EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 8 Recap

Previously:
Chanyeol is jealous of Hawt Guy. Sehun and Gwangsu form a bond over drip coffee. D.O. and Yeonhee stare at each other. Baekhyun spends all night talking to Xiumin about the dirty deets of Yeonhee, Chanyeol, and D.O.'s love triangle. Xiumin is bae.

This episode begins right back with Yeonhee and D.O. practicing lines. Yeonhee reads them like a robot, while D.O. puts great feeling into the words and stares at her intensely. D.O. apparently has a pretty good imagination ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o) because he's able to envision them onstage together, saying all the lines and being very dramatic. (Or maybe it's Yeonhee imagining it? I don't know.) Anyway, Yeonhee blushes and ruins the moment. She leaps up, saying she feels bad and has to leave. Amused, D.O. smiles cutely as he watches her run out of the room. Baekhyun wonders if she "got a little too into character" and he and D.O. share a knowing smirk.

In the livingroom, Yeonhee freaks that Baekhyun and D.O. saw her blush and know that she got too into character. C'mon, it's not like you jumped his bones or anything. Her phone rings, and she rushes to get it, thinking it's Hawt Guy. However, Chanyeol has beat her too it, and holds the phone out of her reach. Yeonhee tries to wrestle it down and out of his hands (OMO SHE GOT TO TOUCH CHANYEOL), but her efforts are all in vain. Chanyeol wonders if Hawt Guy is really Yeonhee's "first love" and stares at her oh-so-intently again. OH MY GOSH I KNOW WHY CHANYEOL IS JEALOUS OF HIM. It's because Chanyeol considers himself to be Yeonhee's first love, isn't it? Ugh, I'm not crazy in love with Real Chanyeol (Xiumin, Suho and Chen are bae) but I'm slightly jealous.

This is totally what I'm gonna think of if I ever read Fifty Shades of Grey again.

A short montage follows in which Chanyeol and D.O. pine after Yeonhee and wonder about her love life. It's overlaid by sappy guitar music. 

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We next cut to Yeonhee laying on the couch (in her house), stuffing her face, and watching another EXO reality show. Show Chanyeol grins and Yeonhee wonders what happened to him in the last year to make him stop smiling like that. Well, Luhan and Kris leaving might have affected him a little.

Chanyeol sends her an angry text telling her to get to work, NOW!. I guess Baekhyun clogged up the toilet. Cut to her cleaning up House EXO, with Chanyeol yelling at her to get and do various things for him, throwing in a "Hurry up!" once in a while. Afterwards, Yeonhee complains to Gaeun (yet again) in her bedroom. Gaeun is more interested to know if Hawt Guy called. Yeonhee says no, but Gaeun is not disappointed: she tells Yeonhee to play hard to get and believe that every guy in the world wants her.

Gauen pulls an EXO poster off the wall and dramatically says "Every single EXO member in this poster loves you." As an aside, that sounds pretty nice...oh no, the fanservice is getting to me. I feel like I'm cheating on VIXX...

Naturally, Yeonhee turns into a blushing mess. Gaeun is like "I feel ya girl. It's natural to blush about something like this. But pretend like it's nothing. Even though all these amazing hot guys are totally in love with you and want to date you." Yeonhee turns into even more of a blushing mess. Gwangsu pokes his head in as Yeonhee stares at the EXO poster and mutters something about love.

Later in The Tent, he tells Sehun that "Incheon Gal" (why did the translators Romanize it as "Incheon Gal" instead of "Incheon Ttal"??) is in love with one of them. Sehun wonders who it is. 
"Handsome D.O.?" (a shot of D.O. wearing a ton of eyeliner and looking super hot) 
"Charismatic Chanyeol?" (a shot of Chanyeol wearing a ton of eyeliner and looking super hot) 
"Baekhyun is popular with the ladies..." U DON'T SAY. (Seriously, though, when he was doing the "shabby" show with D.O. ...oh my word.) (a shot of Baekhyun wearing a ton of eyeliner and looking super hot) 
"Could it be...?" (a shot of Sehun wearing a ton of eyeliner and looking super hot)
Gwangsu: *gives him a look that says "bitch, please"*
Sehun: *laughs awkwardly* It's probably not me.
D'awww don't worry bby. You have a ton of fangirls out there, some of who would probably fight to the death over you.

Cult leader...

Uh, angel from an 80s acid dream...

Old lady?

Gwangsu: It's TOTALLY not you!
Sehun: You' don't have to say it like that...
Gwangsu: My sister has the worst taste in men! She'd never fall for a perfect guy like you!   (Awww!) (❁´◡`❁)
Sehun: *smirks* You're very perceptive. [lol]

Cut to Livingroom EXO, where Sehun has just spilled the juicy news to the rest of the Fab Four. 
Sehun: She's madly in love...
Chanyeol: Whoa, THAT'S a surprise.
Baekhyun: Dude, you're reading that upside down.
Chanyeol: *clears his throat and quickly adjusts the book*
Baekhyun: Who is it? C'mon, tell us.
Sehun: The member she really likes is...*pauses for effect*...not here.
Sehun: It's Kai!

...wut? I mean, Kai has his good points (like when he and Sehun partnered up to get Chanyeol a birthday present) but...that's kind of out of the blue.
Sehun: Cool, huh?
Baekhyun, along with the audience: I didn't see that coming...

Someone (who knows the code to the house) enters. Huh, I wonder who it could be...
It's Kai! Speak of the devil. And HOLY CRAP, he has an awful haircut.
Kai: Yo, what up, dudes? Miss me? 
(I can guarantee Chanyeol missed you.)

On a mostly related note, I'm halfway done with recapping this show!

