And for the real Nugget Nerds. Out of its original context, I decided this gif might be a little too gross for my OP :).
I want to add it for posterity though because, not only is this scene super-funny in episode 6–not least because of how this couple flees in the end–but also because I want to note that this is one time that the subbers got the beat of the joke better than the dubbers. Let it not be said that I did not THOROUGHLY STUDY BOTH TRANSLATIONS! 😎
LOOOOLL. I know the whole sound design made it that much worse as well…all that slurping and chewing.
Am…I…helping?????
Srsly tho. No way they let those actors eat raw chicken, right???? I wonder what that stuff really was Kim Tae-hoon’s packing away there. Marzipan??? No, too floppy. Hmm.
OH WAIT is this a DISNEY crossover with Blood Free??? 😂
I’ve given “what wasthat stuff, really?” far more thought than it deserves. It looked too real.
I’ll have to go back and listen with subs – I watched the show dubbed, as you suggested. The slurping was a little hard to handle and I doubt it will be easier in the original Korean, but that scene was one of many where I had to pause because I was laughing too hard to hear the dialogue. I bet the actors had fun with that scene.
I was gross-screech-yech-laughing like a little kid at this because it was almost unbearably gross, but so funny!! Having that couple there to see that and pretend it was normal while trying not to freak out was PERFECT. I tried not to think about what it was because it looked SO REAL 😱😱😱
Yes, I also gave some thought to wondering what they made that of because it looked so realistic. I decided it was like the plastic-rubber food displays outside of restaurants in Japan. Do NOT make me think about whether they were actually swallowing 🤢
Ahahah!! I totally missed this scene!! XD
By the time I reached the last episode I was so bored and disinterested I just stopped paying attention, it seems! 🤣🙈
(Yeah, I did not enjoy this show lol)
BMR, episode 3. The thing that brought me the most joy and made me smile, was THIS smile. Lookit! I adore how our (sort of/one of?) 2ML is the hunky handsome soap-opera type with a million-watt smile. I still remember when this young man was in his military camo way back in episode one. 🤣
AND, for those who couldn’t bear to watch the scene…I offer you this gif. So cringey! So just like our ML as we’re coming to know him. Still 18 in his head.
I was actually admiring his twisty-hips moves, but now that you point it out… he’s got quite the combo going here. I’ll bet he can walk and chew gum at the same time too 😂
There are literally no words to adequately describe the magic that is PHS 🤩
I don’t know yet how I’m going to engage with the full 50 episodes of Beauty and Mr. Romantic, but for now, I think I’m going to just post the scenes that bring me joy as I watch. In this case, It’s episode 3, with actual kids actually enjoying an actual rollercoaster.
Here, they’re more clearly acting, but acting adorbs. Is it too much to ask that we NOT see this scene again re-enacted by our older leads? Yes, it is, but I’d rather not and say we did. Jebal, at all?
Love the framing and pacing of this shot. Love her throwing his words back at him that “age doesn’t matter when you’re in love.”💖 It sort of does, my sweet(s).
Good on you. It is hard for me to do that but I am trying too and appreciate your effort. I am always happy to encourage you! Btw, I never notice these things in a timely manner but congrats on levelling up. Could you please give me a loan with zero interest so I can buy a house?
A few days back, I had a not-so-mini GIF-ssay on the portrayal of masculinities in Chicken Nugget, and, while I’d like to say there’s an equal focus on what it means to be female to be narrated, this drama doesn’t really have the internal equipment to do that. Ahem.
What it does have is the ability to let us know what ideal, and not ideal, women look like from the outside though! And sometimes, as a above, we get fantasies of what it might be like to be female and desire things. Hey, he wasn’t all wrong.
This send-up of Joseon sexuality was, on the one hand extremely problematic, but on the other, entirely spot on. Our wife didn’t (necessarily) want to have sex with her husband to fulfill her own desires, obvs, but she most certainly needed to fulfill her obligations to have children, and play her part or else she literally would not have a life to lead. And, concomitantly, the men are all portrayed as man-children who can only think about their own satisfaction (whether that be lying down all day dressed in a “suit,” or as here, doing “husband-and-wife” things).
Nevertheless, I could not at ALL help but barking out loud at this scene. This is what comedy is for, y’all, to show us the full shape of societal expectations and how we stupidly almost always rise to them. Perfect. Perfect.
Mi-na, a.k.a. our Nuggie, is of course the ideal female prtner in the mind of her not-ever-was-nor-ever-to-be(?) boyfriend Yellow Pants. Here is one living example of his fantasy ideal. Hey, I’m in too.
But then again, here she is appearing to Yellow Pants in her fantastic Nugget-a Dentata form… This show. I’m tellin’ ya. Timeless story. Literally timeless. We’ve been telling this story since the dawn of time. I’m always happy to laugh at it.
I loved how, while the FL seemed like a less than one-dimensional plot device at first, each memory and flashback that was revealed showed more facets of her character. This interaction with the bullies scene was perfection at illustrating both his and her character (i.e., values, and as characters). I remember my professor in an acting class when I was an undergrad talking about script analysis, and she told us there were two ways to learn about a character and their motivations: by what they say about themselves, and by what others say about them (see them, perceive them, etc). This drama did that so well while working with not an actual lot of material 😂
If anything, Chicken Nugget shows that “having a lot of material” is not what you necessarily always need to make a story work!!! 😆
I think if we’d learned a lot more about Mi-na, the ending would have been more complicated/less OK/less funny. I don’t think we were meant to care too much about what the replay would hold for her, because, I feel, we were mainly asked to stay at the level of Yellow Pants’ and Sun-man’s consciousness about her. I’m not disagreeing with you that we did learn about her a bit–she thinks that a kind heart is good, but mainly wants a nice bod 😋–but I did end up feeling that she was mainly there as the projection of what these other men saw and needed…and I’m OK with that when it’s a send-up!
I agree with you – what we got was enough! And in a drama like this, I don’t want to be made to feel empathetic about her fate 😅 We primarily knew her through their memories, which was a fun plot device. P.S. her Interstellar moment was so unexpected, so funny, and so good as a foreshadowing of the ending – this drama was chock-full of excellent surprises!
Oh man, Interstellar was so long, and sad (to me) in an existential way, and you think it’s about space travel, but it’s actually about Love, and then through timey wimey black hole stuff you sort of almost come full circle – Nugget’s use was PERFECTION, and hilarious when it became clear in hindsight that it was foreshadowing!!!!
So time (for me) has moved both faster than humans’ ability to perceive it and as slowly as Netflix on 0.5 speed, and I have finally just finished CN. I’ll have a lot of catching up to do, but in the meantime I went a-googling to find the Interstellar reference, because I haven’t seen that either, and stumbled on this. Damn, the internet is weird, but humans are weirder, and humans in charge of internet bots are the weirdest. (Maybe you’ve already talked about this nonsense, but I’ve been avoiding spoilers, as if that’s even a meaningful concept for this show.)
@elinor We Nugget Nerds (at least @hopefulromantic and I) will eagerly await your commentary. I happen to know that I have four more posts left, and have already posted 52 gifs and 5 sound clips. So, no pressure or anything…
Oh gosh 😅 Lol at your comments 🤣 This scene was crazy – it’s terrible what’s happening in it, but it’s so funny, and his reaction (slapping on medicine with such skill that it impressed the bullies) is so in character, and wow – this drama was really something else!! I think “weird humor” is a definite humor niche, and K-dramas do it SO well.
I just can’t get over how well “Eat shit, Bitch” matches the mouth shape of someone saying 시발. I’ll just always see that from now own.
Also, though, this show only has a few words 🙂
Every day in every way the Nugget Nerd community is growing…I saw you today @zindigo 🙂 Or should I say Gen-X-indigo??? 🤓
My last post of creepy Tae-man ventriloquizing the millennials is priceless Gen-X-style humor…although the author of the webtoon is almost certainly a millennial skewering himself.
I haven’t watched any of the dubbed version other than your gifs, but it’s so impressive – the best translating I’ve seen outside of Viki. Netflix brought their A-game for this one. It was particularly striking in comparison to the Disney translations over on Hulu with FxC at the same time… are they already experimenting with generative AI? Because some of their choices are just befuddling. Lol as a millennial myself, I almost had Tae-man pegged as a spoof of Gen-Z 😂 He really was creepy, though – it was like he was acting in a psychological thriller, while everyone else was acting in Chicken Nugget.
