Gaus Electronics: Episodes 5-6
by quirkycase
Dynamics are a-shiftin’ this week as our short-tempered lead finds it harder and harder to stay on the hater train in the face of her sunny nemesis’s earnest charm. Meanwhile, our parachute hire enlists help to fit in with the commoners as he tries to adjust to the mixture of chaotic and mundane that is office life.
EPISODES 5-6 WEECAP
It’s rare for a drama to make me laugh out loud, but Gaus Electronics continues to give me laugh-out-loud moments each episode. This week we get more Ma-tan shenanigans (my favorite) and some flailing from Na-rae as she pretends to still hate Sang-shik who is growing on her despite her best efforts.
After Aziz’s spur of the moment lie, Sang-shik and Na-rae do an atrocious job of pretending to be a couple. Hae-young can only roll her eyes as they insist it’s true while looking like they’d rather be anywhere else than near each other.
Sang-shik and Na-rae bicker even more than usual, if that’s possible, after the dating lie. But then Na-rae starts to see Sang-shik in a new light and has an existential crisis. It all starts when she overhears Sang-shik talking to a couple of coworkers about liking someone he used to dislike but has a lot in common with. Na-rae assumes he must mean her and becomes hyperaware of Sang-shik.
Although she sighs as if Sang-shik liking her is some massive burden, she doesn’t seem truly that upset by the idea. The more she watches him, the more she convinces herself he’s totally fallen for her. By the time he takes the blame when she embarrassingly farts in front of the entire team, she looks at him like he’s her knight in shining armor.
Despite her insistence that Sang-shik liking her would be the worst, Na-rae is awfully upset to discover he was never talking about her at all. He was talking about his ongoing appreciation for Elon Musk. Pfft.
Na-rae, without giving any specifics about who the man is, shares the gist of the situation with coworkers Kang-mi and SONG HYUNG-MI (Go Woo-ri) who both call out her overreaction for what it really is: a crush. Na-rae is horrified to realize her subtle body cues point to them being right and does her best to avoid contact with Sang-shik, which is a little difficult given that they work together and are next-door neighbors.
After a work dinner, Na-rae drunkenly trips and breaks her shoe, leaving her no choice but to let Sang-shik piggyback her home. As he struggles under her weight, he apologizes for involving her in his mess with Hae-young. Right as he says how totally over her he is, he spots Hae-young up ahead… and immediately dumps Na-rae off his back. She hits the ground hard and ends up with both arms sprained in a cast. OMG.
Na-rae is reasonably angry, but even so, she can’t help feeling a little lovestruck whenever Sang-shik tries to take care of her. Since she says she doesn’t want him around, Sang-shik delegates Aziz as her caregiver for the next week until her casts are removed and she can pick things up and feed herself again. In the meantime, Aziz uses the skills he picked up from working part-time at a veterinary hospital to train help Na-rae.
Elsewhere, Ma-tan is still struggling to figure out how to blend with the commoners, and it’s not helping that his coworkers all give different advice. Kang-mi tells him to keep his head down and be deferential, while Sang-shik is adamant he should hold his head high and show everyone his value. Hyung-mi’s practical advice for smooth sailing at work is my favorite: record all your sunbaes for easy reporting to the Ministry of Labor. HA. Poor Ma-tan ends up looking more ridiculous than usual as he tries to follow his sunbaes’ conflicting advice simultaneously.
To add to his woes, Ma-tan continually gets stuck with the office grunt work since he’s awful at the basic Korean games used to designate the loser. He’s so bothered by his failure that he promises to cancel Kang-mi’s debt if she trains him (which she does military style). Ma-tan puts in a ridiculous amount of practice only to find he’s stuck doing everything anyway since he’s the maknae.
And then, there’s his secret that’s always on the verge of being revealed. This time, he’s almost outed by AI. Gaus obtains rival Power Group’s newest AI speaker that is programmed to do just about everything, including recognize the Power Group chairman’s voice. (Despite being obvious where this was going, it still cracked me up.) The second Ma-tan speaks, it cheerfully greets Chairman Baek to Ma-tan’s panic. Kang-mi dramatically smashes it to bits to protect Ma-tan’s super secret identity.
There’s this sort of sad side plot with SENIOR MANAGER WI (Heo Jung-do) who constantly plays video games and doesn’t seem to care about work. He ends up having to spend a day testing the AI speaker and gets way too attached to it. He treats it like a substitute for his wife who lives abroad with their kids. It’s supposed to be funny how he’s treating this AI like a girlfriend, but I just found it sad to see how lonely he is with his family so far away.
