Otto The Betrayal

Otto The Betrayal is the 26th episode of Happy Family Season 2

## Plot

When Otto sees Seoung Cho wearing bunny pajamas, he promises he won't tell anybody - but when the Hoon Twins guess, Seoung refuses to forgive Otto

## Summary

In a rainy day, Otto, Jeung Choi and Kang-Il walk home from school and the Office and talk about Jeung Choi's bully Seoung Cho. Otto remarks on how he's been assigned to take Seoung Cho his Journal, because Seoung left it at Jeung Choi's desk. When Otto arrives at Seoung's house, he discovered that Seoung wears bunny pajamas. Otto finds it funny that a boy of Seoung's age wears such a thing - risking social humiliation from peers at school. Seoung makes Otto promise that he won't tell anybody.

The next day Jeung Choi is chuckling to himself, thinking about Seoung wearing the bunny pajamas. (he learned that from Otto) When the Hoon twins ask what's funny, Jeung Choi makes the mistake of saying "it was just something Seoung was wearing." When Song-Hoon correctly guesses, Jeung Choi's cheeks turn red, and within ten minutes the whole school knows Seoung's humiliating secret.

Seoung is convinced that Jeung Choi told all the kids of his secret, and refuses to forgive him. Jeung Choi witnesses Seoung being made fun of by the kids all day at school, so he thinks of how he could make it up to Seoung. Jeung Choi tells Otto to go to Seoung's House, He buys him chocolates and even offers to do his chores for a whole week. However, Seoung still refuses to forgive Otto. Otto becomes angry and tells Seoung that he thought they had a deal. Seoung tells Otto that he never intended to forgive Otto after doing all of his chores. Frustrated, Otto demands that Seoung tells him what he has to do to prove he is sorry, and Seoung gets an idea. He takes Otto to his closet and shows him that he must humiliate himself in front of his neighborhood.

Back at Jeung Choi's neighborhood, Seoung has assembled a crowd of people to stand outside Jeung Choi's house. There is a long, red carpet stretched down the steps of his house, going all the way across the street. Seoung is sitting in a lifeguard chair at the end of it smiling smugly, with a sign that reads "Grovel Here."

Kim Choi is looking forward to seeing Otto being humiliated, and says she'll be "taking pictures for the album" and laughs at him.

However, Seoung finds out it was really the Hoon Kids who blabbed his secret whilst overhearing them talking about him taking things too far with Otto's punishment. Moreover that that they merely figured it out on their own and Otto didn't actually spill the beans.

Realizing that he's about humiliate someone who doesn't deserve it, Seoung tries to stop Otto, but it's too late - Otto's door creaks open, and there is a close up shot of bunny slippers slowly walking onto the carpet. It is Otto in the bunny pajamas, not noticing that Seoung was trying to stop the dilemma. The scene is shot in slow motion of Otto walking past dozens of citizens, pointing and laughing at him and taking pictures. A young boy throws Kimchi and makes the tail on the seat of the pajamas dirty and laughs as Otto becomes increasingly humiliated. Even a news reporter broadcasts Otto's humiliation on TV.

Otto looks around and takes a long glance at everyone pointing, laughing, taking pictures and enjoying the humiliation before slowly walking back toward the house, in which Seoung yells out to him. Otto turns to look at him then walks away.

Later, a very upset Otto finds Seoung on his front stairs begging for forgiveness for his humiliating punishment, trying to tell Otto he regrets doing it, and not knowing that it was really the Hoon twins who found out. However, Otto simply glares at Seoung and walks away as Seoung yells out after him in regret.

## Characters

* Otto
* Seoung Cho
* Jeung Choi
* Kim Choi
* The Hoon Twins
* Ms Choi (mentioned)
* Unnamed kid #1
* Walter (cameo)
* Folk people
* TV Man
* Unnamed kid #2
* Pang-Ki
* Hickory

## Reception

Among fans and critics, this is almost unanimously considered the worst episode in the series, due to the Hoon Twins being portrayed negatively while getting no consequences for their actions, Otto putting himself through humiliation just for wanting Seoung's forgiveness, Seoung refusing to forgive Otto, many of Otto's friends/acquaintances laughing at him in the end, and simply being more mean-spirited and unpleasant than the rest of the series. As a result of this episode's poor reception, Seoung never had another major role on the show, and was never appeared on Season 4 (despite The Hoon Twins being the true antagonists of the episode).

There was a widely spread rumor that Phil Roman hated this episode that he asked Greg Bailey (from CiNAR Animation) to burn the Cels. This rumor, however, is false as it was a hoax of 2005, that has been furthered by sources such as various YouTubers (ChannelFrederator was singled out by Brown, for their "107 Facts About Happy Family" video), and TVTropes. Marc Brown debunked the rumor in a response to fans on an Instagram post and later in MiPJunior 2021 with Marc Du Pontavice

Marc Brown said he and Phil Roman just hate this episode due to Seoung Cho and the Hoon Twins being mean and rude to Otto

## Background Information

* The syndication cuts the scene where Seoung envisioning Otto wearing Bunny pajamas
* This episode's storyboard cover art depicts Otto stabbing Seoung Cho
* The iTunes edition of this episode carries the syndicated Happy Family Adventures repackaging of this episode, as opposed to the rest of the episodes, which remain uncut and use the original intro sequence and credits.

## Trivia

* Topi was not watching Otto's humiliation, because Topi is a pen pal from Senegal to Otto and would never laugh at his humilation.
	+ Other characters who were absent during Otto's humiliation include Grandma, Grandpa, Kim Choi, Mr Choi, Jeung Choi, Hang-Soo, Dr Rickle, Jonathan, Hickory, Sam, Santa Claus, Jasper, Kyle, Kate, Disco Boy, Mr Lee

## Goofs

* In the playground scene, When Jeung Choi is blushing, he is wearing long sleeves