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I was starting to fall in love with this show after the first episode. Like most relationships, early on it had so much potential. I could really see us spending time together, getting to know each other every Thursday night at 8:30. But like most relationships, this one has started to turn sour, and like some women, will ultimately confuse you and make you sad until you are a bitter shell of the man you once used to be.

Um, where was I? Oh yeah: Four Kings. It's kinda lame now.

Not only was this episode kinda unfunny, it might even be dangerous. I don't want all you kids with your skateboards and your baggy jeans and your cigarettes latching on to the game played in this episode: "Chest," where you sneak up on a buddy and punch him right in the chest as hard as you can. I mean, don't people die from stuff like that? This could turn into one of those sitcom lawsuits.

I do like that fact that they have brought a woman into the mix, the friend that Ben tries to set up with Barry but Barry is too screwed up and insecure to think it's anything but a practical joke. It's not. She's funny and cool and cute so Ben starts to date her. It does give Seth Green a chance to do his wacky anger thing, though it's getting a bit old.

I still think there are too many people in this cast. They should have one of the guys move away or something. But then they'd have to change the title. Maybe Three's A Crowd or Four Minus One. But I think it would be a cleaner, funnier show. It's not terrible, but it has quickly soared into the territory that many other NBC Thursday comedies have been in over the years: in between a couple of successful shows, but for how long?

I really want to like this show. There's so much potential. Right now it sort of gets a shrug, but I'll keep watching.