Sam Lerner: Is the "Goldbergs" star gay-teasing, coming out, or from a parallel world? With his tree-trunking dick and his boyfriend's butt
Will Trent, Episode 4:10: Who is murdering naked fratboys? Detectives think it's about a girl, but...With fratboy cocks and Jeff East
I don't watch a lot of detective shows -- who cares about "the body in the library" when you can change the channel and see ghosts, zombies, time travel, and parallel worlds? But Episode 4.10 of Will Trent, on Hulu, pinged my gaydar: "A fraternity star and his friend are murdered." Friend is often code for boyfriend.
Cut to a Pregnant Detective and her husband at a class for expectant parents, in an ongoing plotline. They keep accidentally "killing" their baby. I'm fast forwarding.
Scene 2: Will (Ramon Rodriguez, top photo) interviews the ridiculously-dressed Chancellor about the victim, Paxton Cole. Shouldn't it be the Dean of Students, or the President? "He was a campus leader, honor role, president of the Delta Chi Kappa Fraternity."
Left: The actor playing Paxton does not appear in the cast list.
Will thinks that it was a premeditated murder, but the Chancellor scoffs: "The boy was just mugged, or he interrupted a drug deal."
"Then why was he stripped, and tape gagged with the word 'Loyaltyl"?
He harrumphs, then leaves to go to Boozy Booster Brunch, the biggest fundraising activity of Homecoming Week, except for the Wine and Winners Dinner Party. Will is suspicious. Dude should be more concerned about the murder of the college goldenboy. Or any student, for that matter.
Scene 3: Will's team crosses the campus, complaining about the laziness of Generation Z and how college is a worthless rip-off. As someone who has been teaching at a college for over 20 years, I am disturbed by that sentiment. They find the frat pledges cleaning the porch with toothbrushes, a red flag about hazing abuse. They are not allowed to speak, another red flag.
Frat member Sean/Legacy (Jacob Buster, left) invites them in. Will looks disgusted at the frat guys drinking beer. Griffin/Badger sees them and tries to run out, but they ambush him. "It's not my fault!" he exclaims.
Scene 4: At the police station, Griffin/Badger (Tyler Patrick Smith) explains that he didn't hurt Paxton, but he was afraid that his illegal id business would be implicated. Last night at the party, he gave Paxton/Doorbell and Greg/Sharkey fake ids so they could pick up some kegs of beer. They never returned.
He's not implicated in the murder, but he's arrested for selling fake ids. These people are disgustingly judgmental.
They interrogate everybody else in the house, but no one had a beef with Paxton/Doorbell or Greg/Sharkey, and no one knows where they went to get the beer.
"Did you ever see them argue, fight over a girl?" How do you know they were straight, heteronormative a-hole?
"No, they were best friends." Tell me more.
Scene 5: Being dismissisve and insulting isn't getting them any intel, so the Pregnant Detective tries the sympathy approach. Sean/Legacy opens up, complaining that his dad wants him engaged by next year and married with a kid soon after graduation. I got that pressure all the time growing up: "What girl do you like? What girl do you like? What girl? What girl?" Resistance to the heterosexist trajectoryy is a queer code.
Left: Fake ID Griffin/Badger's penis.
This strategy works: Sean/Legacy reveals that several months ago, Paxton shared a private sex video to group chat. It got leaked, and the whole campus saw it. Dang, it was with a girl. Hereosexual identiy established at Minute 12..
Scene 6: Pregnant Detective visits The Girl, Sorority President Britt. She can't talk about the sex tape, because she signed an NDA and got a Porsche. But she won't say who asked her to sign it.
Other sorority girls come forward to reveal that the fratboys are all scumbags, but they can't report on any of their misdeeds because Sean/Legacy's dad is the Chancellor. Curiouser and curiouser.
Scene 7: Back at headquarters, after some stuff about the ongoing plotline, they find out where Paxton/Doorbell and Greg/Sharkey bought the beer: at the Beer Depot (makes sense). They drop by, and find his pickup truck, with the beer kegs still there. The killer must have abducted them here.
Will finds two sets of clothes in the trash -- the killer stripped them here! And no one noticed? And in the ice machine, Greg/Sharkey's naked body, with a tape gag reading "Fortitude."
They figure out that the words on the tape gags are the mottos of the frat: Loyalty, Fortitude, Integrity, Diligence. Two murders left?
Scene 8: Ongoing plot stuff, then the bodies in the morgue. Paxton/Doorbell was drowned, and Greg/Sharkey died of hypothermia (so he was dumped in the ice machine while alive). They both had Goldenkranz (gold-infused liquour) in their stomachs, and high levels of Xanax (an anti-anxiety medication that causes drowsiness). The killer spiked their drinks so they would be more compliant. Which means that he (or she) was at the party last night.
More after the break. Caution: Explicit
Ethan Wacker: The former teen spy, Bizaardvark manager, and Vanderbilt fratboy looks good in a suit. And out of a suit.
I only knew three things about Ethan Wacker before beginning the research:
A lot of male friends.
Actually, I'm getting tired of posting photos of Ethan and his male friends. Let's check his biography.
His acting credits begin in 2006 (at the age of four!) with a video game called Papa Louie: When Pizza Attacks
More video games and animation followed, plus two episodes of the teencom KC Undercover (2015-18), a Disney Channel teencom about "an outspoken and confident technology whiz and skilled black belt" who becomes a spy. Ethan played the son of the Vice President of the U.S.
The Theater of Dicks: Nick Rutherford and Beck Bennett envision the terror of the penis
The Theater of Dicks, on Instagram, consists of 107 photographs with absurdly huge penises painted in. The authors, Nick Rutherford and Beck Bennett, explain: "We're just two loveless assholes chasing a dream, who have kinda gotten misguided and found themselves making an instagram full of dicks."
You might recognize Nick Rutherford from Saturday Night Live and Adam Devine's House Party.
Beck Bennett has been his comedy partner since college. They have worked together on a number of projects, including the short film "Is My Roommate Gay?" (he denies it), and Saturday Night Live. Here we see him nude in Beside Still Waters (2013).
They are both married to women, but Nick's social media is loaded down with images suggesting that he is attracted to men. Maybe as a joke.
Some of the dicks in The Theater of Dicks are merely absurdly exaggerated version of their own erect cocks.
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