Tobias 's Queen Mary

[prog]

Has anyone written a treatise on the (male) homoeroticism of Arrested Development? Once the show gets going, it has gay-sexy-jokey streaming from no fewer than three characters. At first you're like, "Boy, this show sure does like to wink at teh gay", but then you see that this humor is textured entirely differently for each of the three; it's not (entirely) the "ha ha good thing we're not gay" stuff that any guy-oriented sitcom can sledgehammer around for a cheap laugh. The writers put a lot of thought into making it nuanced. (And funny enough that I laugh like an ape.)

I'm starting to suspect that Gob was supposed to be openly bisexual, and that it just never come up as an overt statement during in-show conversation. (Then again I'm only midway through season 2.)

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's very specifically a running joke with Tobias that pretty much everything he says and does suggests that he's into men, starting with Episode One (when he's on the boat with the drag queens). I suspect it's no coincidence that David Cross himself is gay.

I don't remember it with the other characters, but I'll believe you.

[(Anonymous)]

Gob is definitely bisexual. In episode 121, he refers a threesome with a girl and a guy, an not being able to choose "where to start," that is, who to have sex with first. I like how subtle they portray his sexuality. This line is really the biggest clue and they just gloss over it.