…it was like he was acting in a psychological thriller, while everyone else was acting in Chicken Nugget.
YOU’VE NAILED IT. It was exactly like that. I just loved it. I mean, I loved the dissonance of Tae-man’s character with respect to every other character (hence the post only on him)!!! When he threw that mirror down like an inverted-Snow-White-Queen, I just lost it. It’s not that CN has NO depth, it’s just so f’ing cynical about it. In that way, I guess we might be learning that the millennials and Gen-X have a lot in common–at least in terms of humor!!!
You’re probably also right that Tae-man’s supposed to be “younger than you” I am so old, I’ve lost track 😏✊
Yes his character and performance was dissonant with everything else! But it felt purposeful – he and his motives were supposed to clash with the rest of it. Honestly, it was a very well balanced drama! If the Nugget Nerds are any indication, it’s destined to become a cult classic on DB!!
Today for the growing Chicken Nugget community, I offer you, Choi Sun-man!!! The Sun Man!!! The ultimate straight man, frankly. Even better than Bud Abbott, Michael Scott, or Tommy Smothers. Yeah, comedy hisgtory fighting words, sure. No one cares. Sun-man rules, tho. Or, more precisely, Ryu Seung-ryong rules with an enviable gift for deadpan delivery and targeted facial comedy. DON’T FLASH BAAAAAACK!!!! 하지마!!! 하지마!!! Of course, the kids never listen.
I think I’ve now giffed this entire scene across maybe four posts, I love it so much. I mean, I love the entire fucking thing. Phew. How’d you like that call-back?? I won’t get too self-congratulatory.
Tee-hee. The facial expressions!!! Oh, he wants to be left alone sooooo badly!!!. I know just how he feels as the parent of a daughter.
This one’s as much about Sun-man as it is about this cameo by one of our Be Melo cross-over actors, Heo Joon-seok. It’s also a stand-alone GIF…take it for your own uses, Beanies!!! How many times have you been confronted with someone you wish to dismiss with such effective clarity??? Shoot this gif over to them. They’ll get the message. 100% for sure.
@Seon-ha: I badly want to be nosy and ask if you have a daughter but I am resisting it as I have boundaries!. The joys of the English language as that sentence of yours could be legitimately interpreted in two different ways.
OH MY GOSH these gifs are pure GOLD Seon-ha!!!!!!👏👏👏 I loooove these scenes and I loooove Ryu Seung-ryong’s comedy. He’s hilarious in such a skilled way that he makes it look effortless. I first saw him in Extreme Job (one of my favorite K-movies), but he’s even funnier here. I’ll rewatch this drama just for him when I need a laugh!
We take a break from our regularly-scheduled Chicken Nugget content for some Sexy-Time Studio, episode 5. The chemistry between these two is off-the-charts.
My only critique, and it’s not a big one (although I’m about to use a dirty word), is that the tension relies on a form of noble idiocy—let’s just call it “ridiculous self-restraint”—on the part of our known-to-be-doomed ML, a man who craves human companionship so very much, but withholds himself from it because…well, he doesn’t feel he deserves it? There’s no reason to do it? She’ll only get hurt when he dies? What? But, like I say, this is a special form of noble idiocy unnecessary, but sort of hot, self-restraint that doesn’t really bug me, but that does form a large part of the tension here.
In other news…swoon. Could she say that to me??? Who wouldn’t want to hear those words spoken so kindly?? What a fundamental human craving, to be recognized. Nice work, writernim. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
And lastly, way to go, Show!!! ToD POV!!! And yes, that’s who you think it is.
Nugget nuggets, as promised. Koreans and their unabiding love for the simplicity and clarity of Hangul!!! Even folks from other planets agree about its superiority. I’m surprised King Sejong didn’t get a name check 🤣
Lol English is the same way with exceptions to rules, though, so maybe that’s why I’m just 🤷♀️ about it? I also tried to learn German at one point, but remembering the gender of nouns was just not working out for me 🤣 All languages are unique in their own beautiful and frustrating ways!
It’s hard to beat English for inconsistent spelling conventions and almost NO consistent connection between the letter used and the sound you make. So, along those lines, Hangul WINS!
King Sejong King Sejong King Sejong!!!
^^^^That is, of course THIS GUY. To me, this is what Sejong the Great is, was, and will always look like.
Also, as a reminder, this is what Ahn Hyo-seop looked like in the same 2015 drama. I do not wish to speculate about the reason for the change, but boy howdy do I note the change!!!
I’ve got lots of “single-gif” jokes from Chicken Nugget coming up, but this mini-giffsay on masculinity is calling my name. So, if the Nugget Nerds will permit, I’d like to get as serious as I can get about a show that is–more or less–a cursing contest between characters.
I feel that there are two ways that men are predominantly portrayed in CN, one version, as above, is offered to the audience in a self-effacing way, as in the exaggeration (offered both in a Joseon setting and today!) of the man who feels that he’s fulfilling his responsibility to the family by getting all dressed up, and then just lying there…because it feels good. She can say nothing, but smile, of course.
In a similar vein, there’s a version of this same “making fun of masculinity” that is humorously portrayed as being worried about “not being perceived as a man.” In this case, in the face of an ajumma who’s clearly not only in better shape than our Sun-man, but on a WAY better bike. So, that’s two “dings” on our ajusshi. “아주머니 왜!!??” we see him shout plaintively at the end of the clip, before, of course, falling completely over (not pictured).
But the other is more toxic and is centered on this character, who I’d love to bring to your attention for just a short while. This is Yoo Tae-man who’s supposed to be in his early 20s but he’s apparently trapped in the body of a 50-year-old (I KNOW HOW HE FEELS).
He spends the entire drama feeling second-best to his better-looking brother, Tae-young, seen here in an advertisement that made me chuckle with this OTT on-the-spot-ness, for “Completing your manhood.”
This version isn’t, of course, so humorous, as Tae-man is a threat to all concerned. He is, however, amazingly frighteningly brought-to-life, I feel, by Jung Seung-gil. Here, as above, we see Tae-man crack as he realizes his delusions.
And I can’t help but think of the Evil Queen in Snow White who believes her mirror when it lies and tells her she is beautiful. In this version of our Evil Brother…it is his inability to believe lie that drives him mad. Well-played, show.
PS: Can’t resist my further broken-record-ness about the excellent dubbing…the man who dubs Jung Sung-gil’s voice actually sounds like he is in his early 20s, making Tae-min’s character just that more creepy, because he really does sound young while looking middle-aged.
Hehe … Have been the ajummi with one or two kids in the cargo bike, slowly, steadily, gaining in on a status panicking dude. Chuckle. Those were the days.
A bit like these two, except I was fortysomething, and didn’t have 6 kids in the trunk; 3 at the most.
Episode 3 is the funniest darn episode of Oh, Nugget!. Each episode has something for everyone, but #3 is really a peak.
And the peak of the peak is our food blogger Hong Cha. She’s the bestest. And she’s serious about both food and her man. But mainly food. 😘
“Then it’s just fried pork.”
“I know.”
PS: Mint chocolate chip is, like, my favorite flavor of ice cream, only it can’t be any version. It has to be Baskin-Robbins (31 Flavors, to the olds) because it’s actually mint straciatella. It matters.
PPS: Every day there are new Nugget Nerds! I see y’all. Welcome, welcome!!! 😉
Totally agree with the BR mint chocolate chip. Sometimes the t store here carries BR pints of that flavor and also Jamoca almond fudge. I love them both!
Thank you for the gifs esp her face as she says with scorn and disbelief, “pizza and pineapple.” (Agree completely!)
I hope to see more of this actress!
Did You Know? Character Limits on Dramabeans Comments Edition Did you know that there are different character limits for different types of comments and posts on Dramabeans? Some of these limits are “breakable” and others are not.
1. Fan Wall Main Posts
Many of us have overcome the (apparent) 200-character limit on all Fan Wall OP posts. If you have not, instructions for how to do that are simple, and spelled out by yours truly here: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/attiton/activity/1452362/.
TL;DR: Paste in your content from elsewhere, but don’t use your keyboard to do it, use the contextual menu revealed via your mouse or by force-pressing.
