![]() He takes issue with the fact that Ace and Gary's arrangement of the fortress doesn't follow the blueprints.Īce and Gary foil Bighead's plan to take over Metroville.Īce and Gary stop Bighead and Queen Serena's evil scheme. Kijoro is the duo's mentor whose spirit resides in the "Fortress of Privacy" (a parody of Superman's Fortress of Solitude) and offers advice from time to time when Ace and Gary seek counsel.Orbitrox has proffered evidence of their having visited gay bars, but emphatically denies visiting himself, snapping in subtitled form, "Back off dickweed, it's research!" Orbitrox is a small, green, free-floating droid who sides with Bighead on the question of Ace and Gary's sexual orientation.He occasionally partners with Bighead, but is quite a bit more undecided about Ace and Gary. Brainio is another mad scientist with a brain suspended above his head and attached by a trio of cables and tubing. He is constantly criticized for the amount of energy he invests in this pursuit. ![]() Second only to his primary vocation of mad scientist is his obsession with outing the superheroes as gay, which tends to annoy his co-conspirators because they do not care about the duo's sexuality and only want to defeat them in order to rule the world. Bighead is a mad scientist with a very large, bald head, and is usually the brains behind most of the evil schemes.He and the commissioner are endlessly engaged in debate over their positions on this subject. The Chief of Police is seen with the commissioner, apparently waiting to find evidence in support of his confident belief that Ace and Gary are, in fact, gay.The commissioner, voiced by Steve Carell, believes Ace and Gary might not be gay. His calls tend to interrupt a workout of some kind, with one or the other of the duo shirtless. The Police Commissioner is the duo's primary contact, and when trouble arises, he makes the call to their hangout.His powers include super strength, breath, stamina, flexibility, flight (although Ace and Gary use the phallic-shaped Duocar more often than fly), and "laser vision". Gary is less experienced, and has fewer superpowers than Ace. Gary, Ace's sidekick, is the younger of the duo.He is mentor to Gary, refers to him as "friend of friends," and has a wide array of superpowers, including most or all of Gary's powers. ![]() One such episode entails Ace and Gary giving children a ride home in their Duocar and offering home decorating tips while blithely making various suggestive gestures and comments. Similar gags appear in almost every episode.Įpisodes not following this general formula have featured Ace and Gary answering fan mail or offering child safety tips. The Ambiguously Gay Duo with Gary mounting Ace in flightĪce and Gary set out to foil the evil plan, but not before calling attention to themselves with outrageous antics and innuendo, and behaving in ways perceived by other characters to be stereotypically homosexual, as in this conversation from the first episode:Īce : Good job, friend-of-friends! Once the crime is in process, the police commissioner calls on the superheroes to save the day, often engaging in similar debates with the chief of police. Bighead is usually briefing his henchmen on a plot for some grandiose plan for world domination, interrupted by a debate as to whether or not Ace and Gary (The Ambiguously Gay Duo) are gay. The typical episode usually begins with the duo's arch-nemesis Bighead, a criminal mastermind with an abnormally large cranium. The shorts were intended to satirize suggestions that early Batman comics implied a homosexual relationship between the eponymous title character and his sidekick Robin, a charge most infamously leveled by Fredric Wertham in his 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent. The characters are clad in matching pastel turquoise tights, dark blue domino masks, and bright yellow coordinated gauntlets, boots and shorts. The Ambiguously Gay Duo is a parody of the stereotypical comic book superhero duo. It follows the adventures of Ace and Gary, voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, respectively, two superheroes whose sexual orientation is a matter of dispute, and a cavalcade of characters preoccupied with the question. Sedelmaier as part of the Saturday TV Funhouse series of sketches. It is created and produced by Robert Smigel and J. The Ambiguously Gay Duo is an American animated comedy sketch that debuted on The Dana Carvey Show before moving to its permanent home on Saturday Night Live.
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