EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 6 Recap

Previously: Chanyeol has the ability to give people colds even when he's not sick himself. D.O. is a sweetie, and Gwangsu may be a con artist.

This episode begins where the "cliffhanger" from last episode left off.
Chanyeol: You're Yeonhee, right?
Yeonhee: *internally* ZOMG he knows my name??
Chanyeol: Well, duh. You're like, my employee or something.
Chanyeol: Did you feel anything when I called your name? [??!?!] O_o
Yeonhee: a;ldkfhasdlkfh230u98243098u!!!
Lol, yeah, I think quite a few girls would feel something if Chanyeol called their name. ;)
They kiss and make up, and the opening scene ends.

The next scene begins with Yeonhee lying on her bed. I honestly have no idea when this scene is supposed to be--the next day or the same day. Anyway, Chanyeol texts her (SHE HAS CHANYEOL'S NUMBER, THE WORLD FAMOUS CHANYEOL'S NUMBER, ZOMG 
＼(￣▽￣)／ ) and tells her to be there by 3 for her "initiation ceremony." Oh yeah! Freshman hazing, woo-hoo! Yeonhee is understandably freaked by this, but then quickly realizes how effing lucky she is to even be within 50 miles of EXO (ONCE I WAS, OMG) and begins to prepare for what she assumes will be an interview.

Looking up at House EXO (which I noticed for the first time is a very cool-looking modern-style house) three schoolgirls with disturbingly bright red lipstick discuss their certainty that EXO (or at least 40% of EXO) lives there. 




They spy Gwangsu coming down the street and rush over to him, inquiring if EXO lives in the house (I thought they were certain??). He says nothing, obviously confused, and they eventually conclude that EXO does not live there. Oooookay. You know, fangirls should harness their mad private detective skillz for something other than celebrities. Like, you know, being *actual* private detectives.

Gwangsu rushes to his tent, pulls a laptop from underneath his jacket [!] and looks up EXO online. After a few misspellings (I feel your pain, bro, Korean words are hard to type after you've only heard them once), he finds a webpage with a picture of EXO-K, who all look very pissed. 



He quickly figures out that EXO is "the ugly-ass guys from next door." He watches several gifsets from Mama (the ones where they show their superpowers) and his freaked reaction is similar to the reaction my brother had when I showed him SHINee's "Everybody." In hindsight, a video with shirtless dancing Taemin was *not* a good video for him to start K-pop with.

In her room, Yeonhee suggests to someone off-camera that they do an online initiation ceremony. The camera cuts to a different angle, revealing that she's talking to four pillows with Sehun, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, and D.O.'s faces on them. [BAHAHAHAAAA] 

Is it weird for them to constantly see their faces on things?

Wonder if she has all 12 of them. Pillow Chanyeol glares accusingly at her. She whines to the pillows that she can't work, then leaves because it's almost 3. Outside her door, she runs into Gwangsu, who is wearing a red sheet tied around his shoulders and a motorcycle helmet.



He tells Yeonhee that she's nuts for wanting to go to EXO's house, because they have superpowers. They "create flames with their palms and stuff." They are "the legendary ugly ass aliens." Ah, how funny. (Not.) Okay, it's one thing to be really weird, and another to have the intelligence of a 6 year old. Well, I guess blinding stupidity runs in the family. Their dad probably stabbed himself to death with a spork because he thought it was a butterfly. Yeonhee gives him a pitying look and says she can take care of herself, but Gwangsu gives her the helmet just in case. Huh, that reminds me a little of Big Time Rush and Carlos' obsession with his helmet...

In Livingroom EXO, Yeonhee stands in front of the Fab Four wearing the helmet (really??). (picture) In the background, there's pictures of Tao and...Suho? It's like the set decorators grabbed a bunch of EXO pictures, blew them up onto giant canvases, and then plastered them all over the house on every bit of wall (and fridge!) space they could find. 

That's the worst Speed Racer cosplay I've ever seen.

Baekhyun takes one look at her and starts snickering into his hand. Chanyeol mocks the helmet, but Baekhyun tries to put her at ease and tells her to introduce herself. She gives her name (Ji Yeonhee), age (23), and why the heck she's not in school (it's winter break), while Baekhyun picks his nails in a bored fashion. Chanyeol asks her where she was born (Incheon) so they decide to call her "Incheon Gal" (인천 딸), which is supposedly cheesy [?]. Literally translated, it's "Incheon Daughter." She's totes embarrassed. I feel the need to point out that the magenta/pink lipstick the guys are wearing in this scene is horribly distracting for a number of reasons.