EXO Next Door (우리 옆집에 EXO가 산다) Episode 7 Recap

Previously: Yeonhee is formally accepted as a member of House EXO's staff and Gwangsu was horribly misled by the Mama MV. 

This episode begins right where the other left off: the Fab Four are ready to beat Hawt Guy up. Chanyeol's like "DID U MAKE HER CRY BRO??"
Hawt Guy folds like a wet paper towel and stammers that he totally didn't.
Yeonhee stammer-confirms this; she was just so happy to see him she cried. Yeah. Right.
D.O.'s like "If you're done get outta here," and Hawt Guy says he'll call Yeonhee and runs off.

The next scene features Yeonhee in her pajamas on her bed dramatically recounting the incident to Gaeun over the phone. In House EXO, as the Fab Four play foosball, Sehun and Baekhyun wonder what sort of relationship Yeonhee and Hawt Guy have. Sehun wonders if Hawt Guy is stealing Yeonhee's money [LOLOLOL], but eventually decides they're too old for that [?]. As he says this, he stops playing entirely and folds his arms. Guess he really doesn't care about the score. Through the use of mad detective skillz (HG called Yeonhee buy her name, she cried with happiness over seeing him), Baekhyun eventually decides that Hawt Guy is her ex. Chanyeol gets angry and takes it out on the foosball table. 

Meanwhile, Gaeun is surprised to find out that Yeonhee met  "first love" that day. She
explains to Yeonhee that since she (Yeonhee) has EXO, international superstars, on her side, she will be more desirable to Hawt Guy (whose name is Cho Minhwan, btw). He will "want to mark his territory." [lol, like a dog?] She says that Minhwan will call Yeonhee within three days. She "bet[s] her pinky on it." So Yeonhee can cut it off if he doesn't. Cool. I like this new mob vibe.

Sehun and Gwangsu have a tryst in the tent. Apparently, Gwangsu lied about his age--he's actually a freshman in highschool, and Yeonhee revealed this to Sehun in the interview. Sehun was 21 when this show was made, so more than old enough to boss Gwangsu around. Sehun calls Gwangsu out on his BS, but Gwangsu sniffs that Sehun was a bit dishonest too; he "hid...[his] supernatural powers."

Gwangsu wonders why Sehun still wants to be friends with him. Dramatically taking Gwangsu's hands, Sehun explains that he "can't forget" the drip coffee. Gwangsu says he'll make Sehun coffee anytime he wants it, as long as Sehun doesn't use his powers on him. Sehun thinks to himself that he's "addicted" to Gwangsu's "endless wackiness." So, not the coffee then? Gwangsu refuses to shake Sehun's hand (cuz that's how guys make up, don't you know?), but does an E.T finger touch with him. Oh, right, because he thinks Sehun is an alien.



Meanwhile, Yeonhee is fixing the blankets on Chanyeol's bed while he watches her intently. [snerk] Aaaand my mind just went straight to the gutter. However, as this is a K-drama, there are no R-rated scenarios to be had; rather, Chanyeol insults her cleaning skillz. Of course, it's not because he hates her, oh no, it's because he's jelly of Hawt Guy.

In D.O.'s room (you can tell it's his by the giant dorky picture of him) he's practicing lines with Baekhyun. Like any good teenage boy 23-year-old man, Baekhyun doesn't want to read the girl part, so he makes Yeonhee (who has conveniently just entered) do it. Oooh, I see where this is going. ;) Baekhyun gets on the bed to watch. All he needs now is some popcorn. Smirking, he says, "I'd rather watch than participate," and throws up a peace sign. And my mind went to the gutter again. 

Yeonhee starts reading the script, which reads something like: "Guy comes over to girl, hugs her, and kisses basically every part of her face." Yeonhee starts reading the lines, and I kid you not, she sounds exactly how I do when I'm trying to read a long sentence in Korean out loud and I only know half the words--so basically like a robot. D.O., of course, reads his lines beautifully and romantically. However, I have to wonder--was this an actual part that D.O. had? I know he's been in a few shows, but it really doesn't seem like SM would let him do all that kissing--kissing in regular dramas almost never happens anyway. Disgusted with her lackluster acting, Baekhyun begins playing the part of director, ordering both of them around. As D.O. begins to repeat the saccharine romantic lines once again, Yeonhee forgets that he's reading from a script and they both stare intensely at each other. 

The episode doesn't end here, however; after a few still images from the episode, during which Baekhyun sings a song, we cut to Baekhyun in Livingroom EXO, dying to tell the other members about something. He decides that Xiumin will be the first to hear the glorious news (YAY XIUMIN WHERE HAVE U BEEN). Baekhyun explains to Xiumin (who is laying on a couch in a dark room) that both D.O. and Chanyeol seem to be longing after Yeonhee. Xiumin is confused and curious; based on Chanyeol's behavior, he thought that Chanyeol just wanted to make "her life miserable." Baekhyun agrees, then drops THE BOMB: He has "definite proof" that Chanyeol likes Yeonhee. Lemme guess, he didn't flay her alive when she arranged his shoes in the wrong order? 

Xiumin suddenly sits up, and WHOA, seeing him so animated is really odd. From the little I've seen of him on EXO Showtime, he seems extremely reserved, so this is like seeing Leo (VIXX) laughing really loud (Beautiful Liar filming) or screaming at a bug (Fantasy filming). Anyway, Xiumin is like, "Oh, FFS, you mean they're in a love triangle??" [lololol] 

Thank goodness the writers were willing to be a little meta. Baekhyun asks Xiumin if he can talk all night (aww, they want to gossip. How cute.) Xiumin is like "Heck yeah!" and so they spend the night over the phone, discussing the love triangle down to the last detail. THEN the episode ends. (For some reason, Baekhyun and Xiumin's phone call isn't on KissAsian; it is on Facebook, though.)