D*ng!: Dysfunctional Asian-American family, with Andrew Law as a gay brother. Gen Z humor, gross-out jokes, cute gay guys, and Brian Jordan Alvarez..

  

The ultra-Puritans put this behind a s*nsitive warning again. For the life of me, I could not figure out why, except that they disapprove of the title of the tv series, which is itself a euphemism for d*mn.  Surely they're not that picky?  Even when I was a kid, we could say d*ng.

Link to the not fully clothed photos

I've been looking forward to the animated D*ng!, about dysfunctional Asian-American siblings, wiith some trepidation.  In one of the scenes in the trailer, Andrew D*ng struggles to say something to a burly Hispanic dude in a bodega, knocks over a display, says "I love you!" and leaves in embarrassment.  Sounds like he's gay, but in another scene, he's knocking over furniture in enthusiastic kissing and hugging with a woman, so I'm not sure.  I've been fooled by queerbaiting trailers before.

But it stars Andrew Law, the showrunner of The Family Law, about a Chinese-Australian boy coming out, so we'll give it a try.

Scene 1: Boardroom at the XY Deadstock Company.  Andrew calls a meeting with his disengaged, phone-scrolling "gr*ndset alpha" employees.  His co-owner fires him because "every day you spend hours in the bathroom, eavesdropping on your own employees and tweeting their conversations."

"Can't fire me if you can't catch me!" He runs away in a panic, chased by security guards in a parody of those zany movie chases. One expects to hear "Yackety Sax" in the background.  He runs into Lucille,  Head of HR, who hands him the termination papers.

Scene 2: A purple-haired woman is livestreaming her (censored) videos, accumulating coins. If she gets enough, she promises marble rye. Andrew comes and gets yelled at for interrupting. She notes that she's only doing this until she lands the job at (censored), Kate Hudson's lip gloss newsletter. 

Andrew being fired will be a major inconvenience, since he pays for all her stuff. "Go back and fight for your job."

Scene 3: Andrew begs the Co-Owner to give him his job back.  "We're a world-changing company!" "We let teens resell their (censored) for $6,000.  And you don't do anything."  Who would spend that much on a used (censored)?  

"My lawyer and I will see you in court!"

"Isn't that just a guy you dated?"  

"We only dated once, and it was mostly (censored)."

Gay identity established at Minute 5.00, but what about the enthusiastic girl-kissing?  Maybe it's bi identity.

Scene 4: Lawyer tells Andrew that they have two options: Prove that the Bathroom Twitter account wasn't his.   "Nope, it was mine."  Ok, prove that he was wrongfully terminated.   His older sister Ruthie texts, so he runs away.

The IMDB and the closing credits don't reveal which actor plays which character, so all I know is that Brian Jordan Alvarez and Jared Goldstein (not fully clothed on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends) are in the cast Also Adam Palley (below).

Cut to (censored), where Purple-Haired Sister is waiting for her internship interview.  The receptionist offers several wacky perks, like a cranial massage, bone marrow broth, and a rude therapist: "A gay guy who agrees with everything you say, but goes too far."

She's interviewed by a young teen girl who puts rose quartz in her coffee.  They're ready to hire her, when Andrew appears, gesturing wildly.   "Our Sister Ruthie is in town, and she wants to...ugh...grab dinner!" 

"Don't panic.  We can avoid her until she leaves."

Scene 5: They run back to their apartment to grab some essentials and hide, but she's in the house!  She explains that she's moving to town for her very important, very successful job, so she'll be able to evaluate their tech business and muffin shop. 

The siblings don't have either of those careers!  "When Little Miss Perfect finds out, she'll be sooo annoying!"

Purple-Hair has another interview at (censored), so Andrew is in charge of entertaining their sister for the day. She interviews with Kate, who is trying "interminable fasting" and doesn't know what "Cornell" means.

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"The Fullness of Man" or "A Full Man" or "Filling a Man." Whatever, it has a wild p*nis scene.

  

Link to the wild p*nis scene

While I am scrolling through my "n*de photo" feed, I am shocked to find two that are extremely...um...busy.  In the first, an older man wearing a suit catches a young man doing stuff with his boyfriend.  So Dad didn't know that he was gay?  In the second, the young man confronts the older man -- while still up there!

The caption says Tom Pelphrey, whom I've never heard of, in the movie A Man in Full.  It must have a gay theme -- gay men being accused of being "not really men," and all that.

Tom Pelphrey has 10,000 photos on the internet, but he usually looks much older, so this must be a movie from early in his career.  Probably European -- what American movie would show someone tree-trunking?

More research reveals that he starred in Ozark, but I can't tell which character.  An article in People says Perry Abbott, but a Reddit feed says that he was AMAZING as Ben.  The Ozark wiki mentions Ben, "a major antagonist in the third season," but not Perry Abbott, so People must be wrong.