All of them give her specific instructions.
Sehun: Kill all the bugs. I h8 bugs.
Baekhyun: Take care of my clothes. I <3 my clothes. ^_^
Chanyeol: You won't have a specific schedule; you'll come when I tell you
to and leave when I tell you to.
D.O.: No pictures or videos, plz. (Heh, that's so him.)
Cue a montage of her trying her best to follow these instructions, plus
her other cleaning duties.
I googled "does sehun hate bugs", but all I got was some weird fanfictions and the assertion that it's D.O. that hates bugs, not Sehun.

The next scene, Yeonhee is complaining to Gaeun that her job is "slavery" but she is grinning her face off. Gaeun is sitting on her (Yeonhee's) bed, the Baekhyun pillow on her lap (aww!) and the other three pillows surrounding her. Yeonhee tells Gaeun that she can't say anything about her job, because "[she] even signed a confidentiality agreement." Ugh, I'm getting Fifty Shades of Grey flashbacks. Yeonhee tells Gaeun to keep quiet about the Fab Four's whereabouts, because she (Yeonhee) might have to become their slave  forever if the secret gets out. However, they both note that that might not be such a bad fate.

Cut to Chanyeol in his room, playing a guitar song for Baekhyun. When the song ends, Chanyeol complains that it's still not right. (Ooh, I can feel the angst.) Baekhyun asks if Chanyeol is OK, and in a rare burst of logic and sanity (especially for Baekhyun), tells him that the bad luck has nothing to do with the necklace. Yeah, Lay put a spell on him. He turned happy-go-lucky Chanyeol into depressed, "myeonbong" (Q-tip) Chanyeol. Baekhyun tells him that he needs to move on, because everything will work out.

On some neighborhood street, Yeonhee complains over the phone to her mom that Gwangsu does nothing all day, and she (Yeonhee) is "not Cinderella", and she'd rather get her own place than work so much. Yeonhee drops her phone, and as she bends to pick it up, a pair of shoes come into the shot. The shoes belong to the Hawt Guy in the earlier episode that she met looking like Harry Potter.

Yeonhee asks him if he's on leave from the military (wut? he's that old?), but he says he was discharged. He asks how she is, and, after a few seconds of silence, notes that she's the same, still unable to look at him in the eyes. Apparently, it's "uncomfortable" when she doesn't look at the person she's talking to. Well, excuse you, dude, it's EXTREMELY difficult for some people to look at other people in the eye. It's horrendously uncomfortable for me, but I have to do it because it's socially acceptable.

Yeonhee apologizes and starts tearing up, while Chanyeol suddenly appears and puts his arm around Hawt Guy's shoulders. This action is accompanied by a Dramatic Guitar Chord (the same one used during the Fab Four's entrance in the first episode) that lets us know that this is a Really Important Moment. All of the Fab Four surround Hawt Guy, wearing their masks (Chanyeol's only emphasizes his ears) and looking ready to beat him up for making Yeonhee cry, and the episode ends.

EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 5 Recap

Previously on EXO Next Door: Chanyeol is a pissy little brat because his favorite necklace broke, so he went to his grandpa's house to find the backup copy because the necklace will give him good luck again or something. Oh, and somewhere in S. Korea, there is a homicidal water bottle.

This episode opens in shaky-cam documentary style. The cameraperson runs up to an old lady who is standing in what looks like a subway tunnel or covered alley (what do I look like, an urban explorer?), fixing the roof of her cardboard house. She turns, and it's Old Yeonhee. Apparently, this documentary show is called "The Life of a Hermit", and Yeonhee is the star of today's episode. She's still using the name Yeonhee, and is thus still a massive idiot. 

She reveals that she's been living in the tunnel thingy "ever since [she] was wrongly accused." When the reporter asks what happened, she spouts out some vague crap about cockroaches and says that you have to be careful of three things in life: "binoculars, cockroaches, and universal stars."
Reporter wonders why you have to be careful of "universal stars", but Old Yeonhee screeches at him to get out, and shoves the camera and mic away violently. Some sappy music plays over faraway shots of Old Yeonhee, and the documentary's narrator wonders "when will her long and cold winter end? When will spring come to her?" 
[snerk] Sounds like the kind of sappy BS a teenage girl would come up with. Heh. Hey, I wonder what Old Chanyeol's up to. Probably died from an overdose.

Mama yells "Why aren't you eating?" and we cut to the present, where Yeonhee is sitting at the breakfast table, wrapped in a comforter with a thermometer in her mouth. So It Was All Just A (day)Dream then. 
Mama pulls the thermometer out and declares Yeonhee's fever to be gone. Yeonhee sneezes, and Mama says it's her own fault for leaving the window open. Mama tells Yeonhee to eat something so she can take her cold medicine. Ah yes, that famous Korean cold medicine that absolutely MUST be taken with food. You know, you'd think that with all their advances in other areas, they could formulate a cold medicine that doesn't need to be taken with food.

