Pop toast.

So where the heck were we? Oh right, Minae pouncing on defenseless Phillip.
Let’s resume with a recap.

Basement Jaxx – Broken Dreams

Phillip is out with Su-gyeoung and manages to catch the bullet train in time. There’s no seats available for the couple so they’re forced to stand. Su-gyeoung right away notices that a delinquent in front of her hogging two seats with his fat ass and gives him an earful while he barks that he was just on his way to drop out of his school and doesn’t need any lecturing from an ‘ahjumma’. She’s offended and asks him to close his wide open thighs together. He refuses. He claims that he can’t since his closing his thighs is nearly impossible because of his large weight. Phillip, on the other hand, isn’t liking the extra attention the other passerbys are giving thanks to Su-gyeoung’s outspoken behavior. Enough is enough—Su-gyeoung forces him to leave his seats and assumes she’ll get off if he does. He exits and the metro door slams on him, leaving behind a chuckling Su-gyeoung and his ride to school.

Su-gyeoung leads Phillip towards their prized seats but he’s refusing to sit down. He just wishes that she could just be a submissive girl in scenarios like these and tolerate it a little better. She’s puzzled. He used to love this side of hers for five years, why should she change how she is now?

Flashback (Five Years Ago—First time she meets Phillip)
Someone spits a wad of gum next to her converse shoes. She looks up and sees this snobby woman and demands an apology.The woman just calls her boyfriend (Phillip) and tells him how she’s weird and all, making her apologize over a small matters like this for no reason. Left with no options, Phillip apologizes to Su-gyeoung for his skanky girlfriend. She storms off ahead of him and Phillip turns around, smiling.
End Flashback

Sug-gyeoung is at Starbucks with her girlfriends (consisting of Yu-Jin and Seventies Boss) discussing the strange change in Phillip. The conversation only ends up with Seventies Boss weeping on her numerous wedding called off at the last minute and picking her boogers reminds her of how she’ll just be stuck in her spinster days.

Talking about marriage is making Yu-Jin reevaluate Dong Wook as a potential husband. He is a freelancer, yes…and it’s making her worried. It’s just one of the things that Dong Wook isn’t fulfilling in the husband material checklist. And just by coincidence, Yu-Jin lands on an article explaining the things men want in women.

1. Men are weak to flattery. The girl must give specific compliments on their physical appearance.

There are some cons to this as Su-Gyeoung points out. For instance, if a man looks good in jeans, don’t go into further detail like ‘Your tight jeans make your butt look like a duck’ and from Seventies Boss’ Dirty Mind Vortex, “Your pink nipples showing through your white shirt are so romantic that I’m turned on”. No wonder she has no chance with men. She’s just bizarre in a creepy way. And just for the fun of it, it turns out young innocent maiden Yu-jin has a fetish for men in tights, particularly Batman and Superman.

2.  Men like slender women who can do sexy feline movements.

More misery added onto Su-gyeoung’s plate. It’s cruel enough as it is with the thin issue and now they have to appear feline sexy? How ridiculous.

3.  Men like women who praise them after making love. Even if it’s awful.

Okay. That’s it. Su-gyeoung knows this magazine is rubbish.

Daydream sequence (What it could be like if she followed these rules)
Phillip’s butt is extended while he plays pool. Su-gyeoung slaps it numerous times and compliments on how his butt is so firm that her eyes will fall out of their sockets. She leads Phillip down onto the pool tables using the ‘feline’ movements. She looks at him with lust glazed eyes as Phillip slowly comes down on her for a kiss… She praises him, telling him she’s looking forward to the next time.
End sequence

The trio are disturbed at the image. They sincerely hope that men couldn’t possibly like these kind of mindless girls.

Haha, that’s highly unlikely. Jeong hwan is talking about the same thing with his buddies at the gym. He doesn’t care if they’re mindless as long as his girl has a great face and big boobs he can fondle with. For his own sanity, Dong Wook is urging him to stop his countless dates with women and just rest for a while. Jeong hwan teases Dong Wook further by rubbing on his chest (Note: the two men are bare-chested in this scene. He’s implying he hasn’t experimented with homosexuality). Dong Wook shrugs it off and declines the offer as he’s happy being straight thankyouverymuch. Jeong hwan pounces on Ryohei and snuggles up against him in hopes he’ll be his experimental partner. Ryohei blankly refuses. Jeong hwan chuckles at himself at making a successful awkward tension among his pals.

Anyways, Dong Wook advises that if Jeong hwan to memorize all the girls he’s dates, he’d prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Blah blah, Jeong hwan just goes on and on praising himself. the boys go on venting their frustration on how women nowadays are being too dependent on their boyfriends like for instance carrying her tiny handbag for no reason. How in the world is that chilvarious behaviour? Woman, Hold it yerself you skank. They don’t care if you matched it with your outfit.

Jeong hwan goes on venting on how women have extremely high expectations that even normal men of today can’t meet them. Men don’t have that. They’re just happy if your face is pretty during daytime but with the possiblity of become sexy during the night, your height should be shorter than the guy and boobs must be of decent size.  It’s totally unfair. Woe is them. And plastic surgery? Jeong hwan is fine with double eyelid surgery. Ugh, how superficial.

Ryohei scoffs at Jeong hwan pointing out that women like that don’t even like him. So who is he to judge?

Colourful lights. Booze. Disco ball. People. Minae and Ryohei are out and about clubbing. She’s annoyed at Ryohei’s lame dance moves. He asks if Minae’s really interested in him or just using him as her boytoy. She ignores the question and decides to play a game with him. She’ll pick up the best looking guy while he’ll pick up the best looking girl and flirt with them for ten minutes.
Put strength in your stare. Guys like it when it looks like girls have an interest in you.

Round One: Minae’s got her eyes on one. And dang, he is cute! She does her signature hand move and initiates Maneater mode. The cute guy looks at her, gets up and walks past her. Minae stops him by latching onto his hand.  She gives her sensual look. Bang, he’s gone.

Ryohei comes back with a girl in hand ten minutes later and joins Minae with Cute Guy’s arm wrapped around her shoulders. Minae compliments on how Ryohei’s pick and he does the same. Then the two leave Cute Guy and Girl together, telling them they suit each other. Man, were they duped. It turns out that Cute Guy is an owner of an internet portal site and the Girl is a racing girl. Cute guy just further proceed to compliment her on how when she walked into the club, she “had a glow like headlights”. I don’t know about you but that does not sound sexy at all.

Back at the office, Su-gyeoung is working on an article but gets interrupted by Yu-jin who wants to go out. Her cell phone rings and it’s Dong Wook calling for her help in picking up drama music. Yu-jin spills her hot coffee and cries out in pain. He asks if she’s alright and she reponds in a cheesy manner about her heart is soaked as well. Yu-Jin’s cell phone battery dies and adds on to her misery.

Dong Wook calls her office phone a few minutes later and tells her to come out to surprise her. He bought her a new cell battery, fresh roasted and a dress.The dress fits her like a glove. Of course, it’s easy for him to tell, he just loves women’s bodies. Obviously he doesn’t tell her that.

Thoughts:
One thing that effed me in this episode is that revolving door scene. It must’ve taken at least twenty takes to completely film it. Showing the same scene with different camera angles is fine but don’t show it more than THIRTEEN TIMES (I even counted). I GET IT, MOVE ON. I want them to meet already damn it.

And about that glow like headlights compliment, I am still laughing my head off just thinking about it.