Husbands is a online sitcom cowritten/produced by Brad Bell and Jane Espenson. When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other.
The first two seasons are available here.
Then the show got picked up for a third season at CW Seed.
This series contains examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Brady discovers that, unlike himself, Cheeks steals from hotels... and is delighted to realize Cheeks can steal everything he can't.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Claudia seems nice, but is an expert in Passive-Aggressive Kombat.
- Blatant Lies: Brady and Cheeks in the first scene insisting they totally planned to get married.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Haley
- The Cameo: Nathan Fillion, Michael Buckley, Joss Whedon, Tricia Helfer, Sasha Roiz, Dichen Lachman, Felicia Day, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, Willie Warren Jr, Mekhi Phifer, Jon Cryer, and Jon Hodgman.
- Camp Gay: Cheeks
- Casting Gag: Getting Amber Benson, most famous for playing a lesbian, to have a cameo as a homophobic woman who wants everyone to think of the children.
- Eating the Eye Candy: one of Vic Del Ray's assistants has to be restrained when Brady takes off his shirt
- Fag Hag: Haley
- Fanservice: Aside from Cheeks and Brady themselves, the second season gives us 2 gloriously gratuitous examples: Tricia Helfer and Dichen Lachman pillow fighting, and Felicia Day eating pizza ridiculously sexily.
- Flying Under the Gaydar: Cheeks tries to "downplay" his flamboyance in season 2.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Haley
- Lampshade Hanging: "If we were straight, this would totally be a hackneyed premise!"
- "Well at least his ex didn't show up." "Mom! You know what happens when you say that!"
- Marriage Before Romance: The premise of the show
- Medium Awareness: "I just had a flashback. And it included some parts I wasn't even present for! Trippy!"
- One Head Taller: Brady to Cheeks
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Cheeks. Although it might actually be his real name, according to his mother
- Performance Artist: Cheeks
- Straight Gay: Brady Kelly
- Take That!: the second episode is called "Being Britney" and references Britney Spears' quickie marriage-and-divorce
