# Queer Eye 02/17 - Ralph S
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 17, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709 "2004-02-17T21:23:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/1 "2004-02-17T21:23:58Z")
About bloody time! It’s been _months_ without a fix! I don’t know how I’m going to survive the summer.
Has anyone perused the Queer Eye book? I leafed through it very briefly in Chicago the other day. It has different color covers for easy coordination with your living room decor. I didn’t do a page count but it does look like Jai’s section is the smallest. Poor Jai.
How about the soundtrack album? I downloaded the title track off the iStore but they don’t have the full album.
> [@](#):
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> Name: Ralph S.
> Age: 33
> Height: 6’5"
> Weight: 235 lbs
> Status: Single
> Occupation: DJ
> Category: Heavy Metal Straight Guy
> Location: Manhattan, New York
> Event: Live radio broadcast from a Vince Neil show
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> On the surface, it would appear that Ralph has the ultimate single straight-guy life: he spends a lot of time at home in sweats and a t-shirt, he produces and co-hosts a weekly radio show that plays the hard-rocking hits he loved in high school, and every night he’s surrounded by half-naked women while getting paid to spin discs as a strip-club DJ.
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> Yet, as Ralph leaves the wild and crazy days of his 20s behind, he aspires to bigger and better things: home decor he can really enjoy, a more modern hairstyle and wardrobe, a full-time career in radio, and a serious relationship with a woman who doesn’t wear a thong to work. Fab Five, do your stuff.
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> PROBLEM AREAS
> …the apartment he shares with his twin brother Joey is most notable for its various unpleasant aromas and scary furnishings.
> …his shoulder-length hair, five-day stubble and long sideburns are attracting about as much interest as a Poison reunion tour.
> …at 6’5" with a size 15 foot, he buys pretty much anything he can find that fits…and it shows.
> …is interested in cooking, but lacks the essential equipment: a good knife, a proper pan, food.
> …would like to meet someone special, but doesn’t meet too many “nice” girls at the strip club.
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> “Ralph is always either home…or in the clubs.” — Joey, Ralph’s twin brother
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/2 "2004-02-17T23:11:07Z")
I have so many male co-workers stuck in the same 80s metal thing, I was telling them all day that they need to watch tonight. Fat chance. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/3 "2004-02-18T14:27:01Z")
Well, I was able to watch only half-way through, looked OK so far. Seems they took a very conservative approach to what-to-change, you basically had the same guy, only cleaned up and updated. One thing I’ve noticed is that with quite a few of their sample SG’s, it’s more a question of him knowing that a change is necessary, but requiring some external force to come in and set him in motion in that direction.
The sweat-yoga class, though, left me at first like, “huh? they’re really reaching for something for Jai to contribute” . But thinking about it, yeah, it is consistent with the whole deal to point out that recreation/fitness/health maintenance/mental hygiene activities that you can enjoy and fit into your schedule are part of a sound lifestyle(\*), and to show one of the various alternatives for that. Sure you’d never find me at sweat-yoga, but that’s just me.
(\*As opposed to, say, taking up dancing “to please your SO”, which came up in several of the prior eps; made it sound like some sort of required task)
I’ll wait for the re-run (or later in this thread 😃 ) to find out how things went in the 2nd half.
BTW – Otto, you’re right at the sparcity of new material so far. I suppose they just weren’t prepared to have a hit in their hands when they greenlighted the original eps. But now we’ll have to see if the new many-shows contract doesn’t have the effect of disappointing created expectations.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/4 "2004-02-18T15:18:17Z")
Anything that gets my sweet sweet Kyan stripped down and sweaty is A-OK in my book!
Overall, though, I was pretty “eh” on the ep. Always glad to see a ponytail go. Didn’t much care for the carpet squares but that’s based on personal experience with some fairly hideous ones in my own past. I’m just not going to get excited about leather pants and watching someone de-vein shrimp. It’s disgusting.
Is this the first time the phrase “pussy hair” has been used on national television?
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### Author:  [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/5 "2004-02-18T16:01:09Z")
I thought it was a great episode mainly because of how much fun the straight guy was, and how he was in tune with the whole process. It was also nice just to have a new episode in general.
Free All-Clad pans and Wustof knives- score!
The “she wants to be part of a Sutton sandwhich” line was classic.
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/6 "2004-02-18T16:02:16Z")
I liked the sign language lesson and Kyan flipping him the bird and saying, “THIS means clean your toilet!”
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/7 "2004-02-18T18:37:38Z")
What exactly did Thom do with the bedroom doors? Did he bust a hole in the wall and build a new entry?
That’s what I call a mismatched set of twins, btw. And why wasn’t Jai shirtless?
Did anybody else see the anti-smoking activist on CNN the other day who complained that three of the Fab Five (Kyan, Carson & Thom) have been photographed holding lit cigarettes in recent mags? Puh-leez! I don’t deny any of the links to smoking and cancer and heart disease and global terrorism and Baby Jesus crying, etc., but if anybody is so weak willed and eager to be loved that they light up because they saw Carson do it in a magazine then they have problems that go too deep to be fixed.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/8 "2004-02-18T19:01:14Z")
PS- _Loving_ the Kylie Minogue cameo at the end…
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### Author:  [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/9 "2004-02-18T19:07:27Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> And why wasn’t Jai shirtless?
He was showing off his 1920s-style bathing suit.
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### Author:  [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/10 "2004-02-18T20:42:37Z")
Was Kylie there as eye candy to draw the straight viewers? Her appearance seemed kind of random, though I suppose having celebrity cameos on the Hip Tips isn’t such a bad thing.
They let Ralph get away with too much in the facial hair department.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/11 "2004-02-18T20:55:16Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> That’s what I call a mismatched set of twins, btw. And why wasn’t Jai shirtless?
I thought the other twin was gay until he walked in with a girlfriend. And even then…
The more important question is why in the yoga class did they keep cutting to that shot of the tattooed lesbian?
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/12 "2004-02-18T20:56:50Z")
> [@jeevmon](#):
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> Was Kylie there as eye candy to draw the straight viewers? Her appearance seemed kind of random, though I suppose having celebrity cameos on the Hip Tips isn’t such a bad thing.
She does have a track on the soundtrack CD so I doubt it was totally random.
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### Author:  [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/13 "2004-02-18T21:58:41Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> She does have a track on the soundtrack CD so I doubt it was totally random.
OK, that makes sense. Serves me right for not getting all the tie-in items!
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queer-eye-02-17-ralph-s/229709/14 "2004-02-18T22:47:13Z")
> [@jeevmon](#):
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> OK, that makes sense. Serves me right for not getting all the tie-in items!
And you call yourself a fan! _Shame!_