by Catheryn Clarke

Created on: December 01, 2008

One of THE bright spots of my latest viewing pleasure has to be the return of one of the best, funniest, most politically incorrect, ingenious animated shows ever created. No, not The Simpsons, which I will agree is one of the classics of the genre and I'm not talking about South Park either. I'm referring to Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World! What, you haven't heard of this show before? Well, make sure your cable provider offers

LOGO. If they don't, then take your business elsewhere because it will be well worth it because frankly when a show has titles like "Bush Baby," "It's Raining Pussy" and "Guess Who's Coming for Quiche," how can you resist?

In a nutshell, this cartoon series (well they really aren't cartoons but Lego-like figures) takes place in the fictional "gay ghetto" seaside town of West Lahunga Beach, where rainbows always shine and people are often breaking out into song and dance , not unlike my local Trader Joe's but that's another story.

Steve, a real estate agent and fitness freak, and Rick,a Filipino American homemaker and computer programmer with a slight OCD issue, are, of course, known as "the happiest gay couple in all the world" but more often than not just like any other relationship they have their ups and
downs but that doesn't mean they aren't happy. Some of their spats do include Rick getting jealous about Steve keeping an old jock strap of one of his past conquests or Steve not including Rick in his midnight porn viewing but hey we can all relate in one way or another. They are for the most part, the cliched upwardly mobile 30-something gay couple. Hell, they even are cat owners. Pussy (I nearly spit out my drink when I heard Rick calling for her in the pilot) is an entity all to herself.

Rick's best friend is Kristen, a lipstick lesbian who runs the aptly
named sex toy shop, Chick Sticks. Her partner, Dana, is the butchest of bull dykes who hates men but in particular Rick and Steve. Kristen has decided that conservatives and crackwhores shouldn't be the only ones to breed so she asks Rick for some of his sperm over dinner one night, as you do. To make it a more united effort, Rick and Steve decide to mix their "donation" together in a shot glass and then hand it over to Kristen, but Dana, who is not that keen on the whole idea, accidentally spills the glass on their way home and through three layers of denim and her anti-sperm uterus, she winds up preggers. (The abortion hotline episode is a tear inducing side

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