Mama offers to make Yeonhee porridge if she goes up to her room. Slightly worried, Gwangsu wonders if she's actually sick. Mama scoffs that Yeonhee's an idiot; it shouldn't be THAT hard to clean a house. (She's never cleaned up after teenagers, has she?) Oh, wait, Yeonhee's 23. Dang, I keep thinking she's 17 or something, what with her maturity level.

In House EXO, three of them are sitting at a table in a small room (the breakfast nook?) while D.O. reads something and paces. Chanyeol glares fiercely at Yeonhee's window, and angrily asks no one in particular why she isn't there yet. (Why does he expect her to be there every day?)
D.O. looks at the window and says quietly, "Maybe she got so scared she fell ill." [BAHAHAHAHAAAA] WOW, Kdrama girls are fragile.

Baekhyun: *walks up to D.O. and sassily snaps his finger in his [D.O.'s] 
face*
Baekhyun: *offers to help him with whatever's troubling his [D.O.'s] poor
little soul*
D.O.: It's nothing.
Baekhyun: *eats a strawberry*
Fangirls: *scream and faint*

They're totally wearing lipstick tho.

Sehun: Bull. You keep staring at that house like you want it to have your
babies (D.O. X House Yeonhee 4ever) 왜, 왜, 왜, 왜??
Chanyeol: Hey, I wasn't staring (he totally was)
Sehun: I've totally cracked the code, you guys! She's not here because 
Chanyeol yelled at her to get out!
Baekhyun: Oh, THAT's what you're worried about (yeah, it's not like Suho
hurt himself or something)?? Just call her and ask her why she's not 
coming (I <3 Baekhyun bc he has a brain)
Sehun: I have her number!
Other 3: Wut?
Sehun: Uh, well, I have her brother's number, actually.
Chanyeol: *blinks*
Chanyeolbot: ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE.

Inside Gwangsu's tent:
Gwangsu: *his back to Sehun, sitting cross-legged and talking like Miyagi* That girl is severely ill. " 'Tis critical."
Sehun: Why are you talking like an old guy and not looking at me? *paws cutely at Brother's shoulder*
Gwangsu: I don't talk face to face with friends I've met outside of school. Mind your manners.
Sehun: Wait, how old are you??
Gwangsu: Shut your face. Oh, and BTW, my sister thinks you have an ugly rear end. 
Sehun: Wut?
Gwangsu: She said you were "ugly ass", so if you're thinking "impure thoughts" about her, then stop.
Sehun: Wuuuut?? 
[lololol]

Inside Chanyeol's room:
D.O. and Sehun are sitting on Chanyeol's bed, Baekhyun is leaning against the headboard, and Chanyeol is leaning coolly what he thinks is coolly up against the doorframe. Sehun reports that Yeonhee has a bad cold, and he also appears concerned for the mental health of her brother. Chanyeol is like "so she has a cold huh?" (yeah, how DARE she get a cold! Chanyeol wasn't finished yelling at her yet!) Baekhyun points his bare foot dramatically at Chanyeol and accuses him of making Yeonhee sick. In response, Chanyeol kicks his house shoe at Baekhyun, loudly denying the allegation.

Cut to Yeonhee in her bed, cocooned in a pile of puffy blankets. She remembers D.O. touching her face (this flashback is accompanied by soft piano music and tinkly chimes and I'm laughing my head off), and then recalls Chanyeol jerking her arm (when he was in a bathrobe, remember?). The music is very nice, though; it sounds like it would fit well in a sci-fi movie that explores the nature of humanity or something (Mr. Nobody or Solaris maybe), or a touching moment in a Pixar film. The flashback of her and Chanyeol continues, and we learn that she is utterly ignorant of the fact that she and "Chan" were childhood friends.

Meanwhile, Chanyeol is in the kitchen, looking at something on an iPad. He mutters that there is "too much information." Guess he found a 19+ EXO fanfic site. Apparently, he is following the pattern of "jerk with a heart of gold" that is oh-so-popular in K-dramas and *attempting* to make Yeonhee honey tea for her cold. (I feel like I have to stress the fact that his character in this show is in direct odds with the REAL Chanyeol, or at least the Chanyeol I've seen on EXO Showtime and interviews.) Anyway, he burns himself with the hot water, and gives up in anger and embarrassment.

