Ki-Chouel's Time-Out

Ki-Chouel's Time-Out is a Season 3 episode

## Characters

* Ki-Chouel
* Kwan-Chouel
* Ms. Chouel
* Swoople
* Dong-Chouel
* Samchon-Chouel
* Alley-Cats
* Rattles (does not speak)
* Young-Chouel (in Ki-Chouel's imaginary flashback)
* Mr. Chouel (in Ki-Chouel's imaginary flashback)
* Chang-Ho Chouel (in Ki-Chouel's imaginary flashback)
* Lee-Choi (does not speak)
* Sid-Jeon (does not speak)
* Hana-Chouel (in Ki-Chouel's imagination)
* Jimmy (mentioned only)
* Eun-Chouel (mentioned only)

## Plot

Sent to the room for an excruciatingly long ten minutes, Ki-Chouel spends the time reliving his tragic childhood, wondering why no one seems to understand him, and planning an escape

## Summary

In a cold autumn day, Ki-Chouel does not get along well with Kwan, as Kwan keeps trying to take his toys. When Kwan won't give Ki-Chouel one of his toys back, Ki-Chouel tries to take the toy away from Kwan by force and threatens to punch him straight to the face. For doing this, Ms. Chouel sends Ki-Chouel to the room for a ten-minute time out.

Ki-Chouel is surprised that his actions actually have consequences and thinks that his parents only love Dong-Chouel, Cousin-Eun, Kwan, Swoople and Jimmy, and is angry that they would ever try to give him a time-out. His imaginary friend A.B says that the time-out is only for a little while, but Ki-Chouel simply blames Kwan for it. Just then, Ms. Chouel enters the room, and Ki-Chouel thinks that he can come out of the room, only for Ms. Chouel to explain that Ki's timeout has just started and that when his 10 minutes are up, she can come out of the room. Unconvinced, Ki-Chouel makes excuses of not wanting the time-out by complaining about his hunger and being forgotten. Ki-Chouel then cries onto Ms. Chouel's leg, annoying Ms. Chouel. Ms. Chouel then sets the clock for 10 minutes, but Ki-Chouel talks back by crying in a pillow saying that he isn't loved. Ms. Chouel, however, ignores this because what Ki-Chouel is saying in a pillow is not even true as Ki-Chouel instantly stops sobbing once Ms. Chouel is out of earshot. As Ms. Chouel leaves the room, A.B appears again, saying that the time-out is really for 10 minutes only. While impatiently waiting for the clock to change, he thinks that time has stopped, and imagines everything as having been frozen into place. Although worried for a while, he suddenly cheers out of the blue as he runs around the house, and takes advantage of the moment to steal Dong-Chouel's sweet potato and gives Swoople to the alley-cats in the street, unaware that it's all just in his imagination. When Ki-Chouel says "You booby-faced baloney-heads!" to the alley-cats, Dong-Chouel, while doing his homework snaps him out of his bizarre behavior, saying "*WHAT* are you doing?" to him. Ki-Chouel tries to explain that the clock has stopped (even though it's working), but Dong-Chouel does not want to hear about it and he is sent back to the room, much to his frustration. Ki-Chouel dramatically exaggerates, that even A.B. calls out on it as the former tells A.B. about all the horrible things that have happened to him, such as Swoople getting a cold after the events of Dong-Chouel's Chuseok Holiday and how Ki-Chouel had to stay up all night and take care of him, fulfilling his selfish requests to make him feel better.

he also "recalls" when he could not join Chang-Ho's supposed last day out having fun due to the family curse in Joseon Makeover because Ms. Chouel made him stay home and take care of Jimmy and Kwan, and then she told him that they liked Swoople better than him. Angry at these "sob stories", Ki-Chouel thinks of ways to evacuate his home and to Eun-Chouel's home by calling a bus. (even though none of these things never have happened to him)

Ki-Chouel leaves the room again to beg Ms. Chouel to end his punishment, but to no avail. he then thinks of how Hana-Chouel would defend Ki-Chouel and have his folks hate Swoople instead (even though Swoople is generally good and well-behaved, and that Ki-Chouel is not allowed to walk to Eun's house by himself). he tosses a suitcase in order to sneak out the window by climbing down the window of his house, only to remember how gravity works while finding out it is way too far away for him. Ki-Chouel leaves the room for the fourth time in 10 minutes to find the Chouel family with Sid-Jeon and Lee going out for Corndogs without him. Ki-Chouel is forced to babysit Kwan for the rest of his time-out (which is how the events all started in the first place), and blames him for his punishment, which Ki-Chouel managed to spend entirely outside of the room.

Kwan starts cuddling up to Ki-Chouel but Ki-Chouel recollects how Kwan made the day difficult for him, such as causing the rest of the Chouels to notice that Ki-Chouel tried to steal a Crazy-Train VHS from the store, falling asleep while Ki-Chouel tried to finish his blocks (the only story that was true).

However, A.B. points out to Ki-Chouel. that Kwan does not mean to do those things because he is just a baby. Then Kwan starts hugging Ki-Chouel. and gives Ki-Chouel. his rattle, As he does this, Ki-Chouel. realizes that he has been a mean brother, and apologizes to Kwan for his bad behavior. Just then, Ms. Chouel (who got home after having Corndogs) and Swoople enters the room, and he, Swoople, Kwan, and Ki-Chouel. make up.

While they hug, the clock beeps, meaning that Ki-Chouel's time-out is up (despite that Ki-Chouel was actually in the room for approximately five minutes). Ms. Chouel asks Ki-Chouel if he is ready to come outside, but he proceeds to going back to playing "Lifeboat," where he saves his dolls from being eaten by sharks, and Ms. Chouel says "Suit yourself". When bedtime arrives, Kwan is asleep, but Ki-Chouel does not want to go to bed, having too much fun with his toys, and instead, wants to stay five more minutes

## Trivia

* This episode mentions the events of "Joseon Makeover." Ki-Chouel thinks he did not go to Chang-Ho's last day out having fun because of the family curse in this episode. he is apparently making up stories on what would have happened if he did not get his own way
* In this episode, Ki-Chouel imagines enjoying Hana-Chouel's cookies, while in "Big Caesar," he does not like her cookies since the latter has poor cooking skills.
* Young-Chouel, Mr. Chouel, Chang-Ho Chouel and Hana-Chouel don't appear in the episode itself, but they appear in Ki-Chouel's imagination spots