Arashi no Shukudai-kun #038

Aired On: June 25th, 2007

Aaand today, I continue my Shukudai-kun project! It's a good time to continue, really, since I haven't been watching Arashi in awhile, and I need a dose of them in my life. Their shows are now mostly uploaded on Mega, which I can't use, so I haven't been stalking for new episodes as I used to. I can no longer watch live streaming, either - the links I used to use no longer work (;_;). That, plus the fact that majority of my friends are now off the fandom, meant that I didn't have much to keep me in it. I still miss watching their shows, though!

The guests this episode is the comedy duo Penalty, consisting of Hide and Wakky.  When they came out of the box, they noticed that the set was devoid of the usual sofas. Sho explained that because they were known for their physical strength, they thought they'd use the show to highlight that XD. (Does this mean Baka Undokai? Yaaay!!)

Penalty's homework for the audience: find and report on unusual stamina foods that make you strong. They explained that they wanted food to help beat summer fatigue. So Aiba introduced the first food item, which is a prime rib. It looked very juicy, but really I can't deal with so much meat. (I'm such a picky eater) The second item introduced is an unagi don served in "Italian fashion". It has lots of cheese, it seems, and I don't know... from my experiences eating at Sushi King, I don't think I like cheese on stuff like eel or fish (>_<). But they said it was yummy! Next, Aiba introduced the third food - ostrich egg. Which they drank raw. Umm... no. I just can't. I'm not into any of the food in this episode, I'm afraid. But then they introduced ochazuke - except that instead of using normal ocha, it's a different kind of tea - which apparently tasted pretty bad. Except when Ohno ate it, because Ohno could eat anything, lol.

After that... ahahaha. It was the "image" corner and one of the images sent in from the audience is that Penalty were stopped by children and asked to do gags, which was when they started showing some of their gags, including their new one, the "happy frog". YES - the introduction of the "happy frog"! :D The audience enjoyed it, so they asked one of Arashi to do the gag, picking on MatsuJun. It was priceless :D :D

The image section was followed with Baka Undokai (yay!), in which they did the depth binoculars game, which was on by Penalty, and the NTV Scavenger Hunt (one of my favourite games!) Only four of them are in the hunt:

Nino had to look for - two people in suits who will do Wakky's "Ghost's ambulance", which is one of the gags introduced earlier. He approached the first man he saw wearing a suit, but was quickly rejected. He then went into an office area, where he met someone he knew - who was in a suit. So he went to the guy (Sugamo-san) and asked him to do the gag.

Ohno had to look for - staff working with MatsuJun on Bambino! (the drama he was in at the time) who would share surprising sides of him. He set off for Bambino!'s staff room, but had difficulty looking for it. But he persevered and finally found it, instantly asking the staff for three surprising sides of MatsuJun. One of them told him that MatsuJun got really cranky in the mornings. Ohno just nodded and said, "oh, I know", haha.

Hide had to look for - NTV program character goods. (So easy! NTV shop...) He basically just ran around looking for them.

Wakky had to look for - three photos of NTV female announcers making weird faces. He went to the announcers' department and explained what he needed.

(Can I just take a moment to appreciate Shukudai-kun staff's awesome music taste? I mean, they had The Pipettes on their opening, and during the scavenger hunt they played Rancid's Time Bomb. Love!)

Hide-san was the first to arrive back at Shukudai-kun's studio, followed by Nino, and Wakky. Hide-san brought back a Conan plushie, and a cute Nittere-chin, the mascot for NTV. (I guess this was before Da Bear?) Then it was Nino's turn, and true enough, the two suited men he brought back with him (including Sugamo-san) did Wakky's Ghost ambulance gag. Next is Wakky-san's turn. Penalty would win the game if he got the three pictures - and he did! So Team Penalty wins the game!

It was only after all this that Ohno returned with his task of finding three surprising things about MatsuJun. (1) He's cranky in the morning; when he takes off his hat, he looks like a peacock. XDD (2) He hates losing; he had a race with a staff member to see who'd finish a Rubik's cube faster. (3) He remembers all the staff's names. Ohno then relayed Jun's new drama schedule to him from Bambino's assistant producer, which made everyone laugh.

Loved this ep <3

[vid credit: Taiji Project :)]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #037

Aired On: June 18th, 2007
 

Continuing my re-watch! At the gathering I was transferring some of my Mago Mago files to Fatin's pendrive, and I thought of how there are a lot of episodes I've yet to watch, which made me think, I should start on a Mago Mago watching project!, which reminded me that I have yet to continue my Shukudai-kun re-watch. ^^; So, continuing, after so long.

