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FROG GUTS!

So, I'm also trying to make sense of the translation of what went down with Gu's past.

My interpretation. Gu was living with Yellow Vest (Baek?) Guy's sister. She was depressed and got in a car accident and died. Gu thought Yellow Vest was behind the wheel of the car, but she actually killed herself.

The cliff jumping stuff was just a metaphor for therapy. Gu's girlfriend did not jump off a cliff.

Also, it sounds like Gu didn't like her very much at the end because her depression was getting to him, and he may have told her to get therapy and she killed herself. Then he felt guilty but never cried.

MJ yelled "Get Off" to CH, and Gu woke up and got off at the wrong station. She accidentally saved his life, because Yellow Vest (Baek?) Guy had a gang of thugs waiting for Gu. Gu hid in plain sight.

The way the chauffeur bowed to Gu means he must have been rich or still is rich. It sounds like Yellow Vest Guy took all of Gu's customers. Are they underworld or legit businessmen? Seem more underworld.

Gu's facial expressions of disgust when MJ was talking about frog guts bursting everywhere!!!!

My husband had to come in to see what I was laughing at, and I had to say there was no joke, just the actor's facial expressions.

I'm starting to think TH rejection of KJ was so polite and was good for her. Made her grow, and her boss is starting to see KJ in a different light. I think the boss might be the better boyfriend for KJ, although he is a playboy, so I'm not sure he would want KJ long term. I have mixed feelings.

I feel like autocorrect keeps changing what I typed, when I go back to read it.

I think TH was caught off guard. Since Ki Jung had unintentionally insulted divorced men with children in episode 1, I think TH thought KJ apologizing was just her trying to be nice. I don't think he realized she totally fell for him, and he didn't know what to say. I think he'll ask her out in episode 9.

We don't know yet.

Hahaha! CH's "confession of love" was to jinx her, since everyone he loves has no money. I wonder if it all backfires.

But seriously, I don't see those two together at all. I just wonder if he's misinterpreting her aggressiveness.

Anyone else wonder if Chang Hee's annoying co-irker really has a crush on him?

I wonder if she talks to him constantly, and has her dad buy the store he's managing, because she thinks it's how to get close to Chang Hee?

She actually reminds me a bit of the older sister, Ki Jung, in her ineptitude with getting men to like her.

I keep seeing the writers doing these "paired" story lines, where you're rooting for one couple, but not the other, and yet the scenarios are weirdly similar. I mentioned this before but when KJ texts TH to tell her who beat him up so she can hunt them down and curse them. And when Gu asks MJ who her ex-boyfriend is so he can have someone hunt him down and beat him up. KJ sounds nuts, while you really want Gu to do it.

For the co-irker, you want her to stop bugging CH, but you want KJ to succeed with her nuts plans to get TH to go out with her.

No need to apologize. We're all friends and fans here.

Yes, I know that bit. I'm asking about the name of the company being a pun in English, and if it is also a pun in Korean.

My Mister did NOT go romantic between the two leads. You might want to give it another go.

Oddly, I watched a few clips that were translated by someone else, and they used the word "revere" instead of "worship."

The lead in My Mister had stubble and it was hot as hell. Same writer as this show. I wonder if it's required in the script.

I have a question, since I don't speak or read Korean.

The English captions say the father's company is "Sanpo Sinks." However, they don't actually make sinks, they make the cabinets the sinks go in and install them. "Sanpo Sinks" seems to be a pun in English which implies that the family is living in a sinking village.

Is the Korean name of the company the same as the English name? Or is it something different in Korean? Is it still a pun in Korean?

I love this show, and I'm drawn to Mr. Gu. But I do agree with you. They need to move the MJ / Gu storyline along a bit faster. I also find MJ boring, but she's supposed to be. I'm hoping she grows more interesting as she becomes more liberated. I want a hot kissing scene between MJ and Gu so badly, but I'm afraid they'll keep the relationship platonic like they did in My Mister.

The older brother and sister originally annoyed me, but now I love them. They've gotten funnier and better every episode. Same with the 2 guys in the Liberation Club and the older sister's boss.

Raises hand. My phone is circa 2016 because it still works and I'm to cheap too keep upgrading. It's just a phone. And occasionally a camera.

These are people struggling to save money.

Have we seen anyone "rich" in this show with a more current phone. I haven't been paying attention to that sort of thing.

The Germans have a word for vicarious embarrassment:

Fremdschämen is the act of being embarrassed for somebody else who is behaving in an embarrassing way.

Yes, I agree. I think both Liberation club members want to deal with the "problem" in their own way and not have the more assertive potential lover handle it for them.

To me, I thought KJ's outburst was weird. But then later in the show, when Gu practically says the same thing to MJ, I thought, "Ah, there's a symmetry to what the writer did here." They want us to compare the relationships. While Mr. Gu's suggestion seems romantic, KJ's seems overbearing.

I'd say no, you cannot skip episodes. It's not an anthology. In an anthology, each episode is a separate story. This is more like a soap opera where most of the characters show up and most the stories progress in each episode. It's just that one or two of the stories will have prominence in certain episodes. But there is a lot of overlap between the stories.

I liked the juxtaposition of the following interactions.

1. Ki Jung texting Tae Hoon to tell her who beat him up so she could go after them and curse them. He appears to be turned off by this.

2. Gu telling Mi Jung to tell him who her scumbag ex boyfriend is so he can have someone go after him and beat him up.
She is turned off by this.

In the first case, I got the feeling that KJ was nuts, and TH had the expected response.
In the second case, I got the feeling that Gu was great and MJ was being unreasonable.

And yet, both scenarios were exactly the same, and both TH and MJ had the same response.