Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
From left to right: Evan, Chuck, Dana, Kirsten, Rick, Steve
Created by	Q. Allan Brocka
Starring	Alan Cumming Billy West Lori Alan Peter Paige Mitch Morris Wilson Cruz Laraine Newman Emily Brooke Hands Jessica-Snow Wilson Liza Del Mundo Q. Allan Brocka Will Matthews Taylor Dooley
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	14 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Q. Allan Brocka Dave Mace Eileen Opatut Lance W. Reynolds
Running time	22 minutes
Release
Original network	Logo TV Teletoon
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV)
Original release	July 10, 2007 – January 27, 2009

Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (also known as Rick & Steve) is an American-Canadian stop motion animated sitcom created by Q. Allan Brocka, who also acts as director. Adam Shaheen from Cuppa Coffee Studios produced. It is a spin-off from Brocka's 1999 short film of the same name, and debuted on the LGBT focused Logo network in July 2007 and on the Canadian Teletoon's late-night programming block "The Detour" that October. The show premiered in the UK on E4 on 17 September 2008 and in January 2010 on Virgin 17 in France.

After the first season aired, Logo renewed the program for a second season, which debuted on November 11, 2008.

The animation of the original Rick & Steve shorts was done using Lego blocks and figures, prompting a lawsuit from the company. Though the series no longer uses Lego blocks, it still draws comparison to both them and those by Playmobil.

It is produced by Toronto-based production studio, Cuppa Coffee Studios. Currently, there are no plans for a third season of Rick & Steve.

The show follows the lives of three gay couples—the titular Rick and Steve, Chuck and Evan, and Dana and Kirsten—as they live in the fictional gay ghetto of West Lahunga Beach and interact with their friends and family. The title is ironic, as all three of the main couples have typical "couple issues" — including Steve actively seeking a three-way with Rick and another man, Kirsten and Dana deciding to have a baby with Rick's sperm, and Chuck and Evan simply trying to be together despite a 31 year age difference between them.

The show is noted particularly for its use of an adult-oriented and "politically incorrect" style of humor, similar in some respects to that of South Park and Family Guy.