**Link to the n*de photos**

I have a bad feeling about Strip Law (2026), a new animated series on Netflix. Its animated comedies tend to be dark and nihilistic, like Bojack Horseman, or mistake disgust for humor, like F is For Family. But Strip stars Adam Scott, who has played gay characters a few times. And gotten n*de, although the photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends obviously shows a prosthetic (and Jason Schwartzman's, too).

Janelle James, last seen on the gay-friendly Abbott Elementary;

And Drew Tarver, who played gay characters in The Other Two and Running Point (and gotten n*ked; the photo on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends definitely shows his backside).

Plus the first episode promises a male str*pper.

Episode 1.1: "Finally, a Show about Lawyers."

Scene 1: Lincoln (Adam Scott) is in the courtroom, interrogating an Austin Powers impersonator. His story is complex, involving a buffet, performers dressed as Elmo, and something aboutfluids too disgusting to record here. The jury isn't paying attention anyway; they're all watching the Big Game. A female str*pper comes in to announce closing arguments. Lincoln wants to be a real lawyer, and doesn't approve of this circus atmosphere.

Scene 2: A tv commercial A lawyer wants to move forward with the case but when he hears that their opponents are Nichols and Gumb, he tries to hurt himself

Nichols (Keith David) tells us that his partner Gumb has died, so he's going to fire her inept son, Lincoln. His new slogan: "He fired Lincoln Gumb!"

Cut to Lincoln watching the commercial, upset because it's still playing after six months. We meet his inept team:

Glem Blorchman (Stephen Root), dressed in a 1970s leisure suit, has been disbarred in most states due to his ongoing scandals.

And Lincoln's niece Irene, a butch teenager doing bicep curls, who hasn't actually been to school in three years.

They have no clients, they're out of money, so Lincoln plans to hurt himself. Glem can go live on the S.S. Pain Palace, where a "weird millionaire" makes men fight to the death. Irene will fall in with a bad crowd and turn delinquent. Turn delinquent?

Glem: "Hey, we have a client. That big wet hunk of beef in your office."

Scene 3: Turns out that Mom Gumb took on the Hunk's case pro bono, and Lincoln has inherited it.

Commercial: "Ladies, gay and bi dudes, come on down to the Brushfire Club, where we have the studliest hunks this side of the studinental divide!" They do show men and women both cheering for the gyrating musclemen with bouncing speedos.

The problem: On "Freaky Friday," the str*ppers eat the customers' keys.

Lincoln: And that's popular?

Hunk: The customers love it! But it's making us sick."

So they're suing for medical bills. Problem: The club is being represented by the super-competent Steve Nichols (the one who fired Lincoln when his mom died).

Scene 4: Cut to Steve Nichols and the sleazy club owner eating spaghetti off a n*de lady and discussing how they're going to win the case. It's personal to Steve, because he hates Lincoln Gum and wants to destroy him.

In his office, Lincoln complains that he'll never win the str*pper case now. He's disgraced his Mom's legacy. She jumps out of her photo to complain that because of his incompetence, she's in hell, where they have a disgusting process for going to the bathroom (I'm not describing it).

He leaves to go get drunk, past Dennis the snake eater, the 666 Club, and Friendigan's. Suddenly he comes across a street magician whose trick involves shooting a deck of cards: the bullet stops at the card you selected.

Scene 5: Lincoln's assistants, Glem and Irene, visit client Bob Henderson, the used car king: "If you can find a better deal on a Toyota, you can off me." Seems that a guy found a better deal, and wanted to off him, but the lawyers got him to settle for a maiming. Now they want to be paid. This is getting a little too cringe for my tastes. Why so many people inviting their own offing?

Meanwhile, Lincoln talks to the Magician, Sheila Flambé , "magician and three-year all-county s*x champion." Does he want to hire her or date her?

Turns out that she was Juror #5 on his last case. Where he went wrong: "it was like a funeral for Saltine Crackers. This is Vegas! You got to do it big!"

More after the break

Scene 6: Montage of the two exploring Las Vegas (to the background song "Cleveland Rocks"): a hot tub ferris wheel; a Limo simulation; a slot machine that delivers opioids; a shooting range that explodes cows: motorcycle jousting. The Magician has an idea for an ad: a billboard showing Lincoln in a baby outfit, saying "I'll make you seem innocent, like a baby."

Meanwhile, Glem and Irene shake down the priest at that little wedding chapel.

I think the priest is voiced by John Grabus (backside on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends).

Scene 7: They stop for breakfast at the Brushfire Club. The Magician: "Why are we eating breakfast at this male str*pper club, and not the male str*pper club two blocks away that has good food?"

He hires the Magician to put razzle-dazzle into his courtroom appearances. His assistants arrive, and they discuss the case.

Scene 8: The group arrives in the courtroom wearing spangly suits, which impresses the judge.

Steve Nichols gives the club's argument: "You know me from tv. We're the good guys."

Lincoln uses regular arguments: the witness had to eat 34 keys; a doctor recommends against eating keys; Irene claims that kids at her school are imitating them.

But he finishes with the bullet-in-a-card deck trick, using the criminal code: it stops at a law which forbids str*ppers from engaging in any act that brings women pleasure. And women liked the key-eating, so it's illegal.

Cut to the team's new commercial: "Call Lincoln Gumb and he'll Gumb up the works!" The end.

Beefcake: A lot, but I think it's just this episode.

Stephen Root's d*ck on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends.

Heterosexism: None, except the guy with the "Girls! Girls! Girls!" sign in the intro.

Gay Characters: None specified, except for a few of the customers of the str*ppers.

My Grade: Disgust is mistaken for humor, like early seasons of Family Guy. I'm wondering if the male str*ppers are also supposed to elicit disgust/humor in the intended audience of drunken fratboys. But how could drunken fratboys catch the references that are 20 years out of date, like Austin Powers (last seen on screen in 2002). Like, gag me with a spoon! C-