YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR, CHICHI! 🐯 EP. 230318 - SPECIAL EPISODE WITH I.N, SEUNGMIN, HAN & HYUNJIN (FEAT. EVERYONE ELSE)
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Live takes place in Chichi's hotel room. She enters the frame sitting on an ordinary chair, which Han pushes, pretending it was an office chair on wheels. The chair makes a very squeaky sound, to which the rest of the members scream and cover their ears.
I.N: I already have enough!
Cried Jeongin and headed for the exit, while Seungmin and Hyunjin finally appeared in the frame to sit on the bed. Chichi gets up from the chair and grabs Jeongin around the waist, lifting him up and planting him next to Seungmin. Meanwhile, Han sits down at the desk.
HAN: Welcome to Hannie's room!
CHICHI: Not this show!
Han raises his eyebrow slowly.
HAN: Welcome to Hannie Ri Bang?
CHICHI: Are you watching me at all?!
HAN: Yes. Every day, we are in the same group.
Chichi resignedly sits on his lap to cover him.
CHICHI: Knock, knock, knock? Who's there? Ah, it's just me, Your Friendly Neighbour CHICHI! Welcome to episode 230318! Today I was finally able to bring some visitors.
Han pushes her off his lap and bows to the camera, at which Seungmin pulls him by his t-shirt until he falls on the bed along with the chair. Hyunjin sends them a side eye, opening the comments under live on his phone.
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CHICHI: At first it was going to be a vocalracha-only episode, but Han came to me sooner to talk about one thing, so I asked if he wanted to stay. The same thing happened with Seungmin, he and Hyunjin went out to dinner together so I just asked if they wanted to come back here together. And so here we are with a little more company.
Hyunjin: This is, by the way, the first episode in Korean.
CHICHI: Yes, I always use English or Japanese so that STAY from abroad can watch in real time. But today is a special day... If staff allows me I will work on subtitles for this episode. So forgive me and be patient!
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Jeongin laughs briefly.
I.N: They finally have someone to ask that! 5-year-old CHICHI or 5 CHICHIs?
Han ponders, putting the phone down on his thigh for a moment.
HAN: Both options sound bad.
Hyunjin scratches his cheek with his finger.
Hyunjin: I think 5 year old Chichi was quieter, no?
Seungmin: No, I don't think so. This was already the age at which she sounded like a tractor engine.
Chichi opened her mouth slightly, but did not speak. Seungmin leans against Han, reading the comments from his phone.
HAN: 5 CHICHIs would already be a decent dance crew, right? We could make good money from it. We could buy a lot of meat with these money.
Hyunjin: Han said something smart for the first time.
HAN: So our answer is 5 CHICHIs to create a dance crew and be able to make a lot of money from it!
Chichi continued to say nothing. She just looked slowly into the camera with a face that resembled :|.
CHICHI: Now I know how Chan feels about having to deal with you guys.
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CHICHI: CHICHI, Lily said that you created the choreography for Young, Dumb, Stupid. Yes, that's right! I've been creating it in between our activities and only recently put everything together. This is the first time I've created choreography for girls, I hope you guys like it.
HAN: It's funny, since the title is Young, Dumb, Stupid.
CHICHI: I'm glad you noticed it, you were the inspiration.
Han got up at this and pretended to roll up his sleeves to start a fight, but Seungmin laughingly sat him back down.
Seungmin: The title fits the paboracha perfectly, doesn't it?
Han and Hyunjin are now looking at him.
CHICHI: It's true. Lee Know is young, HAN is dumb and Hyunjin is stupid.
Hyunjin: How come Lee Know is the young one?!
Seungmin: We just don't want him to attack us later.
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Hyunjin: CHICHI, I.N and HAN, congratulations on the successful debut of TROUBL3MAK3RS!
Hyunjin claps a moment with Seungmin after reading the comment.
CHICHI: We did nicely didn't we? We won two awards even though we couldn't promote ourselves with the album. Han came running to us in the morning to show us the results from the music programs. We really couldn't believe it.
