Chichi, hahha

## Father, ha, ha

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**Father, ha, ha** or Chichi, hahha (父、はっは) in Japanese is the episode 003b of Atashin'chi and the sixth episode overall in the series. It aired together with Oh, come on! on May 3, 2002. A 1080p upscaled version of the episode was uploaded onto the official Atashin'chi Youtube Channel on January 11, 2023.

## **Synopsis**

Otou-san does various things that annoy or cause trouble for his family.

## **Plot**

The episode begins with Otou-san accidentally turning off the lights to the bathroom with Okaa-san inside after he was finished with his evening bath.

Afterwards, the family has dinner and after finishing his Rice, Otou-san does not say any words apart from spreading his arm forward with the bowl on his hand. Okaa-san sees this and refills his rice bowl for him. Few minutes later, he finishes his Miso soup. He spreads his arm forward, with the bowl in his hand and just waited but this time no one saw it or noticed it.

During Dinner, whilst still holding the Miso Bowl out, Okaa-san goes to the fridge to show something she bought, but then Otou-san stops spreading his arm out and just put the bowl on top of his glass beer bottle and continued reading the daily newspaper. Noticing this, Okaa-san puts the bowl on the table and gets angry, stating that the bowl will break if he does that.

After dinner, Otou-san's drinking tea but as he's pouring down the tea, the teapot goes empty. Just like last time, instead of saying anything about the fact that he wants more, Otou-san just spreads his arm out with the teapot on his hand. No one notices him doing that again. He puts the teapot on the edge of a sauce bottle when suddenly the teapot is slanting. Mikan calls out to Otou-san that the teapot is falling and Otou-san quickly grabs the teapot just in time before it hit the ground.

The scene fades to another day where Yuzuhiko and Otou-san are on a walk. During the walk, Otou-san tries to take a used tissue and tries to take a bike. After being stopped by Yuzuhiko from doing all these things, he then asks Yuzuhiko for a tissue as they walk past a parking lot. Yuzuhiko gives him the tissue and asks Otou-san why he needs one. Otou-san says to give him a few minutes and hides behind the last far car in the parking lot. Yuzuhiko wonders for a while as to what he's trying to do but once he realises what Otou-sans doing, he quickly grabs him and the scene cuts.

The scene cuts to Otou-san in the bath room, showering before going in the bath, Otou-san flips over Mikan's shampoos and conditioners. Later, when he's done with his bath, Mikan goes in the bath room and takes a shower but gets angry once she realises all her shampoos and conditioners have been flipped. As if causing bathroom trouble wasn't enough, Otou-san goes to the kitchen while Okaa-san is washing the dishes and takes a clean cup, pours water in it, drinks it, and leaves it where the clean dishes are. This annoys Okaa-san.

Lastly, Otou-san uses the toilet and after finishing, he turns off the toilet lights and then purposely turns off Mikan's lights while she's showering. This annoys Mikan and the episode ends with Father Ha Ha-ing while facing the viewer.

After the final Eye catch, a bonus TV only scene plays where Otou-san's looking at his belly.

## **Cast**

* Otou-san Tachibana
* Okaa-san Tachibana
* Yuzuhiko Tachibana
* Mikan Tachibana

## **Songs**

* Saraba (OP)
* Jyounetsu No Akai Bara (Fake ED & Insert Song)
* Kite Kite Atashinchi (ED)

## **Other Languages**

* South Korean (Tooniverse) Story 006: 아빠, 하하! (Abba, haha!)

## **Did you know?**

* Even though this isn't Otou-san's first appearance, it's the first time we ever hear him talk in the show.
* There was a fake ED in this episode where Okaa-san sings Jyounetsu no Akai Bara, but during the singing, Otou-san says she's being silly and Mikan tells the viewer that the real ED will play.
* The bonus after the ED for this episode was Otou-san stretching.

## **Quotes**

* *"Ha, ha."* - Otou-san Tachibana
* *"That was close!"* - Otou-san Tachibana
* *"Give me two, wait no, one minute."* - Otou-san Tachibana
* *"Who did that!?"* - Mikan Tachibana

## **Gallery**

"It won't break."Moments before disaster."Ah, Otou-san!""Close one."Otou-san going to pick up used tissues.Attempted Bike Theft.What could he be up to?What could he be doing with the tissue behind a car?OH CRAP! (no pun intended!)Eye catch 1Mikan's shampoo reasoningTransition sceneMischevious Otou-sanHa ha haEye catch 2Belly staring Otou-sanNew ED song!..maybe not?Sadly, no.\*Inhale\*\*exhale\*