Don Roy King and Danielle Kasen | Austin Brings His Girlfriend Home for Christmas / 2010 [TV (SNL) episode]

a brotherly christmas kiss

by Douglas Messerli

 

Doug Abeles and James Anderson (head writers), Don Roy King and Danielle Kasen (directors) Austin Brings His Girlfriend Home for Christmas / 2010 [5.14 minutes] [TV (SNL) episode]

 

In the ongoing episodes of the noted Vogelcheck “kissing family,” on December 11, 2010 Austin (Paul Rudd) brings home his girlfriend (Vanessa Bayer) for the Christmas holidays. As we have long ago discovered, the Vogelchecks are totally engaged in friendly, extended family intense mouth to mouth, French kisses; but here they go even a little bit further, not only playing with tongues as do Mr. and Mrs. Vogelcheck (Fred Armisen and Kristen Wig), but in the case of Austin and his brother Dwayne (Bill Hader) going much further with not only a long and intense kiss, but a rub up of the chest and pectorals. At other moments the Vogelchecks fondle breasts and when Santa, pretending to have problems with his car, arrives to make a telephone call, Mrs. Vogelsheck even partakes in the tradition of grabbing his balls (which in the spirit of Christmas, make them tingle like Christmas bells).

      The Vogelchecks’ Romanian grandparents almost engage in public sex, and at one point, when Austin asks for gum, they gladly exchange it from mouth to mouth, from mother to father and on to brother before depositing into Austin’s mouth. Austin’s girlfriend, when asked, claims she doesn’t like gum.

      By the time she’s met the entire family, in fact, she’s ready to leave, suddenly remembering that her own family might be missing her. But Papa Vogelcheck pauses to explain how the Romanian Vogelchecks daily kisses got them through the tough years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist rule and “the justified stoning of their daughter, Luschka.” Inevitably Austin’s new girlfriend forgives them or perhaps I should say, joins them in their traditional Holiday celebrations. After all, the stranger Santa has left them even more presents than usual, as they happily engage in further family acts of incestuous kisses and inappropriate hugs.

     Never has TV gotten away with more intense homosexual kisses than in this series.

 

Los Angeles, June 3, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (June 2024).