But! As @sicarius reminded the newbs in, um, 2020…there’s still actually something like a 20,000 character limit on the Fan Wall posts. EVEN MORE still, long Fan Wall posts can start pressuring WordPress to break down at about 9,000 characters. So, stick to below 9,000 characters is the advice @sicarius offers. Apparently she broke Dramabeans once.
2. Comments Anywhere Else
Apart from OP Fan Wall posts, there’s a 3,000 character limit on all other comments. So, whether you’re replying directly to a Fan Wall Post or a Main Site Post, or replying to a comment on a Fan Wall Post or a Main Site Post, you’ve got 3,000 characters before you get that dreaded ellipsis (“…”) that cuts you off in mid-sentence.
There’s no workaround for this one, but we want to hear what you have to say!! So, simply reply to your own comment, and finish your thought. Done!
Or, if you like, you can check beforehand to see if your commentary will fit in one comment by using Word or a text editor to count your characters beforehand. A quick internet search shows that there are any number of free, but ad-filled, sites that will do it for you too.
PS: Another tip from Sic. Emojis count for two characters! I believe her, but even though I sort of work in this industry for real, I didn’t know that!! Seems technically plausible! Thanks, 친구!
Thank you, Seon-ha, for another amazing post with valuable guides and information 🌻❤️ I broke the limit for a comment once or twice, but have never come close to the limit for a Fan Wall post.
There is a group working on getting all the info on a google document and we will need to save the link and share with the beanies who send out a call for help. Hopefully this link will work:
Absolutely! @attiton, would you mind if I transfer this into a document and add it (and maybe the rest of your “Did You Know” series) to the folder? I’d be happy to then transfer the ownership of the document to you (but I would need your email address to do that). 🙂
Perfect, your words have been immortalized in the Beanie Resource folder for future beanie use. I went ahead and created a folder for all your “Did You Know” guides, so I’ll try to add those when/if ever you make new ones!
I also transcribed @Hades‘s HTML guides into one document, ’cause hot dang is that a great HTML guide.
Technically, I think it was a formatting error that broke it somehow, not the word count, as I have since been able to post successfully much longer posts (longest was over 10000 words, words, not chars). But it is still good to warn people that it can be finicky when working with long and heavily formatted posts. xox thanks for mentioning me.
@kmromrell it’s worthwhile making note of the way I misinterpreted Sicarius’ advice if you’ve taken this post into your Google Doc! There’s a big difference between 9000 characters and 10,000 words!
It understandable, so it’s ok; there was a time when I recommended not posting over 4000 words just because I didn’t know if what would break it again or how.
But since successfully posting my Squid Game dissertation I’m less worried about word count anyway hehe.
Did y’all note the cutest final photo of the aespa priests? Love it. The Midnight Studio, episode 4.
Also, with regards to how Korea’s Grandma is always saying her farewells in every drama, I’d also like to note/remind/place at the forefront of our memories how unbelievably excellent Kim Young-ok is at being utterly menacing. Don’t fuck with halmeoni, folks. It’s unwise.
Remember this from King, My Foot? Hilarious delivery.
“If you ever make her cry” … makes me think of Adalbert von Chamisso’s poem’s made song cycle by Robert Schumann, and the song “Now you have caused me the first pain” (The translation here says “My first pain” but the cycle never says that nothing has caused her pain before. Just that he hasn’t, before now).
“https://oxfordsong.org/song/nun-hast-du-mir-den-ersten-schmerz-getan-2
At my last count, I could identify maybe six members of the Be Melo cast that also have roles here in CN. How many did other Nugget Nerds identify??
I also consider the OTT swearing to be Be Melo meta. If y’all remember there was a meta even inBe Melo about how much swearing they could write into the drama before the censors called them out on it… There’s a mini-commentary on the “Teen Swearing” scene in the comments.
But last, but not least…THE SONG!! And Ahn Jae-hong’s deadpan, “You can stop.” The most meta of meta. Such delight. There’s sound below, and here in this direct link.
One of these is the subs for the original language and the other is the CC-subs for the dub. I just can’t get over the subtlety of the distinctions these translators are making when your options are the words “fuck” and “shit.” 🤣
Nugget Neerrrrrds!!! Today\’s post is about Third Guy. Sure, Third Guy has a name on the wiki pages, but I swear to all-heavens-above that I never heard anyone say it in the comedy.
Don\’t burst my bubble, folks, by telling me about \”that one time Sun-man said it\” or whatever. To me, he\’s Third Guy, nicknamed \”Third Dude,\” and he will stay that way 4eva.
I can\’t get over how funny this character is, and how utterly played to perfection he is by Kim Nam-hee. I know many of y\’all (not all! but many…) don\’t want to hear about the dubbing…but the dubber who does the voice acting for Third Dude is perfection. It\’s like the flattest, deepest California-style accent ever. I swear I\’ve met this guy in real life.
MORE THIRD GUY IN THE COMMENTS!!!
PS: I\’m gonna hold off on the Be Melo post until tomorrow to give as many of you as possible a chance to make it through at least Episode 6.
Oh, the joys of Third Dude’s relationship with our leads. There’s never been an authentic word exchanged between him and them. Not even one. The deadpan here is utter perfection.
This is one of Third Dude’s refrains. He wants to know, but really…he totally doesn’t. I laughed every time.
The second version is a “reaction gif” for all of us to use whenever we need it. And I think there are times when we all need it. @sonai and @lapislazulii take note!! You two often need gifs like this 😁
Woah! Thank you! I would never dare to use other beanies’ self made GIFs, but with this specific permission … *saves for future usage* 👏👏👏🤩🫰
(I haven’t had a look at all the chicken content* yet 🫣 Oooooh, maybe this next week of vacation will offer some openings to finally, finally finish watching!
* and more MEAT on the way! Is it a plot pattern for 2024? 😂)
You are absolutely 100% allowed to use any of my GIFs you want in any context you want! I hereby may give you full and complete permission. This goes for ANY BEANIE!!!
If I were in high school together with y’all, there’s a 100% chance I would have come up behind you in the hall at some point and surprised you by shouting “HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HUMAN RIGHTS!?” in your ear. 100%.
Lol lol lol 😆😂😂😂 I feel like in a lot of ways, this was the Napoleon Dynamite/Hot Rod (*both of which are movies I love*) of K-dramas. You either love it or hate it, but the humor will have fans.
And, last, but certainly not least…this is now the catchphrase for my life. In a very real sense, I SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT THE SAUNA. His love for the place is both absurd, and somehow, understandable. Wouldn’t we all rather be at the sauna-heaven than at work??
I wouldn’t rather be at the sauna than watching Chicken Nugget, though. But OMG, what about watching CN while at the sauna??? Third Dude? I’ll meet…you…THERE.
For the Wonderful World crew comprised of @lapislazulii@seeker and @darkcc … as well as for the Nugget Nerds.
This was pretty much one of the absolute most hilarious punchlines, not only of Chicken Nugget, but of recent memory. The dramatic pause to wait and see just who/what Yellow Pants would shout…was simply comic gold.
For those who, sadly, have not seen this drama…this is the end of episode 2/beginning of episode 3. I suggest you go watch to see if he actually succeeds in becoming Cha Eun-woo.
Oh hey, since you’re here…I have a Drama Meta Game for you!! Also from Nuggety-Wuggetems. Not only will you get it, I’m going to make it harder for you. In response to the image below, could you please give me the one English noun that is the “proper” response to that door code? If you are not @darkcc , please do not google this and answer. If you ARE @darkcc feel free to google away, but I bet you won’t have to!!
Seon-ha thank you for remembering me. ❤️ RL is not allowing me to move ahead with Chicken Nugget for now. Your fanwall posts have me all excited and eager to participate but I’m waiting till I can complete watching.
Can I request a raincheck for now. 🙏 Please do continue to tag me,
HAHAHAHHA I saw this snippet just before on instagram too and had a good laugh 😆 CEW getting a few name drops in recent dramas – there was one in Welcome to Samdal-ri no? And in Strong Woman Gang Nam-soon not that long ago 😆
Oh dear, did I cause you to completely delete your post 🙈 I did try to quickly delete my comment and then noticed the post isn’t there 🙈 I’m very sorry for ruining the fun 🙈
But unless it is someone’s comment to a comment you made, (and the music starts, it’s Weather Report) , how can it cause someone’s post on their own wall to disappear?
