#011 2009-03-16 Comedy Boxing King PK + Horror in HOUSE Quiz

Episode Highlights by Ciaranne:
To kick off MoFanBangBangTang’s first Boxing tournament with a physically intense start, XiaoJie was tasked to do twenty Jolin Tsai-style pirouettes in thirty seconds, without letting his raised foot touch the ground. XiaoJie managed well with eleven pirouettes, but as a result of failing this challenge, he was forced by the didis to smell LiQuan’s trainers.

This is the first episode of Season III where RongJia resumes her role of assistant host for the show again. In addition, YeShou also makes his first appearance in the new season, after having fully recovered from acute pneumonia (a mild lung infection).

For the Boxing PK, the didis were divided into two teams: the read team led by RongJia and the blue team led by FanFan.

A balloon was strapped to each side of a didi’s helmet and the aim was to knock them off the opponent’s head. Although only one didi from each team was allowed to compete in the arena at a time, didis from the same team were called up in couples. Therefore, didis can only be eliminated in couples, once all four balloons between the couple have been knocked off their helmets.

The first couple to be called by from RongJia’s red team was XiaoLu and WangZi, and first up from the FanFan’s blue team were XiaoMa and MaoDi.

As team leaders, FanFan and RongJia initiated the traditional taunting of the opposition. FanFan teased RongJia for having her ‘weak, chicken’ younger brother in her team and a disobedient fringe, which still tends to part at her former hairline. In response, RongJia taunted MaoDi for being weak, XiaoMa for having a ‘little, pale face’ and FanFan for having a distorted face.

ROUND 1: WANGZI VS. MAODI
After having been the underdog in his past 18 years of sibling rivalry with WangZi, MaoDi promised to give his elder brother a good thrashing. However, WangZi was not shaken by MaoDi’s bold call and instead claimed that he was ready to go.

WangZi swiftly knocked one balloon off MaoDi. Thus, the blue team temporarily interchanged MaoDi with XiaoMa to go against WangZi.

WANGZI VS. XIAOMA
RongJia encouraged WangZi to use his Taekwondo skills to prove himself as in no way a ‘weak chicken’ against the tougher XiaoMa. However, XiaoMa managed to take out one of WangZi’s balloons. XiaoMa almost succeeded in popping WangZi’s second balloon, but WangZi defended well and ended up knocking off one of XiaoMa’s balloons.

Although WangZi initially wanted to stay on, FanFan mockingly called him Big Man Chiu (Chiu being his surname) and questioned if he could really keep playing. As a result, both teams decided to interchange members, so that WangZi and XiaoMa both received a break.

ROUND 2: XIAOLU VS. MAODI
MaoDi managed to knock both XiaoLu’s balloons off with relative ease.

ROUND 3: WANGZI VS. MAODI
MaoDi finally triumphed over his brother by knocking WangZi’s remaining balloon from his helmet. Therefore, WangZi and XiaoLu were eliminated from the competition, whilst MaoDi and XiaoMa continued to battle it out.

The second couple from RongJia’s red team was LiQuan and A-Wei. A-Wei taunted the blue team for having unintelligent members and claimed that LiQuan and himself were universal conquerors. However, FanFan pointed out that A-Wei’s claim was inaccurate because LiQuan has the reputation of being a dumb little boy. In defence, LiQuan taunted MaoDi for being a dumb loser, who looks like the celebrity Zhang Ming Jing.

ROUND 4: XIAOMA VS. A-WEI
A-Wei seemed to have more fun thrashing about in the jumpy castle rather than seriously fighting. As a result, he ended up assisting XiaoMa in knocking off both his balloons.

ROUND 5: XIAOMA VS. LIQUAN
LiQuan was able to directly whack one of XiaoMa’s balloons so that it popped. In fear, XiaoMa crawled out of the arena.

MAODI VS. LIQUAN
MaoDi spun into LiQuan and knocked off one of his balloons, and then popped his remaining one as well. Consequently, A-Wei and LiQuan were eliminated, whilst XiaoMa and MaoDi remained victorious.

RongJia made WeiLian go crazy by promising to take him out to dinner if he wins. Thus, WeiLian screamed that he would murder the blue team!

RongJia also promised YeShou some lunch if he won, and he also yelled that he would murder XiaoMa and MaoDi!

ROUND 6: XIAOMA VS. WEILIAN
True to his word, WeiLian started to hilariously bash XiaoMa up, with a mad fervour, so that the referee had to blow the whistle several times! WeiLian ended up popping one of XiaoMa’s balloons.

FanFan asked MaoDi whether he was afraid of being eaten alive by the crazy WeiLian. In response, MaoDi bet that he would be finished in three seconds and expressed a need to have some tea first.

WeiLian also decided to interchange with YeShou, as he jokingly claimed that he was finding it difficult to tame his wild emotions and could end up slaughtering someone if he does not get a chance to cool down.

