"Queer as Folk"
Episode #2.7 (2002)

Director:

Michael DeCarlo

Writers:

Blair Fell (teleplay)
Ron Cowen (story) ...

TV Series:

"Queer as Folk" (2000)

Original Air Date:

17 February 2002 (Season 2, Episode 7)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Michael decides to keep seeing Ben, despite Brian and Debbie vehement protests; Emmett starts acting like a star; Mel and Lindsay ask Lindsay's parents for cash.

Plot Keywords:

Friendship Between Men | Promiscuous Man | Gay Lead Character | Homosexual | Homosexuality

Cast

Michelle Clunie	...	Melanie Marcus
Robert Gant	...	Professor Ben Bruckner
Thea Gill	...	Lindsay Peterson
Gale Harold	...	Brian Kinney
Randy Harrison	...	Justin Taylor
Scott Lowell	...	Ted Schmidt
Peter Paige	...	Emmett Honeycutt
Hal Sparks	...	Michael Novotny
Sharon Gless	...	Debbie Novotny
Jack Wetherall	...	Vic Grassi
Don Allison	...	Mr. Ron Peterson
Pixie Bigelow	...	Mrs. Nancy Peterson
Nancy Anne Sakovich	...	Leda (as Nancy Sakovich)
Matthew Willson	...	The Fan (as Matthew R. Willson)
Sonia Laplante	...	Bakery Lady (as Sonia La Plante)

Soundtrack:

Love Shack

Entertaining to the MAX!

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

"I knew how to put a condom on a cucumber before I knew how to drive!" ~Michael

This episode was filled with some interesting moments and exchanges between characters, like Ted and Emmett's first real big "fight", and it was especially paradoxical to see the way Debbie acted when she found out that Michael was dating someone who was HIV-positive. She was always so supportive of every little thing that Michael did and said that it came as a real shocker when she seemed so upset. Brian and Lindsay have quite a few good scenes together, and the party scene where Justin and everyone are going crazy because of the spiked punch when all of a sudden Lindsay's parents come in was hysterically funny. I loved seeing Lindsay finally stick up to her parents after all that she's been through. As always, the exchanges between Justin and Brian were pure gold, and Michael and Ben just seem perfect together. Not the best episode in the world, but I did like it a lot.