Fisk: Melbourne probate office with wacky problems, gay dads, a gay barista, a p*nis-painter, and the extraordinarily cute Aaron Chen

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The Australian comedy Fisk (2024-26) just dropped on Netflix, with comedian Kitty Flanigan as a rather unpleasant solicitor (lawyer handling contracts and wills).   I started research because of the extraordinarily cute George, played by Aaron Chen (a lot of photos below), but there are also a surprisingly large number of gay and gay-friendly cast members, like Max Brown (top photo), who starred in  Homo (2026), and the nonbinary Rhys Nicholson, best known as a judge in Drag Race Down Under. 

So we'll give it a try. Episode 1.1, "A Portrait of a Lady."

Scene 1: At a lawyer employment agency, Helen explains that she moved to Sydney with her husband, but he ran off with an older man, so she's back in Melbourne, looking for work.  But she has no references, so all the agent has is Gruber & Gruber, a small suburban firm handling wills and probate.  And don't wear that all-brown outfit -- you blend in with the furniture.  Sure enough, an associate (Rhys Nicholson) comes in and accidentally sits on her

Scene 2: Dressed all in yellow, Helen arrives at Gruber & Gruber for her interview .  Extraordinarily Cute Aaron offers her a glass of water, and compliments her outfit.  If you ask nicely, maybe she'll let you try it on.  Could we watch you changing?

Then it's Boss Ray (Marty Sheargold), who mangles her name, then realizes that her dad is a retired Supreme Court justice: "A great man."  She's the oldest of the applicants, so she's in.

He explains: "When someone dies, the loved ones prefer a mature woman to comfort them and guide them through the paperwork."  Uh-oh, Helen is cold and hard-edged, not good at comforting.

On the way out, she almost bumps into Roz, tall, middle-aged, suspicious.  

Roz: "Who was that?"

Boss Ray: "Helen is your replacement.  She's the new you."

Scene 3: Helen having breakfast.  She calls for a teenage girl to fetch her grandma, who is supposed to live in the flat out back, but keeps coming in, feeding the dog, cleaning, and falling asleep in Helen's bed. Tell me more.

Next stop the coffee shop, where a guy is talking loudly on his phone.  She tells him that he's being loud, and the barista kicks her out: "You were talking aggressively!"  

Then work, where Extraordinarily Cute Aaron photographs her for their webpage. Don't photographers usually take their shirts off?  Roz, the person she's replacing, introduces herself as the Office Manager -- she was a solicitor, but she's been suspended.

A tour of the place with picky rules, and then, since they don't have an office for her yet, Boss Ray puts her in his own office to go over some files. 

Scene 3: Office Manager Roz brings in her first case -- way early.  Helen protests: she's never done probate law before, so she thought she would spend the first week studying and going through files.  

Roz: "If you don't like the job..." 

First case: Ruth, whose mum died, leaving half of the estate to her and the other to her brother Dean (Australian tv personality Glenn Robbins, n*de on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends), but only if he has a vasectomy.   

Helen tells her that you can't put conditions like that in a will.  I've seen weirder conditions than that on tv: you must get married; you may not get married; you must spend the night in a haunted house.

"But he's got five kids from five different women."  

Scene 4:  Roz tells Boss Roy that she called Helen's previous job, and discovers that she was fired.  "You should keep her under supervision."  "But I'm the boss.  I don't have time."

Back to Brother Dean: He refuses to have a vasectomy.  He's afraid it might affect his work as a p*nis painter.  She clarifies: he doesn't apply paint to guys' stuff, he uses his stuff to paint.  

On RG Beefcake and Boyfriends: The Australian painter Pricasso, profiled on World of the Weird, paints regular portraits using his p*nis, with a brush inserted into his....  The Weird host was horrified, but it's similar to a common bedroom practice.

Ruth: "So, can I get a court order forcing the vasectomy?"

Helen: "No, it's impossible."  

She argues, so Helen turns a paper into a megaphone and yells "No. Vasectomy."  Whoops, Boss Ray sees her, and becomes upset over the unprofessional demeanor. 

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Mo Bakker: Santa Claus's grandson and his boyfriend cruise in Kenya, cuddle in Greece. With bonus Belgian d*cks

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English-speaking audiences are most familiar with Flemish actor Mo Bakker for the three Claus Family movies: 

Die Familie Claus 1 (2020): Christmas-hating teenager Jules discovers that his grandfather is Santa Claus, about to retire and expecting him to take over the family job

Die Familie Claus 2 (2021): Jules goes on a trial run to grant a little girl's holiday wish.  Plus the kids try to fix up Mom with her best friend, not realizing that he is gay and has a husband.

