Queer Eye Review

QE Episode 1.23 Mark Faries – Do you know the Mullet Man?

First Aired in SA: 8 March
Rating: 5

Category: Mullet-wearing Straight Guy (“business up front, party in the back” hair).


Carson was really good in Kyan’s hip tip at the end, dropping that razor when the grooming police say so, followed by “Are you gonna frisk me?”.
Have you noticed that they all really talk with their hands a lot when they recap the event?
Thom really could not stand those glasses with the long stems that Kyan so eagerly wanted to toast with.
Did you see Ted jump on that trolley? Cool move.
I thought it was really funny when Mark says he hates plaid. It really caught Thom off guard. Thom was even more worried when Carson understood Mark’s concern that plaid has too much volume and screams at him. I wonder if Thom was thinking, ‘OK, we’re gotta take all the plaid stuff back’.
I actually really love how Carson has an absolute loss for words when he sees a bad outfit.
This family reminded me a bit of the Toales.
I thought it was so beautiful when Mark helped Jai rock climb, guiding him up and down. Jai just couldn’t do the climb without help and relied on Mark to help him. Jai taking Mark to the rock climbing gym was in order to have a physical exercise in trust and to talk to Mark about his step-daughter and showing her that he loves her.
Mark was supposed to make the pizzas but he soon delegated the job to his friend Billy, the willing slave. As the Bravo site put it: “Apparently, Mark’s not just a carpenter, he’s a subcontractor.”
I loved how they all freaked out when Mark suggested he grow his hair.
When the Fab 5 watched the event from the loft, they were all wearing stripes.


Quotes:

Thom: “He’s an absentee dad!”
Carson: “You know, when you don’t have enough male influence in your life, terrible things happen.” (Points to self) “Poster child.”

Jai: “I see the hair already.”

Carson (excited to see a grandfather clock); “Why are there two?”

Carson: “Did you smoke some hash and buy the rest of these clothes?”

Thom (on seeing Mark): “Look what the lion tamer dragged in.”

Kyan: “One mullet down, millions to go, boys.”

Kyan: “I love the way he breezes in, mooshes up some dough, breezes out.”

Kyan: “Billy’s like, ‘I never knew it could be so much fun to be a pizza bitch’.”

Thom: “Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, Billy, their indentured servant, is hard at work.”

Carson: “Look, Billy’s still serving pizza.”

Thom: “Billy, can you do me a favour and vacuum before the guests get here?”

Mark: “Not many people can make a handlebar with their moustache. I have the ability, so I do it.”
Jai: “Okay. Not many people can make an A-bomb.”

Carson (at the sight of Mark’s underwear): “I did not authorise those.”

Thom: “You’re like a freaking stud.”

Carson: “They’re like a white Destiny’s Child.”