It's hard balancing your kiss rehearsal with hiding your supernatural alter-ego from your crush.
Production Code: 109
When he learns that Rose is playing Cleopatra in the school's production of Antony and Cleopatra, Jake goes for the part of Anthony in order for some private 'rehearsal'. At the same time he has to prevent the Huntsman from finding a magic scarab that will allow him to create an army of the dead!
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- Action Prologue: The episode opens with Jake, Lao-Shi, and Fu in the midst of a shipyard fight with the Huntsman and Rose, each of them trying to capture the scarab beetle.
- Almost Kiss: Jake and Rose get these when trying to practice the kissing part of Act 4, Scene 15.
- Big Ball of Violence: Jake and Rose's fight at Trixie's apartment culminates in one of these.
- Blunt No: Jake gives something along the lines of one when Rose offers that they could rehearse their lines at his house.Jake: (Has a momentary Imagine Spot of his parents and sister being embarrassing) ...My house is being fumigated.
- Call-Back: Jake makes one to the school dance in "Dragon Breath" when he and Rose share their first scene in the episode at school. At least, he tries to.Jake: What up, Rose? Haven't had a chance to dance with you since the talk. I mean, talk to you since the chance. I mean...
- Cut Himself Shaving: In the final fight, the Huntsman accidentally shoots Rose in the leg with his staff. As a result, Rose is in a cast and on crutches when she and Jake next see each other in their civilian identities, with Rose telling Jake she fell and sprained her ankle while at the "family thing" that made her drop out of the play.
- Dramatic Irony: Though neither realize it, Rose's description of Antony and Cleopatra's relationship accurately describes the situation between her and Jake:Rose: Antony and Cleopatra are natural enemies, forced to choose between love and responsibility to their cause.
- Jake visits Rose's place in order to have somewhere to rehearse with her in peace, and also gets to meet her Uncle (the Huntsman) second hand, if painfully. There's something to be said about how Jake was not only within spitting distance of his arch enemy, but walked in and out of the lair of his enemies and lived to tell about it.
- Failed a Spot Check: While at rehearsing at Gramps' shop, the scarab beetle accidentally gets loose courtesy of Jake. How Rose missed this is anybody's guess.
- Foreshadowing: Spud's high level of intelligence that's revealed in season two is teased in two ways. First, when he's auditioning for the play, Spud mentions that he has the entire works of Shakespeare committed to memory. Second, he's able to find the tomb of the Huntsclan for Jake with his laptop.
- Imagine Spot: Jake has two; the first is him imagining him and Rose in costume performing the lines for Act 4, Scene 15. He’s snapped out of it by Trixie right before the two kissed. The second is when Rose suggests rehearsing for the play at his house, and he imagines what would most likely happen if he brings her home to his Amazingly Embarrassing Parents and Annoying Younger Sibling.
- Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: It's strongly implied that the Huntsclan murdered a photographer who stumbled upon the entrance of the Huntsclan tomb.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Rose is describing Antony and Cleopatra's dynamic to Jake (which symbolizes their own), she notes how the couple's kiss is meant to signify how they're ready to commit to each other despite their status as Star-Crossed Lovers. Unwittingly, she frames what the show is trying to say: once Jake and Rose getting around to their first kiss, it will represent a significant milestone in their arc as Star-Crossed Lovers.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Until Jake takes the stage, none of the other Antony prospects were any good. This montage consisted of Brad Morton, Spud, some kid who only spoke Spanish, and one who thought he was at the Hockey tryouts.
- There Are No Coincidences: Subverted. Huntsgirl injured her leg after her fight with the American Dragon. Later Jake meets up with Rose who had to leave the play because she broke her leg. Jake noticed that Rose's injured the same foot as Huntsgirl. But thought nothing further as he was smitten by Rose.
- Title Drop: Several times throughout.
