I have to hug the scriptwriters of Poem a Day. I had a great time with their quips, parodies, and inside jokes these last couple of episodes.
1. Camel eyes. Who knew that looking like a camel is considered a compliment in Dubai?
Chief Doctor: She’s not the type that MEN from Dubai like but she looks like camels in Dubai.
MinHo. Pardon? Camels?
Chief Doctor: Yeah, he said Doctor Woo’s eyes are filled with purity and innocence just like those of a three-month old camel.
Gee, thanks but no thanks. I don’t want to look like a camel.
Kidding aside, camel eyes look beautiful because they have three eyelids. But I can’t imagine Korean starlets and celebrities making a choice to have a cosmetic surgery NOT for mono-eyelids, NOT for double-eyelids but TRIPLE-eyelids???
2. The grades. I snickered when the Dr. Yang teased MinHo whether his class average was a measurement of eyesight or school grades.
Yes, MinHo was correct. Dr. Ye violated privacy and confidentiality rules when he disclosed MinHo’s grades to the public with the intent to ridicule.
Dr. Ye was being a jackass… but we know how it goes for fangirls, “When you do it, it’s romance. When I do it, it’s adultery.”
But to me, the interesting thing here is that both the Chief Doctor and MinHo are on the same wavelength about Dr. Ye.
In Episode 7, when MinHo heard that Dr. Ye told BoYoung that she was an attractive person in anyone’s eyes, he , “I thought Doctor Ye was only good at dishing out advice, but he’s good at dishing out compliments, too.”
In Episode 8, after MinHo told him that he couldn’t disclose his grades, Dr. Ye interrupted him and said, “Why not? Are you upset because I said something you didn’t want to be revealed?” Doctor Yang who was listening in said, “Geez, I thought you were only good with advice, but you’re good with insults, too.”
It’s sad that despite his great skill and intelligence and skill, Dr Ye is not a leader who inspire loyalty and can bring people together to work for a mutual goal. He lacks the emotional intelligence to be an empathic and compassionate leader. And he lets his ego get in the way.
In contrast, Dr. Yang had the welfare of his staff in mind when he gave his parting advice to Dr. Ye. He said, “If I really get fired and you become the chief of our office, please don’t get rid of any of our staff and guide them along the way.”
I think Dr. Ye looked SURPRISED when he heard that. lol. He probably thought that his “advices” were his way of guiding the staff. Hell no.
His advices are like the “nutritious” school lunches ordered free to public school kids here in the U.S. Sure, these healthy meals are good but if kids dislike the taste of “nutritious” food and opt to go hungry instead then what good did the nutritious meal do?
3. Parodies.
Teasing MinHo all day was actually a much better punishment than Dr. Ye’s petty revenge for MinHo drunk-blabbering of BoYoung’s secret.
And the brilliant thing about this joke is that while he was being tormented by his friends with his line, “Don’t like Ye Jae Wook” he would have been MORE tormented HAD HE KNOWN what BoYoung had been fantasizing about all day long. Three times, she was caught in the act of eating a cotton candy substitute: cotton, feather duster, and paper towel.
While his friends were parodying his dramatic “Don’t like Ye Jae Wook,” BoYoung was herself a parody of a besotted girl who “does like Ye Jae Wook.” I thought again that the writer and director were being witty.
