Pen Pals

Pen Pals is a Season 3 episode

## Characters

* Cousin Eun
* Dong-Chouel
* Lee Choi
* Sid-Jeon
* Harrison (name on Swoople's letter/flashback)
* Myung-Hee
* Young-Chouel
* Ki-Chouel
* Mr. Chouel (does not speak)
* Ms. Chouel (does not speak)
* Swoople (does not speak)
* Harmeoni-Chouel (does not speak)
* Harabeoji-Chouel (does not speak)
* Jimmy (does not speak)
* Joey (does not speak)
* Buggy (does not speak)
* Kim-Seo (does not speak)

## Plot

Dong-Chouel and Cousin Eun exchange letters that reveal their unique outlooks on the world.

## Summary

Dong-Chouel misses his Cousin Eun and decides to write him a letter after "conversing" with the trees in the woods. Cousin Eun writes back about what he has been up to after the events of Dong-Chouel's Chuseok Holiday, revealing that he is a volunteer at the Museum of Zoology, a job which he takes seriously and which the employees find annoying. he encounters his friends and tries to inform them about the Tiger Man, but when they find it weird, Cousin Eun gets angry and is kicked out by one of the employees.

Cousin Eun finds that Dong-Chouel is the only person that relates to him and ends his letter by revealing that his mom has signed him and Joey up for piano lessons, of which he is a "really fast learner".

Dong-Chouel responds by regaling a moment during his camping trip at Yon-Jun Island, where he and his family planned to kill the dandelions, Ki's favorite flower,

Ki stood up to Dong-Chouel by refusing to have them cut. While Ki succeeded, the dandelions still died due to the frost, but Dong-Chouel saved the seeds and sends them to Cousin Eun.

Cousin Eun heads about town trying to plant them and performs a series of other acts that he finds empowering. However, Cousin Eun begins to feel that despite Bukchon having so many people, it feels a bit empty to him due to Dong-Chouel not being there.

Dong-Chouel begins to feel sad over the last letter and heads into the woods to talk to the trees again. After witnessing two birds communicate from across the branches with one another, Dong-Chouel finally gets inspiration. he writes another letter and sends it to Cousin Eun who discovers that it is a song and proceeds to play it on his piano. The song, co-sung across by the two boys, has the two realize that despite their far distance away from each other, the two of them will always be cousins. After the song is over, Dong-Chouel and Cousin Eun sit down and proceed to write another letter to one another.

## Quotes

Cousin-Eun: There's something I don't get about the neighborhood.

Cousin-Eun: How can a place with so many people, feel so empty sometimes?

Cousin Eun: I don't have a lot of friends here.

Cousin Eun: You're the only one who really understood me.

Cousin Eun: And even though I love pretending we're together,

Cousin Eun: the truth is, we're not.

Cousin Eun: Things are different now, What do we do, Dong-Chouel?

Dong-Chouel: (sobs softly), Oh shoot!

## Trivia

* **Moral:** Friendship lives on no matter how far apart you are.

* This episode airs during Thanksgiving on Cartoon Network from 1994-2011, then it aired on Boomerang in 2001
* According to Tom Ruegger, this episode took three days to write this episode
* This episode took place after "Dong-Chouel's Chuseok Holiday"
* When this episode aired on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, the scene when Ki-Chouel stops Dong-Chouel from cutting the flowers is cut, this was also cut in Cartoon Network and Boomerang airings
* This episode is called "동철과 은철 간의 거리" which translates to "Distance between Dong-Chouel and Eun-Chouel"
* Along with Big Caesar, This episode premiered on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera before airing on CBS