Tomáš Like Me

Tomáš decides to steal Honza's identity in an attempt to win Klára, while Vašek has a hard time with coping with Martin being a piano prodigy.

**Featuring:**

Tomáš Krákal, Klára Vršková, Honza Dočkal, Vašek Jirák, Martin Hora

## Plot

The episode begins with Tomáš spying on Honza and Marie on their date and laments about Honza being able to get a girlfriend, while he has no chance. Ultimately, he realizes that if he dressed up as Honza and pretended to be him, he might strike a chance with Klára.

After the opening sequence, we see Vašek practicing playing the piano, while Martin rings the bell and wants to explore the sewers with Vašek. After learning that Vašek has to practice, he enters his house and wants to try to play the song himself, getting tired of just watching Vašek play it, commenting that he's not that much into letsplays. After Vašek hears him play, he realizes that he's a much better piano player than he is himself.

Meanwhile, Tomáš is working on his makeover at his home. He dyes his hair black, gets a pair of glasses and a new pants and jacket. He then trains his vocal impression of Honza, which he nails perfectly. He then calls Honza, telling him that Mr. Krtek told him that Honza can leave school for next month starting tomorrow, because "he's so good at maths". Honza says that although that sounds like something Mr. Krtek would say, he still tells Tomáš that he's going to go to school anyways, because he likes it there. Tomáš then makes up that Mr. Krtek said, that Mr. Krtek doesn't want the other kids to feel bad for not being that good at maths, so if Honza proceeds to go to school, he's gonna make him fail maths, to which Honza leaves a nasty comment about Mr. Krtek and hangs up, agreeing not to go to school for the next month.

The next day, the three guys meet in the hallway as usual, except that Tomáš is there instead of Honza, in his disguise. The guys are completely fooled by Tomáš's disguise and accept him as if he were Honza. Vašek then secretely tells to Tomáš as Honza about his insecurities with Martin being a better piano player than him, although he didn't even practice for a moment, to which Tomáš replies that he doesn't care at all and proceeds to go to Klára's desk in the class. After flirting with her for a while, making sure that she's also fooled by his disguise, he asks her out. Klára's visibly uncomfortable, asking Tomáš about Honza's relationship with Marie. Tomáš promptly realizes that he forgot about her and quickly goes to tell Marie, as Honza, that he leaves her, leaving her confused. He then returns to Klára, making her agree to a meetup after school.

During a lecture from Mr. Krtek about animal pee, Martin plays on the table as if there was a piano with Vašek watching him all scared. Liana asks Tomáš in his disguise as Honza, if he doesn't know what happenned to Tomáš, why isn't he present, to which Tomáš says, that Mr. Krtek sent him home for being too good at maths.

Vašek apologizes to Martin for being jealous of his talent, after which Martin says, that Vašek is also a very good piano player and that they could try playing together, after which the scene cuts to them playing a tune together with The Trumpet Guy.

After school, Tomáš, dressed up as Honza, tries to kiss Klára unexpectedly after which she gets mad, saying that the whole class is full of creeps and she can apparently trust nobody in there. After that, the real Honza shows up, discovers what's up and gets absolutely irritated at Tomáš, claryfying that he called up Mr. Krtek and he had no idea what he was talking about. Honza and Klára beat Tomáš up, after which Andrej arrives to pick up Klára, asking, if Tomáš and Honza are twins. Tomáš then realizes that all that time, he was actually supposed to dress up as Andrej and not Honza, if he wanted to succeed, as Andrej is actually already dating Klára. He then enters Klára's house poorly dressed as Andrej, which makes Klára beat him up with a baseball bat.

## Production

Michaal P'Eshek and Able Deerus thought of this episode once in a recording booth, poking fun at Deerus voicing both of them. P'Eshek stated in the commentary track for the episode, that he was afraid that this was too early to make the episode as it already states that Klára would never date Tomáš under any condition (which is proven to be wrong a few episodes later in W.E.E.D., quite possibly for this exact reason), but he wasn't sure at the time if a third season would be ordered and really wanted to make it, as he liked the idea a lot.

P'Eshek really praised the animation and the storyboarding of the scene where Martin plays the piano, describing it as "the first fully cinematic scene of the series"

## Reception

The episode received many positive reviews mostly for its' humor-driven story, which was ballanced with the Martin-Vašek storyline. IGN awarded this episode with a 9.5 rating, which at the time was the best the series ever got.

## Trivia

* The title is a refference to the book Black Like Me from 1961.
* This is the first episode named after Tomáš and also the first episode named after a character overall.
* This is the first time Honza and Tomáš are talking directly to each other and coincidentally also the first time they have a conflict.