FOF #2464 - Beauty on the Streets, Beast in the Sheets

Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show

Fausto Fernós

Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Comedy, Tv Reviews, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Audiences had their pitchforks and torches ready to kill the live action Beauty and the Beast over Disney’s inclusion of their first gay character ever.

But in the end, the new film was a beast in the box office, roaring into a record breaking opening weekend becoming the biggest ever for the month of March.

Did somebody bend unexpectedly?

Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to take a look at Disney’s live action remake of Beauty and the Beast, and all the delicious gay subtext from this and the classic 1991 Disney animated film.

Plus–

➤ Queer Beauty and the Beast fan art.

➤ Disney’s prequel/sequel or “inbetweenquel” – An Enchanted Christmas with Tim Curry and Paul Reubens.

➤ Sesame Street introduces Julia, a new puppet with autism.

➤ Why everyone’s part of some kind of gay community whether they like it or not.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Audiences had their pitchforks and torches, ready to kill, the live action beauty and the beast,
0:14.2	over Disney's inclusion of their first gay character ever.
0:18.7	Well, who'd have thought?
0:19.9	Well, bless my soul. Well, who'd have thought? Well, bless my soul.
0:21.3	Well, who'd have known?
0:22.6	Well, who indeed.
0:24.0	But in the end, the new film was a beast in the box office,
0:28.5	roaring into a record-breaking opening weekend,
0:31.6	becoming a beauty for the month of March.
0:34.9	Did somebody bend unexpectedly?
0:37.2	Today, comedian Cody Melcher joins us to take a look at Disney's live action remake of
0:41.9	Beauty and the Beast and all the delicious gay subtext from this and the classic
0:46.5	1991 Disney animated film.
0:49.1	Plus, queer beauty and the Beast fan art.
0:52.8	Disney's prequel, sequel, or In Between Quill,
0:56.4	an enchanted Christmas with Tim Curry and Paul Rubens.
1:00.1	Sesame Street introduces Julia
1:02.0	a new puppet with autism.
1:04.3	And why everyone's part of some kind of gay community,
1:07.2	whether they like it or not.
1:09.2	I'm Faustofernos.
1:10.7	I'm Mark Fillion.
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