In the car [?] D.O. is flipping through a book, when he is suddenly sucked into the Flashback Wormhole as well--back to the porch scene with him and Yeonhee. This Extended Remastered Director's Cut of the iconic Porch Scene reveals that he was so worried about Yeonhee that he wanted to call an ambulance. D'awww. But seriously, I don't blame him--it looks like there's something seriously wrong with her face when she blushes.

Flashback Yeonhee stammers that she's "not sick, just embarrassed" and D.O.'s eyes are so pretty during this scene that I can't be bothered to mock it. Then Yeonhee starts boo-hooing that "[her] face hasn't been this red in three years" (WOW, it must be nice not being a pizza face like me). D.O. handles the "crying girl" situation remarkably well and they both profusely apologize to each other. Yeonhee pauses in her crying and "어떡해"-ing for a moment to blow her nose right on the picture of D.O. [!]. He only makes a slight, if adorably disgusted, face. Back in The Present, he asks the driver to make a quick stop.

Gwangsu interrupts Yeonhee's Dreams of Electric EXOs to deliver a cup of tea from "apron guy". D.O., being the sweetie that he is, got her honey tea for her cold and even gave her a cutesy Post-It note message (I swear, it's like K-dramas are required by law to always have cutesy Post-It note messages *cough* Flower Boy Next Door and Let's Eat *cough*).

In the next scene (which I assume is several hours later) Yeonhee gets up, stretches, and pronounces herself perfectly healthy due to a good day's rest. She decides to do some damage control with EXO, and goes to clean their house. As she's wiping off Chanyeol's desk, he enters and demands to know (rather rudely, I might add) why she's back. She goes to leave, but he grabs her arm, apologizes for his terrible behavior, and gives her the green light to keep working there. Yay.

He leaves but stays right outside the door. Yeonhee apologizes through the door, and explains that she "wanted to make things right before [she] quit." She explains why she did what she did, and is about to tell him her name, when he comes in and says "I know your name. You thought I didn't??" With that oh-so-shocking revelation, the episode comes to a close.

EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 4 Recap

Previously on EXO Next Door: D.O. had really nasty hair at some point. Chanyeol hates Yeonhee and Yeonhee hates roaches. Matilda is not who she seems.

As Chanyeol stares at D.O. and Yeonhee, he mentally flashes back to the previous year (2014), when "everything started to fall apart." Oh, so when Luhan and Kris left? Cut to a concert, where everything is going gloriously, and EXO is singing an awesome song. Sehun does the E-X-O hand symbols a few times, and there are quite a few shots of Lay. Interestingly, Chanyeol plays drums at one point.

After the concert, Chanyeol and two other guys (Suho and Chen) go into a dressing room to remove their makeup and congratulate each other. A silver treble clef necklace with a long chain (Chanyeol's) is sitting on the makeup counter. They swipe at their faces a few times, then they're apparently done. I...guess they want to keep their makeup on for the after party or whatever they do after concerts? Even for regular makeup, one wet wipe doesn't cut it. Oh well, maybe S. Koreans have magic wet wipes that do this.

Suho and Chen finish and tell the still-sitting Chanyeol to "come on." As he stands up, he knocks the necklace to the floor. And of course, because this necklace was so important to Chanyeol (as we will find out later), he just threw it on the makeup counter instead of putting it in a box or something. As he stands up, he knocks the necklace onto the floor. Not seeing the necklace on the counter, Chanyeol sits down again, and rolls backward in the chair to look for it. In the process, he rolls over the necklace, breaking it. The sound of the necklace breaking is accompanied by a dramatic chord so the viewers will be sure to know that this moment is Very Important. The necklace is smashed beyond repair. As Chanyeol picks up the pieces, shocked, someone off-camera tells him his grandpa kicked the bucket. So his grandpa died while he was having boatloads of fun at the concert? Ooh, dark. 

The flashback dissolves into a flashback within a flashback back to 17 years ago. So Chanyeol was what, 4? 5? Little Chanyeol and his grandpa sit in a room that's crowded with pictures and other old-fashioned, grandpa-ish things (record player, old radio, etc.), listening to music. Interestingly enough, Little Chanyeol slightly resembles Big Chanyeol, even down to the ears. The music ends, and Grandpa, who is in a wooden rocking chair (the same one Chanyeol touched a few episodes ago), asks Chanyeol why he looks so down. Probably the music. Maybe he didn't get that Ninja Turtle backpack he wanted. Grandpa asks if Chanyeol's girlfriend broke up with him.

Little Chanyeol expresses his worry that Grandpa will get old and die. Grandpa says he totes won't because he has a magic necklace that gives him immortality. He gives Chanyeol the treble clef necklace and says it will keep bad luck away. Kissing the pendant, Grandpa prophesies that Chanyeol will become a universal star. Chanyeol is worried he'll take Grandpa's magic away, but Grandpa says he has an extra necklace in a safe place.

