Queer Eye For The Straight Guy WTF

I saw that Janelle Monae tweeted at Jess. *hearts*

xp Bobby and an entire TV/design crew

Of course.

i was glad bobby got to do something personally meaningful that didn't involve home renovations
he has lived a hard life. i didn't know he dropped out of high school!

Or had been homeless since 15! I love all of them but his history is very affecting.

Bless these people and this show for traveling the country finding deeply traumatized people who are incapable of being functional, whole people, and healing them of their wounds GENUINELY, as far as I can tell. This is a mitzvah. They're providing mental/emotional healthcare tbh.

And so often their unspoken opponent in a person's life is either bigotry or poverty or both. An indictment of America imo.

I don't remember his words but when Tan got choked up at the end of the Jess ep, I broke down.

i think specifically about how antoni was like "college was all about potlucks, someone brings the risotto blablabla" meanwhile we (and jess) are aware of her years of 100% ramen diet and he doesn't appear to understand that not everyone can relate to potlucks and abundance of community or food.

and then bobby takes her to meet up with her sister and i felt so much better, like at least someone here understands her in a profound way that she will be able to feel. they are definitely out to put a balm on human misery and some of them are def better at it than others. bobby is a quiet hero.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

i basically cannot get through an episode of this show without some welling up

would rate the fab five in order of usefulness bobby, jonathan, tan, karamo, antoni

I definitely paused what I was doing when Antoni talked about risotto at potlucks in college.

so tone deaf. antoni is definitely a rich kid tho

Someone posted this on twitter with a big old smirk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpwzz5Yq8I

he dropped the fact that he was a restaurateur in the episode with the jones sisters and i was thinking "how bad is antoni's resto?"

still mad about those peanuts

I literally was just looking the menu for his restaurant. I remember when it opened it got mediocre reviews. Lukewarm paleo/vegan bowls.

On the summer camp ep, in the car, someone asks if any of them ever went to summer camp and Karamo says, "No, we were too poor for that" and Antoni is like, "I was just going to say something about going to horse camp and now I feel bad" and K is like, "It's okay, we know you were rich." lol

But otoh in some ep A is giving a cooking lesson and says, "My family wasn't functional, but at least we ate dinner together" and you feel like that's a pretty thin veneer he's putting on that, so, you know, everybody does have their own stories.

i like how we learn little bits and pieces of the fab 5’s history over time, and the way it is shared to usually help reinforce that x person isbt alone

I keep waiting for more of JVN's story tbh.

There was a pretty good article last year somewhere about JVN’s youth/teen years! I have no idea where I read it though:(

My apologies I got Antoni high pic.twitter.com/HuO8ftNF6n

— Steven P-H (@gossipbabies) March 2, 2018

he dropped the fact that he was a restaurateur in the episode with the jones sisters and i was thinking "how bad is antoni's resto?"

omg he was so infuriating in that episode. yeah the restauranteur line, plus the way he kept badgering them to give up their family's secret recipe. I'm pretty sure no one is queueing for antoni's food.

that said, this was probably the best season of QE so far. so much kindness and understanding and acceptance for people who mostly just needed to be seen and given permission to be the best version of themselves.

idk far be it from me to be a captain save-an-antoni but like, in the episodes where he teaches people who never cook to make something VERY simple (like, guacamole level–simple or whatever), i think there's a benefit to that, because even a little bit of work like that in the kitchen is the same level of self-care as moisturizing or a french tuck. it's not even about it being good (the tuck or the meal), it's about including routines and rituals in your life that remind you to do a little more than just continue living, and perhaps more importantly, remind you of that time when 5 people made you feel seen and loved.

that guacamole HAS GREEK YOGHURT IN IT tho

I found Antoni quite adorable in earlier series' but he's really playing up to it now with the shy-eyerolls etc. I still like him though.

god the Jess episode fuckin destroyed me

Think I had 3 misty eye moments during that one

They really knocked it out of the park for the Jones sisters ;_;

Loved the part in that show when Shortie was getting her teeth fixed and she reached out for JVN's hand.

kinda needed a dentistry trigger warning, i had a hard time watching the actual dentist moments

but her new smile made me cry 😭

yeah i loved that she got her new teeth, absolutely did not need to see any procedure (i could feel it coming and closed my eyes/squeezed my ears shut because i can't tolerate the sound or the sight of dental work) happy for her though!!

lol @ Jonathan referring to Gimli as "that boy from Lord of the Rings?"

<3

hoo lord the rob episode was a tough watch too - lost it when bobby opened the chest with his dead wife’s handwriting etched into the lid ;_;

kinda needed a dentistry trigger warning

I'm cool with dentists but that moment wrecked me, as I'm also a habitual mouth-hider and dream of having my teeth fixed.

yeah i had discolored front teeth for years & NEVER smiled with my teeth showing. last year i got them fixed. it had always seemed like a dumb thing to worry about, i didnt realize what a great feeling it would be seeing my new teeth for the first time: def helped my confidence! i still sometimes have to remind myself not to cover my teeth now

Kansas City isn't in Kansas?

There are two Kansas cities, they form one conurbation, the larger of the two is in missouri the smaller is in kansas.the state border is in between

this needs to be addressed asap.

Antoni, stop trying to make brussels sprouts happen. they're just not going to happen.

what's more likely to happen?

1) brussels sprouts
2) a french tuck

nothing more enraging than saying “i dont like brussels sprouts” & being “told you havent had them the right way”

but even more enraging that THIS “brussels hater” tries them with lemon juice & is like “omg wow”.
bitch please.

<3

He made a sprouts dish for the viewing at the end of the episode too. hoped in vain that one of the other four would be like, yeah i'm not eating that.

Tan (in the car): I love retail romance!
Me:

JVN: They're going to have a baby shower
Tan: I love a baby shower!
Me:

I feel like they have to make Tan say things like that periodically, or he just comes off as too negative compared to the others. But I could be wrong. Obviously he became my hero when he wouldn't let the squirrel thing go.

'squrrl is a noise, squirrel is a word' is def the quote of the season

I am one of those brussels sprout converts. When it's their season I roast a batch every week to snack on.

(I also am pro- french tuck as evidenced probably before in this thread)

yeah someone once told me once that the only reason i didn't like brussels sprouts was because they'd been prepared wrong my whole life and would you believe it, they were right as hell