Die Familie Claus 3 (2022): Jules and his sister Noor work together to fix the mess Grandpa made of the gift-delivery. Plus Mom's new boyfriend Jeff (Kurt Rogiers) drops towel.

Throughout, Jules is heavily queer-coded, with an interest in musclemen and no romantic interest in girls: he keeps partnering with girls, but they are always relatives or just friends.  Although there are no undeniable queer codes, no boyfriends, or "I'm gay" statements, the series, and especially the first, appears every year on lists of "The Best LGBTQ Holiday Movies."

But what about actor Mo Bakker.  Surely he wasn't cast because he was gay.  At age 14, he may not even have known.  So let's check to see if he is out now.

Mo was born in 2006, son of Belgian actor Kuno Bakker, who played a gay guy in Feast (2022).  

Older brother Kes, also an actor, has 12 credits listed on the IMDB, including the teen drama High Tide, available to stream on Netflix.  He plays a gay character, falls in love with a dude, and drops towel.

Mo's acting career begins with August (2014), a short about a boy with a girlfriend.   He has several other projects listed, with plot synopses and trailers only in Flemish, including:

Niet Schieten (Don't Shoot, 2018): A boy is dying, and his grandfather feels guilty.

The tv series Please Love Me (Zie miej graag, 2017-20): A divorced woman is "trying to put her life back together."  Mo and his brother Kes play her sons.

Sisyphus at Work (2021): A film director is dying.

Finn's Heel (Finn's hiel, 2022): Two boys (Mo, Brecht Dael) bond over boxing lessons, and hug.  This one sounds gay.

The teen tv series wtFOCK (2023), about students in a prestigious high school in Antwerp.  There are gay guys in the cast (who make out in the pool), but Mo plays a heterosexual athlete who gets his girlfriend pregnant.

Not a lot of gay content here.  Let's check Mo's Instagram to see if he is gay in real life.

I'm always jealous of Europeans, who can jet to my top 10 favorite countries (outside the U.S.) in a couple of hours.  Here Mo and his boyfriend are cuddling on a raft in Nicosia, Cyprus: five hours from Brussels, 14 hours from Minnesota.

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Cody Veith: Why did I want to profile a straight guy with no gay acting roles? Because of his d*ck? With ginger and African dudes

 

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My "profiles to do" includes another guy I've never heard of, Cody Veith (pronounced Veeth).  He's the tall ginger hugging a black teenager, with the comment: "Kaiden was happy to meet him mom I watch his shows he couldn't wait to tell his friends."

Apparently Mr. Veith doesn't believe in punctuation marks, so it's not clear whether Kaiden was happy to meet him, or he was happy to meet Cody.    

I found a black teen actor named Kaiden: Kaiden Fiorello.  But he  doesn't have any shows,just an episode of Evil Lives Here.  And he doesn't look anything like our Kaiden.

So Cody is referring to himself in the third person, and quoting him: "Mom, I watch his shows!" 

Surprisingly for someone who wrote that post, Cody is a high school graduate: Arbor View High School, Las Vegas, class of 2022, concentration in business management.  

Left: An Arbor View wrestler.  Cody wasn't on the wrestling team.  I just like the photo.

Cody's Instagram says that he is an actor and "professional prankster," based in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.  He's also obviously straight, with innumerable photos hugging, kissing, and showing off the backside of the Love of His Life.  

Why did I want to profile this guy?  Just because he never heard of punctuation marks?

He's got a physique, and a d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends, but that's not usually enough. Maybe I saw something inspiring in his social media.

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The Chair Company, Episode 1.6: More queer codes at Seth's 18th birthday party. Plus Seth's selfie, a queer puppeteer, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Brock c*ck

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The Chair Company (2025), on MAX, stars Tim Robinson as corporate schlub Ron, whose chair collapses during an important presentation.  Looking for the company that sold the defective piece of office furniture, he finds an empty warehouse, a website with an invented board of directors, and...it gets weirder and weirder, with conspiracies, hidden agendas, and threats. Or is it all a paranoid delusion?

He hires Mike (Joseph Tudisco) to help with the intel gathering.  Eventually they become close, and Mike refuses payment: "We're family."  

