Big Trouble

Big Trouble is a Season 4 episode

## Plot

After finding out that Dong-Chouel signed Ki up to an etiquette school, Ki decides to break bad to avoid going there.

## Summary

One day at Lunch, Mr. Chouel serves everyone Kimchi Pizza with Pepperoni on top (a new recipe). As the rest of the family (with Lee coming over for lunch) and except Ki-Chouel, enjoys the pizza, Ki gives the mushrooms to Lee, but Lee enjoys the mushrooms, as Ki sees cucumber on the pizza, he gives it to Lee, causing him to get allergies, and faint, As Lee goes home running, Ki plays yutnori all by himself, he finds out that the family is having dessert, Dong-Chouel says that they are having ice-cream without him, Ki gets very angry, that he threw a toy brick to Dong-Chouel, and causes a picture of Chang-Ho Chouel to break, causing Ms. Chouel by sending Ki to Dong-Chouel's room without dessert as a punishment.

At Lee's house, at sundown, Dong-Chouel tells Lee to sign Ki up to an etiquette school in Andong, weeks later, The Chouel family, with Swoople and Lee go to the mall to buy a Joseon styled uniform for Ki, Swoople sees Joey, who is with Cousin Eun and Hana-Chouel and tells him that Ki is going to school for the very first time, Joey hears the news, as The Chouel family leave

Back at the house, Ki is flummoxed by this sudden feeling and decides to take on a bad boy persona, Much to Swoople's shock, Ki goes and meets with Chul and offers that he join in his bad boy image; having never been peer pressured before. They choose to call themselves the Monarch Magpies. Ki and Chul, go around town trying to perform bad deeds, but only succeed in indirectly making people's lives better.

The next day, At 5:56 AM, as Ki sleeps, Dong-Chouel comes in to wake him up, saying that he needs to get up early to catch the bus, Ki shortly thereafter find himself on a bus due to depart for the Andong Manner School. Ms. Chouel explains to Ki that she along with his father had felt it was best to send them there for their own good and safety. The school's warden who is present for the departure reassures Ms. Chouel that Ki would "be in good hands". Meanwhile, on the bus, the Ki-Chouel see that Chul is present, having been sent there as well because he threw a tomato at some poor people. When the bus leaves, Dong-Chouel rejoices now that the burden of trying to send Ki to Andong. he runs off to enjoy the other aspects of his life with Lee and Myung-Hee, but soon later starts to miss him.

Ki arrives at the school, which he comments "does not look the way it did in the brochure". After he's checked in, Ki is adorned in a Korean confucian's outfit, and recites the haneulcheonttaji chant.

Dong-Chouel, still at home, expresses that he misses his little brother to Dae-Jung who in turn begins to sing about it. The song imparts a poignant feel upon Dong-Chouel, who tears up as the memories of the best times he'd had with Ki return to him. he tells Dae-Jung to stop with the song just as it's ending, and Dae-Jung reacts with irritation, telling Dong-Chouel, "You've just got everything you've ever wanted.", and leaves on the note of uttering, "call me when you get over it." Dong-Chouel, now left alone hopes that turning on the television would help get his mind off Ki, However, it does the exact opposite as he falls upon a story covered by the Newsman regarding the Andong School. It showcases the school's confucius methods of teaching and reveals its goal. The realization of how Ki is being treated hits Dong-Chouel hard, and he makes the decision to break him out. Lee, who entered the house through the large hole left by the collapse of the landing pad, decides to come along and help him.

As it starts snowing the same time, The Chouel-Mobile had been taken by Dong-Chouel, Swoople, Joey and Lee and is nearing the reform school. However, because of Joey's lack of knowledge of its controls, it crashes into a tree tip and careens into the ground, coming to rest at the edge of a cliff into a ravine. Although Dong-Chouel and Lee are only shaken, the car is damaged beyond working condition. They are forced to walk the rest of the way.

After several failed attempts to get into the school, the last one involving a group of giant wooden idols of the warden reminiscent to the Greek Trojan Horse, they find themselves in a dumpster full of sparrow. At first, the task of accessing the school seems hopeless, but when Dong-Chouel finds Ki's sparrow in the dumpster, he formulates a plan to enter the school by sending a message to the teacher with a magpie

They manage to deceive the teacher and he lets them in. However, when they get to Ki, their souls are already broken and Ki is unwilling to escape. As Ki apologizes for what happened, Dong-Chouel frees Ki from the room. However, The teacher returns with a raven. Swoople and Joey trip the teacher, causing him to fall on his raven, and have a fishbowl fall upon his head.

Back at Mapo, The Chouel family go out for Tteokbokki, the episode ends with Swoople winking at the viewers