You can’t really blame yourself for not knowing that would happen.
(The music I started hearing was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNCY0Ai44M
Oh My God It’s so beautiful, especially Jaco Pastorius 😢 )
Today\’s Nuggetfest will involve the aliens. I\’m just gonna assume that everyone who\’s gonna watch this show either knows–or suspects–that the point here was that there were aliens who came to earth and brought these machines. The machines aren\’t for turning things into chicken nuggets, chicken meatballs or dakgangjeong. They\’re from a travel agency.
Anywhom, our aliens are trying to get home. And they want to threaten the humans without harming them, because they will be punished if they do. So…they pantomime things that we fear. Or at least, that they think we\’ll fear. Yellow Pants comic timing above just cracks me the hell up. So, here are just a few things that they chose as their threats.
FIRE FORMATION. Pew. Pew. Roar. Psst.
MISSIIIILE. Dude sings that word in the show while he does this dance. You should go and take a listen.
BTS. No one fucks with BTS.
At the end of the day, though, this was actually one of the most affecting scenes in the drama. They only went through a second round of \”attack\” because they thought that their impassioned speech about \”why do you always solve things through violence\” didn\’t get through to the humans–but it had. The humans were only silent because they were thinking. But, they took too long…and attack-by-BTS ensued. Too bad, really.
Special request for this series came from @ally-le.
I’ve watched my own BTS gif like 1000 times. I laugh each time. You know that alien dude was the villain in My Demon and of course Mi-na starred in that same drama…so it’s a mini-MD reunion. Not as big as the Be Melo reunion, of course.
Oh my gosh his dance is SO GOOD!!! His BTS is on point!! And I hadn’t realized about those reunion details – so cool! (And I love Ryu Seung-ryong’s reaction to his dance ❤️)
Thank you-thank you! I LURVED Kim Tae Hoon as he was channelling BTS through this. He’s a wonderful actor! This scene was my favorite of the whole drama. And you didn’t even mention the music behind it when they started fighting again. Genius. Anyway, thank you! I appreciate it!
Seon-ha
April 4, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Nuggie Niblet, episode 10. You go
Seung-ryongSun-man!! 🕺Seon-ha
April 4, 2024 at 9:48 AM
And for the real Nugget Nerds. Out of its original context, I decided this gif might be a little too gross for my OP :).
I want to add it for posterity though because, not only is this scene super-funny in episode 6–not least because of how this couple flees in the end–but also because I want to note that this is one time that the subbers got the beat of the joke better than the dubbers. Let it not be said that I did not THOROUGHLY STUDY BOTH TRANSLATIONS! 😎
bbstl 🧹
April 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
That was so gross,I couldn’t watch it 🫣
Seon-ha
April 4, 2024 at 1:43 PM
LOOOOLL. I know the whole sound design made it that much worse as well…all that slurping and chewing.
Am…I…helping?????
Srsly tho. No way they let those actors eat raw chicken, right???? I wonder what that stuff really was Kim Tae-hoon’s packing away there. Marzipan??? No, too floppy. Hmm.
OH WAIT is this a DISNEY crossover with Blood Free??? 😂
Elinor is trapped in the timeslip
April 4, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I’ve given “what wasthat stuff, really?” far more thought than it deserves. It looked too real.
I’ll have to go back and listen with subs – I watched the show dubbed, as you suggested. The slurping was a little hard to handle and I doubt it will be easier in the original Korean, but that scene was one of many where I had to pause because I was laughing too hard to hear the dialogue. I bet the actors had fun with that scene.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
April 4, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I was gross-screech-yech-laughing like a little kid at this because it was almost unbearably gross, but so funny!! Having that couple there to see that and pretend it was normal while trying not to freak out was PERFECT. I tried not to think about what it was because it looked SO REAL 😱😱😱
bbstl 🧹
April 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Yes, I also gave some thought to wondering what they made that of because it looked so realistic. I decided it was like the plastic-rubber food displays outside of restaurants in Japan. Do NOT make me think about whether they were actually swallowing 🤢
Lelly19
April 4, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Ahahah!! I totally missed this scene!! XD
By the time I reached the last episode I was so bored and disinterested I just stopped paying attention, it seems! 🤣🙈
(Yeah, I did not enjoy this show lol)
Seon-ha
April 2, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Photos on the Cusp of Darkness, episodes 6-7. We K-drama fans know just how you feel sometimes, my friend.
In the business, I think they call this “manifesting your own destiny,” Mr. Won 🤣
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
April 2, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Seo Ki-joo needs practice to sign!!
Joo Won 🏆 can you believe it my autocorrect prompted the trophy as soon as I typed his name. This is surely a SIGN from his destined Daesang!! 😍 ♥️🤞
Seon-ha
April 2, 2024 at 5:46 AM
BMR, episode 3. The thing that brought me the most joy and made me smile, was THIS smile. Lookit! I adore how our (sort of/one of?) 2ML is the hunky handsome soap-opera type with a million-watt smile. I still remember when this young man was in his military camo way back in episode one. 🤣
AND, for those who couldn’t bear to watch the scene…I offer you this gif. So cringey! So just like our ML as we’re coming to know him. Still 18 in his head.
zindigo
April 2, 2024 at 9:32 AM
😂 omg that dance is priceless. Love it!
Seon-ha
April 2, 2024 at 7:04 PM
It’s the twisty-wrist move that keeps me coming back for more!! It’s almost as transfixing as PHS’ rabbit-ears thing??
But it’s not nearly as transfixing as PHS exit dance…
😏🤩😅
zindigo
April 2, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I was actually admiring his twisty-hips moves, but now that you point it out… he’s got quite the combo going here. I’ll bet he can walk and chew gum at the same time too 😂
There are literally no words to adequately describe the magic that is PHS 🤩
Seon-ha
March 31, 2024 at 11:55 AM
I don’t know yet how I’m going to engage with the full 50 episodes of Beauty and Mr. Romantic, but for now, I think I’m going to just post the scenes that bring me joy as I watch. In this case, It’s episode 3, with actual kids actually enjoying an actual rollercoaster.
Here, they’re more clearly acting, but acting adorbs. Is it too much to ask that we NOT see this scene again re-enacted by our older leads? Yes, it is, but I’d rather not and say we did. Jebal, at all?
Love the framing and pacing of this shot. Love her throwing his words back at him that “age doesn’t matter when you’re in love.”💖 It sort of does, my sweet(s).
DancingEmma
April 4, 2024 at 4:43 PM
For me there has been not enough joy in KDs since “Like Flowers in Sand” so I particularly appreciate your effort and gifs here.
Seon-ha
April 4, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Thanks, Emma. I can always use the encouragement. I’m trying to focus more directly on the things that are joyful and fun, here on DB and everywhere.
DancingEmma
April 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Good on you. It is hard for me to do that but I am trying too and appreciate your effort. I am always happy to encourage you! Btw, I never notice these things in a timely manner but congrats on levelling up. Could you please give me a loan with zero interest so I can buy a house?
Seon-ha
March 31, 2024 at 6:10 AM
A few days back, I had a not-so-mini GIF-ssay on the portrayal of masculinities in Chicken Nugget, and, while I’d like to say there’s an equal focus on what it means to be female to be narrated, this drama doesn’t really have the internal equipment to do that. Ahem.
What it does have is the ability to let us know what ideal, and not ideal, women look like from the outside though! And sometimes, as a above, we get fantasies of what it might be like to be female and desire things. Hey, he wasn’t all wrong.
This send-up of Joseon sexuality was, on the one hand extremely problematic, but on the other, entirely spot on. Our wife didn’t (necessarily) want to have sex with her husband to fulfill her own desires, obvs, but she most certainly needed to fulfill her obligations to have children, and play her part or else she literally would not have a life to lead. And, concomitantly, the men are all portrayed as man-children who can only think about their own satisfaction (whether that be lying down all day dressed in a “suit,” or as here, doing “husband-and-wife” things).
Nevertheless, I could not at ALL help but barking out loud at this scene. This is what comedy is for, y’all, to show us the full shape of societal expectations and how we stupidly almost always rise to them. Perfect. Perfect.
Mi-na, a.k.a. our Nuggie, is of course the ideal female prtner in the mind of her not-ever-was-nor-ever-to-be(?) boyfriend Yellow Pants. Here is one living example of his fantasy ideal. Hey, I’m in too.