His young adult daughter and her girlfriend have substantial roles, and his teenage son Seth (Will Price) displays some queer codes.  Especially in Episode 1.6, "Happy Birthday: A Friend"

Scene 1: The boss (Lou Diamond Philips, top photo) is weekending in Sedona, Arizona with his buds.  He claims that his property management company is important, but they dismiss it as "making pretty boxes."  The real life, the only thing that's important, is spending time with your friends.  No women around; are these guys all gay?

Scene 2: The photos of the fake Board of Directors on the chair company website were taken by someone named Maggie S. during an acting exercise.  Ron goes to the acting studio  and asks around.  No one remembers the exercise, and they all claim not to know a Maggie S. -- except for Headphone Guy (Brendan Jennings, left), who runs off in a panic.  Ron catches up and starts punching and hitting him, yelling, "Who is Maggie S.?"  Then he realizes that everyone is watching him assault a guy, and runs away.

Scene 3: During the chair collapse, Ron accidentally saw up his coworker's dress.  Human Resources got upset, and brought in a consultant to watch their interactions and make sure he isn't stalking or harassing her.  The Consultant is not sure.

Scene 4: The Boss brought back some photos of vibrant colors and textures from Sedona.  He wants them to redo the design of the big Shopping Mall project, to make it "inspiring" and "cool." But he doesn't give them any detailed instructions, so the design team is confused.  This is not connected to the central mystery.  This show has a lot of bit pieces that are weird for their own sake.

Later, they show the Boss their plans for "bold, earthy colors," with textures like sandstone or "a harsher contrast with nickel plating."  He doesn't like it; "dig deeper." 

Scene 5: Ron walks into the house late at night and sees a long-haired chubby guy getting himself a bowl of popcorn.  He says "Hi, Honey" and "Seth, your Dad's home!" before returning to the basement.

Mom explains that he's Richard (Tyler Bunch), working on a project with Seth. 

Tyler Bunch is a member of the Jim Henson Company, appearing as a muppet on 103 episodes of Sesame Street (1998-2024).  He also voiced several characters on 400 episodes of Pokemon (2012-22), and he sings Gilbert and Sullivan.  He is gay in real life.

Ron is not happy with his not-quite-18 year old son being friends with a guy 40 years older, plus it's late: he needs to be in bed so he can play basketball tomorrow.  Seth refuses: "Nope, this is important."

In other news, Son Seth invited Toby to his birthday party.  "He's really excited to come," They haven't seen each other for years because they go to different schools, but when he was thirteen, they performed the Pee-Wee Herman Dance, and Ron joined in: one of the happiest memories Seth has of his dysfunctional Dad. 

Dad Ron doesn't think Son Seth and Toby should be friends.  This upsets Seth.  No wonder: that's two friends you disapproved of in five minutes. Sounds like you're threatened by the thought of your son having someone special in his life.  

Scene 6: Later, in his room, Son Seth drinks while looking at a photo of his junior-high basketball team, with Dad Ron hugging him.  So Dad should be threatened?  "Hi, Honey" Richard is a Dad substitute?

Possible Will selfie on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends. Don't worry, the actor is 25.

Later, Ron meets with "We're family" Mike.  They discuss some more clues about the bogus chair company.  In other news, would Seth like a decommissioned police car for his birthday?

"You're not invited to his party.  It's just for his friends and their parents."

"But I'd really like to come.  We're family, remember."

"No!" Why don't you want him there, buddy?  Afraid that you might let down your defenses and actually care about someone?

Scene 7: More weird stuff at work, and then the Boss wants to discuss changing the Mall plans -- tomorrow.

"But it's my son's birthday party."

"Great, I'll be there!"

Later, Ron looks at the photos he took of the guy he assaulted at the acting class.  A strange tattoo leads him to the chair company's parent website...but at that moment, someone calls to threaten him: "I'm thinking of finally doing something to you."

Scene 8: The birthday party.  Seth is sitting at a table with the "Hi, Honey" Richard, his sister, her girlfriend, and  a boy.  So, no girls? And how does Richard rate the spot next to you? 

 Wait -- you can see under the table that he has one leg touching Seth's and the other touching or nearly touching his  bottom, symbolically controling his s*exual space. As a protector, or to discourage the competition? I guess since he's 18 now, they can date.

The other guests are almost all boys and their parents.  There are one or two teenage girls in the background, but Seth doesn't interact with them. 

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