Gettin' Had in Texas

from L.A. Plays Itself

You gotta watch out for people around here, you know, you get had. You don't wanna get had, you come out of Texas, 'cause you're gettin' had in Texas.

At 3:00, the savvy Angeleno issues a word to the wise to the Texan neophyte. Indicating the gay cruisers on street corners, Fred warns Joey that some of these unscrupulous types will either rip him off or suck him off, or both.

The double-entendre reveals the assumption behind impromptu homosexual encounters in 1970s Los Angeles: that they're a zero-sum game, the opposite of making love.