"Strip Law": Animated comedy about an inept lawyer, male strippers, and Las Vegas. With nude Adam Scott and Drew Tarver

 I have a bad feeling about Strip Law (2026), a new animated series on Netflix.  Its animated comedies tend to be dark and nihilistic, like Bojack Horseman, or mistake disgust for humor, like F is For Family.  But Strip stars Adam Scott, who has played gay characters a few times.  And gotten naked, although this is obviously not his real cock (not Jason Schwartzman's, either).

Janelle James, last seen on the gay-friendly Abbott Elementary; 

And Drew Tarver, who played gay characters in The Other Two and Running Point (and gotten naked; this is definitely his backside).

Plus the first episode promises a male stripper. 

Episode 1.1: "Finally, a Show about Lawyers."

Scene 1: Lincoln (Adam Scott) is in the courtroom, interrogating an Austin Powers impersonator.  His story is complex, involving an erotic buffet, performers dressed as Elmo, and something about bodily fluids too disgusting to record here.   The jury isn't paying attention anyway; they're all watching the Big Game. A female stripper comes in to announce closing arguments.  Lincoln wants to be a real lawyer, and doesn't approve of this circus atmosphere.

Scene 2: A tv commercial  A lawyer wants to move forward with the case but when he hears that their opponents are Nichols and Gumb, he tries to shoot himself. 

Nichols (Keith David) tells us that his partner Gumb has died, so he's going to fire her inept son, Lincoln.   His new slogan: "He fired Lincoln Gumb!"

Cut to Lincoln watching the commercial, upset because it's still playing after six months.  We meet his inept team:

Glem Blorchman (Stephen Root), dressed in a 1970s leisure suit, has been disbarred in most states due to his ongoing scandals. 

And Lincoln's niece Irene, a butch teenager doing bicep curls, who hasn't actually been to school in three years. 

They have no clients, they're out of money, so Lincoln plans to kill himself.  Glem can go live on the S.S. Pain Palace, where a "weird millionaire" makes men fight to the death.  Irene will fall in with a bad crowd and turn delinquent. Turn delinquent?  

Glem: "Hey, we have a client.  That big wet hunk of beef in your office."

Scene 3: Turns out that Mom Gumb took on the Hunk's case pro bono, and Lincoln has inherited it.  

Commercial: "Ladies, gay and bi dudes, come on down to the Brushfire Club, where we have the studliest hunks this side of the studinental divide!"  They do show men and women both cheering for the gyrating musclemen with bouncing bulges.

The problem: On "Freaky Friday," the strippers eat the customers' keys.

Lincoln: And that's popular?

Hunk: The customers love it!  But it's making us sick." 

So they're suing for medical bills. Problem: The club is being represented by the super-competent Steve Nichols (the one who fired Lincoln when his mom died).

Scene 4: Cut to Steve Nichols and the sleazy club owner eating spaghetti off a naked lady and discussing how they're going to win the case.  It's personal to Steve, because he hates Lincoln Gum and wants to destroy him. 

In his office, Lincoln complains that he'll never win the stripper case now.  He's disgraced his Mom's legacy. She jumps out of her photo to complain that because of his incompetence, she's in hell, where they have a disgusting process for going to the bathroom (I'm not describing it).

 He leaves to go get drunk, past Dennis the snake eater, the 666 Club, and Friendigan's.  Suddenly he comes across a street magician whose trick involves shooting a deck of cards: the bullet stops at the card you selected. 

Scene 5: Lincoln's assistants, Glem and Irene, visit client Bob Henderson, the used car king: "If you can find a better deal on a Toyota, you can kill me."  Seems that a guy found a better deal, and wanted to kill him, but the lawyers got him to settle for a maiming.  Now they want to be paid.  This is getting a little too cringe for my tastes. Why so many people inviting their own deaths?

Meanwhile, Lincoln talks to the Magician, Sheila Flambé , "magician and three-year all-county sex champion." Does he want to hire her or date her?

Turns out that she was Juror #5 on his last case.  Where he went wrong: "it was like a funeral for Saltine Crackers. This is Vegas!  You got to do it big!"

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Ruben Reuter: the wacky drug dealer of "Pushers," "Lord of the Flies" Percy, Channel Four journalist, Short Guy with a d*ck

I was researching Ryan McParland, the Irish actor who plays the younger brother on How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, and I found a cast photo from Pushers (2025), a Channel 4 comedy. With two short guys.

Two short guys?  I'm definitely watching this show!

Turns out that Pushers is not available to stream in the U.S., but I watched some clips on Youtube.  

It stars Rosie Jones as Emily Dawkins, a woman with cerebral palsy who loses her benefits and needs some way to make money -- and impress her crush (a lady). Enter lovable doofus Ewen (Ryan McParland), who wants to "make money fast" in the amateur drug-dealing game.  He notices that Emily is invisible; people are disturbed by her disability, and pretend not to see her.  A perfect drug runner!

Emily suggests using her charity, Wee CU (providing accessible toilets), as a cover for the drug business.  And she recruits some other disabled people for the crew:

Hope (Libby Mae) handles the money-laundering, and pushes to expand the business into spice (an artificial cannabinoid).

Sam (Jon Furlong) became aggressive during her first drug sale, so she hired him as the muscle. He's garrulous and rather a tipster.

Harry (Ruben Reuter, hugging Ryan) wanted to make a documentary about the experience, but they reject the idea.  He handles the website and  the social media.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch of Coronation Street (right) plays Masir, who provides the minivan.

Harry is an actor, dancer, and filmmaker (his dream is to direct Hollyoakes).  

In the first clip I watched, Harry and Ewan are hiding from a real drug lord - the kind that cuts your d*ck off -- and he suggests disguising themselves with drag.  He's an expert on hairstyling and makeup.   

Ewan: "F*cking hell, I look like me nan."

Harry: "No, you're sexy."

Ewan "Are you saying me nan ain't sexy?"

In another clip, the gang interviews for their jobs. Harry says that he's working at a pub with his Dad, but he wants to make enough money to ask his boyfriend Kevin to marry him.

A gay character!  They already had a lesbian character, so there's really no reason to make Harry gay -- unless the actor is gay in real life.

Ruben Reuter was born in 2000 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.  He has eight previous on-screen acting credits, most significantly the teen soap The Dumping Ground (2015-2024).  His character, Finn, was heterosexual, but he also may have a gay-subtext buddy-bond with Harry (Philip Graham Scott).

Left: A n*de Yorkshire guy

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