Duck is queer, Tom is not

Simpsons scribe Mike Reiss' Queer Duck recently got the DVD treatment as a straight-to-video movie. Reiss told a crowd at NewFest, an LGBT Film Festival, that Paramount ordered his writers not to make fun of Tom Cruise and his perceived sexual orientation, taking objection to one line in a song about Gay Day that went, "'Let's call Tom Cruise. What can we lose?" Reiss, trying to be diplomatic, had the line changed to "'Don't call Tom Cruise. He's straight and he sues," but that line wasn't acceptable either. So, if you're thinking of creating a cartoon that gently mocks Tom Cruise, you should know that you're not allowed to call him gay, or straight. I think that's only fair, since everyone knows he reproduces by exploding a cloud of spores from the top of his head.

[via Best Week Ever]