In 1978, a young
@LofaSofa is about to kiss the girl of his dreams, when a local bully,
@Tard Baby, pulls down his pants and underwear, embarrassing him in front of everybody. This leaves
@LofaSofa with lasting trauma about public affection, as well as repressing his emotions. Twenty-five years later,
@LofaSofa lives in New York City, working as an associate for
@Alan Pardew, an abusive boss who takes credit for
@LofaSofa's work. His problems also extend to his private life; his girlfriend
@Tetraphobia's ex-boyfriend
@Tranhuviya is still close friends with her and is condescending to
@LofaSofa at work.
While flying to a business meeting, a series of annoyances from a flight attendant and a sky marshal cause
@LofaSofa to lose his temper. The sky marshal, who also mistakes
@LofaSofa for a racist, tasers him.
@LofaSofa is then arrested for assaulting the flight attendant and sentenced to anger management therapy. The therapist is
@Somari1996 , who is revealed to be the woman
@LofaSofa sat next to on the plane.
@Somari1996's unorthodox techniques cause
@LofaSofa to lose his temper, and
@Somari1996 tells
@LofaSofa she recognizes his problem as passive-aggressive behavior. When
@LofaSofa is sent back to court,
@Somari1996 intervenes on his behalf choosing to move in with
@LofaSofa and shadow him in his life as part of more intensive therapy. Failure to comply will result in a year of jail time for
@LofaSofa. Although
@LofaSofa believes that co-worker
@Tranhuviya is doing nothing to ruin him at work,
@Somari1996 suspects otherwise and tells him that he needs to start fighting back or nothing will change. After receiving a phone call for
@Somari1996 informing him his mother is undergoing minor surgery in Boston,
@LofaSofa jokes to him about its seriousness, prompting
@Somari1996 to warn she'll get
@LofaSofa back with another practical joke.
The two drive to Boston, after in anger,
@Somari1996 smashes a car that was behind her in a parking garage. After seeing
@Somari1996's mother, the two stop at a restaurant on the way back to New York. After
@Somari1996 pressures him,
@LofaSofa flirts and goes home with a beautiful young lady he sees at the bar, but then at her home, rejects her amorous advances out of loyalty to
@Tetraphobia. Later,
@LofaSofa is devastated to learn that
@Somari1996 has told
@Tetraphobia on the phone about the woman, but
@Somari1996 explains the woman was a former patient of his, having set up the encounter to get revenge on
@LofaSofa for the "dying mother" prank. The next morning,
@Somari1996 apologizes to
@LofaSofa and says she explained everything to
@Tetraphobia, and the two then take a detour to a Buddhist Temple, so that
@LofaSofa can confront a reformed
@Tard Baby, who has become a monk. While confronting his tormentor at outdoor group meditation,
@Tard Baby expresses his sincerest apologies to
@LofaSofa for bullying him, but he laughs when
@LofaSofa reminds him of the kiss incident.
@Somari1996 and an initially hesitant
@LofaSofa provoke
@Tard Baby by lying about
@LofaSofa having molested
@Tard Baby's mentally ill sister, and
@LofaSofa and
@Tard Baby fight.
@Somari1996 teases the monks into a rage and the two are chased off the grounds, with
@LofaSofa feeling good on having confronted his tormentor. Back in New York,
@LofaSofa attempts to propose to
@Tetraphobia but loses his nerve, and
@Tetraphobia suggests that they take a break from their relationship. Soon after
@Somari1996 begins dating
@Tetraphobia,
@LofaSofa sees this as the last straw and loses his cool by attacking
@Somari1996. Being called back into court,
@LofaSofa is given a restraining order by the judge, who threatens to lock him up if
@LofaSofa has another incident.
Called into work and yelled at by his boss,
@LofaSofa finally snaps when he learns that his boss intentionally passed him up and gave a promotion to
@Tranhuviya.
@LofaSofa calls
@Tranhuviya out for trying to interfere with both his promotion and relationship with
@Tetraphobia, revealing he wants
@Tranhuviya out of their lives forever. When
@Tranhuviya attempts to insult him by claiming he needed
@Somari1996 to back him up,
@LofaSofa knocks him out cold. Using
@Somari1996's advice, he proceeds to humiliate his boss by using a golf club to wreck his office and reminding him of all the years of his loyal services just to be denied of the promotion he wanted so much.
@LofaSofa then tells his boss that if he gets out of jail within the next two to five years, he expects his boss to do the right thing and give him the promotion that
@Tranhuviya presumably resigned from. His boss agrees and
@LofaSofa deliberately steps on
@Tranhuviya's head as he leaves. Before doing so,
@LofaSofa warns his boss to treat his obese cat, Meatball, better or he'll eat the last of his crab cakes. Learning from
@Tranhuviya that
@Somari1996 has taken
@Tetraphobia to a New York Yankees game,
@LofaSofa assumes
@Somari1996 intends to steal his proposal idea and races to the stadium. Security captures him and begins to remove him from the stadium but Mayor Giuliani orders them to allow
@LofaSofa to speak. After admitting that he does have an anger problem, which was to be more confrontational instead of less, and is willing to change,
@LofaSofa agrees to kiss
@Tetraphobia in front of the stadium in exchange for her marrying him.
@Tetraphobia and
@Somari1996 then reveal that the game was the final part of
@LofaSofa's therapy, and explain that the tormentors and aggravations he has been put through were
@Somari1996's doing to teach him how to unleash his anger in healthy doses to avoid it building up. Many of the people involved, including the flight attendant and the judge are all
@Somari1996's friends. When he ask about the sky marshal who tasered him if he was involved with
@Somari1996,
@Tetraphobia reveals he wasn't and was just having a bad day.
The three attend a picnic with
@Somari1996's other patients, where
@LofaSofa plays a final joke on
@Somari1996 with a friend holding the group up with a water gun and the film ends as the friends sing "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story together.
