This wasn’t how it was supposed to go.

Picture some of the great on-screen bromances throughout history. Kirk and Spock. Affleck and Damon. Toejam and Earl. Unshakable bonds that no rando could ever come between.

Imagine if Wayne and Garth or Sinatra and Dean Martin had broken up because some personal trainer had the poor manners to come into their shore house and say that “Florida dudes are straight garbage."

But that is the tragic state of affairs we find ourselves in with Gus and Jeremiah, who are not communicating at the start of this episode, unless you count Gus talking trash within obvious earshot of Jeremiah, and Jeremiah screaming jibberish seemingly directed toward Gus from a bathtub.

“You should be over here taking care of me, what the f--k you over here taking care of this random guy who comes and disrespects me for?” Gus said. “Go comfort your boy!”

Jeremiah did not take this well.

It felt like about 2/3 of this episode was taken up by Jeremiah’s wild emotional swings, which ranged from pain — as he balled and explained through jagged breaths, “I’d do anything for Gus" — and extreme rage, flexing and punching inanimate objects to threatening to kill Gus. More than once, the guy’s whole body shook as he screamed “WHYYY?” into the night sky.

“He’s honestly scaring me,” said Codi.

Same, Codi, same.

Jeremiah calls his brother on the gator phone to explain that Gus is no longer welcome, “back home,” which is when we learn that Gus has been living with Jeremiah and Jeremiah’s brothers in Arizona in their off-screen real life.

Gus explains that it hasn’t been great for him: one of Jeremiah’s brothers took Gus’ car, that he’d paid $2,000 to have shipped to Arizona, without permission and promptly totaled it. And so it seems like something has been brewing between seasons two and three that is just now boiling over.

Gus ends up sleeping outside to avoid Jeremiah, which, yeah, have you seen Jeremiah. Probably not a bad move.

The rest of the house seems kind of divided between the Jeremiah and Gus camps. Aimee, Nilsa and Candace tend to Jeremiah as he cries in the tub. Kirk and Codi go with Gus to the gym to cool him down.

Jeremiah, in a talking head segment, talks about what he thinks is Gus’ problem.

“I know you have a hot temper. I can get just as hot, dog,” he said. “The difference is, I choose not to.”

Dude, didn’t you just punch a wall and scream “WHYYY?” into the sky at like 3 a.m. in a residential neighborhood? Did you forget that your every move is being filmed for a reality show?

Still, it may be Gus who comes off as the real bad guy in this breakup. At the end of the episode, the guys go out to Ferg’s, and Jeremiah invites Kristen from a few episodes back along for the outing. Gus may not be able to hurt Jeremiah physically. He has a separated shoulder from his fight with the rando, so his arm is in a sling, and he’s about half his size, but never forget that Gus has extremely good hair and, in his own words, “My talk is just too good," a reference to his deity-like ability to converse with attractive women.

Seeing that Kristen looks pretty bored with Jeremiah’s on and on droning about fitness supplements, he forms a sinister plan to sabotage Jeremiah and show him, “I could have this girl, too.” The dramatic cliffhanger: Gus tells Kristen to pull up a seat beside him at the bar.

Side note: Kortni survived her tonsil surgery and is at home in Panama City Beach recovering with popsicles alongside her pet parrot, which, of course, knows how to say “f--k that.”

Other local stuff spotted: Red Mesa Cantina, where Candace fully took her boot off and threatened to hit a man with it for being rude.