Amidst their usual chaos that somehow never seems to actually involve working, Marketing Team 3 is finally given a mission. They’re tasked with putting on an event for a product launch. It’s a relatively simple event, so of course, things go majorly awry. Thanks to a printing mix-up, the Gaus chairman’s face ends up on a balloon that was meant to have a picture of the product. The team watches in helpless horror as an arrow sinks the balloon, going right through the Chairman’s smiling face for all to see on their livestream.
After that rough day for the team, Sang-shik comes home to an angry Na-rae. She found out that he’s been paying Aziz to take care of her for the week. But Na-rae can’t hold onto her anger in the face of drunk Sang-shik’s sad puppy dog eyes as he apologizes for hurting her in the first place.
That’s when Na-rae makes a bold move and kisses Sang-shik. Oho! Sang-shik is surprised but noticeably not mad at it. Na-rae even goes in for a second kiss before she gets ahold of herself. We end as she pushes away from him in shock and lightly smacks him for kissing her back, I guess, stunning him for a second time.
I don’t know how she’s going to spin that one. If she’d just kissed him briefly once, maybe she’d have an out. But the girl went in for seconds and even slipped her cast off for leverage. Her only potential way out of admitting her feelings is if Sang-shik forgets or pretends to forget since he was a bit drunk.
Although Na-rae clearly likes Sang-shik, and there are signs he’s starting to like her too, I don’t think either of them are ready to admit it. I foresee some more (potentially fun) denial and bickering before they’re willing to cop to their feelings and decide what to do about them.
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Tags: Bae Hyun-sung, Gaus Electronics, Go Sung-hee, Kang Min-ah, Kwak Dong-yeon
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1 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️ Underpants buddies for life. 😎
October 17, 2022 at 10:29 AM
@quirkycase thanks for the weecap. The AI bit was the saddest part. When he covered the AI’s ‘ears’ when he was speaking to his wife so the AI wouldn’t be hurt but then watched as it treated everyone else as if they were it’s favourite too so he felt he wasn’t special any more. The best bit of the story was the AI arranging a get together for gamers and he arrives only to find out he is the odd one out and later when he goes online they chat about him because they assumed it wasn’t him who came to the event because he was unwell.
The fact Narae fell was her own fault for telling Sangshik not to touch her so he couldn’t walk upright so she could balance.
It will be interesting to see how they are going to play this relationship out.
Matan’s hiding in plain sight gets more ridiculous each week and yet is on point every time.🤣
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pliplipli
October 17, 2022 at 10:32 AM
the AI recognizing matan's voice made me laugh so much. I knew it was coming and it still got me.
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2 pliplipli
October 17, 2022 at 10:31 AM
my only expectation for this drama was watch dongyeon as a good leading guy again, but I'm pleasantly surprised that I also got nice chemistry between the leads that make me 100% on board with this ship. can't wait until he realizes his own feelings and starts to actively pursue her, with his no common sense at all.
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3 Melissa
October 17, 2022 at 11:13 AM
I picked this show up to partly to replace Little Women-but that's funny in and of itself, since they are so different!
But I love how silly this is. I completely agree with the weecapper Quirkycase--this show is making me laugh out loud multiple times.
The shooting down of the balloon with the chairman's face on it by the girl band member was so ridiculous it was funny, but to have the little girl mournfully say "they shot the grandpa" just was the comedy icing on the cake.
And then usually I don't find constantly bickering couples that funny, but the lead couple in this show in this show is just so perfectly matched--with the guy earnest, considerate, and somewhat simple, and the woman constantly sniping at him (because, even though he's lovable, he is somewhat irritating! ).
I just loved the kiss, where she slapped him twice, once for "using tongue" (Ha!) and then for quitting in the middle! Fortunately, he knew what to do at that point!
I too thought the AI more poignant than humorous, except for when it kept recognizing "the Chairman" and it was smashed like a bug, but this show is so fun that I'm willing to forgive some of its less funny moments.
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tabong
October 17, 2022 at 2:23 PM
"they shot the grandpa" was perfect 🤣
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Kroy
February 22, 2024 at 10:59 PM
And the team leader's reply '' No we're the ones who will get shot '' .
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4 emsel
October 17, 2022 at 11:15 AM
While reading this, I can't help but burst out in laughter on recollecting those scenes😂😂😂
That kiss was hawt!!, but I would like to see if Sang Shik too had feelings before the kiss.
I should credit the writer for using a stereotyped character such as Aziz to poke fun at the prejuidices. It is clever and hilarious. Also, the story about slogging for the compaby and being lonely were interwoven well.