 

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #036

Aired On: 11th June, 2007

I just reminded myself that I haven't continued my Shukudai-kun re-watch, again. This episode's guests are the comedy duo Ungirl. Their food request was for delicious and unusual tsukemen. They said it's because they have it all the time, and they wanted to try other kinds. They got sidetracked, though, because they mentioned that they were from Hiroshima and Yamane ended up doing impressions of baseball players ^^;

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #035

Aired On: June 4th, 2007

OMG, I just realised that the last time I did my Shukudai-kun re-watch was in February last year. Since I still kept to my promise of not watching Shukudai-kun out of sequence until I'm done, this means that I haven't actually watched Shukudai-kun since then! (*_*) So I think it's about time I continue (^^;;

The guest for episode #35 is singer/actress Katase Nana. She came to promote her film Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai, which is about a couple who could communicate telepathically. Since it's a slow love story, the conversation started along that theme, but as usual, the subject soon turned into food - as her homework for the audience is to find delicious and unusual yam dishes.

Sho-kun wanted to know what slow love meant, and Aiba helped ^^;

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #034

Aired On: May 28th, 2007

The guest in this episode is Suzuki Anne - Ogura-san was really excited to find out that it's an actress. Since she had acted with both Nino and Jun before, Sho asked about her impressions of them. She said that Nino seemed like the type who doesn't think of anything, in the sense that he follows his intuition. Jun, on the other hand, seemed to emit a "hard" aura, like he wants to tell people to stay away. She added that at times he's also really nice, to which Sho commented, "he's the tsundere type, isn't he?" and she immediately agreed. 

 

I love when Jun laughs without reservations, like this ^^

 

 

 

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #033

Aired On: May 21st, 2007

The guest this time is TOKIO's Kokubun Taichi! To tell the truth, the first thing I thought when watching this again is, "wow, he looked so young...", haha. ^^;; I always love it when any of the JE senpais or kouhais appear on Arashi's shows, despite not really being a JE fan in general (I only really like Arashi). This is because their interactions with other Johnnys are always amusing to watch, I suppose.

Anyway, Kokubun Taichi's request for the audience is to find different kinds of salads from all over the world. I was so relieved with this request, really - vegetables should be safe, right. Right? Not that it's not interesting to see them eat weird food, but as an animal lover, some of the episodes were just painful to watch. (I'm still a bit traumatised from the sparrow.) These salads were introduced by women from the respective countries - the first being from Belarus, a salad made of beets. Next is a Bulgarian salad served with Sirene, a cheese that was marinated in saltwater. I'd like to try this someday! Then, Paumid salad from Costa Rica, made from the core of palm trees. I didn't even know that they could be eaten. I love Kokubun's reaction - "kore wa zenzen oishii desu ne!" I suppose the usage of zenzen+something positive wasn't so all over the place back then since it still jarred to Jun and was highlighted in the tv text. Although I seem to remember everyone speaking that way back then. I know this is completely off-topic, but this really brings back memories.

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #032

Aired On: May 14th, 2007

This episode begins with Arashi slamming the guest box against the stage. Then they revealed that the guests are comedy duo Drunk Dragon - Tsukaji Muga and Suzuki Taku. Because Tsukaji likes shrimp, they requested for delicious and rare shrimp dishes as their homework for the audience. Aiba did the introductions, and first presented a salt-grilled lobster, which is a whole spiny lobster marinated in salt and meringue. The next dish was sakura shrimp, to be eaten fresh. Uhm. Well. All I can say is, this segment really didn't make me think that I could suddenly like seafood. These shrimp are called "sakura shrimp" because they were caught during April-May, when the sakura are supposed to bloom. Next is a soft cream mixed with spiny lobster, which surprisingly was enjoyed by Drunk Dragon. Finally, Aiba introduces his own recipes, including shrimp hot dog and choco-shrimp. Needless to say, they were kind of weird. :p They didn't like the hot dog, but seemed to love the choco-shrimp. 