Cut back to Chanyeol, holding the broken necklace. According to his dramatic VO, "From that day on, misfortunes kept finding [him]." Yep, one after the other. First, some joker put green dye in his shampoo, someone else replaced his shoes with ones a half size smaller, and someone ELSE drew a caricature of him with giant bat ears! *cough* D.O. *cough*

Oh, no, wait, actually EXO's new song gets leaked and Suho trips on a water bottle. No, really. Chanyeol and Suho are in their dance practice room (sadly, I don't know enough about EXO yet to know if this is their *actual* practice room, but it looks very similar to VIXX's and BTS's) practicing dancing (what else?). Chanyeol is all tuckered out and decides to call it a night, while Suho stays behind. As Chanyeol leaves, he knocks a water bottle to the floor. It rolls into the path of Suho's feet. Outside the room, Chanyeol hears Suho yell. Rushing in, Chanyeol finds Suho laying on the floor gripping his leg and dramatically gritting his teeth in faux-pain, while the water bottle lurks menacingly in the background.

I think Water Bottle and Robert from Rubber would get along.

Cut back to the present, where Chanyeol has teleported upstairs and is sitting melodramatically at his desk. Or maybe he sloooowly walked upstairs, flashing back to the concert, then to being 5, then to Water Bottle's nefarious scheme.

Sehun: Why is Chanyeol acting like a zombie?

Baekhyun: Eh, he's just flashing back. He does that a lot. 

Chanyeol's Dramatic VO: "That was it. Our plans went to hell." (This sounds more like something out of a noir film/book than a webdrama.) So apparently, Chanyeol came back to Grandpa's house to find the other necklace and get his mojo back. Oh, and he also wants a "new beginning." Hey, do you think they have those at Walmart? Remembering how Yeonhee trashed his room earlier, Chanyeol gets all pissy and blames her for ruining his peaceful vacation.

Yeonhee's phone, which is still on his desk, rings. In her room, Yeonhee paces back and forth with the home phone, obviously trying to locate her cellphone by calling it. Well, at least she's being proactive about trying to locate it. Chanyeol is rude and doesn't answer. Yeonhee panics and stretches her 2 brain cells to the limit trying to remember where she last had it. Mentally, she reviews her day at EXO's house, and finally recalls that she left it on Chanyeol's desk.

*cue shrieking Psycho violins* 

Meanwhile, Chanyeol is doing what any good teenage young adult male would do: go through her phone and snicker everything in it. He finds her selfies particularly amusing and mentions "she's a freak that blushes." Thanks, Captain Obvious. 
Gaeun texts to ask if she's done "being EXO's housemaid" and if she has "anything good to share."

Chanyeol: Respect people's privacy, beeyotch.

Gaeun: *picture of murderous bunny*

Gaeun: Friends are like farts; you can't get away from them.

Me: Okay...thanks for the lovely analogy. So does this mean that Baekhyun,

Sehun, and D.O. are like Chanyeol's farts? If so, he has some really

hot farts.

Chanyeol: *is either pissed off or slightly hungry*

Gaeun: *blushing bunny*

Gaeun: Hey, do you think EXO farts too? [BAHAHAHAHA]

Me: Yeah, probably after they eat kimchi...

Chanyeol: Tell the owner to come get her phone. NOW!!

Me: >:( You're such a wet blanket. Hello, prank-texting opportunity of a 

lifetime!

But in all seriousness, I'm glad that someone finally wondered about farts in a K-drama--people just don't wonder about others' bodily functions enough.

Yeonhee screams "NO!!" (not a dramatic Darth Vader no, just a whiny no that echoes a little). Cut to her and Gaeun sitting on her bed. She begs Gaeun to come with her to get the phone. Gaeun reviews Yeonhee's "perfect trifecta" of Crimes Against EXO:  "spitting, peeping, and ransacking." Due to Yeonhee's impressive rap sheet, Gaeun refuses to be seen with her (but I bet the actress was disappointed she didn't get to meet EXO).

Gaeun and Yeonhee hear a noise outside and rush to the window. The black van is pulling away from the house, so Yeonhee decides to get her phone while EXO is away. (I originally thought that this would be a plot hole, but then I remembered her mom gave her a key to the house.) Up in his room, Chanyeol is clicking away on a keyboard. Pulling off his headphones, he sighs, rubs his face in frustration, and leaves.

"I just CAN'T remember how Hot Cross Buns goes!"