ROUND 7: MAODI VS. YESHOU
MaoDi and YeShou started out lovingly, hugging each other and deciding to attack the referee instead! However, they soon started tackling each other and both lost a balloon each. YeShou ended up swiping MaoDi’s remaining balloon off his helmet.

Whilst exiting the arena, MaoDi jokingly commented that he had been violated with 60kg punches!

ROUND 8: YESHOU VS. XIAOMA
YeShou won quickly in this battle, as XiaoMa’s balloons seemed to easily fall off from his helmet. Consequently, WeiLian and YeShou became the new victors.

FanFan then replaced XiaoMa and MaoDi with HuYa and AhJie.

In effect, WeiLian also had the golden opportunity to bring up his burning desire to punch AhJie (for his annoying habits) ever since the beginning of Season III. AhJie replied by accusing that WeiLian had banned him from talking nonsense but in a moment, he was going to stop WeiLian from talking altogether.

ROUND 9: WEILIAN VS. AHJIE
WeiLian and AhJie used the technique of throwing themselves against the walls of the jumpy castle in order to knock the balloons off the opponent. WeiLian ended up sitting on AhJie and popping his remaining balloon.

However, WeiLian was not able to stop AhJie from crying out that he had lost both his ‘ears’ (being the balloons).

ROUND 10: WEILIAN VS. HUYA
HuYa popped his own first balloon by falling over and then his second by somersaulting into WeiLian’s giant boxing glove!

Therefore, HuYa and AhJie were eliminated and replaced with XiaoJie and WeiYu.
However, FanFan wasn’t particularly confident, as XiaoJie and WeiYu are much skinnier than WeiLian and YeShou.

XiaoJie warned WeiLian and YeShou not to be too complacent just because they were able to eat more rice than himself and WeiYu, because he was going to bash them until they became rice buckets! YeShou made a threat that turned out to be more like a cold joke, telling XiaoJie that he would have to face his fists first.

ROUND 11: YESHOU VS. WEIYU
WeiYu hilariously showed off his fists in front of the camera after being able to pop both of YeShou’s balloons in merely a few seconds.

ROUND 12: WEIYU VS. WEILIAN
However, WeiYu celebrated too soon as he could not win against an uncontrollably crazy WeiLian. WeiLian continued to tackle WeiYu even after both his balloons had been popped!

ROUND 13: WEILIAN VS. XIAOJIE
FanFan promised XiaoJie that if he won, she would treat him to free rent for a month! As this could also benefit the other members of Lollipop, they kept directing WeiLian to just lie down and take XiaoJie’s punches! Despite WangZi’s reminder that WeiLian did also live in FanFan’s apartment after all, WeiLian did not want to give up his ultimate goal of having dinner with RongJia and so he ended up winning against XiaoJie!

At this point, RongJia also decided to bribe WeiLian further to motivate him to win. She accepted WeiLian’s request of a dinner date on the top floor of Taipei 101 and additionally offered to pay for it!

After the elimination of XiaoJie and WeiYu from the blue team, AoQuan and Aben stepped up to compete. As they are the two oldest members of MFBBT, AoQuan stated that the red team should watch out for the power of aged fists!

From the background, LiQuan teased Aben with a rhyme, claiming that his feet will be weak after a few punches and then his back will snap after some more punches.

ROUND 14: YESHOU VS. ABEN
YeShou was able to pop both of Aben’s balloons with one swipe of his giant boxing glove.

ROUND 15: WEILIAN VS. AOQUAN
After a long, crazy struggle, WeiLian triumphed over AoQuan and consequently, WeiLian and YeShou became the champion couple. Thus, FanFan discovered that the power of love was too strong!

However, as everyone wanted to see who the true Boxing King was, WeiLian and YeShou had to fight each other.

FINAL MATCH: WEILIAN VS. YESHOU
A-Wei expressed that it would be very awkward for WeiLian if he didn’t get to have dinner with RongJia now. On the other hand, XiaoLu begged YeShou to rescue his sister from the torment of having dinner with WeiLian!

Unfortunately for RongJia, the power of love was really too strong, and WeiLian was inducted as the first MoFanBangBangTang Boxing King!

The next segment of the episode was called, Horror in HOUSE, as it made the didis face their claustrophobic fears by cooping them up inside a small tank, four at a time, with a giant balloon that could pop any minute.

The didis who were to go inside the tank were determined by FanFan drawing names randomly out of a box. As A-Wei admitted to be severely claustrophobic, the didis kept on chanting for his name to be called out! However, A-Wei was lucky this time.

The first group of four comprised of WangZi, LiQuan, Aben and AoQuan.

Immediately after his name was called out, WangZi hilariously squatted inside the tank without getting his safety glasses and muffler first. Therefore, FanFan asked what WangZi was in such a hurry for.


Horror in HOUSE Quiz One

QUESTION 1: What is Heiren's zodiac sign?
Aben had some trouble hearing but in the end, incorrectly answered, 'Dragon'.