But then again, here she is appearing to Yellow Pants in her fantastic Nugget-a Dentata form… This show. I’m tellin’ ya. Timeless story. Literally timeless. We’ve been telling this story since the dawn of time. I’m always happy to laugh at it.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 31, 2024 at 6:47 AM
I loved how, while the FL seemed like a less than one-dimensional plot device at first, each memory and flashback that was revealed showed more facets of her character. This interaction with the bullies scene was perfection at illustrating both his and her character (i.e., values, and as characters). I remember my professor in an acting class when I was an undergrad talking about script analysis, and she told us there were two ways to learn about a character and their motivations: by what they say about themselves, and by what others say about them (see them, perceive them, etc). This drama did that so well while working with not an actual lot of material 😂
Seon-ha
March 31, 2024 at 6:55 AM
If anything, Chicken Nugget shows that “having a lot of material” is not what you necessarily always need to make a story work!!! 😆
I think if we’d learned a lot more about Mi-na, the ending would have been more complicated/less OK/less funny. I don’t think we were meant to care too much about what the replay would hold for her, because, I feel, we were mainly asked to stay at the level of Yellow Pants’ and Sun-man’s consciousness about her. I’m not disagreeing with you that we did learn about her a bit–she thinks that a kind heart is good, but mainly wants a nice bod 😋–but I did end up feeling that she was mainly there as the projection of what these other men saw and needed…and I’m OK with that when it’s a send-up!
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 31, 2024 at 7:01 AM
I agree with you – what we got was enough! And in a drama like this, I don’t want to be made to feel empathetic about her fate 😅 We primarily knew her through their memories, which was a fun plot device. P.S. her Interstellar moment was so unexpected, so funny, and so good as a foreshadowing of the ending – this drama was chock-full of excellent surprises!
Seon-ha
March 31, 2024 at 7:02 AM
I wondered about that, not only having never seen Interstellar, but also not having gotten that joke in realtime!!! It was foreshadowing?? Hilarious.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 31, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Oh man, Interstellar was so long, and sad (to me) in an existential way, and you think it’s about space travel, but it’s actually about Love, and then through timey wimey black hole stuff you sort of almost come full circle – Nugget’s use was PERFECTION, and hilarious when it became clear in hindsight that it was foreshadowing!!!!
Elinor is trapped in the timeslip
March 31, 2024 at 11:58 PM
So time (for me) has moved both faster than humans’ ability to perceive it and as slowly as Netflix on 0.5 speed, and I have finally just finished CN. I’ll have a lot of catching up to do, but in the meantime I went a-googling to find the Interstellar reference, because I haven’t seen that either, and stumbled on this. Damn, the internet is weird, but humans are weirder, and humans in charge of internet bots are the weirdest. (Maybe you’ve already talked about this nonsense, but I’ve been avoiding spoilers, as if that’s even a meaningful concept for this show.)
I also found a YouTube clip of Matthew McConaughey inside the black hole, so now I get the
profound meaning and existential messagejoke.Seon-ha
April 2, 2024 at 2:53 PM
@elinor We Nugget Nerds (at least @hopefulromantic and I) will eagerly await your commentary. I happen to know that I have four more posts left, and have already posted 52 gifs and 5 sound clips. So, no pressure or anything…
Seon-ha
March 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Nugget Nibble, episode 5. Choice of dubbed words, as always for this drama, exceptionally thoughtful.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 30, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Oh gosh 😅 Lol at your comments 🤣 This scene was crazy – it’s terrible what’s happening in it, but it’s so funny, and his reaction (slapping on medicine with such skill that it impressed the bullies) is so in character, and wow – this drama was really something else!! I think “weird humor” is a definite humor niche, and K-dramas do it SO well.
Seon-ha
March 30, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I just can’t get over how well “Eat shit, Bitch” matches the mouth shape of someone saying 시발. I’ll just always see that from now own.
Also, though, this show only has a few words 🙂
Every day in every way the Nugget Nerd community is growing…I saw you today @zindigo 🙂 Or should I say Gen-X-indigo??? 🤓
My last post of creepy Tae-man ventriloquizing the millennials is priceless Gen-X-style humor…although the author of the webtoon is almost certainly a millennial skewering himself.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 30, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I haven’t watched any of the dubbed version other than your gifs, but it’s so impressive – the best translating I’ve seen outside of Viki. Netflix brought their A-game for this one. It was particularly striking in comparison to the Disney translations over on Hulu with FxC at the same time… are they already experimenting with generative AI? Because some of their choices are just befuddling. Lol as a millennial myself, I almost had Tae-man pegged as a spoof of Gen-Z 😂 He really was creepy, though – it was like he was acting in a psychological thriller, while everyone else was acting in Chicken Nugget.
Seon-ha
March 30, 2024 at 2:49 PM
YOU’VE NAILED IT. It was exactly like that. I just loved it. I mean, I loved the dissonance of Tae-man’s character with respect to every other character (hence the post only on him)!!! When he threw that mirror down like an inverted-Snow-White-Queen, I just lost it. It’s not that CN has NO depth, it’s just so f’ing cynical about it. In that way, I guess we might be learning that the millennials and Gen-X have a lot in common–at least in terms of humor!!!
You’re probably also right that Tae-man’s supposed to be “younger than you” I am so old, I’ve lost track 😏✊
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 30, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Yes his character and performance was dissonant with everything else! But it felt purposeful – he and his motives were supposed to clash with the rest of it. Honestly, it was a very well balanced drama! If the Nugget Nerds are any indication, it’s destined to become a cult classic on DB!!
Seon-ha
March 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Today for the growing Chicken Nugget community, I offer you, Choi Sun-man!!! The Sun Man!!! The ultimate straight man, frankly. Even better than Bud Abbott, Michael Scott, or Tommy Smothers. Yeah, comedy hisgtory fighting words, sure. No one cares. Sun-man rules, tho. Or, more precisely, Ryu Seung-ryong rules with an enviable gift for deadpan delivery and targeted facial comedy. DON’T FLASH BAAAAAACK!!!! 하지마!!! 하지마!!! Of course, the kids never listen.
I think I’ve now giffed this entire scene across maybe four posts, I love it so much. I mean, I love the entire fucking thing. Phew. How’d you like that call-back?? I won’t get too self-congratulatory.
Tee-hee. The facial expressions!!! Oh, he wants to be left alone sooooo badly!!!. I know just how he feels as the parent of a daughter.
This one’s as much about Sun-man as it is about this cameo by one of our Be Melo cross-over actors, Heo Joon-seok. It’s also a stand-alone GIF…take it for your own uses, Beanies!!! How many times have you been confronted with someone you wish to dismiss with such effective clarity??? Shoot this gif over to them. They’ll get the message. 100% for sure.
DancingEmma
March 28, 2024 at 4:06 PM
@Seon-ha: I badly want to be nosy and ask if you have a daughter but I am resisting it as I have boundaries!. The joys of the English language as that sentence of yours could be legitimately interpreted in two different ways.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 28, 2024 at 6:24 PM
OH MY GOSH these gifs are pure GOLD Seon-ha!!!!!!👏👏👏 I loooove these scenes and I loooove Ryu Seung-ryong’s comedy. He’s hilarious in such a skilled way that he makes it look effortless. I first saw him in Extreme Job (one of my favorite K-movies), but he’s even funnier here. I’ll rewatch this drama just for him when I need a laugh!
Seon-ha
March 28, 2024 at 5:43 AM
We take a break from our regularly-scheduled Chicken Nugget content for some Sexy-Time Studio, episode 5. The chemistry between these two is off-the-charts.
My only critique, and it’s not a big one (although I’m about to use a dirty word), is that the tension relies on a form of noble idiocy—let’s just call it “ridiculous self-restraint”—on the part of our known-to-be-doomed ML, a man who craves human companionship so very much, but withholds himself from it because…well, he doesn’t feel he deserves it? There’s no reason to do it? She’ll only get hurt when he dies? What? But, like I say, this is a special form of
noble idiocyunnecessary, but sort of hot, self-restraint that doesn’t really bug me, but that does form a large part of the tension here.In other news…swoon. Could she say that to me??? Who wouldn’t want to hear those words spoken so kindly?? What a fundamental human craving, to be recognized. Nice work, writernim. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
And lastly, way to go, Show!!! ToD POV!!! And yes, that’s who you think it is.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 28, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Thank you for using the “correct” title because but of course this is what it really is. 👌
indyfan
March 28, 2024 at 8:32 AM
But then, I might expect Sexy Times and this is a kdrama…
Seon-ha
March 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
This IS sexy-times for a K-drama. Hair pats and tummy butterflies. 🤣
indyfan
March 28, 2024 at 9:02 AM
True. Butterflies forever. 🦋🦋🦋
indyfan
March 28, 2024 at 9:06 AM
this is a special form of… hot, self-restraint Yes!