I.N: Chichi even cried with joy, but that's understandable. The whole album was really an experiment, and you guys gave it a lot of love.
HAN: We really thank you!
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A knock on the door sounded. Chichi got up to open it and Minho came in and just sat down on the bed.
CHICHI: What are you doing here?
Lee Know: I'm bored. Do I have to have a reason? Besides, I heard that I'm young, so here I am.
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Lee Know: Can we ask for a spoiler for the comeback? Of course. It will be a song.
HAN: Written by someone.
CHICHI: With choreography.
I.N: And MV.
Seungmin: And it will be on the album.
Hyunjin: With songs.
Everyone present smiles slowly.
Lee Know: Just don't tell anyone.
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Once again there was a knock on the door. This time I.N opened it, and Felix walked in.
Felix: I didn't want to eat alone, and I couldn't find anyone.... So this is where you all are.
CHICHI: I don't even know how it happened. You can take them if you want, I'll even pay you for it.
Lee Know: Don't listen to her, she just can't stand the thought that her show is finally interesting.
CHICHI: You will be the first to leave!
Lee Know: Make me.
CHICHI: I probably won't be able to, but wait.
Chichi takes her phone and texts. A few minutes later there is already another knock on the door, and a second later Changbin came inside.
Changbin: I really have to carry them out?!
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Jeongin, Seungmin, Hyunjin, Felix, Han, Minho and Changbin sat on the bed, Chichi continued at the desk.
Felix: This made us live almost the entire group.
Seungmin: Where is our kangaroo?
CHICHI: Give him a moment, he won't be able to find you then he will come.
I.N: Or he will call the police right away.
Hyunjin: Or an ambulance.
Changbin: Or the fire department.
Lee Know: Or all at once.
CHICHI: Or he will finally breathe a sigh of relief that he has lost you all and go on a well-deserved vacation.
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CHICHI: CHICHI, you are beautiful in your new hair color! Ah, thank you! But unfortunately I have sad news... It's not exactly brown... If you look at it now, you can see that it's more mousey blonde.... I don't know myself.
Seungmin: She lied to you guys. I can't believe she lied to you...
HAN: How can you watch someone like that...
Hyunjin: Enough of these lies, I'm calling the police.
CHICHI: You don't have to, Chan has probably already done it.
Then someone knocked on the door. Han ran up to them quietly and peeked through the peephole.
HAN: He's here!
He turned the lock on the door and quietly returned to his seat. Hyunjin and Felix hid their faces in their pillows to keep from laughing, and Seungmin and Minho laughed soundlessly.
Bang Chan: Let me in! After all, I know you're there.
Chichi hid her face in Changbin's shoulder trying to be quiet.
Bang Chan: I have live on my phone, I can see you!
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Bora! Deborah / True to Love (2023)
This show brought me alot of joy. Everytime a new episode dropped, I ended up smiling like a kid at Christmas. It also made some interesting choices when it came to romantic relationships that I was not a fan of...
What Worked
Show was funny, and comedy is hard! There were times when they made it look easy, and (ironically) that's when you know everyone probably worked their butts off behind the scenes to make it happen. I especially liked the choices they made in the way it was shot and just the overall comic timing by the actors. Just some fun performances.
The writers knew how to play well with romantic tropes. We had everything from an over the top makjang love quadrilateral, to a hate-to-love, to a workplace romance, to fake dating, and eventually a friends-to-lovers arc, all in one series. And they mostly worked well. Because the cast and the directors knew when to play it straight and when to be funny.
What Didn't Work
The writing was not the strongest part of the show. There were some funny jokes, but most of the humor was from the way it was shot and the way the actors played it. From discussion online, alot of people had a problem because they went into it expecting a rom-com and they ended up with a sitcom that had a strong romantic plotline. Knowing that going in, might have helped.
There were two big plotlines that bothered me. The first was the romantic arc between the CEO (Han Sang-jin) and the office assistant (Bang Woo-ri). The writers did what they could to make it seem less ick, but they would have been better off doing anything else. It didn't bother me tons, but it just felt like a wasted plotline.
