Eulachacha Waikiki: American vs Korean Humor

Now that I got your attention with that racist? divisive? title, let me clarify that this post is meant to give ONE American’s POV on ONE comedy show. Under no circumstances, should you use, extrapolate, infer, assume or promote this post as either an indictment or commendation of a general population and/or an entertainment world.

I’ll pillow-punch/kimchee-slap you, if you do so.🤣😂

Scenes that caused me wrinkles or what scenes DID not work for this old hag.

1. Breastfeeding jokes.
From MY experience, breastfeeding in public isn’t indecent exposure. I didn’t want my leaky boob stared at any more than bystanders wanted to ogle at my leaky boob. I found a quiet space, covered my boob, put a “tent” around my baby and read a book/magazine while I breastfed. I refused to sit in the public restroom or run back to the car to breastfeed. My breasts aren’t sexualized objects for some stranger’s perversion. They’re MY mammary glands meant to nourish a new life. So tough titty!

2. The chase scene with the baby.
I didn’t find that funny at all. I know it’s slapstick but no mom would run like that lest she drop her infant or cause shaken-baby syndrome to her infant. I know that no actual baby was used in the filming of that scene, but still… I cringed the whole time I was watching it.

3. Scatological humor. 💩
Never found them entertaining. None of my brothers and sons indulged in them. I swear: I never heard my sons call each other poopy-head or butt-head and say poop jokes. Come to think of it, I don’t hear them too at my work place. I’m grossed out by the poopy-in-diaper jokes, the fart noises, and the diarrhea episode. When I watched those, I was mentally groaning and thinking, oh no! here we go again! Isn’t this deja-poo? errr…deja-vu?

4. Sexist jokes or the helpless woman act.
The mother is driving me nuts…but it’s still early in the show. How could she have abandoned her child like that, and how could she be so inept? Not funny at all.

5. Nose-picking.
Ewww. This is disgusting, not hilarious. I’m still summoning the courage up to proceed with the show after the boyfriend scene. Boogers, snot, and any other projectile coming out of the nostrils aren’t cute to watch if the person is over 3 years of age.

6. The body gags.
I don’t understand the appeal of the The Three Stooges. I don’t find it funny to watch three grown men fall, trip, and hit one another. So when Donggu had that unfortunate encounter with his ex and the new boyfriend in the park, I knew to expect slapstick and I simply fast-forward through the scene.

7. Vomit.
This is my trifecta of gross things I don’t want to see: poop, boogers, and puke. I remember Jo In Sung in 2D1N when he first tasted fish sauce. He had to throw up that vile thing, but he did it out of plain view. He looked cool then. 👍
My husband is pretty cool, too. In all our years together, I haven’t seen him poop, nose-pick and vomit. 😂

Scenes that I love.

1. All the baby scenes.
She was the reason I continued watching after 10 minutes of shallow comedy. The baby totally surprised me because I hadn’t read the reviews of this show before picking it up.

She’s the cutest thing ever. When they squeezed her fat cheeks, I felt this tremendous urge to reach into my laptop, grab her and bite those cheeks. They looked like wiggly Jello balls.

Will post gif later.

2. Goblin parody
It was unexpected.

Will post pic later.

3. The formula wordplay.
To be honest, I don’t know if Koreans call the baby formula, FORMULA, too. But I thought it was neat that the three men refused to give up the formula.

Formula: in both the literal meaning and the metaphorical one.

The baby milk is a formula. But the men were also in search of a “formula” in life or that equation which they must live by in order to succeed. According to them, they tried one formula already: painting the rooms, hanging up wallpapers, decorating the rooms in order to establish a guesthouse, but the “world isn’t helping them.” So what’s the solution to life, the formula to living well?

They wouldn’t give up finding the answer – or fighting for that formula. 😂

4. The irony of the great actor who doesn’t speak.
There’s no actor so great that he doesn’t need words to express himself. There’s no actor so great that he uses simple gestures to communicate.

That’s the irony of the skit. If he’s such a great actor that he doesn’t speak and he uses only hand signals, then he is NO great actor. Because he doesn’t ACT at all. 😂

It reminds me of the children’s story, The Emperor Without Clothes. Everybody’s praising and pretending to see the king’s fine clothes when he’s actually naked.

5. The tragedy of wearing Wolverine costume.
This skit really had me in stitches. It was ABSURD that he was required to leave on his make-up in order to save the production money.

But what was MORE absurd is the consequence of his Wolverine costume. Like riding the bus and scaring the other riders. 😂😂 And not being able to hold onto the bus straps because of his long nails. And having to eat dinner through a straw. And not getting his wallet back because the police couldn’t identify him under the make-up.

The TRAGIC consequences of wearing the absurd costume made the skit so freaking funny. And when Joongki met another mutant the following day on the bus AND realized that somebody was worse off than him, I thought Wow! This is high comedy indeed. It’s like Seinfeld. 😂👍

So there you go, my first impressions on this Eulachacha Waikiki. I don’t demand much from this comedy. I absolutely disliked the crude-ness. But I like out-of-context foolishness like Joonki’s misadventures in the acting world. I’m looking forward to more episodes when I get home. Thanks, dorotka and mslee for recommending this comedy!