Ben's backside is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

Next I try to look up A Man in Full, but it's such a nonsensical title that I keep searching on A Full Man and The Fullness of Men instead.   When I finally get the title right, it's not an artsy European movie from the early 2000s, it's a tv series that dropped on Netflix in 2024!  Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker, played by famous actor Jeff Daniels, goes bankrupt, and has to defend his empire. Isn't that, like, "Succession"?  

Jeff Daniels is best known for the adulation of 1990s stupidity Dumb and Dumber. Here he appears in Something Wild (1986).

Tom Pelphrey plays "Raymond Peepgrass" Ridiculous name! This guy is a voyeur of lawns?

Wikipedia doesn't say who he is, so I'm assuming from the photo, the rich guy's lawyer?  Why would he care if his lawyer is gay?

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"Buddy": A homicidal unicorn and two queer-coded kids, but is there any buddy-bonding? With Topher Grace, Michael Shannon, and Sergey

 

I was interested in seeing Buddy (2026), a horror parody of 1980s-1990s children's shows like Barney the Dinosaur  and Pee-Wee's Playhouse,featuring a homicidal anthropomorphic unicorn (voiced by Keegan Michael Key, with Sergey Zhuravsky, left, inside the suit).

I was a Pee-Wee fan back in the day, and it stars Luke Speakman (below) and Tristan Borders, child actors with a lot of gay-positive work.  Maybe there will be some queer codes, or at least some buddy bonding.  But after reading a plot synopsis, I'm going to give it a miss.  Here's why.

Spoiler alert: I go through the whole movie.

In the first scenes, the children's show It's Buddy features the Unicorn and his four child pals: Josh, Wade, Oliver, and Freddy (a girl). Three boys -- ample buddy bonding opportunities.

Then Josh (Luke Speakman) rebels, preferring to read his book rather than going to a dance party.  Buddy kills him, says that he's off on a journey to Diamond City, and replaces him with Hannah. But Freddy finds his blood-stained book in the trash and gets suspicious.  She tells her friend Wade that something is wrong.  A boy-girl dyad.

The new line-up is Freddy, Wade, Oliver, and Hannah.  Two boys, with buddy bonding possible, except that Wade already has a girlfriend. 

Freddy and Wade ask Nurse Nancy to talk to Buddy.  He kills her.

Maybe they could run away to Diamond City?   The kids try to escape in a sentient train named Charlie, but Buddy kills him, and the only other adult character, Mailman Miles.

Then Buddy starts cutting  Wade (Caleb Williams).  Freddy sees her chance and sets the unicorn on fire, but he doesn't die, he just becomes partially melted.  He kills Wade, leaving:

Freddy, Oliver, and Hannah. One boy, two girls.  No buddy-bonding potential left.

 They try to escape with Mr. Mailbox, but Buddy kills him.

Meanwhile, in the real world, Grace hires a psychic to contac the spirit in their house. She has a husband, Ben (Topher Grace, left) , and two sons, Derek and Timothy (Seamus Flynn, Bryson JonSteele, below). 

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Asher Alexander: Brax's brother makes shrimp fudge, rides a drag queen train, plays a gay judge. With Brax and Brock c*cks

Link to the n*de photos

Asher Alexander is the little brother of Braxton Alexander, who you know as a model, the college boy with the missing t*sticles on Free Bert, and  the gay kid on a flashback episode of The Righteous Gemstones: he rejects the vulgar advances of young Judy, so her brother Jesse retaliates; He hits the boy with a cymbal, then pantses him so the whole class can see his junk...and laugh at him?  Or make it one of the iconic moments of their gay awakening?

It's was a stunt backside, of course, and we didn't see his front.   At least not until he turned 18 (on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

 

Asher, born in March 2015, broke into on-screen acting with Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branching Out (2024), a "meta comedy on the holiday horror and romcom genres."  Fleeing from the murderous yule log, Zoe and her gay buddy Jaxter (Chase Steven Allen) are trapped in the romcom town of Mistletoe, where she falls for struggling ornament shop owner Birl and his young son Jaxon (Asher).

She teaches Jaxon how to make shrimp fudge. Talk about horror!

No Good Deed (2024) is about three families, including a lesbian couple, competing to see who will be chosen to buy a house.  Well, it's a very nice house.  Asher plays the young Paul (Ray Romano).

Hal and Harper (2025) is a comedy miniseries featuring siblings who reminisce about their dysfunctional childhoods.  The adult actors play themselves as children.  I can't imagine how weird that must look. Asher appears as Josh, not mentioned in the plot synopses.

Stop! That! Train! (2026): Two drag queen stewardesses on the Glamazonian Express train must deal with a disaster.  RuPaul plays President Gagwell, and we see Jerry O'Connell, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Brock Yurich (c*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Charo (still shaking her maracas at age 75), and Joel McHale (right).  His companion is not identified.

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