Quietly, Yeonhee tiptoes up the stairs and slips into Chanyeol's room. He is nowhere to be seen. *facepalm* He's going to come out in a towel, isn't he? *heavy sigh* The phone isn't on the desk, but is laying on Chanyeol's bed. O_o Overjoyed, Yeonhee runs to pick it up, turning her back to the bathroom door in the process. Can you guess what happens next? Yup. The bathroom door opens. DUN DUN DUN. Chanyeol comes out, wearing polka dotted leggings...and nothing else. Just kidding. He's in a bathrobe (which kind of surprised me, months of previous dramas have always yielded towel scenes--like Moorim School).

Yeonhee whirls around just as Chanyeol walks out. She stammers that she has a legit reason for being there (getting her phone) but Chanyeol accuses her of sneaking in. Yeonhee slows signs of maybe having 3 brain cells instead of 2, and tries to leave, but Chanyeol grabs her arm and roughly jerks her back. I should make a compilation of all the arm grabbing/dragging/jerking scenes in k-dramas. I wonder how many of them would NOT be guy-on-girl. Ooh, I should also make a video of all the staring scenes in my favorite dramas. It would probably be around 10 minutes--JUST for the staring.

Chanyeol: Don't you know who I am?? (lol, wonder how many times

that's worked for him)

Yeonhee: *blush*

Yeonhee: *stare*

Chanyeol: *stare*

Both: *STAAAAAARE*

Episode: That's all folks! 

Okay, so far, Kai, Chen, and Suho have appeared in addition to the main four. I

eagerly await the appearance of the rest.

EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 3 Recap

Previously on EXO Next Door: Apparently, Baekhyun and Sehun are not above a little fanservice. Chanyeol has a Mysterious Secret. And Yeonhee's room is dirty. 

Night. Yeonhee is in bed, curled under her giant pink comforter. There is a Scary Silhouette at the window. (Her room is on the second floor, BTW). Yeonhee sits up, clutching a pink pillow to her chest. Scary music plays...ooh. Wanna guess who the Scary Silhouette is? I pick Chanyeol. The SS (no, not the Nazi organization) creeps up behind her. Yeonhee slowly turns around...AND IT'S CHANYEOL!! EEEEK!!! He says "Have fun sneaking a look?", a line which would be utterly hilarious in an another context (and is a little in this), and Yeonhee screams in mortal terror. 

Cut to Mama and Gwangsu watching her jerk and twist in her sleep. It's morning, and apparently Chanyeol's nighttime visit was All Just A Dream. Oh wow. I'm so shocked. They share a look that says "This chick is bonkers." Gwangsu says that "something intense happened to her last night." [snerk] Well, my mind went straight to the gutter.

Cut to EXO (well, part of EXO) eating breakfast. And OH MY WORD, their breakfast is awesome. They have salad and olives and nuts and peanut butter and potato chips and fruit and bread and cheese and celery sticks and bananas and oranges and bagels and bacon and cherry tomatoes and OH MY WORD they are going to be so fat. One of them (it doesn't show him talking and I don't know their voices well enough to tell who it is,) wonders where the wonderful spread came from. D.O. doesn't answer him (tsch, how dare you) and says not to leave any leftovers. Well, they ARE gonna be fat, then. 

Baekhyun wonders if "that girl" (Yeonhee) will "run around town telling everyone." Chanyeol, in the process of cream cheese-ing a bagel, looks up with an *extremely* guilty look on his face. Or maybe he just realized how fat the food is going to make him. D.O., being the levelheaded person that he is, notes that if Yeonhee *had* told anyone, the house would be surrounded by now. 
BH: Guys, did you see how red her face got? Wow, she must have really
enjoyed our little show.
CY: *glares fiercely*
Sehun: W-what? What if she watched us do other things, too?
Ooh la la. You have something to tell us, Sehun? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
BH: Pfft, no, of course she didn't.
D.O.: *grins*

Chanyeol says that Yeonhee wouldn't have the guts to "blab", not after spying on them the way she did. D.O. has a flash of psychic insight, and asks if Chanyeol knows Yeonhee. Chanyeol's like "Durr, no!1" but the other guys aren't buying it. Trying valiantly to change the subject, Chanyeol says that their manager sent someone to clean the house. And WOW, his voice is low. It's like a double-bass mated with a foghorn. Baekhyun is like "Oooh, really? How old is she?" [snerk] (he was about 23 when this was made)

Cut to Mama's real estate office, where Yeonhee is screeching in protest about having to clean EXO's house. I really, really wanna thump this chick in the forehead several times. Maybe give her a few Gibbs-style headslaps. 

Or this. (That's Leo slapping Hongbin.)



