Kevin Can Wait – Choke Doubt

By: Julie Mante

While Chale (Ryan Cartwright) is cooking breakfast, Kendra (Taylor Spreitler) is studying for the LSATs. Donna (Erinn Hayes) walks into the kitchen excited. Her best friend Gina (Gina Brillon) has started her own business as a wedding planner and has agreed to work on Kendra’s wedding for free. Kendra thinks it is a bad idea because she is focused on studying for the LSATs and she and Chale have not even set a wedding date. Donna says that she can meet with Gina and Chale agrees to go with her. Reluctantly, Kendra agrees to let her mom’s friend plan her wedding.

At Enzo’s, Kevin (Kevin James) walks to get a pitcher of beer for his friends. As he walking back to his table, a man at the counter starts coughing. At first, Kevin thinks he is reacting to the spicy nuts, but then realizes that the man is choking. He jumps into action and uses the Heimlich maneuver. The man is grateful to Kevin for saving his life. Kevin says that is no big deal. He did this plenty of times when he was a police officer. When the man offers to pay for Kevin’s tab, Kevin refuses. The man is in awe of Kevin’s humility. He gives Kevin his card and tells Kevin to call if he ever needs carpet padding. Kevin returns to his table in a happy mood over his good deed and offers to buy his friends lunch. When Kevin was about to tell his friends about saving a man’s life, they see Kevin’s brother Kyle (Gary Valentine) on TV and tell Enzo (Joe Starr) to turn up the volume. Kyle is a firefighter and he saved a cute cat. All the guys are impressed, but Kevin wants to tell them his story. When Kevin tries to tell his story again, Kyle shows up at Enzo’s and receives a warm welcome from the guys. Kevin is not happy.

When Donna and Chale meet Gina, they have different ideas for the wedding. Donna wants the flowers to be lilies, but Chale is adamant that Kendra would want wildflowers. Donna and Chale cannot agree on anything and Gina does not know what to do. When Kevin arrives at Enzo’s, he sees his friends at another table. They show him that this table has a plaque dedicated to Kyle because he saved a cat. Kevin thinks it is ridiculous that Kyle has a plaque because they are usually reserved for people who have died saving others. His friends are quick to say that Kevin is jealous of Kyle, which Kevin denies. Kevin is finally able to tell his friends how he saved a man named Bill (Adam Ferrara) from choking. They ask him why he did not mention it yesterday and he says that he did not need the attention like Kyle does. Since he saved Bill at the counter, Kevin knows that Enzo saw it happen. He asks Enzo about the incident, but Enzo only remembers Kevin buying a pitcher of beer.

Later that night, Kevin complains to Donna about not getting credit and praise from his friends for saving Bill. Donna is annoyed that Chale is shooting down all her ideas. Donna gets annoyed with her husband for not listening to her, but she realizes that she is making Kendra’s wedding about her and not what the young couple would want. Kevin also realizes that he should let Kyle get some attention for once. They both decide they will push their own feelings aside and be better people. Quickly, they both realize they cannot let things go.

The next day, Kevin gets the restaurant security footage so he can show his friends that he actually saved Bill from choking. Kyle arrives and lets everyone know that the cat he saved was pregnant so he ended up saving eight cats instead of one. He got invited to a morning TV show to give away the kittens. As everyone is watching the video, Enzo ends up blocking the shot of Kevin saving the man so his friends and Kendra never gets the see Kevin saving Bill on video.

Kyle stops by Kevin’s house and Kevin is not in a good mood. Kyle offers to get Kevin’s name added to his plaque, but Kevin refuses to have his name put there out of pity. Kyle is not going to feel bad for Kevin. In his mind, Kevin has an amazing life. He has a beautiful wife, amazing kids and a great house while Kyle has nothing. For once, the spotlight is on him and he is going to enjoy it. Kevin feels like no one cared that he saved a guy’s life and he could not let that go. He apologizes to Kyle for not being supportive. Kyle invites Kevin to come to the morning show with him but Kevin feels that Kyle should be in the spotlight by himself. Kyle insists and Kevin agrees.

Donna sees Kendra studying and wants to talk. Donna tells her daughter everything that happened with Chale and Gina yesterday. When Donna leaves to go get her grandmother’s wedding dress, Chale walks in carrying a guitar. He also tells Kendra about the disagreements he had with Donna yesterday. He says to Kendra that he would like to sing at their wedding and starts playing. As he sings and plays the guitar, Donna walks in wearing the wedding dress. As the two start to bicker, Kendra tells her mom that if Chale wants to sing at their wedding, he will. Kendra tells him to continue playing. Kendra says that the song was beautiful and tries to get her mother to admit it. Donna says he should sing at the wedding. Chale admits that the dress looks good and the two agree to forget about yesterday.

Kyle and Kevin are on Wake Up, Long Island to give the kittens Kyle saved a home. When the anchors ask Kevin how it feels to be the brother of a hero, Kevin ends up telling them about saving a man’s life and offers to take two kittens home. Kyle already volunteered to take one kitten home. Kyle says that he thought Kevin had let the whole incident go, but Kevin is determined to get his praise. He decides to call the man who saved his life. When Kevin calls Bill and puts him on speaker, he tells the man to tell the viewers how Kevin saved his life. The problem is that the connection is bad so Kevin can only hear every other word. Kelly (Julee Cerda), one of the anchors, is signaling toward a commercial break when her co-host Tom (Michael Yo) starts choking on a donut. The brothers see this as an another opportunity to be a hero so they start fighting to get to Tom first. Kelly is able to get to her colleague and use the Heimlich maneuver on him. The brothers continue fighting.

In the closer, the brothers watch their fight on the morning show. They decide to forget about the whole incident and go to their table with the plaque. Enzo decides to remove the plaque from the table so they decide to eat their pizza at the counter.