I bet his budding feelings will only become stronger even as doom comes ever closer (100 days?). Ooh. The delicious romantic angst coming up.
sonai
March 28, 2024 at 9:39 AM
… and I’m here for it!!! 😂👏🥳
indyfan
March 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
In my heart of hearts, I want every drama to be a romantic melo. So me too!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
More Nuggie Funnies for the Fan Wall today!!!
zindigo
March 27, 2024 at 6:25 PM
It’s even funnier as a gif 😂
bbstl 🧹
March 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM
I really felt for the actress, though. Ouch!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Nugget nuggets, as promised. Koreans and their unabiding love for the simplicity and clarity of Hangul!!! Even folks from other planets agree about its superiority. I’m surprised King Sejong didn’t get a name check 🤣
bbstl 🧹
March 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM
I laughed SO hard at that.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 27, 2024 at 10:03 AM
It was a fabulous moment!!! It really is an excellent written language, though!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 10:07 AM
You’ve drunk the 한글-aid!!!
Of course, I find it admirable as well…but man are there more exceptions to the rules than they let on upfront. I have one word for you: 받침.
@bbstl I really did roll my eyes. Lovingly, tho. I also liked how the mad scientist turned into a silly “puppy dog” in episode 9.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 27, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Lol English is the same way with exceptions to rules, though, so maybe that’s why I’m just 🤷♀️ about it? I also tried to learn German at one point, but remembering the gender of nouns was just not working out for me 🤣 All languages are unique in their own beautiful and frustrating ways!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 10:38 AM
It’s hard to beat English for inconsistent spelling conventions and almost NO consistent connection between the letter used and the sound you make. So, along those lines, Hangul WINS!
King Sejong King Sejong King Sejong!!!
^^^^That is, of course THIS GUY. To me, this is what Sejong the Great is, was, and will always look like.
Also, as a reminder, this is what Ahn Hyo-seop looked like in the same 2015 drama. I do not wish to speculate about the reason for the change, but boy howdy do I note the change!!!
bbstl 🧹
March 27, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Yes, very lovingly and with appreciation that they’re right to be proud 👍🏽
Ooooh, 한글-aid, excellent pun!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 10:39 AM
OMG thank youuuuu for your appreciation of the sound pun. As I was typing it, I had the stupidest grin on my face.
bbstl 🧹
March 27, 2024 at 11:08 AM
@attiton yes, please reach around and pat yourself on the back for that one! 👏🏽😁
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
March 27, 2024 at 6:44 PM
LOL!!!!
zindigo
March 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Yeah but the batchim rules are applied consistently. Korean pronunciation is so much easier to learn than English!!
Seon-ha
March 27, 2024 at 6:33 PM
LOLllolllol… 한글-aid!!!!
Seon-ha
March 26, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I’ve got lots of “single-gif” jokes from Chicken Nugget coming up, but this mini-giffsay on masculinity is calling my name. So, if the Nugget Nerds will permit, I’d like to get as serious as I can get about a show that is–more or less–a cursing contest between characters.
I feel that there are two ways that men are predominantly portrayed in CN, one version, as above, is offered to the audience in a self-effacing way, as in the exaggeration (offered both in a Joseon setting and today!) of the man who feels that he’s fulfilling his responsibility to the family by getting all dressed up, and then just lying there…because it feels good. She can say nothing, but smile, of course.
In a similar vein, there’s a version of this same “making fun of masculinity” that is humorously portrayed as being worried about “not being perceived as a man.” In this case, in the face of an ajumma who’s clearly not only in better shape than our Sun-man, but on a WAY better bike. So, that’s two “dings” on our ajusshi. “아주머니 왜!!??” we see him shout plaintively at the end of the clip, before, of course, falling completely over (not pictured).
But the other is more toxic and is centered on this character, who I’d love to bring to your attention for just a short while. This is Yoo Tae-man who’s supposed to be in his early 20s but he’s apparently trapped in the body of a 50-year-old (I KNOW HOW HE FEELS).
He spends the entire drama feeling second-best to his better-looking brother, Tae-young, seen here in an advertisement that made me chuckle with this OTT on-the-spot-ness, for “Completing your manhood.”
This version isn’t, of course, so humorous, as Tae-man is a threat to all concerned. He is, however, amazingly frighteningly brought-to-life, I feel, by Jung Seung-gil. Here, as above, we see Tae-man crack as he realizes his delusions.
And I can’t help but think of the Evil Queen in Snow White who believes her mirror when it lies and tells her she is beautiful. In this version of our Evil Brother…it is his inability to believe lie that drives him mad. Well-played, show.
PS: Can’t resist my further broken-record-ness about the excellent dubbing…the man who dubs Jung Sung-gil’s voice actually sounds like he is in his early 20s, making Tae-min’s character just that more creepy, because he really does sound young while looking middle-aged.
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Hehe … Have been the ajummi with one or two kids in the cargo bike, slowly, steadily, gaining in on a status panicking dude. Chuckle. Those were the days.
A bit like these two, except I was fortysomething, and didn’t have 6 kids in the trunk; 3 at the most.
Seon-ha
March 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Episode 3 is the funniest darn episode of Oh, Nugget!. Each episode has something for everyone, but #3 is really a peak.
And the peak of the peak is our food blogger Hong Cha. She’s the bestest. And she’s serious about both food and her man. But mainly food. 😘
“Then it’s just fried pork.”
“I know.”
PS: Mint chocolate chip is, like, my favorite flavor of ice cream, only it can’t be any version. It has to be Baskin-Robbins (31 Flavors, to the olds) because it’s actually mint straciatella. It matters.
PPS: Every day there are new Nugget Nerds! I see y’all. Welcome, welcome!!! 😉
owl 🦉 🫰
March 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Totally agree with the BR mint chocolate chip. Sometimes the t store here carries BR pints of that flavor and also Jamoca almond fudge. I love them both!
bbstl 🧹
March 25, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Thank you for the gifs esp her face as she says with scorn and disbelief, “pizza and pineapple.” (Agree completely!)
I hope to see more of this actress!
Blue (@mayhemf)
March 26, 2024 at 3:19 AM
She was stunning! Hope to see more of her in dramas.
And the eyeroll when they both went to recollect their past 😂😂
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 26, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Episode 3 was so funny, and SHE was so funny! Fabulous gifs!!!
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Everyday there’s a party at Seon-ha’s wall!
Seon-ha
March 24, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Did You Know? Character Limits on Dramabeans Comments Edition
Did you know that there are different character limits for different types of comments and posts on Dramabeans? Some of these limits are “breakable” and others are not.
1. Fan Wall Main Posts
Many of us have overcome the (apparent) 200-character limit on all Fan Wall OP posts. If you have not, instructions for how to do that are simple, and spelled out by yours truly here: https://www.dramabeans.com/members/attiton/activity/1452362/.
TL;DR: Paste in your content from elsewhere, but don’t use your keyboard to do it, use the contextual menu revealed via your mouse or by force-pressing.
But! As @sicarius reminded the newbs in, um, 2020…there’s still actually something like a 20,000 character limit on the Fan Wall posts. EVEN MORE still, long Fan Wall posts can start pressuring WordPress to break down at about 9,000 characters. So, stick to below 9,000 characters is the advice @sicarius offers. Apparently she broke Dramabeans once.
2. Comments Anywhere Else
Apart from OP Fan Wall posts, there’s a 3,000 character limit on all other comments. So, whether you’re replying directly to a Fan Wall Post or a Main Site Post, or replying to a comment on a Fan Wall Post or a Main Site Post, you’ve got 3,000 characters before you get that dreaded ellipsis (“…”) that cuts you off in mid-sentence.
There’s no workaround for this one, but we want to hear what you have to say!! So, simply reply to your own comment, and finish your thought. Done!