But I understand, she has to play the Reluctant Hero...and she's nowhere NEAR as irritating as Gae-In from Personal Taste. I swear, that chick had a lobotomy to remove all the independency, critical thinking, and taking-care-of-herself centers in her brain.

Yeonhee continues to complain, and she mentions having to do their laundry too. Eh...I'd probably draw the line at laundry too. Even EXO's. Yeonhee wonders why Mama would *dare* to make her only daughter be a maid! Oh, the horror! Maybe it's because you're 23, are single, have no job, and are a whiny little brat who sits on her butt all day and picks fights with her brother. Mama tells Yeonhee to shut up, because she'll get paid, and nearly lets it slip that there are world-famous superstars living there instead of regular old boring people.

Mama threatens to rent out Yeonhee's room unless she cleans EXO's place, and assures her that no one's there during the day. Yeah...right...sure... In addition to this, Mama explains to Yeonhee that she *absolutely* must not go into "the rightmost room on the second floor". Huh, wanna guess which room she'll immediately go into? And who the forbidden room belongs to? Yeonhee screams yet again that she will never, ever, for any reason, go back into EXO's house.

Cut to the camera slowly panning over...EXO cleaning products. Yup, that's right. EXO. Cleaning. Products. I mean, I've heard of Katy Perry horse shampoo and One Direction toilet scrubbers, but...seriously? Do EXO cleaning products actually exist? Yeonhee echoes the audience and wonders what on earth this stuff is. She and Gaeun are in her room, preparing for Yeonhee's dangerous venture into the bowels of House EXO. Gaeun states that they are "goods", and launches into an Ouran High School  Host Club-style explanation of what "goods" are. Basically, they're "merch."

Gaeun is utterly bewieldered by the fact that Yeonhee is hesitant to take advantage of the "sacred opportunity" of cleaning EXO's house and doing EXO's laundry. Yeonhee complains that they saw her spying on them (it's kind of your own fault, though, you simpleton), but Gaeun says Yeonhee can make it up to them by thoroughly cleaning their house.

Cut to Sehun sauntering out of the house, wearing sunglasses and an absolutely huge puffy black leather jacket. Cut to Gwangsu, walking down the street, carrying his hat tree. Western-style confrontation music plays (you know, the music they play in Westerns when two guys are about to get into a gunfight). Sehun does a cool side-moonwalk on his cute lil' chopstick legs. Gwangsu and Sehun see each other at the same moment.

Gwangsu slams the hat tree down and makes an angry "I'mma beat u up sucka" face. 
Sehun pulls down his sunglasses and gives Gwangsu a "U 4 real??" look. 
Gwangsu begins showing off his mad martial arts skillz on the hat tree.
Sehun approaches him carefully, like Gwangsu is a bomb about to go off, and asks if he can asks a question.
Gwangsu: WHAT?! *inwardly* Someone wants my help??
Sehun: *freaked* Where's a coffee shop? *taking on a haughty popstar air* I want drip coffee.
Gwangsu: Drip? Duuuh... *spazzes out, trying to figure out what on earth
drip coffee is*
Sehun: *sighs and tries to be patient with the idiot peasant* You know...you grind the beans and drip drip drip...
Gwangsu: NO I DON'T!! *begins furiously beating the hat tree again*
Sehun: What to do...

Gwangsu suddenly gets a brilliant idea, and leads Sehun to a tent in his (Gwangsu's, not Sehun's) backyard where he plans to make Sehun into stew and wear his skin. Gwangsu dumps some coffee beans onto a grindstone and starts grinding them. It's pretty cool. 
Like me, Sehun is entranced. 
After grinding the beans, Gwangsu puts them in a rag, runs water over them, and squeezes the coffee out of the rag into a bowl.
Sehun is entranced. 
Gwangsu gives the bowl of newly-made coffee to Sehun. 
Sehun drinks the coffee and is entranced (Though I don't really blame Sehun--the real Sehun--for having difficulty with this scene; coffee is not very exciting). Sehun grins, puts the bowl down, and says "I hope we can be good friends." He hugs Gwangsu, who seems very surprised at the sudden embrace. Awww.

Cut to Yeonhee, who is standing in EXO's livingroom, in awe of the splendor. She has a pretty yellow apron (the yellow is the only thing that's pretty about it, actually) with a black-and-white picture of D.O. on it. He looks like one of the Beatles, if the Beatles were Korean and had even worse haircuts. She tells herself to buck up--she'll make up for all her previous transgressions by cleaning EXO's house.



