The May 3 episode of KBS2's "
My Too Perfect Sons" made viewers explode with laughter during scenes where Song Jin-pung (
Son Hyeon-joo) imagines being married to his first love Kim Hye-rim (
Choi Ji-na).
When Hye-rim came to Jin-pung's pharmacy with pancakes she made, he became jealous of her husband, Brutus Lee, and imagined himself being her husband.
In his imagination, Jin-pung acted exactly like Brutus, bathing their children and grilling beef for the family and having a good time with Hye-rim.
But soon coming back to reality, Jin-pung, with tears in his eyes, just had to watch Hye-rim turning her back on him as she returned home. This led him to imagine another sad situation that could have happened only in the 1970s.
Wrapping a necktie around his neck and leaving it drooping on the back, the way a scarf was popularly worn in the 1970s, Jin-pung asked Hye-rim, "I never imagined that you would live this miserable life. How did you end up marrying such an evil man?" Hye-rim answered, "I couldn't help it. I would be happy if I had been married to you. How miserable I am now".
Jin-pung asked her to elope with him, but she said, "I can't", weeping. When he embraced her, her husband, Brutus, appeared and became furious. Jin-pung knocked him down and ran away with Hye-rim on a motorcycle, saying, "To find a paradise of our own!"
Jin-pung, an old bachelor, gave full play to his imagination and couldn't feel happier. These scenes enabled all viewers, young or old, to enjoy the episode – older viewers were given a chance to reminisce about the time when they were young, and younger viewers liked the comic elements of the drama.
"
My Too Perfect Sons" garnered the most viewers with ratings of 22.9 percent among programs broadcast on the terrestrial networks for the same time slot -- 8:00 p.m. on weekend evenings. MBC's "Cheer Up on Love" ("
Good Job, Good Job") recorded 11.3 percent ratings and "SBS News" 8.6 percent.
