Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Kimmy and the Beest

By starrymag | June 4, 2018

By: Sammi Turano

 

 

The episode opens with Titus (Tituss Burgess) auditioning kids for the school play of “Beauty and The Beast.” None of them impress him, but he lets them all in because there is nobody else trying out.

 

At home, he tells Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) he feels like the dad in Beethoven because of his job. Kimmy doesn’t think “Beauty and the Beast” can be that bad, but Titus shows her the play, which has a talking Coke Zero and is actually called “Beauty and the Beest.” The play is written though by the School Soda Trickery Council and we get a flashback of a video Kimmy saw once in Science class.

 

Random House sent Kimmy some books to entice her to write her own book about being in the bunker. She said Cyndee wrote one and she has no desire to do the same. Titus thinks it might be a good idea, so she decides to talk to Fran with a blog and vlog. He also happens to be a friend of Titus’s…they even karaoked to “The Boy Is Mine” together once!

 

At the office, Lillian (Carol Kane) is photocopying $20 bills while Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) tells her to take her time because they all have work to do. Another man joins the line, getting impatient with the ladies for gabbing and hogging the copier. The ladies talk about Titus’s play and how they can gain from it financially. They decide to buy all the tickets and scalp them.

 

Titus tries to get the kids to rehearse, but he actually leaves them all annoyed and confused due to all his rules. His screaming even causes the kid who plays the Beest to quit in favor of wrestling.

 

Lillian and Jacqueline crash a PTA meeting in order to blackmail parents into buying the scalped tickets. The parents, of course, are not happy, but Lillian says that if the kids cry because Mommy and Daddy aren’t there she will laugh.

 

Kimmy goes to see Fran (Bobby Moynihan) at a bridal shop, where he acts like it’s an honor to meet her. He then tells her he will probably try to have sex with her and thanks to his recent talk with the Reverend he believes men are the dominant sex so men should go first as they go in the back to talk. She tries to talk to him about the documentary and the evilness of The Reverend, but it turns into him screaming about how hard men have it. He thinks The Reverend can fix it, but Kimmy finally gets sick of him and beats him up. When she gets home she tries to talk to Titus about the situation; however, he makes it all about himself.

 

Jacqueline and Lillian are on the streets to try and scalp tickets for the school play. They aren’t having much luck. They are in Times Square and see all the Broadway plays with endorsements from newspapers. Jacqueline remembers a play she went to recently that was interactive, and it gives them the idea to try and make their play seem interactive in order to increase sales.

 

At rehearsal, everyone is struggling, so the kids decide Titus should play the Beest and save the show. He is happy with this and agrees…that is until he hears Hudson (Juwan Crawley) the lighting guy sing. Titus makes it seem like he is going to cast him in the role, but instead sends him to be with the wrestling team.

 

Kimmy goes to a rehearsal where she compares the play to her life in the bunker. She also hears Hudson sing and calls Titus out on not casting him in the play. He says he is letting his repressed theater nerd shine. Kimmy tells him that she never got the chance to be in any plays and thinks he should give Hudson a chance. Titus still wants to do the play and walks away.

 

Opening day comes and Jacqueline welcomes the audience. As that happens, Kimmy keeps trying to convince Titus to let Hudson be in the play. He still insists on being on the play, despite the shoes he needs not fitting. Kimmy tells him he is Ursula and the wicked stepsister, which finally convinces him to crash wrestling practice so Hudson can be in the play.

 

Kimmy is also in the play and is surprised to see that Fran is in the audience. He says he is there to support the director while his mom is proud he met a girl. Kimmy says she beat him up and goes on a rant about the evils of fairytales for both boys and girls. She gets a standing ovation, but everyone is still confused as to who she is and why she is there.

 

The episode ends with Lillian running around the stage.