Or, if you like, you can check beforehand to see if your commentary will fit in one comment by using Word or a text editor to count your characters beforehand. A quick internet search shows that there are any number of free, but ad-filled, sites that will do it for you too.
PS: Another tip from Sic. Emojis count for two characters! I believe her, but even though I sort of work in this industry for real, I didn’t know that!! Seems technically plausible! Thanks, 친구!
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Past Did You Know? Posts
Did You Know? HTML Tags Allowed on Dramabeans Edition
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/attiton/activity/1452358/
Did You Know? Posting to your Fan Wall Edition
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/attiton/activity/1452362/
Did you Know? Using Imgur to Host Images Edition
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/attiton/activity/1458911/
And, for completeness’ sake, @claire2009‘s majestic post on how to embed images directly into your Fan Wall content
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/claire2009/activity/1505918/
Healer’s
March 24, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Thank you, Seon-ha, for another amazing post with valuable guides and information 🌻❤️ I broke the limit for a comment once or twice, but have never come close to the limit for a Fan Wall post.
Ally
March 24, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Wish we could pin these posts somehow.
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
March 24, 2024 at 3:05 PM
There is a group working on getting all the info on a google document and we will need to save the link and share with the beanies who send out a call for help. Hopefully this link will work:
Beanie resource Google drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16vrpxsSwfc6FGA-8-ZXnzI9w3Ch7ebkm
Ally
March 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I just have the links saved on my Gmail notes like an old beanie. 😆
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Thank you 친구!! 🥰
zindigo
March 24, 2024 at 8:28 AM
These great guides were what helped me start posting on my fan wall last year! Thank you @attiton. It’s made my DB experience even more fun 🤩
Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
March 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM
@kmromrell another one for the how to document.
TheOutsideJoke (@kmromrell)
March 28, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Absolutely! @attiton, would you mind if I transfer this into a document and add it (and maybe the rest of your “Did You Know” series) to the folder? I’d be happy to then transfer the ownership of the document to you (but I would need your email address to do that). 🙂
Seon-ha
March 28, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Y’all can do what you like with my content. Do not drag me into it 🙂
TheOutsideJoke (@kmromrell)
March 28, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Perfect, your words have been immortalized in the Beanie Resource folder for future beanie use. I went ahead and created a folder for all your “Did You Know” guides, so I’ll try to add those when/if ever you make new ones!
I also transcribed @Hades‘s HTML guides into one document, ’cause hot dang is that a great HTML guide.
Thanks for your contributions!
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 25, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Thank you! It’s so nice to sum up the important how-to stuff once in a while.
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
April 11, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Technically, I think it was a formatting error that broke it somehow, not the word count, as I have since been able to post successfully much longer posts (longest was over 10000 words, words, not chars). But it is still good to warn people that it can be finicky when working with long and heavily formatted posts. xox thanks for mentioning me.
Seon-ha
April 12, 2024 at 4:02 AM
@kmromrell it’s worthwhile making note of the way I misinterpreted Sicarius’ advice if you’ve taken this post into your Google Doc! There’s a big difference between 9000 characters and 10,000 words!
TheOutsideJoke (@kmromrell)
April 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Thanks for the correction! I have that updated in the folder. 🙂
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
April 12, 2024 at 11:52 PM
It understandable, so it’s ok; there was a time when I recommended not posting over 4000 words just because I didn’t know if what would break it again or how.
But since successfully posting my Squid Game dissertation I’m less worried about word count anyway hehe.
Seon-ha
March 24, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Did y’all note the cutest final photo of the aespa priests? Love it. The Midnight Studio, episode 4.
Also, with regards to how Korea’s Grandma is always saying her farewells in every drama, I’d also like to note/remind/place at the forefront of our memories how unbelievably excellent Kim Young-ok is at being utterly menacing. Don’t fuck with halmeoni, folks. It’s unwise.
Remember this from King, My Foot? Hilarious delivery.
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 25, 2024 at 5:31 AM
“If you ever make her cry” … makes me think of Adalbert von Chamisso’s poem’s made song cycle by Robert Schumann, and the song “Now you have caused me the first pain” (The translation here says “My first pain” but the cycle never says that nothing has caused her pain before. Just that he hasn’t, before now).
“https://oxfordsong.org/song/nun-hast-du-mir-den-ersten-schmerz-getan-2
sonai
March 25, 2024 at 10:16 AM
🤣 Classic!
PS: Oh, I can only hope she secretly opened a savings‘ account in Kijoo‘s name, too. 🥹
PPS: That photo had me laughing, too!
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 27, 2024 at 10:01 AM
That seems like a legit thing she would do. 😊
Seon-ha
March 24, 2024 at 5:36 AM
The Be Melo meta in Chicken Nugget is strong.
At my last count, I could identify maybe six members of the Be Melo cast that also have roles here in CN. How many did other Nugget Nerds identify??
I also consider the OTT swearing to be Be Melo meta. If y’all remember there was a meta even in Be Melo about how much swearing they could write into the drama before the censors called them out on it… There’s a mini-commentary on the “Teen Swearing” scene in the comments.
But last, but not least…THE SONG!! And Ahn Jae-hong’s deadpan, “You can stop.” The most meta of meta. Such delight. There’s sound below, and here in this direct link.
Seon-ha
March 24, 2024 at 5:37 AM
One of these is the subs for the original language and the other is the CC-subs for the dub. I just can’t get over the subtlety of the distinctions these translators are making when your options are the words “fuck” and “shit.” 🤣
bbstl 🧹
March 24, 2024 at 9:38 AM
The little ears on the caterpillar just killed me 😆
parkchuna ❤️🍉
March 24, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Hahaha love this! I saw part of a scene where they played the song in the van n i was stoked to see the Be Melo reference.
On the dubbing, do you watch the dubbed version of the show?
Seon-ha
March 24, 2024 at 5:05 PM
I have watched Chicken Nugget three times, once each dubbed and subbed and once (the third time) comparing the two directly!
parkchuna ❤️🍉
March 24, 2024 at 6:21 PM
The dedication! Also, do u have a time machine? 😮😂
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Nugget Neerrrrrds!!! Today\’s post is about Third Guy. Sure, Third Guy has a name on the wiki pages, but I swear to all-heavens-above that I never heard anyone say it in the comedy.
Don\’t burst my bubble, folks, by telling me about \”that one time Sun-man said it\” or whatever. To me, he\’s Third Guy, nicknamed \”Third Dude,\” and he will stay that way 4eva.
I can\’t get over how funny this character is, and how utterly played to perfection he is by Kim Nam-hee. I know many of y\’all (not all! but many…) don\’t want to hear about the dubbing…but the dubber who does the voice acting for Third Dude is perfection. It\’s like the flattest, deepest California-style accent ever. I swear I\’ve met this guy in real life.
MORE THIRD GUY IN THE COMMENTS!!!
PS: I\’m gonna hold off on the Be Melo post until tomorrow to give as many of you as possible a chance to make it through at least Episode 6.
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Oh, the joys of Third Dude’s relationship with our leads. There’s never been an authentic word exchanged between him and them. Not even one. The deadpan here is utter perfection.
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM
This is one of Third Dude’s refrains. He wants to know, but really…he totally doesn’t. I laughed every time.
The second version is a “reaction gif” for all of us to use whenever we need it. And I think there are times when we all need it. @sonai and @lapislazulii take note!! You two often need gifs like this 😁
sonai
March 23, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Woah! Thank you! I would never dare to use other beanies’ self made GIFs, but with this specific permission … *saves for future usage* 👏👏👏🤩🫰
(I haven’t had a look at all the chicken content* yet 🫣 Oooooh, maybe this next week of vacation will offer some openings to finally, finally finish watching!
* and more MEAT on the way! Is it a plot pattern for 2024? 😂)
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 8:02 AM
You are absolutely 100% allowed to use any of my GIFs you want in any context you want! I hereby may give you full and complete permission. This goes for ANY BEANIE!!!
sonai
March 24, 2024 at 2:57 AM
🤩🫰👏🫰🥹🥳 Thank you!
lapislazulii
March 23, 2024 at 12:59 PM
many thanks for making this GIF Seon-ha, I can think of half a dozen dramas that make me have that eXACT reaction there 😆
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM
If I were in high school together with y’all, there’s a 100% chance I would have come up behind you in the hall at some point and surprised you by shouting “HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HUMAN RIGHTS!?” in your ear. 100%.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 24, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Lol lol lol 😆😂😂😂 I feel like in a lot of ways, this was the Napoleon Dynamite/Hot Rod (*both of which are movies I love*) of K-dramas. You either love it or hate it, but the humor will have fans.
