Ben and Kate: Season 1, Episode 9 “Guitar Face” (B+)
It’s no surprise that the neurotic Kate is constantly looking for qualities in her boyfriend to end the relationship, and it didn’t take long for Will’s rather lamentable trait to manifest itself. Fortunately, he’s a nice guy, and despite her best efforts to sabotage the relationship, they managed to work it out and offer a cringe-worthy but endearing concert performance together. BJ’s efforts to get involved and help Kate out of her relationship so that she could focus all attention back on herself led to a familiar but still amusing group therapy plotline that worked best because of BJ’s attitude and her failure to tell her fellow group members that Kate was not in fact her ex-spouse but rather her best friend. Ben’s attempts to get himself back in Tommy’s favor after losing his job were entertaining, and I really do like the dynamic that they have. Most of all, I love their inventions and the way that they so enthusiastically and preposterously pitch them. I’d love see Rail Mall actually take flight, for lack of a more transportation-accurate term, and, if not, to hear the many other failed brilliant ideas conceived of by this duo. Resorting to fishing golf balls out of the pond on the golf course to sell back at a premium to their owners was too easy, and Ben is capable of a more complicated project. His solution to Maddie’s refusal to drink milk, for instance, was fantastic but fatally flawed, much to his and Kate’s horror.
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