The Meltdown

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The Meltdown is a Season 3 episode

## Characters

* Dong-Chouel
* Lee
* Joey
* Ki-Chouel
* Hana-Chouel
* Jimmy
* Ms. Chouel
* Sid-Jeon
* Big-Al
* Pammy
* Young-Chouel (does not speak)
* Swoople (does not speak)

## Plot

Dong-Chouel and Lee challenge Joey to what may be the biggest and toughest snowball fight they've ever had. Meanwhile, Ki creates a snowperson, and with the help of Hana-Chouel, helps it fulfill its own bucket list

## Summary

Snow has fallen across Mapo in a surprise snowfall overnight, and following a newscast from Deon de Newsman, Dong-Chouel and Lee are shown having snowball fights with each other. When they are about to play for the fourteenth time, Lee suggests they play as a team; all they need is someone they can compete against. Their only option is Joey, who refuses to play with them because as he is faraway from Dong-Chouel's neighborhood, he cannot fight against him once.

To get around Joey's rule, Dong-Chouel and Lee secretly plan to make Joey miserable so he's against Lee, and when the snowball fight is over, hire him back. The plan goes off to a good start, with Lee making Joey miserable and Dong-Chouel promising he give them a good game, and get a ten second head start. The boys leave, unaware of Joey wanting to take the snowball fight way too seriously now that Lee made him miserable.

Meanwhile, Ki and Hana have built a snowperson whom Ki names Pee-Wee, and with the snow melting later that night, he only has one day to live. However, his bucket list is excessively short, consisting of only being built and melting, as time moves so fast for a snowperson. Hana is against this and decides to fill up the list and make Pee-Wee's only day to live the best ever.

Dong-Chouel and Lee finish preparing their snowballs and prepare for Joey's arrival, but Dong-Chouel gets an abrupt surprise hit and destroys all the ammo, just before they get pelted. They find out Joey has arrived rather threateningly, using Pammy pretending to be him as bait, and chases them. During this, Ki with Joey temporarliy joining take Pee-Wee out back to fulfill Hana's version of her bucket list, first by getting Jimmy to proclaim his love to him, then break up, before taking him to other places as well, all within a rather short matter of time.

Escaping into the city, Dong-Chouel and Lee are safe for only a few moments before Joey rounds on them again with a "Snowzooka". Dong-Chouel and Lee try to stop him, but he has started to see them as wild animals which he must squish flat, and they regret setting him up for this. Ki suddenly shows up out of nowhere as a butterfly, derailing Joey's attack, and he promptly dismisses them and hits something else. As they leave, Ki notices Pee-Wee's beginning to melt, while Dong-Chouel and Lee decide the only way to stop Joey's rampage is to win the fight.

Ki and Hana reach the Bozana Canteen where Ki struggles to finish a pizza party with Margaret, before Hana starts to give her a bull ride. During this, Ki begins to suspect something and tries to let Hana know, but she keeps ignoring him. When he finally does get attention, they talk over chocolate milk and Hana reveals why she was doing this: Margaret made her think of ki and all the time she missed him when in Australia, and with him getting older, she worries it will all pass by. Ki reassures her what's important in life is spending time with each other, and even though Pee-Wee is only living for one day, they have a whole lifetime to share. Pee-Wee apologizes for him rushed bucket list, as they leave, Sid-Jeon questions Ki who is the small snowman he's holding, Ki tells Sid that it's his snowman, Pee-Wee

Joey returns to Mapo where he heat-detects what appeared to be Dong-Chouel and Lee, but is really Pammy and Big-Al as bait; the boys then emerge, having removed all their winter gear and hid under the snow to lower their temperature so Joey couldn't find them. They finish off by dumping a bucketload of snow on him and seemingly appear to have won, but Joey escapes and traps Dong-Chouel in a snowball and prepares to attack Lee with it. Having had enough, Lee declares that he wants the game to be over and urges Jimmy to willingly finish him off; this causes Joey to come to his senses and realize what he had done. Until a big pile of snow hits them, Back at the house, Ms. Chouel prepares Hot Chocolate for Dong-Chouel, Lee, Joey, Young-Chouel and Swoople, Dong-Chouel apologizes to Joey for the snowball war and make it a great memory, Dong-Chouel questions at the viewers that where Ki is, it's revealed that Ki is at Eun's house, placing Pee-Wee's remains in the freezer to keep with them forever.

## Trivia

* This is one of the few episodes of Season 3 where Swoople plays a minor role