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 7:11 AM
And, last, but certainly not least…this is now the catchphrase for my life. In a very real sense, I SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT THE SAUNA. His love for the place is both absurd, and somehow, understandable. Wouldn’t we all rather be at the sauna-heaven than at work??
I wouldn’t rather be at the sauna than watching Chicken Nugget, though. But OMG, what about watching CN while at the sauna??? Third Dude? I’ll meet…you…THERE.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 24, 2024 at 5:22 AM
This was one of my favorite scenes (Lol I have LOTS of favorite scenes). Yup, I should have stayed at the sauna… 🙄
Ally
March 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM
As always, perfect gifs! That last one especially. “I should have stayed at the sauna,” indeed! I’m laughing every time.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 24, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Oh my gosh, third guy/full time guy was such an excellent part of this drama. Such great reactions and one-liners. So very very funny!!
Seon-ha
March 22, 2024 at 5:46 AM
For the Wonderful World crew comprised of @lapislazulii @seeker and @darkcc … as well as for the Nugget Nerds.
This was pretty much one of the absolute most hilarious punchlines, not only of Chicken Nugget, but of recent memory. The dramatic pause to wait and see just who/what Yellow Pants would shout…was simply comic gold.
For those who, sadly, have not seen this drama…this is the end of episode 2/beginning of episode 3. I suggest you go watch to see if he actually succeeds in becoming Cha Eun-woo.
Cecee
March 22, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Oh I laughed so much!
It was brilliant!
Seon-ha
March 22, 2024 at 5:58 AM
Oh hey, since you’re here…I have a Drama Meta Game for you!! Also from Nuggety-Wuggetems. Not only will you get it, I’m going to make it harder for you. In response to the image below, could you please give me the one English noun that is the “proper” response to that door code? If you are not @darkcc , please do not google this and answer. If you ARE @darkcc feel free to google away, but I bet you won’t have to!!
Cecee
March 22, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Oooooh a challenge! 8282 brain, think! Is it 👼?
(I first read every digit individually… 🤦🏻♀️)
Seon-ha
March 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
DING!
DING!
DING!
ANGEL!
And, no shit, this is my first ever Goblin GIF.
Ally
March 22, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I only got the reference because I learned the word on Goblin. 😆
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 4:50 AM
@darkcc and @ally-le Coming back here to respond to all of you, I keep laughing at how Gong Yoo flinches at the word “angel.” So good.
🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
March 22, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Seon-ha thank you for remembering me. ❤️ RL is not allowing me to move ahead with Chicken Nugget for now. Your fanwall posts have me all excited and eager to participate but I’m waiting till I can complete watching.
Can I request a raincheck for now. 🙏 Please do continue to tag me,
bbstl 🧹
March 22, 2024 at 9:36 AM
And then *possible spoiler alert* he exits the magic machine, feeling his face to see if there are any changes 🤣🤣🤣
Seon-ha
March 22, 2024 at 9:42 AM
lol…saying, “I guess that was too much to wish for” 😂🤣😎😍😅
Blue (@mayhemf)
March 22, 2024 at 10:03 AM
I just finished this episode and I laughed so hard. This was hilarious. And his after reaction 😂😂
Ally
March 22, 2024 at 8:10 PM
One of my favorite jokes of the whole series!
lapislazulii
March 22, 2024 at 11:49 PM
HAHAHAHHA I saw this snippet just before on instagram too and had a good laugh 😆 CEW getting a few name drops in recent dramas – there was one in Welcome to Samdal-ri no? And in Strong Woman Gang Nam-soon not that long ago 😆
Seon-ha
March 23, 2024 at 4:52 AM
But we do it better here on Dramabeans, right??? Insta, shminsta. 😈
lapislazulii
March 23, 2024 at 1:00 PM
oh yes, the DB bar is set way higher especially because it comes with witty commentary and sharp observations!
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 24, 2024 at 5:18 AM
THIS WAS SO FUNNY! It also makes me want to shriek CHA EUN-WOOOOOO before opening doors 😂
Seon-ha
March 21, 2024 at 5:07 PM
For the Nugget Nerds. It\’s all about Yellow Pants\’s sigh at the end.
For those of you who, sadly, have not seen this truly amusing drama. Our main character is on the phone with 119.
bbstl 🧹
March 21, 2024 at 5:10 PM
I barked laughing when he turned that around 😆
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
That scene was HILARIOUS and I laughed so hard 😂😂😂 Good save, Yellow Pants! 👍
parkchuna ❤️🍉
March 21, 2024 at 9:43 PM
what episode is this?
Seon-ha
March 22, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Episode 4!
Seon-ha
March 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Parents. Can\’t be born without them. With just a tiny bit of cultural translation, I bet this scene rings true the world around.
As a parent myself, I can say that I am nothing like this, of course.
Ahn Jae-hong\’s face!!! Bwahahahaha.
Chicken Nugget, episode 7.
Midnight
March 20, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Oh dear, did I cause you to completely delete your post 🙈 I did try to quickly delete my comment and then noticed the post isn’t there 🙈 I’m very sorry for ruining the fun 🙈
Seon-ha
March 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I’ll repost it later, with more rules.
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
But unless it is someone’s comment to a comment you made, (and the music starts, it’s Weather Report) , how can it cause someone’s post on their own wall to disappear?
You can’t really blame yourself for not knowing that would happen.
(The music I started hearing was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNCY0Ai44M
Oh My God It’s so beautiful, especially Jaco Pastorius 😢 )
Seon-ha
March 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Today\’s Nuggetfest will involve the aliens. I\’m just gonna assume that everyone who\’s gonna watch this show either knows–or suspects–that the point here was that there were aliens who came to earth and brought these machines. The machines aren\’t for turning things into chicken nuggets, chicken meatballs or dakgangjeong. They\’re from a travel agency.
Anywhom, our aliens are trying to get home. And they want to threaten the humans without harming them, because they will be punished if they do. So…they pantomime things that we fear. Or at least, that they think we\’ll fear. Yellow Pants comic timing above just cracks me the hell up. So, here are just a few things that they chose as their threats.
FIRE FORMATION. Pew. Pew. Roar. Psst.
MISSIIIILE. Dude sings that word in the show while he does this dance. You should go and take a listen.
BTS. No one fucks with BTS.
At the end of the day, though, this was actually one of the most affecting scenes in the drama. They only went through a second round of \”attack\” because they thought that their impassioned speech about \”why do you always solve things through violence\” didn\’t get through to the humans–but it had. The humans were only silent because they were thinking. But, they took too long…and attack-by-BTS ensued. Too bad, really.
Special request for this series came from @ally-le.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 18, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Aww this is the most adorable boss fight that ever was 🥹 I love how K-dramas do things – even really weird things – with heart ❤️ Pew pew!!
Seon-ha
March 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
🎶🎵Misiiiiiiilllle *pause* Missiiiiiillllle *pause*🎶🎵
I’ve watched my own BTS gif like 1000 times. I laugh each time. You know that alien dude was the villain in My Demon and of course Mi-na starred in that same drama…so it’s a mini-MD reunion. Not as big as the Be Melo reunion, of course.
The way he WINKS! It’s just like V. 😉
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦆❤️🦆
March 18, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Oh my gosh his dance is SO GOOD!!! His BTS is on point!! And I hadn’t realized about those reunion details – so cool! (And I love Ryu Seung-ryong’s reaction to his dance ❤️)
bbstl 🧹
March 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
I’m so glad to see him cast as someone (something?) that’s not a villain! There is so much talent in this show, it’s crazy.
Ally
March 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Thank you-thank you! I LURVED Kim Tae Hoon as he was channelling BTS through this. He’s a wonderful actor! This scene was my favorite of the whole drama. And you didn’t even mention the music behind it when they started fighting again. Genius. Anyway, thank you! I appreciate it!
DK-Drama 🫘🏆Image of drama FL Character Deterioration🚺🍉🌱
March 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
That was the most heartwarming superpower fight scene ever.