In the following segment, Tsukaji talked about things he didn't like about Suzuki, the first of which Tsukaji didn't like Suzuki's impromptu changes in their routines. When they talked about the audience's image of them, it was said that Suzuki had the image of someone who'd be extorted for money, so he revealed that he's strong. He then made a demonstration with Aiba pretending to be a thug. He did pretty well when Aiba went for him without without weapons, but when they tried a demonstration where Aiba used a weapon, Suzuki didn't manage to fight Aiba off. Ohno took over Aiba's place, and the same happened. So Suzuki declared that there's no way he could win if his opponent has a weapon. All in all, a pretty amusing episode!

[vid credit: Nyan-chan]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #010

Aired On: December 4th, 2006

The guest in this episode is Sugita Kaoru, who've worked with Arashi on 24hr TV before. Jun had cried during that time, and she said that her opinion of him became more favourable after that. Her homework to Arashi/the audience is to research on various foods that uses collagen (according to my sister it doesn't really work, but from what I've seen in variety shows Japanese women really love food with collagen?). Aiba became the presenter, while he and Sho went around testing food with three women. There was a really funny scene when Aiba smeared collagen sashimi over one of the women's faces, lol.

During the image section of the show, like in the previous couple of episodes, the conversation gets interesting. Sugita-san admitted to having a bad image, and said that she was called the King of Love Hotels when she was younger. This led to them talking about love hotels, and when Ohno seemed a little too interested, Nino joked that he (Ohno) was aiming to be the 2nd generation King of Love Hotels. ^^ Ogura-san asked Sugita-san to give advice to Arashi as a veteran and older woman, and she said that she hoped they don't get trapped by a bad woman. She even gave advice on romance, Sugita Kaoru Style - catch their attention with your eyes, attack when they're weak, and aim for people who seem like they've broken down. In order words, the timing has to be perfect? XP

 In the experiments corner (or, like Shi-chan says, the continuation of A no Arashi), Sho and Aiba try to find out if it would be faster to travel on ice by foot or by bicycle. They were supposed to complete one lap on a skating rink, with Sho walking on foot and Aiba riding a bicycle. Aiba kept falling down, so Sho won the race. Conclusion: please walk over ice instead of riding bicycles.

This is another one of those episodes that I can't play on my Mac, so there're no screen caps. :/

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #009

Aired On: November 27th, 2006

Maybe I was spoiled by the previous two episodes, but this ep didn't stand out as much. I'm not sure if this ep is the start of them not going on field trips for their investigation reports, or if it's just that they didn't do it in this episode, since the guest's (Yasu Megumi) request was for them to find out different ways to serve natto. Maybe it's the subject matter that made this less interesting than the last two episodes, since I really am not too keen on the idea of natto, haha. Anyway, even though it's not a memorable episode, it was still funny and good to watch.

I love the experiment at the end where Ohno makes those - uhm, I'm not sure what they're called, the subs said "interior decorating colliding balls" (one bad thing about me is that if an ep has subs, I stop listening and just read the words - even if I'm watching an English show. I read everything that can be read, but am a bad listener.) Anyway, back to the topic... Ohno makes those, er, "interior decorating colliding balls", and they experiment on how many balls they could add before it stops working. They reached up til a hundred balls when Ohno announced that he only made up to that much. Anyway, technically if made with the right kind of balls it could have an indefinite number of balls and still work, but Ohno's should work til up to 200 balls. I find these experiments a little on the bizarre side (who would think of researching the kind of stuff they did?) but a lot more fun than some of the interview/eating parts.

[video credit: Nyan-chan & techni-teddy ^_^]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #008

Aired On: November 20th, 2006

I swear, this particular episode had me LOL-ing like crazy. It just gets better and better. I can't take any screencaps for this ep, unfortunately, because I can't play it on my computer (but can play it on my DVD player, so I watched it there instead). The guest is actress Muroi Shigeru, and her homework for Arashi is for them to find out about underground places and shelters, etc. I've always found shelters interesting (okay, I find way too many things interesting so it doesn't really count) and the idea of underground temples/churches is just so cool - plus the temple talked about in this show is by Tadao Ando (♥!).

Usually I'm not really interested in the image part of Shukudai-kun, but the conversation following this particular episode's image submissions is just too precious. While talking about growing spurts during puberty, Nino claimed that there were times when he would suddenly feel pain when he was out with friends, and when they asked what was wrong, he'd say "I'm just growing." (>_<) And then everyone (especially Aiba) started asking Muroi-san about girl's puberty and asking questions like "do breasts grow together at the same time?" (what, instead of growing one by one?) and other silly stuff that had me rolling on the floor laughing. *wipes tears* I swear, this particular conversation reminds me of K because we've actually had this conversation before, which only made me laugh even more while watching this episode.

