A Beautiful Thing: QAF Recap 509 07-10-05 Page 4

by StickyKeys Queer As Folk Episode 509 Aired 07-10-05

Tuna Pot Pie

Brian is listening to jazz and smoking a joint when he hears a series of knocks at the door. He’s looking at a photo album and I’m thinking that it’s of him and Michael, but I’m not sure. If it is, it’s a nice touch. He slides open his door and sees Deb holding a casserole dish. She asks if he’s alone and he nods saying that it’s one of those rare unexpected moments. She walks in prompting Brian to say, “So much for the moment.” She notices his listening choices and asks if it’s Thelonious. Brian doesn’t answer, but instead asks if it’s tuna macaroni casserole in her hands. Deb says, “You got it!”, but Brian shakes his head and says, “don’t want it.” Heh, poor Deb, I would eat her tuna casserole. Tuna casserole is one of those things that just sounds gross until you really want it. Apparently for Brian, tuna casserole means that he and Deb are going to get stoned and have a meaningful conversation. For me tuna casserole means that I’ll have wicked gas. Yeah. Brian says that unfortunately he just smoked his last joint, but the ever resourceful Deb says she brought one with her. Why is this a ritual between them? What other combinations have sparked all night feelings fests? Poppers and macaroni and cheese? Quaaludes and chili? Crack cocaine and green bean casserole? Huh, it would make for one hell of a Thanksgiving I guess. Deb goes over and shuts the door as Brian hands her a light. He asks if the detective knows that Deb’s a giggling pothead, and Deb says that nothing kills a relationship faster than full disclosure, then CC says that Brian asks, “Can I smell that?”, but that makes no sense at all. Sorry Uncle Jerrod’sUncle , but I’m going to need you to do better.

After they’ve smoked a little pot and ate a little tuna Deb tells Brian that she doesn’t like how he’s been treating Mikey. Brian tells her to butt the fuck out, but if we know Deb, and I think we do, she has no use for the definition of butting out. She tells Brian that he’s been on Mikey’s case ever since he and Ben bought their house. Brian says it’s more than just the house, it’s that they bought every piece of bullshit the straight world has to offer. He says this much more Brianly, but that’s the gist of it. Deb says that Mikey fell in love and now he’s getting everything he always wanted as a kid including a normal home. Brian laughs and even Deb gets a kick out of Ben and Michael’s situation being deemed “normal”, but her point still stands. She asks Brian why he has a problem with that, and answers herself, “You don’t. Your problem is, he left you.” Deb goes on to say that even though it seems that way, Michael really didn’t leave Brian. “Just because you two made different choices doesn’t mean you don’t still love each other.” Brian tells Deb that Michael won’t talk to him, “then you go talk to him,” she says. Well done Deb.

While I agree completely with Deb’s sentiment, I think there’s more to Brian’s conflict. I call it the Avril Levigne phenomena. She came out all killer rocker and punk and cool, but a lot of people forgot she was only 16 when she really hit the scene. So she grew up and started singing about love and heartbreak and her songs took an interesting turn creatively and everyone started to call her a poser. The thing is that we only knew her as one thing so when she kind of changed, it was very hard to accept. My point is that I think Brian has become so much the poster boy for his current lifestyle, that he’s afraid to change lest it misrepresent him, or his situation. Like, if he decided that he wanted to get married and have kids, he wouldn’t be Brian Kinney anymore, and there would be no one to take his place, so he pretends to not want those things. Does that make sense? Last night was grilled cheese and horse tranquilizer night at the Keys household so who knows what’s coming out of my mouth.

Meshugeneh

Melanie and Michael are walking down Liberty Ave talking about Nazis and Jews and gay people. You know, I want to recap this scene, I really do, but common sense won’t let me. I’ll just sum up and say that Mel had an Zaideh (grandfather) that died at the age 87 while the rest of his family died in camps because they ignored the signs of the Holocaust. Point? If Prop 14 passes all gay people will die. The end.

I will mention that Mel decides to hail a cab and it’s odd because this cab has been sitting there forever. She throws out an arm and then turns back to talk to say goodbye to Michael and JR. She says, “Goodbye Sweetie!” and Michael jokingly says, “Aww, Mel!” Then Mel makes this huge production of getting in the cab and saying, “Can you take me to uh-“ You really have to see it, but it’s odd. What it reminds me of is this study that showed that men usually gave cabbies the address before being fully in the taxi, and women got all the way in before giving the address. I guess lesbians only get partially in? Bah, next scene please!

As he nears the comic book store, Mikey hears an alarm going off. We see the that store has been broken into and vandalized. We move forward a few hours as Carl is questioning Mikey about the events. Apparently nothing was stolen and Deb is just pleased that no one got hurt. JR is being held by Deb and getting adorable all over my screen. That girl is just coo-root! Carl tells Mikey to file a report and they’ll investigate, but that with this type of vandalism it’s pretty hard to come up with anything. I would agree except that this seemed to happen in the middle of the day so someone had to see something I would think. Mikey thinks it was more than vandalism and maybe the haters were trying to destroy two gay superheroes getting married, at the gay comic shop, on Liberty Avenue. Right. If that were true that shop would have been torn down a long time ago. Carl says no, and that Michael’s getting a bit carried away. Michael says he just accused Melanie of the same thing.

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