in love with Steve, a gym-obsessed hottie who sells overpriced houses to the locals. Rick (or is it Steve?) is the father of the child being co-parented by their best friends, Kirsten (a boyish lipstick lesbian) and her partner Dana (a sarcastic self-described J.A.B., Jewish American Bulldyke.) They're also friends with Chuck, a 50ish HIV+ paraplegic, and his shallow but devoted 19 year old boytoy, Evan, and neighborhood "fag hag" Condi Ling.

When I caught the first episode of this series on LOGO, I was a bit taken aback by the rather unapologetic and definitely non-PC tone of some of the humor, including the stereotypes (Rick and Steve are shallow, often sex-obsessed, don't know what end of a hammer to hold, and depend on Dana to do any minor repairs around the house) and the concept of having a character with HIV, now healthy on the new drugs, using his antibody status as a way to get extra attention and considerations from others. I relaxed a bit by the second episode, and began to better understand and appreciate the intentional "in your face" tone of the show that made the humor work all the better. (Apparently, I'm not the only one who found this taking some getting used to, as actor Peter "Queer As Folk" Paige - the voice of Steve - mentions in the DVD extras, that the intent was to make a gay urban Simpsons, where you can get away with things using cartoon characters that you wouldn't dream of doing with live actors. For example, we laugh at Homer stranging his son Bart, but could you imagine the outcry if John Goodman had stranged a misbehaving DJ on "Roseanne"?) It is indeed a topical, creative, daring and highly original series, dealing humorously with a myriad of situations including GLBT cruises, ageism, swinging, codependence, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. My personal favorite of the six episodes is #2, which features an Ebony and Ivory, an interracial lesbian couple, who carry political correctness to a hysterical extreme, in that they don't want to even know their own baby's gender (They close their eyes when they change diapers) in order to avoid possibly pushing him/her into any stereotypical "gender roles."

The episodes are still on rotation on LOGO-TV, with some clips also available for free on their website. But I recommend renting or buying the (rather bargain priced) DVD, for all six episodes as well as some interesting extras, including segments on how the stop-action annimation is done, interviews with Peter Paige (Steve), Wilson Cruz (Evan), Alan Cumming (Chuck) and Margaret Cho (Condi), and 12 brief "digisodes" that were not aired. With well-deserved extra points for originality and chutzpah, I'll give it five stars out of five.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dead-on satire and humour, July 11, 2007

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Chuck Leduc (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rick & Steve - The Complete First Season (DVD)

This stuff is hilarious. Originally a set of stop-motion shorts, they've been adapted into a season of animated shows. The humour is so dead-on it hurts.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rick and Steve, June 30, 2008

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RicknSimon "Gay Aussies" (Sydney) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rick & Steve - The Complete First Season (DVD)

This animation is awesome - can't get enough of it and each time that we watch it we find more to laugh about. Really well worth adding to a collection and can't wait for series two.