Season 3 of Kid Cosmic, about the staff and random customers at an isolated diner in the desert who suddenly become superheroes, dropped on Netflix on February 3, 2022. In a Twitter post on February 2nd, Craig McCracken, the creator of Kid Cosmic, confirmed that "Fry and Hamburg" are a romantic couple. On February 5th, McCracken further specified on his Instagram "how they met and fell in love": Hamburg graduated from a top culinary school in Europe, but wanted to cook "real food," so he got a job at the dingy diner in New Mexico, and fell in love with his coworker, Fry.
Fry (voiced by Eric Bauza, left) is a skinny, tattooed Italian guy with super-stretching ability, and Hamburg (voiced by Fred Tatsciore) is a blond German hunk with the ability to exude multiple arms.
They are very minor characters. They didn't even get superpowers until Season 2, and even then, they are #10 and #11 in the superhero list, with no lines in most episodes. I saw no gay hints about them in Seasons 1 and 2, but then, I wasn't looking closely: they were mostly background.
So, on to Season 3. I'll check every appearance of Fry and Hamburg, looking for holding hands, hugging, dancing together, a shared apartment, any hint, however minuscule, that they are being presented as a canonical romantic couple.
Episode 1: In Season 2, the Galactic Heroes worked at an interplanetary diner as a cover while they tried to track down missing Rings of Power, which could cause mayhem if they fell into the wrong hands (as they usually did). When the Rings were all accounted for, they used them to defeat the Planet Destroyer, a planet-sized Big Bad. In the fracas, the rings were scattered all over Earth. So, in Season 3, the renamed Global Heroes must track them all down again. . First up: an invisibility stone and a growth stone.
Fry and Hamburg stand next to each other, but do not interact. Only they and the married male-female couple are introduced to the world as a pair, so that might be a clue.
Episode 2: An Egyptian supervillain, a potato kid, and an underwater kingdom. And the Global Heroes discover that this world is not the Earth they know. And Papa G, central character Kid Cosmic's grandpa, has a dark secret.
Fry and Hamburg appear only in a meeting of the superheroes, and do not interact.
Episode 3: They work to escape the fantasy-Earth. Papa G agonizes over whether to tell Kid Cosmic his dark secret.
The superheroes sleep in single beds in a dormitory (except the married male-female couple, who share a bed).
Fry gets up in the middle of the night and tries to take the spatula out of the sleeping Hamburg's hand. I don't know if he's being affectionate or sneaky, or planning to climb into bed with Hamburg. Then they're both zapped away to a superheroes meeting.
Episode 4: Everything the Galactic Heroes thought they had accomplished in Season 2 was a projection. They actually failed to save the galaxy, and are living on a dismal refugee planet. But sthere is a spark of hope that they could still defeat the Planet Destroyer.
Fry and Hamburg are shown in the kitchen, checking out the supplies. Just canned goods. Fry says something stupid, and Hamburg tosses a can at him.
Episode 5: After several battles, they defeat the Planet Destroyer for real and return to the real Earth.
When they are surprised, Fry clutches at Hamburg's arm.
Episode 6: They mourn those people and civilizatiions destroyed by the Planet Destroyer. Then, their superpowers gone, they return to their ordinary lives. But at least they manage to communicate with the outside universe and invite all the beings they've helped during their adventures to come to the diner. So it's back to the interplanetary diner, which is where they were happiest after all.
At the memorial service, Fry and Hamburg step up to say their eulogy together, but so do several characters not involved in a relationship. They interact briefly while preparing the diner for the alien customers.
When the two-headed crime mistress from Season 2 approaches, Hamburg hugs Fry, as if to protect him, or to deflect a flirtation: "We're together. Back off."
They are talking to each other at the party later. And that's it.
That's it?
Come on, if you want to establish them as a couple, they have got to kiss. Or at least hold hands! Craig and Eric did that on Drake and Josh back in 2007! This is more like "Dumbledore is gay, but it isn't mentioned in the Harry Potter books or movies. He just is."
See also: Kid Cosmic Season 2: Is Stuck Chuck Gay?
This is the old bait and switch tactic- they get a lot publicity about a character being gay but there is nothing gay about him or her in the actual movie- look at Sulu
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ReplyDeleteamazing! But wish there was more
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