[2] Gavin Edwards of Rolling Stone summarized the song as "about an ambivalent guy imagining the pain and the freedom of breaking up with his girlfriend, set to an unstoppable staccato rhythm.
"[6] The promo single prepends a masturbation joke from The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) to the beginning of the track.
[7] Michael Paoletta, in a review of the promotional live single in 2000 for Billboard, wrote that "stylistically, [the song] represents frantic, manic ska at its adolescent best.
"[7] Chris Payne, reviewing the album fifteen years later in Billboard, felt the track "serves as scintillating sample of the bubblegum angst to come — yelped hooks, pogo riffs and drums from Travis Barker that go off like popcorn in the microwave.
"It's a nasty idea but the rest of the song makes it obvious he is the one at heel," wrote Ann Powers in her original review of the album for the New York Times.