For the experiments corner, they try to find out if paper would be soaked in different speeds if dipped in different types of liquid. Conclusion: paper dipped in hot water gets soaked quicker than that soaked in normal water, soda water, milk, or oil. See, who says that television doesn't teach you anything? Haha.

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #007

Aired On: November 13th, 2006

Before I realise it, this show is becoming more and more entertaining. (^_^) The guest in this episode is actress Matsui Kazuyo, whose homework for Arashi is for them to find vegetables that are good for you. When asked what this meant exactly (aren't all vegetables supposed to be good for you?) she explained that she meant vegetables that are grown with love, and without the use of chemicals. The first two places Nino introduced, she already knew about, which was funny. She seems quite fussy when it comes to her vegetables, but judging from the reaction of Arashi when they tried "normal" vegetables and "good" vegetables, I guess there is a difference in taste? Well, I remember the first time I ate strawberries in Japan; I had the distinct impression that I was eating "real" strawberries and that the ones I had in Malaysia only looked like strawberries but didn't taste like them at all. Maybe it's something like that?

In the weird experiments corner, they divide into two teams (Arashi vs. Matsui Kazuyo + Ogura-san) and stacked different kinds of tofu on top of each other in order to see which kind could be stacked higher. Arashi were on the silk tofu team, while Matsui Kazuyo & Ogura-san were on the cotton tofu team. I think it's pretty obvious from the start that the cotton tofu would win? :p

[video credit: Nyan-chan & techni-teddy ^_^]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #006

Aired On: November 6th, 2006

Episode 6! Only 172 episodes to go, hahaha...

The guest in this ep is actress/singer Suzuki Sarina, whom I really loved in Kimi wa Petto. Of course, she had played Koyuki's rational best friend and I liked that, so I was surprised to find out that she has this image of being a little on the idiotic side. Since she's known for not being bad at maths, Arashi lets her show her intellectual side, and she impresses them with her English.

Instead of doing the food experiments, in this episode the binocular-glasses return - this time they roped Ogura-san along and they tried playing kickball wearing the glasses. Hilarity ensues, as usual XP

[video credit: Nyan-chan & Yuckie-chan ^_^]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #005

Aired On: October 30th, 2006

It's time for another episode of Shukudai-kun! By the way, even though I'm posting these episode re-watch entries in a row, actually I watched them during the weekend of my Raya holidays, but need to hold my posts until I'm back home and could take screencaps. :/

The guest is singer Wada Akiko. I seem to remember seeing her in a lot of variety shows when I was in Japan, although I don't know if it's really true or it's just the impression I get, since she's a memorable sort of person. Her homework for Arashi is for them to find different ways to serve blowfish, which Sho and Aiba investigates. I have to say that despite my dislike for seafood, I wouldn't mind trying any of the food introduced in this episode because they look like they taste good. All in all, this has been a fun episode to watch (^_^)

Liquid nitrogen makes its first appearance in Shukudai-kun in this ep XD

[video credit: Taiji Fansubs ^_^]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun #004

Aired On: October 23rd, 2006

The guest in this episode is Otoha, who had acted with Sho in Yoiko no Mikata and with Jun (kind of?) in Kimi wa Petto. I first saw her in Gokusen 2, and thought that she was annoyingly cute. Now I think she's just cute. I guess I have a soft spot for tennen characters. XD

This is the first episode where the guest's homework for Arashi is not to research on food. Instead, Jun and Ohno researched on unusual beauty salons. Jun tried a gold leaf massage - yeah, my first reaction was (0_o) - while Ohno went for a freezing gas therapy, to which I don't even know how to comment. :p It's cute how Jun asked Ohno "am I beautiful?" after his massage was done, and how he kept asking Ohno if it hurts. Juntoshi FTW! Haha... anyway, the therapy they brought back with them was completely different - "doctor fish therapy" where small fish pick off layers of old skin from people's feet. This therapy was actually very popular here a few years back. My brother went for it, and said it really tickles. :p But Otoha was scared of fish and couldn't put her feet in the tank! In the end it was Sho who demonstrated for her.

In the food experimentsLet's Torture Ogura-san section, Aiba invents various new types of jam, which, frankly speaking, are things I would never want on my bread - including natto-jam and kimchi-jam.

 [video credit: Taiji Fansubs ^_^]

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