In April of 2001 a show was aired on MTV called Undergrads or The Click in certain Countries. It was a show about the misadventures of Nitz Walsh and his childhood friends through out their freshman year of college. Let me first talk about the characters. You have Nitz your typical freshman who hasn't broken out of his awkwardly social shell. Nitz's room mate Cal who happens to be one of his childhood friends. Cal is a ladies man, and women throw themselves at him in droves to which at one point he says "I need a break from all my lady guy friends. I am shooting out air." Rocko the underachiever friend of the Click who goes to a local Community College. Rocko is a drinker, a jerk and loves to alienate people, this ultimately leads him to appear to have no friends outside of Nitz, Gimpy and Cal (even though he claims to hate Cal). Last but not least you have the groups nerd Gimpy. Gimpy is a shut-in megalomaniac who hates the outdoors, jocks and girls (despite falling in love with a female hacker who just so happens to live in the dorm room next to his) being smarter then the rest of his friends he attends Teckerson Tech a school which seems to only have highly intelligent nerds attending.
There is a lot of secondary characters who seem to be more main then secondary like the character Jesse, she is the new friend in the group who Nitz falls in love with after seeing her naked. He ultimately gets shot down by her only to have her fall in love with him by the end of the show. But Nitz's main love interest through out the show is Kimmy Burton who is in love with an openly gay guy named Lance (though she is completely clueless to that fact). That love story is your typical "oh I love her and she doesn't." With the other girl going "Oh yeah cause NO ONE else will love you." While giving the guy the subtle hint that "Hey I am here you dumb fuck." Despite the cliche love interest story. It is a very well made show which leads me to wonder why it was canceled just after one season. Upon research the networks deemed it a financial failure and that is why it was canceled. The creator of the show had said in a blog statement a few years back that he is still interested in getting the second season made. I for one hope it does find away to get made.
If you can get your hands on the DVDs for this show do it. It is a fun show to watch. Or you can watch the show on youtube. Either way you should diffidently give this underrated show a shot.
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