#005 2009-03-06 Circus Paparazzi as guests.

Episode Highlights by Ciaranne:

LOLLIPOP PAPARAZZI INTERROGATES CIRCUS PAPARAZZI
In the prelude to this episode, Lollipop dressed up in blue jumpsuits to become 'Lollipop Paparazzi', a mock impersonation of the zany personalities in Circus Paparazzi. In order to assimilate Circus' DIY approach, where one member of Circus would often be responsible for filming the celebrity interviews (and hence, hardly ever gets the chance of being on TV), Lollipop jokingly appointed XiaoJie as the servant of the group and cued him to hold the camcorder. WangZi also featured as a delinquent, constantly chewing gum in a vulgar fashion.

Lollipop ventured to invade circus backstage, probing them with touchy questions regarding who they thought was the best director in the group, as well as who was the least popular and the most placid in the group.

Furthermore, Lollipop insinuated that Circus secretly wanted to be an idol group like Lollipop with they justification that Xiaoma particularly likes to dress up and pose around.

Significantly, Circus jokingly complained that despite being the first group signed onto Channel [V], they often felt that AndyGe gives MoFanBangBangTang and WoAiHeiSeHui preferential treatment!

In addition, Circus also criticised eason for not being tall enough and causing their group to fail in becoming the next 183 Club in height.

Empathising with the injustice wrought upon Eason, A-Wei pulled Eason along with him, implying that they would just ignore everyone else and depart together to record the rest of the episode in the studio.

MFBBT'S NEW OPENING SEQUENCE... 'GO!'
The studio segment of this episode exhibited, for the first time, MoFanBangBangTang's new opening sequence. For this particular episode, short bursts of choreography was entertwined with a ten second stand-up joke from a randomly selected didi. After being chosen, LiQuan told a cold pun, where he asked the audience, 'What gets easily lost in the mountains?' (In Chinese, the phrase for getting lost is 'mi lu'.) The answer was the Pere David's deer. This species of deer is called 'mi lu' in Chinese and hence is a pun with the phrase for getting lost, 'mi lu'.

AHJIE'S CONNECTION WITH DUODUO
In their initial conversation, the didis had a laugh about AhJie's name resembling DuoDuo's real name, 'He Jie'. Additionally, it was pointed out that AhJie was in fact sitting in the same spot where DuoDuo used to sit. FanFan expressed that the advantage of this uncanny connection to DuoDuo is that Fan Mama would definitely be rooting for Ah Jie at home.

CIRCUS PAPARAZZI IS A SELF-PRODUCED CREATION
After introducing Circus into the studio, FanFan made a surprising comment that Circus aren't gossipy characters behind the scenes but they were just able to don the correct personalities for their Paparazzi show very well . It was also revealed that Circus Paparazzi had wanted to construct the show themselves, so they are actually in charge of everything from film editing to directing.

CIRCUS' MOTHERS ARE FANS OF THE SHOW
WeiYu asked Circus whether they got into trouble with their mothers for doing such a controversial (and seemingly junky) show. However, Circus expressed that their mothers have gradually become their fans and have even advised Circus to go further and turn it into a celebrity dating show!

MOST UNCO-OPERATIVE CELEBRITY INTERVIEWED BY CIRCUS
Furthermore, AoQuan wondered which celebrity they had found to be the most unco-operative. Circus picked Chen Shan Yu, who had specifically refused to sing along with their signature jingle, complaining that it was a very 'low class' activity.

LOLLIPOP VS. FAHRENHEIT!
Now that Circus had followed both Lollipop and Fahrenheit for their show, XiaoJie was curious about Circus' opinion of both groups and whether they found one group to be better than the other. Circus jokingly replied that Fahrenheit was more fun, which caused AoQuan to threateningly chase them away.

FANFAN VS. CIRCUS!
Next, a private vote was cast among the didis to whether they found FanFan or Circus to be a better interviewer. Naturally, all the didis voted for FanFan, but WeiYu was falsely accused by the other didis for voting for Circus, in order to provoke FanFan to yell at him.

The next part of the episode featured a game where Circus firstly had to answer four questions while cooped up in a glass tank with a giant inflating balloon that could pop any second.

QUIZ TIME FOR CIRCUS
Under the immense stress of a looming balloon explosion, Circus couldn't think straight and kept repeating or responding to questions like 'Who in MFBBT has completed army training' with random answers, such as 'DaYa!' (Is she even in BangBangTang?!), AndyGe and LiQuan (he has only just turned 18, man!)

The other questions involved guessing dates, like WangZi's birthday (April 14), the weight of a dumb-bell (415 grams FYI) and the total number of American presidents (44 FYI) that have been elected in history. In the end, everyone discovered that it had been Leo who had been answering all the questions correctly. Thus, they encouraged him to strand his group members and see how they would perform without his help. Fortunately, the balloon did not pop for Circus.

QUIZ TIME FOR THE DIDIS
Following Circus, the names of the four didis: Aben, XiaoJie, MaoDi and Huya, were respectivelydrawn out of a box to play this game. However, they made the rules tougher this time, with the first didi who answers two questions correctly to be allowed out of the tank and for it to be compulsory that they would have to keep taking turns to individually answer the question until someone gets it correct.

Assuming that the didis wouldn't know very much about new sanjun member AhJie, The first question posed to them was: 'What is AhJie's star sign?' However, MaoDi answered correctly that it was Capricorn after being giving the clue that AhJie had the same starsign as Jay Chou.

The next question was to guess the price of an Oris Watch (which was valued at the obsure price of $26 400) and gradually XiaoJie estimated the price correctly.

XiaoJie was finally released from the tank when he answered a second question correctly, which was 'In which state does the Mississippi river begin?', as he followed the NBA and knew that the Minnesota Timberwolves was a prominent team.

Next, MaoDi also answered another question correctly, guessing that Eason's birthday was on December 20. However, as he was not the first person to get two questions correct, MaoDi was not allowed out of the tank.

ABEN'S RECURRING INJURIES
The balloon finally popped when the three boys had trouble guessing a particular female celebrity who was between 30 and 40 years of age. Aben got a trememdous shock, as the balloon burst right behind his head, and caused him to reel over and bump into the glass. Moreover, HuYa also teared up in fright.

Therefore, the episode concluded with the amusing realisation, on FanFan's part, that it had been yet another MFBBT activity that Aben had been injured in, for him to add to his tally!

Review by Choco-late:
To me this is probably the first real episode of MFBBT (in studio) as they have the opening dance which I find it funny and they have a new thing where they pick one didi to say a joke.

The start where Lollipop imitated Circus Paparazzi was hilarious, it really shows how good their relationship are. The talk between them was interesting and they just tease each other. I still think the didis are not used to recording as they seem pretty quiet while Fanfan did all the talking.

I hope the next episode the didis will talk more.

Ratings: 4/5 stars
1 = poor, 2 = alright, 3 = average, 4 = good, 5 = very good

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