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Madelane

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 10:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I checked the schedule on Bravo's website and my boyfriend Tivo was just wrong. Men!

Kitt

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 02:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My TiVo taped yesterday's QE for me too, but of course it was a repeat. Maybe next Tuesday's is new.

Tishala

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 05:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Remember: all new Queer Eye tonight.

Texannie

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 06:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I just love this show! I giggle and laugh and feel so happy during it! I have the biggest crush on Thom! He is so witty and charming. I got so tickled at his comment last night when Tom (the straight guy) was saying "I just wasn't happy with how I looked, I am gaining wait, I needed a change" and Thom says "so you decided to call 5 queer guys to help you out!" but it was just the way he said it.
I am laughing over how blatant the product placement has become. It's making Rocco look subtle!

Kitt

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This time my TiVo didn't tape it, because it thought it taped it last week (when actually it was the repeat)! I've had to set it to tape it when it's on today instead. My crush is on Kayan, he's so innocently affectionate, I love men like that.

Squaredsc

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
kitt, kyan is mine, lol. another great show last nite. and the lil boy was hysterical. but i want to know how they get the bathroom tile soooo clean and bright? now matter how much i scrub mine never looks that good.

Texannie

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Love Kyan too, but he is definitely fixated on nose hair! LOL
Poor Jai..what exactly does he do? Don't lose him...he's great, but what?????
The poor girl that got the wasabi roll!!!! LOL

Squaredsc

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 11:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl texannie, that was hysterical. wayyy too much wasabi.

Jan

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This show is so successful that tomorrow on the View thay are doing a parody of it! They are going to have three STRAIGHT guys makeover a QUEER guy.Should be a little bit of fun

Texannie

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Another thing that tickles me are the "snaps"...we did this in my sorority 25 years ago!!!! LOL

Fabnsab

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 02:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I always wonder what Jai really does too, Texannie. I just kinda think he is there for all the little extra details that make a house a home or a person a social success, like when he got the take away cards for Butch, the artist. Those are the special touches that don't fall into a particular category.

I saw one episode with Blair, the original culture guy. Jai commands the screen so much more than Blair did. It may be in the editing but they made the right decision.

I want to add that ,although I like Ted, I think he is off the mark alot with his food choices. He gave Adam a pate mousse to make. Pate is an acquired taste. It would have been ok if it was one of many things but all he had was pate on different types of crackers and such. The people didn't like it. Then last night, he gave Tom sushi, another acquired taste, and didn't even show him how to do it properly. One sushi roll should make 9 pieces, six maybe, but 4!? Those were too big. He should go easy on these guys who never cook and give them things that are crowd pleasers for your average Joe's because thats who they're working with.

Nathalia

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 02:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet..but the Fab Five will be on Oprah this coming Monday!

Texannie

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 03:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fab..exactly about Ted!!! I do like to think I am not terribly picky..but sushi, raw bar, pate???????? LOL Not exactly your standard party fare, and these guys weren't even hosting enough parties for their guests to be bored with the "standards"!

Texannie

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The View did their version "Straight Eye for the Queer Guy", with all this talk of stereotyes and what is offensive...THAT was offensive!!! I was highly insulted by the whole skit. The queer guy was so over the top. Yes, Carson will make sexual inuendos, but this guy's comments made your skin crawl. The straight guys were awful and uncomfortable. And the "reason" for the makeover was to help the guy be more butch and play basketball. I thought it was a very cheap, demeaning shot.

Max

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
gosh, now i'm glad i missed it.

Bastable

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mods, I know I'm overstepping a tad here, but if you ever get a moment, could you please change the title of this thread to reflect the actual title of the show: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Thanks! It's been driving me ka-ray-zeee!

Tishala

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 03:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree Annie. The View skit was horrifying--even though guest hostess Kennedy tried to pretend that it was all in good fun and that they thought there ws nothing wrong with the gay guy...whatever. It was simply repugnant.

Bastable

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mods, you are awesome! Thank you for attending to my latent OCD.

Madelane

Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kitt, my boyfriend Tivo tried to do the same thing but I caught him and set it up to tape it last night. So I just watched the Tom Minogue episode today! I agree with everyone. They must do so much they can't even show some things, like Tom getting his hair cut.

The View skit sounds horrifying.

Kellee

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 06:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am going to defend the View...this is there year of the Viewer..they are granting makeovers and such..so this guy obviously wrote in and said that he wanted help with the basketball thing..Derek..the gay guy..is the one who initatiated the whole thing...and really I think it turned out the way he wanted it to..so I do not see the harm in it...

Texannie

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 06:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kellee...think you are correct..here is what The View said on their recap..
Next, we put a twist on Bravo's hit makeover show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The View enlisted a team of straight guys and had them transform one of our gay viewers into a macho, macho man! Derek, who is completely comfortable with who he is, told us that he always had a fear of joining athletic activities. So Nathaniel, Brian and Kevin taught Derek how to dress in sporty clothing, talk like a "baller" and shoot hoops with the best of them. Derek had a great time learning how to be a confident player and The View appreciates him being such a great sport for participating in our spoof of Bravo's popular show.

Maybe the guy was more of a willing participant that I thought. It sure did look more like a "skit" to me though.

Tishala

Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Annie, as a retroactive defense of their offensive "skit," that summation by the View folks is fine. But of course they had to tell us on the air that it was all in good fun and that Derek was fine just as he is, etc.

One thing Queer Eye does really well (to me) is to start with an idea of gay vs. straight masculinity only to undermine those suppositions as the show progresses. The View was not interested in that--it seemed like the joke was on Derek the whole time and that it created (or reinvogorated) a pathologized version of gayness that seemed overdetermined by its retrograde ideologies.

That said, I don't pretend to have any answers about this.

Texannie

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 05:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I thought I had posted this yesterday, but it's not here! LOL
Anyway, the Fab 5 were on Oprah yesterday and were just too cute for words!!! Thom did a room makeover that was absolutely breath taking. Carson did clothes for 3 guys, Jai taught a guy to swing dance, Ted taught a guy to cook crab cakes, and Kyan did a 2 makeovers (didn't get to see them.) The boys were just hysterical, very gracious about their sudden fame, and they looked fantastic!! I really wished that I could have seen Oprah after the Show yesterday too.

Squaredsc

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 06:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thx texannie, wish i could've seen them.

Just4fun

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Could anyone tell me if we get, or will be getting this show in Montreal, Canada?