The actor playing Ma Tan is killing it at comedy🤣🤣
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5 Kurama
October 17, 2022 at 11:41 AM
Ma-Tan is actually loving each minute he's spending with his chief, whether it be the food or the public bath :p
Aziz is so funny. I love how straightforward he's.
Poor Sang-shik... Women are so complicated :p
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6 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
October 17, 2022 at 1:32 PM
No but like the actual ending after the advertisement ending after the ending was even funnier, and puts her in even MORE of a pickle for next week 🤭🤭🤭:
*slap*
"What'd you do that for! You stared it!" (an excellent observation I also wanted answered so thank you show)
"Tongue is too much!" (lmfaooo)
"Oh ok; I won't do it then." (fsdafagsj)
*slap*
"What NOW?!"
"Quitting in the middle is even worse!" (me losing it in the background)
*round three*
asdfghjkl these two are such a mess.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️ Underpants buddies for life. 😎
October 17, 2022 at 1:53 PM
Those adverts…🤣 so glad I always watch previews or I would have missed them by avoiding the credits.
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
October 17, 2022 at 1:57 PM
Lol! same!
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tabong
October 17, 2022 at 2:20 PM
Probably the most hilarious kiss scene of the year 😂
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Midnight
October 18, 2022 at 5:20 AM
This comment from the beanies page sent me straight to IG and made me determined to watch this show!
You have no idea how much I laughed just reading your comment sic, and then laughed again watching the clip. Added to the watchlist.
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Midnight
October 18, 2022 at 5:22 AM
And know what was the funniest?? That it was QUITE clear exactly when he started using his tongue!🤣
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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
October 18, 2022 at 1:34 PM
LmAO right?!?
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7 tabong
October 17, 2022 at 2:18 PM
Just thinking about this show makes me smile. 😊
Highlights of the week:
—The selfie.
—Na Rae legs going crazy at the bar because they couldn't stop facing Sang Shik.
—The boss playing hide and seek with the AI (that mini story with the AI was hilarious and depressing at the same time. I felt so bad when he got home after the meeting with the other gamers -I knew it was going to be just a bunch of kids but it still hurt. I wanted him to find friends, maybe others sad dads? Idk).
—Kang Mi training Ma Tan (these two are so good together).
—Aziz, always, everywhere. That guy is iconic. LOL
—Na Gae, I mean Na Rae (badum tss).
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Melissa
October 17, 2022 at 4:12 PM
I agree with you and emsel. I think this is the only show I've ever watched--and I mean EVER--where just LISTING the scenes makes me start laughing as I think about them. I saw that this show is getting really low ratings so it makes me think I'm crazy or something, but that's why its such a relief to read these comments and know that other people are laughing at it too. As my grandma used to say, it just tickles my funny bone!
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8 OldLawyer
October 17, 2022 at 7:11 PM
My wife and I laughed at lot at these two episodes. The AI story was quite poignant- and did such a wonderful job of showing us the loneliness of Senior Manager Wi and the sacrifice he is making for his family.
Matan being sent in circles as he struggles to fit in was comedic gold. His coming romance may have gotten no-where but I thought that his confusion at the conflicting advice served to underscore why he might actually need a girl like Kang-mi as a life partner. Kang-mi silencing the AI to protect him- with one truly mighty blow- might just be a clue to our otherwise clueless Chaebol Heir that he should look at her differently.
But romance was certainly not neglected in these episodes- Na-rae going in for seconds was the perfect finish for episode six. She has now finally admitted her feelings for Sang-shik- and Sang-shik will need to respond. Na-rae's subconscious has quite correctly identified him as the man she really needs. Our Hapless Hero may not look like the ideal catch but as these characters are written he clearly is for her- and she for him.
Comedy often challenges us by reversing a standard trope: Has anyone else noticed that in Na-rae is the arrogant, obnoxous, demanding, perfectionist boss (who is usually a man) while Sang-shik is the innocent, naive, but cheerful and purehearted underling (usually a woman)? This is how comedy helps us to see our stereotypes for what they are- without being obnoxious about it.
Of course, we are now in for a denial arc with our two leads, but that, if handled well, should be a lot of fun.
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Melissa
October 17, 2022 at 8:53 PM
This is such a smart comment about the central romance. I hadn't thought of it this way at all, laughing at the jokes as I was. I am so looking forward to seeing what happens next--I hope it will be as funny and enjoyable as the previous episodes.
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9 MikeyD signed up
October 18, 2022 at 8:39 AM
This series is whizzing by VERY fast for me. Those six episodes just flew by compared to the four episodes I've watched of Law Cafe.
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