Baby Daddy - Ring Around The Party - Review: “Ben vs. Ross”

The episode opens with Bonnie and Brad basking in their newly engaged bliss. Bonnie is gushing over how much she loves her ring but as soon as he leaves she exclaims that she actually hates it! The diamond is way too small for her expectations. Tucker offers to take it off her hands so that she can pretend that she lost it and get a new one. However, later, Brad tells her that it was a family heirloom that has huge meaning for his family. Bonnie needs to get the ring back from Tucker but he’s lost it too! I loved this storyline! Anytime that Tucker and Bonnie are together I just think are the best and funniest scenes. They’ve always had a really good chemistry together and I love their love/hate relationship.

Meanwhile, Ben is still pining for Riley and is super jealous of Ross, a story we’ve seen a million times on this show before, let alone any other story ever told. Ben and Ross really start hating each other, which sort of seems to come out of nowhere but okay. Earlier in the episode, Riley and Ross and Danny and Ashley had gone on an awkward double date at the bar and Riley admitted to not meeting any of Ross’s older friends. She decides to host a cocktail party to meet them and Ben ends up being the bartender after being threatened off the guest list by Ross.

Later, Danny finds Bonnie’s ring but there’s a miscommunication and Ben ends up mixing it in with the ice that he serves to Riley’s guests as he’s bartending. When Tucker and Bonnie find out, they go and try to search through everyone’s drinks. Tucker has the totally wrong strategy, he tries to drink everyone’s drinks and then gets super drunk, which is hilarious! It’s also the catalyst for Ross and Riley’s break up after drunk Tucker spills the beans that Danny is really the brother to watch out for, not Ben. Looks like that big fight between Ross and Ben (and Danny) at the party was all for nothing. That fight was ridiculous but Ross did cross a line talking about Emma, so I don’t blame Ben for getting too heated. The thing I really didn't like about this episode was that they kind of treated Danny as a non-contender most of the time. It was as if it was a fight for Riley between just Ben and Ross. The end kind of made up for it but not enough.

While all this was happening, Danny was busy trying to figure out what his “new” girlfriend’s last name is because he realized he knows her about as well as we do, aka not at all. She temporarily (or maybe not, it’s unclear) breaks up with him for this. I really hope its permanent. By the end of the episode everything works out for the best. Bonnie found her ring at the party, unfortunately in front of Brad, when someone coughed it up and awkwardly thought they were being proposed to by their boyfriend. But she ended up getting a new, bigger ring anyways. Also, Ross and Riley are no more!! They break up in a rather mature and calm way, I would expect nothing less from Ross, and I’m hoping that this will push Danny and her closer to getting together. I can feel things building up. The last episode of the season is going to be Bonnie and Brad’s wedding I think, and there’s no better time for two characters who have been in love for years to get together than at a wedding…and a season finale! So I’m really hoping that happens. I’ve gotten the screener for the finale but I’m debating on watching it now or after the next couple of episodes air because I don’t want to skip ahead. I don't know what to do! Either way, you can expect a preview with some scoop from the finale in a couple weeks! I’ll wrap it up as usual with some of my favorite lines from this episode, share yours in the comments!

“The best part is, if the diamond falls out no one will notice.” - Ben

“This ring is supposed to shout to the world that I am marrying a younger, beautiful man, but all it shows is that my fiancé is a cheap bastard!” - Bonnie
“I told you we could just go back to being us. Dating other people. Right in front of each other. Not awkward at all.” - Riley

“I saw Ross taking off. Curfew back at the rest home?” - Ben

“I know what you’re thinking. He hasn't introduced me because he’s embarrassed by our relationship. That’s not true.” - Riley
“Actually, I just assumed it’s because they’re all dead” - Ben

“If you think the ring was the problem with your last marriage, then I don’t think you know how gay works” - Tucker

“Wait, did you go through all my drawers?” - Tucker
“All of them. Which is why I can’t make eye contact with you now.” - Bonnie

“You guys are missing a great party. Well, a party.” - Danny

“Are you crazy? I’m just dating you until Steve and Marcy break up. Hey, Steve.” - Party Guest

“I only lied because I didn't want to tell the truth.” - Bonnie

“I mean, it’s just two guys that look like Ben circling the two guys that look like Ross.” - Tucker

What did you think of this episode? Are you happy Ross and Riley broke up? Did you love Drunk Tucker as much as I did? Let me know in the comments! Thanks for reading and see you next week!

About the Author - Kate Sidwell

Kate is a 24 year old, USA based, Psychology/Public Health Researcher - but that’s just her day job! In her spare time she is an avid TV watcher (some may even say addict!!). Some of her favorite shows are Jane the Virgin, Bates Motel, The Flash, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Rookie Blue, Silicon Valley, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Hollow, The 100, The Mindy Project, Pretty Little Liars, Once Upon a Time, The Royals, Orphan Black…so pretty much too many to count and a huge variety! She’ll give pretty much any show a chance! She also devotes a lot of time to her tumblr (eat-sleep-breathe-tv.tumblr.com) where you can find her reviewing and commenting on most of these shows and just generally fangirling! She’s excited to be writing for SpoilerTV on Complications, Baby Daddy, Proof, Switched at Birth, Secrets and Lies, and Minority Report!

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