At the real estate office, Mama answers the phone and tells the unidentified caller that a housekeeper has been sent to EXO's house. She paints the housekeeper in oh-so-glowing terms and assures the caller that everything will be totes OK. Looking a little uneasy, she hangs up and tries to tell herself that Yeonhee will be an OK housekeeper. Flashback to the two ugly guys telling her that the tenants of the house are celebrities, so she should get an old lady that doesn't watch TV to be the housekeeper (That's funny, considering in one of the EXO Showtime episodes some old ladies recognized two of the members--Suho and Chen, I think--from watching them on TV). They won't tell her WHO the celebrities are, despite her obvious interest.

Back at EXO's house, Yeonhee is cleaning up random crap in the kitchen: a Papa John's pizza box (they have that in Korea?? YAY!), some Starbucks cups, and some other stuff that looks like take-out boxes. Again, they are going to get REALLY fat. Picking up one of the coffee cups, she squees, because she can "feel EXO's touch". Uhhhh...yeah. She moves throughout the house, pausing to sniff a shirt (Baekhyun's) and take a selfie wearing a hat (D.O.'s). Going upstairs, she stops in front of the FORBIDDEN ROOM. Fortunately, she resists the sweet temptation and goes outside to hang up their laundry [snerk]. As she hangs up their masks (which srsly look like bras), she recognizes them and realizes that the nightmarish stalkers from the previous night were EXO!



Still suspecting them of murdering a blonde chick named Matilda, Yeonhee demonstrates her Einstein-level intelligence by immediately going back inside and opening the door to the FORBIDDEN ROOM. (Yep, the door is unlocked.) To give her credit, she didn't *immediately* go into the FORBIDDEN ROOM like I thought she would. The room itself is pretty non-forbidding: it has a desk, a bunch of instruments (keyboards, cello, double bass, guitars) and a bunch of music recording equipment. Appropriately awed by the "professionalism" of the room, Yeonhee immediately starts touching stuff.

The guitar is labeled "Matilda", and Yeonhee quickly realizes that no blonde chick is dead and everything is totes OK.

No blonde chicks were harmed in the making of this series.

She wonders "Who names their guitar Matilda?" Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I mean, even among white people, "Matilda" isn't a very common name, and it certainly doesn't scream "guitar." 

A scuttling noise alerts Yeonhee to the presence of a CG roach in the room. She yells at it for daring to enter the sacred House EXO, grabs a folder off the desk, and sets off on a valiant quest to smash the roach. Okay, that's nice and all, but I think Chanyeol would be pretty mad to find roach guts on his folder. And it's not like the roach would pose a threat to his instruments and stuff anyway...

In her vehemence to kill the heinous pest, Yeonhee knocks over most of the instruments. Naturally, she doesn't notice. Catching sight of the roach on the right side of Chanyeol's bed (she's standing on the left), she makes a flying bellyflop on the bed in a final attempt to squash the roach. On a side note, there is a giant picture of Chanyeol hanging over the head of the bed. I find this a lot funnier than I should.

Just as Yeonhee lands on the bed, Chanyeol comes in to find his beloved instruments strewn all over the floor, and the girl who spat water all over him in a whimsical pose on his bed. He demands an explanation, which, of course, Yeonhee is too embarrassed to provide. Chanyeol yells at her to get out.

Downstairs in the living room, Sehun, Baekhyun, and D.O. note that the housekeeper must have been by. Their praise for the housekeeper's mad cleaning skillz is interrupted by Chanyeol's angry yell. Yeonhee comes rushing downstairs, rushes outside, and...crouches in front of their house, right outside the door, buries her head in her arms, and starts crying. Well, she *did* get out, but if I was her, I'd want to get as far away from them as possible before starting to cry.

D.O. comes out and puts a coat over her shoulders. Okay, that's nice, dude, but she's upset, not cold. He crouches beside her and offers her the hideous apron. He notes that it's a pretty bad picture of him (oh, it is, it is), but laughs, trying to lighten the situation. Sweetly, he asks if she and Chanyeol had a misunderstanding. Starting to blush, Yeonhee mutters that it was all an accident. D.O. stares at her for several seconds (I swear, for all the staring in the Twilight series, it has NOTHING on your average K-drama) before slowly reaching up to touch her cheek.

I don't blame him; I kind of want to touch her face too. I mean, there is something SERIOUSLY unnatural about it when she's blushing. At that moment, Chanyeol comes downstairs and sees them (the bottom of the stairs faces the door and the porch, right where Yeonhee and D.O. are). D.O. breaks out of his reverie, looks like his hand like he just smeared jelly on it, and quickly says that "[her] face was so red [he] couldn't  help [him]self." [lol] D.O. stares at Yeonhee, Yeonhee stares back, Chanyeol stares at both of them, and the episode ends.