After a great season where the cartoon school full of food students have been gripped by the right wing followers of Cheesus and their hypocritical call for ‘religious freedom’, McTucky Fried High Season 2 reaches its conclusion.
In the new episode, ‘The Cheesus Slice saga comes to a head with Sheri Cone (Kristen T. King) – will she fulfill Cheesus’s “word” or die trying? McTucky Fried High attempts to box students into gender and sexuality norms with the school dance rules. Will Peanut (Adrienne M. Walker) & crew give in, give up or give ’em hell? Kevin Weiner goes to the dance with one date and leaves with another! But who will it be?’
Take a look at the new episode of McTucky Fried High below. You can find the previous Season 2 episodes here and head here for Season 1. [Read more…]
The school full of animated food is back with the fifth episode of Season 2. As the makers state, ‘McTucky Fried High stands out as one of the only LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) animated cartoons to date. Season 2 uses humor to tackle religion, racism, feminism, and STI’s while foregrounding and affirming LGBTQ characters and experiences. McTucky Fried High is setting the tone for specifically LGBTQ characters and story lines in media by being unapologetically queer, talking about relevant issues young people face and doing so with humor and fun! ‘
As with the first season of McTucky Fried High, this second run hasn’t been afraid of taking on the issues facing LGBTQ head-on, even if it is doing it through a show about a school full of animated food. Episode 3 and 4 of Season 2 certainly continue that fearlessness, with this season particularly interested in religious freedom advocates and their hypocrisies.
Even an animated high school isn’t free from discrimination, with Season 2, Episode 2 taking on bathroom issues for transgender issues. Things get tense and it’s time for action when some of the McTucky students get upset about one of their genderqueer classmates using what they consider to be the wrong bathroom.
There aren’t many queer-themed animated series, but McTucky Fried High has great success with its first season. That’s perhaps surprising considering the premise is a little odd, as it’s about a school where all the students are bits of food, a lot of which are LGBT.
There are quite a few LGBT-themed web series out there, but not many of them are animated. Now one has arrived, McTucky Fried High, from filmmaker, illustrator and activist, Robert-Carnilius, who was named one of NewCity’s Film 50 and was a 2014 Student Academy Awards Finalist. It is also one of twelve projects funded by the Chicago Digital Media Production Fund from Chicago Filmmakers and the Voqal Fund.