To his teammates' horror, LiQuan took quite some time to calculate the years but then still incorrectly answered, 'Dog'.

AoQuan incorrectly guessed, 'Pig'.

WangZi correctly guessed, 'Snake' the first time around! A Snake himself, WangZi explained that he expected HeiRen to be one cycle (twelve years) older than him.

QUESTION 2: Name the area in Taipei that has the postal code 108?
LiQuan apparently farted in the tank during this question, which affected most of his team members in not being able to think straight! Furthermore, LiQuan started to guess nonsense areas, such as the 'AoQuan Suburb' and then also gave his next turn a pass.

Finally, WangZi guessed the correct answer. As the first person with two questions correct, WangZi was permitted to leave the tank. Therefore, he quickly headed for the tank's exit, whilst his teammates banged against the glass in agony ang begged him not to strand them!

QUESTION 3: Counting from the first episode of Season I MoFanBangBangTang, what episode number would the first episode of Season III be?
Initially, Aben guessed that the episode should be a round number but he soon found that this was not right.

AoQuan was first to get very close to the correct answer, estimating it to be Episode 650 as MFBBT has been airing for almost three years.

Meanwhile, LiQuan kept repeating his answers and not going with the flow of guessing in the 660's. Significantly, when AoQuan and Aben were guessing between 662 and 666, LiQuan randomly called out, '675!', causing much laughter amongst the didis.

At last, after guessing back and forwards with Aben, AoQuan correctly called out, '664'.

LiQuan expressed that he was unable to guess at the present moment because he desperately needed to go to the toilet!

QUESTION 4: Guess the celebrity who is Taiwanese, female, has long hair and is between 20-30 years of age.
LiQuan kept guessing female celebrities with short hair and then exasperately asked FanFan, 'Well, who is it?' when she laughed at his wild guessed.

Unfortunately, the balloon popped before they were able to guess correctly.

Next, another four didis were chosen to play an advanced version of the Horror in HOUSE quiz.

For this game, didis had to wear helmets with pins on the top and give their answers by assembling together placards. Hence, there would be a lot of moving about inside the tank, which would add the additional risk of the didis popping the inflating, giant balloon with the pins on their helmets.

A-Wei was aghast with dread when FanFan finally pulled his name out of the box! Along with A-Wei, XiaoMa, WeiLian and MaoDi were picked to participate in this terrifying game.

XiaoJie and WeiYu were responsible for distributing the placards into the tank and they purposely made the placards hit the balloon before falling to the floor of the tank. Therefore, MaoDi started distressingly screeching, 'Are you guys feeding animals or something?!'

QUESTION 1: How many numbers altogether one on a single lotto ticket?
MaoDi had trouble finding the number placards inside the tank, so he just held up the number 1.

XiaoMa incorrectly answered, '9', which caused A-Wei to jokingly turn his own number 9 placard upside down so it read as a '6'. However both these answers were incorrect.

WeiLian confidently gave the correct answer of 8 numbers on a single lotto ticket.

QUESTION 2: How do you spell God in English?
Only WeiLian seemed to be able to find a placard with the letter G on it. However, he could not find the other letters.

XiaoMa was capable of thinking quickly under pressure, substituting a '9' for the letter 'G' instead.

A-Wei copied XiaoMa with the number 9 for a 'G', and then hilariously folded the letter R to make a 'D'.

MaoDi gave up on finding letters of the alphabet, as he could only gather a 'P' and an 'X'. Therefore, MaoDi just held up the 'X'.

In the end, XiaoMa, A-Wei and WeiLian all passed.

QUESTION 3: What does 4+8+6+7+9 equal?
XiaoMa was about to present the correct answer of '34' when he accidentally burst the balloon with his pin!

A-Wei was so shocked that he had tears streaming down his face, and MaoDi inhaled a lot of the air from inside the balloon.

XiaoMa described the experience as horrifying, and WeiLian added that he had trouble thinking in the tank. For example, WeiLian could clearly spell GOD but it took him a while to get his head around and search for the letters in the tank. In addition, he revealed that MaoDi couldn't even think of how GOD was spelt inside the tank and so he just gave up!

Overall this was a crazy, high energy and funny episode, with participation from pretty much every didi.

Review by Choco-late:
This episode was really funny and seem like the show ended really fast. But this episode also moved really fast as they probably need to spare more time on the games. I find them look really cute with the two balloons on their head. Wei Lian and Yea Shou was crazily fighting just because Rong Jia said she'll treat Yea Shou lunch and have dinner with Wei Lian. I was laughing mad at how Wei Lian reacted.

Next game was played before in the Circus episode. Wang Zi was lucky that he answered both of the questions and was let free. Li Quan was really funny, always saying how he wants to go to the toilet and if he would calm down and think he would've got one question correct. Part 2 of this game was so fun, I can totally see how scared the didis were. Xiao Ma was smart to use the 9 as G when spelling "God". Mao Di was just mucking around inside, he's not even motivated to find the answer.

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

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