Queer Eye For The Straight Guy WTF

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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.

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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

I love it when Tan is mean/firm. I can feel myself agreeing with him in every misanthropic cell of my body.

I found a youtube vid of the 5 being interviewed by ADAM RIPPON which is like next-level, and jvn called Tan mean for not wanting to spend 24/7 together. "Like after ONLY 10 HOURS he can't even handle it! How is that a thing? Who needs BREAKS?" And Tan is on the other sofa being like, "It's true. That is a thing." I get you, Tan.

yeah, it's great when tan lets his inner dour yorkshireman out every now and again

Tan is always my number 1 or 2 favorite.

I loved it when he got the woman in the first episode the camo dress, that was a very human little moment

I feel like Tan’s enthusiasm is measured but genuine while Antoni’s feels increasingly fake as episodes go by.

antoni definitely seems the most... guarded? i feel like we've learned the least about his background for sure

I am not an Antoni fan but when he was wearing that fuzzy pink sweater, i was like, oh... yeah he's pretty hot there

I am so glad Karamo stopped drawing in his hair. He looks completely nice bald.

antoni's john mayer resemblance always bothers me

i am forever in awe of jonathan's ability to be completely jonathan in every situation and to get seemingly everyone he meets 100% on the jonathan train

Antoni is the most attractive to me personally, but also, as acknowledged in the first season, he's the most "straight-passing" of the bunch. (I think this was addressed in re to going to rural places and how it worried some of the others but not him and he was like "Yeah but they just think I'm straight.") Seems like it would be a) dumb and b) against the whole ethos of the show for him to be pressured to be more performative than he genuinely feels? He and Bobby are kinda the antidote to Tan and jvn's big big personalities.

Antoni is clearly doing as much as he can (or else the show's producers are) to downplay his privilege. Tho if it's the producers, at least even they knew they had to leave in that bit about Antoni going to a riding camp and Karamo retoring, "We were poor."

in orbit otm

idk if yall saw this Tan did a makeover on Pete Davidson for SNL that was pretty great

https://youtu.be/54BVvP7zvDQ

it’s fully like Tan is his Mom taking him shopping for school clothes i love it

I saaawwwwww

Tan actually makes clothing shopping look fun.

i love that Pete does not clock Tan’s passive sarcasm that Tan SUPER does not want to talk about balls & Pete happily continues engaging Tan on the subject

For the first time I am not feeling the outfits that Tan has picked.

It's like Pete's body is rejecting all those clothing choices.

They seem less prescriptive this season, or is it that they know they are dealing with people who have much bigger problems and need to be handled more carefully?

Camo lady likes camo, Tan gets her camo. Camp manager guy doesn't wash, so they get him clothes that don't smell when he sweats. I fully expected them to tell that man he needed to get his act together and wash more often.

Jezebel just did a write up today that near the end kind of touched on this^^^. I don't really agree with the entire piece, some of it feels muddled on my two quick reads. And I prefer the episodes that aren't focused on the heteronormative men.

https://themuse.jezebel.com/queer-eye-is-missing-out-on-a-sharper-conversation-abou-1833472725

I'm glad someone brought up in the comments that Karamo is a licensed therapist and social worker and hates his culture expert title on the show.

at least Tan didn't try to make anyone wear that bizarre belted sweatshirt look he had going in a few episodes. it looked like he was wearing a seatbelt?

they should change Karamo's title for sure. i also think it would be helpful if they hooked these people up with more long term therapy options (finding someone can be the biggest hurdle) but i assume there is a HIPAA reason for that

I am watching the Tan dressing Hasan Minhaj video now. Tan learns what a fuckboi is.

i love that video!

I was maybe a wee bit harsh on Antoni upthread - compared to me he’s a flamboyant, expressive, extrovert!

Good points in the thread and in the comments on that article about the role Karamo plays, and how “culture” is such a reductive label for it. I don’t think I’d properly realised his work/education background but it totally makes sense.

Yeah, it should be life coach or similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvL3O7oAVo

i didnt even know Nandos did chicken livers! but it’s been 10+ years since i last went to one so

The opening with Karamo getting pulled over was very misjudged.

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jesus srsly

The five commented on that somewhere, condemning it as such. Absolutely under no circs.

https://www.bustle.com/p/tan-france-almost-quit-queer-eye-you-actually-watched-the-moment-play-out-without-knowing-it-9034664

yeah that was fucked up

new season! first episode is awesome