"Uncle Grandpa" Episode 4.25: Cupid in love with a monster, a panicked pizza slice, and silver fox d*cks

  

Who doesn't like old guys?  Distinguished, sophisticated, muscles tight from 40 years at the gym.  They take you to French-Thai fusion restaurants instead of Hamburger Habit, then invite you back to their apartment, where the furniture actually matches and the carpets are three inches thick.  They offer you soda in a wine glass and tell stories of Christopher Street during the first heady days of gay liberation.  

Then into the bedroom, where they do what they have been doing for 40 years, and they've gotten quite good at it. 

 So I was interested in Uncle Grandpa, an animated series that ran from 2013 to 2017 on Hulu, with a Silver Fox protagonist voiced by Peter Browngardt.

Plus Adam Devine, the most attractive man on Earth, voiced "Pizza Steve" in 126 episodes.  I figured that Pizza Steve would be attractive, too, like a bodybuilder wearing a t-shirt about pizza.

No, he's a slice of pizza himself, a living, talking, ambulatory slice of peperoni pizza wearing dark sunglasses, with cheese hanging down to resemble his -----.

And Uncle Grandpa is no Silver Fox.  He has an L-shaped head, leering, unfocused eyes, a handlebar moustache, and an enormous chin.  He wears German lederhosen with rainbow suspenders and a talking fanny pack.  He speaks in a nasal "dumb-dumb" voice.

There's a sharp dent in his head, a beanie perched on one crown.  I suspect that he suffered from a brain injury that left him mentally ____, rather dangerous for a being with infinite power. 

He lives in a flying RV with three attendants, who try to reign him in, keep him from destroying the universe: 

Pizza Steve, who also monitors some of the more homicidal pizza slices, like the pyrotechnic Pizza Pete, the chainsaw-murderer Pizza Chad, and the Pizza Berserker.

Mr. Gus, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, is a small green dinosaur, the most level-headed of the group.

The Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, a realistically-drawn tiger who can fly and has other powers.  

Episodes center on Uncle Grandpa helping kids or other beings.  He convinces a boy with a big belly that it is cool, not a defect.  He helps a girl pass her driver's test. He helps a boy ask a girl to the big dance.   

I'm reviewing the only episode that features a same-sex romance, or as the Fan wiki rather offensively calls it, a "homos*xual character": Episode 4.25, "Uncle Cupid."

More after the break

Scene 1: It's Valentine's Day, but no heteros*xual couples or ducks are kissing.  Uncle Grandpa can't understand why.

There's a knock on the door.  It's Cupid, voiced by Greg Proops, being rained on by his own personal cloud.  He's done shooting arrows to make people kiss, because he's never been kissed.  He looks like a chubby baby, grown-ups aren't interested.

Uncle Grandpa counters that women like to kiss babies, assuming implicitly that Cupid is heteros*xual. 

Maybe Uncle Grandpa could use his "deep knowledge of women" to help him find True Love.

Scene 2: First step, get some adult man's clothes: a white shirt with the collar too high, and ruffled purple pants. 

Next: Uncle Grandpa flies Cupid to two women walking in the park, throws him onto them, and orders "Kiss him!"  They run away in terror.

Scene 3: Uncle Grandpa douses Cupid with his special cologne and throws him at another woman, but she retches and runs away.

They'll have to use the love-arrows.  Cupid can't shoot himself, so Uncle Grandpa tries.  He aims at an old lady, but the arrow ricochets off things, bounces into the flying RV, and hits Mr. Gus, who gets amorous with a screaming Pizza Steve. Gay panic jokes went out 20 years ago, homophobes.

Scene 4: The next arrow flies into space, where it hits a pink alien with five tumor-like eyes and a drooling double-mouth.  He investigates, sees Cupid, and falls in love.

Zooming down to Earth, he slobbers "I love you, please marry me, little pink person."

Cupid runs away in terror, and hides in a hollow tree. The Alien follows, apologizes for being so forward, and then rips the tree apart.

Cupid takes off his shirt, but not to be sexy, so he can spread his wings.  He says "I'm afraid," but the Alien has already proven himself harmless.  Afraid of falling in love?  He flies away.

Aat that moment Uncle Grandpa shoots an arrow at him.  It doesn't stick, but it dazes him, and he plummets toward the Earth.  The Alien rushes to the rescue.

Cupid does the "if it weren't for you, I would have..." thing.

The Alien points out that they have a lot in common: they both have wings, and like to shoot people.

He wants to spaghetti-fy Uncle Grandpa for causing the accident, but Cupid resists: "If it wasn't for his terrible, terrible ideas, I never would have found true love." 

They fly off hand-in-hand through a rainbow, leaving one to wonder about the mechanics of their...um...tryst.

The kicker: Pizza Steve rushes up, covered with lipstick-kisses, including one on his cheese-d*ck, and complains that Mr. Gus is in love with him.

Analysis:  The arrows seem to work like the flower-nectar in Midsummer Night's Dream: you fall in love with the first person you see, so it's more a love spell. 

The Alien was hit with an arrow, so he's under a spell, problematizing his interest.  Cupid wasn't actually hit with an arrow, so he fell in love naturally, but he was explicitly heterosexual before.  And why make the Alien a drooling monster?  It seems to be telling us that same-sex love is ludicrous.

Then we have the implied assault of Pizza Steve.

The silver fox d*cks are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

See also: M. Emmet Walsh: Daddy who didn't mind showing his dick. With old guy hotness

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