User Reviews

How does one botch up this plot this badly?! It's easily one of the show's worst episodes thanks to its many, many problems. They'd be:

1: The reason Kick doesn't want to be in the play for Romeo & Juliet and kiss Kendall is not thoroughly explained, making him look very bone headed if you remember that he's implied to secretly like her.

2: On top of that, Kick is just a plain, weak idiot here. He's stupid enough to still keep up his protecting of Ronaldo despite it apparently dealing him a lot of pain and humiliation. Come on, staff, Kick is better than this!

3: Ronaldo isn't much better. Not only does he spend much of the first half loudly reciting his lines everywhere he goes, but he catches on to Kick being his understudy and takes full advantage of it, causing more pain to Kick. At the very least, Kendall (the ONLY character here worth rooting for) knocks him out at the end....HOWEVER!!

4: Speaking of the ending, if it just ended with Kick getting the role and the play continuing, it might redeem the episode, but no, gotta have Kick be an idiot again by knocking himself out and ruining the show.

Overall, quite a mess of an episode with several out of character moments to push this forceful plot forward.

This is easily one of those episodes that makes you bang your head against the desk in anger. This episode has three main problems: Kick's characterization, the annoyance from both him and Ronaldo (my least liked character; what a waste of Simon Helberg), and its ending.

Throughout the episode, Kick attempts, at all costs, to protect Ronaldo from harm due to being the latter's understudy for drama class; ergo, if something happens to the nerd, Kick takes his place in their play of Romeo & Juliet. Here's the first issue: Kick is absolutely terrified of kissing Kendall in the play, someone who he's implied to have a secret crush on and vice versa (and the sole reason he agreed to the understudy offer). On top of this, Kick is portrayed as weaker than ever, taking each beating and humiliation with surprising sensitivity despite being through worse before and coming out okay. I just don't buy this.

Ronaldo is no better: he eventually discovers that Kick is protecting him and takes FULL advantage of it, making him a slave to pain. Not to mention how he drones ON AND ON with practicing his role everywhere he goes.

The ending is perhaps the most insulting. When Ronaldo is knocked out anyways by Kendall (the only good scene, and the only one worth rooting for here), Kick deliberately does the same to himself to avoid the kiss, making the whole affair utterly pointless!

Overall, this episode is a mess. Kick is severely out of character, Ronaldo's role left a bad taste in my mouth, and its ending stinks.