I was also bothered by the story with the best friend (Lee Yoo-jeong) and her husband. The characters themselves were okay, and the actors were good, but it felt like a recycled B-plot from a bad American sitcom.
There were alot of other little issues (especially with the "noble idiot" thing they had Lee Soo-hyuk doing in the last two episodes—just tell her how you feel maaan!), but no show is perfect and the good far outweighed the bad for me.
The Performances
Yoo In-na as "relationship expert" Yeon Bo-ra. The smartest thing the showrunners did was casting her as the lead. I hadn't seen her onscreen before (Guardian: The Great and Lonely God is still waiting for me), and I was completely charmed. Even when the character was doing something completely ridiculous and cringey, I still enjoyed watching her going through it. And as someone who suffers from alot of second-hand embarrassment, this is no small feat.
Yoon Hyun-min as "grumpy editor" Lee Soo-hyuk. This actor spent most of the show playing the grumpy straight man to all the antics going on around him, so when he had a moment of genuine comedy (or sadness), it hit extra hard. He had great chemistry with Yoo In-na and was fun to watch as well.
Joo Sang-wook as "clueless CEO" Han Sang-jin. I really liked the dynamic between him and Yoon Hyun-min. Whenever they had a scene together it was just great. His romantic arcs were mixed. I liked what they did with his character and the ex-wife. I did not like the office romance thing they tried to do (though that was more on the writers).
Hwang Chan-sung (aka Chansung) as "dirty cheater" Noh Joo-wan. The actor did a good job making this guy seem pathetic and hate-able. Maybe they did too good a job as it was almost hard to believe that Bo-ra would be stuck on this character the way that she was. They make sense of it, mostly, but the main reason why it's believable is that (sadly) there are too many guys like that out there in real life.
Park So-jin as "the bestie" Lee Yoo-jeong. I really enjoyed her performance, in spite of the terrible story arc the writers gave her. The scenes with more than just her character and Yang Jin-woo were generally good. The writers (unfortunately) turned her into this "too clingy" wife in the background and sometimes that was funny or touching, but often it was annoying.
Kim Ye-ji as "little sis" Yeon Bo-mi. Her arc in the first half of the show was great. I loved the few scenes she had with Lee Soo-hyuk as well. I think the romantic arc she had was mostly very sweet, but not that interesting. It ended up in a decent place, but it just felt off at the start.
Koo Jun-hoe as "total himbo" Yang Jin-ho. The writers made some questionable choices with how they setup the romance between his character and Bo-mi, but his performance kept it from being too weird (at least from an audience point of view). He was a pure cinnamon roll and watching him being bounced around by all of these grumpy jaded people was funny and great to watch. I liked the middle and end-points of the romance arc, but I mostly just enjoyed watching him for his reactions to everything else going on.
Lee Sang-woon as "sitcom husband" Yang Jin-woo. I think the actor did okay with what he was given. He did great when playing off the other characters, but the entire story with his wife was just off and not that interesting to watch. There was some good comedy in there, but the writers needed to do more than recycle old sitcoms to make this caricature into a relatable person.
Song Min-ji as "girl boss" Seo Su-jin. I liked what they did with her character. Both the story with her ex-husband, and just the way she interacted with the rest of the cast was just great. I would gladly watch a spin-off show with her as the lead, though I don't know if this particular show needed more of her than we got.
Hong Hwa-yeon as "office assistant" Bang Woo-ri. There were moments when I found the character very relatable, and some of that was on the quiet performance she gave. But I don't like the story the writers gave her.
Kim Ji-an as "the clingly ex" Lim Yu-ri. I mostly liked the way this character was portrayed, I just felt like the writers didn't quite know what to do to make her seem like a real person. Mostly, she was just there to cause drama, and that's okay, but not ideal.
Everyone else. There were some good character actors in there and they didn't let the minor characters down as much as lesser shows do. I especially liked the moments with the office workers getting the best of the clueless CEO.
TL; DR:
This show was funny and charming and I will undoubtedly rewatch it at some point. The OTP was fun and tropey and the humor really worked for me. Not everyone will like the show, but those that do, will like it alot.
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