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Love Shuffle: Uso da to itte yo, Joe!
May. 21st, 2011 01:37 pmFour people living in the same apartment building decide to play a game called 'Love Shuffle', where they switch romantic partners for a week at a time. In their quest to find love, they end up finding friendship, dreams, and what they really want in life...
The tagline for this entry means "Say it ain't so, Joe!", and it's one of the many catch phrases and inside jokes running through the whole series. The inside jokes and running gags are one of the things I loved about this show, the way it used little incidents and connected them to the show and the characters as a whole. For example, in one episode one of the characters spends about a thousand dollars (literally) trying to win another character a stuffed panda from a crane game. Not only does this panda become a metaphor that is greater than an actual stuffed panda, it begins a running gag, not just among the three who were in the arcade, but among the whole Luv-Sha group, where characters will randomly say 'Yay, Panda!', which will usually be followed up by everyone else firing off as many panda puns ('what do you cook food in?' 'Fry pan da!'). In that way the experience shared by three characters becomes a bond and an shared experience between all six. I feel like the show does such a good job in showing how by virtue of this strange social experiment they put themselves in, these six people, most of whom start off as virtual strangers, come, through shared experiences and time spent together, to not only become friends and/or fall in love, but to really mean something to on another, and to care about each other in a very real way.
This was such a great. So. It made me laugh, get tears in my eyes, warmed my heart, and once, when the link to the video wouldn't work, yell out "Uso da to itte yo, Joe!"
The tagline for this entry means "Say it ain't so, Joe!", and it's one of the many catch phrases and inside jokes running through the whole series. The inside jokes and running gags are one of the things I loved about this show, the way it used little incidents and connected them to the show and the characters as a whole. For example, in one episode one of the characters spends about a thousand dollars (literally) trying to win another character a stuffed panda from a crane game. Not only does this panda become a metaphor that is greater than an actual stuffed panda, it begins a running gag, not just among the three who were in the arcade, but among the whole Luv-Sha group, where characters will randomly say 'Yay, Panda!', which will usually be followed up by everyone else firing off as many panda puns ('what do you cook food in?' 'Fry pan da!'). In that way the experience shared by three characters becomes a bond and an shared experience between all six. I feel like the show does such a good job in showing how by virtue of this strange social experiment they put themselves in, these six people, most of whom start off as virtual strangers, come, through shared experiences and time spent together, to not only become friends and/or fall in love, but to really mean something to on another, and to care about each other in a very real way.
This was such a great. So. It made me laugh, get tears in my eyes, warmed my heart, and once, when the link to the video wouldn't work, yell out "Uso da to itte yo, Joe!"
