Heechul pulling joke on Irene Back in June 2020, an old moment where Heechul
suddenly threw his shirt at Irene on Knowing Bros was dug up and instead of having fun
reactions from netizens as what Heechul often got for his savage sense of humor, he was
heavily blasted for not knowing where the limit of his jokes.
So, what exactly had happened to make that netizens furious? Well, let’s turn back
time to 2016 where episode 29 of Knowing Bros was aired.
After Jonghyun finished his self-introduction part and it was Irene’s turn to talk a bit
about herself, she revealed that ironing clothes has been among her most favorite hobbies and
she’s also quite good at it. Out of curiosity, Heechul immediately asked since when Irene
was good at ironing and after hearing she used to iron clothes for her dad a lot and
this activity gradually grew on her, Heechul began to pull a savage joke that ended up
triggering lots of people. All of a sudden, he took off his shirt, threw it at Irene and
said: “Oh really? Then iron this.”
Obviously annoyed by this joke, Irene couldn’t even smile, she just threw the shirt back
at him. Probably even Heechul himself also felt the awkwardness floating around so instead
of going further, he was quick to pick up the shirt and explained it was just a joke.
The other hosts were also quick to make up some other jokes and though the whole studio
ended up laughing, netizens believed that still couldn’t cover up the allegedly rude
jokes Heechul pulled on Irene. According to them, his behavior was mere disrespectful
to Irene when he rudely asked her to do this and that. Some also believed Heechul must
have hated the feminist movement considering how he treated women and even when the whole
thing was scripted, it still made no sense to throw things in other’s face like that.
People also criticized Knowing Bros as a whole because for years, they have seen many female
idols being stepped on with the alleged jokes that only the hosts deemed funny. Some even
said Knowing Bros would for sure never get to the level of Infinity Challenge, Running
Man and 2 Days 1 Nights and this scene was the perfect example to answer why.
Dream Plan pulling joke on Henry and Lucas When WayV joined Dream Plan around February
this year, the production team intended to add some fun elements to the show by pulling
a joke on Henry and Lucas and making them do some missions in a room full of frogs.
However, in contrast to the thought that people would be entertained to see Henry and Lucas
screaming their hearts out of their frog phobia, the team received a huge wave of criticism
for pushing things way too far.
As if placing the room with a bunch of frog pictures staring right at their soul with
big, protruding, colorful eyes wasn’t mortifying enough, the staff also put there many other
frog figures, a tank of 20 real frogs and guess what, they even went extra miles to
let out one jumping around the room.
However, that was yet to be the worst thing because for the mission, both Henry and Lucas
had to take turns to take out all those 20 frogs. After that, they must also spend some
time in the room with frogs jumping around to solve the clues before having the passcode
letting them out of that place.
Things were so bad that at one point, Lucas had to compress his anger before telling the
staff that they had crossed the line when joking like this.
However, the situation for Lucas was still better than Henry’s. As Henry’s phobia
with frogs was super bad, he had to stand at the door literally the whole time recording
and when the frog approached him at one point, he even jumped on the door and asked the staff
to let him out.
Obviously you can tell how mortified and desperately hopeless Henry was because he literally ignored
the mission and straight up asked everyone to open the door quickly.
With that type of joke, of course it’s also nothing much of a surprise to see the comment
section filled with anger when the video was uploaded on Youtube. Though everyone saw how
the staff just wanted to serve them with some good laughs, they still couldn’t stand how
they took advantage of Henry and Lucas’ frog phobia and recorded them suffering for
fun like that.
Netizens also believed that there was nothing fun about this joke and it was pure cruelty
at this point because one, Henry almost broke out crying; two, Lucas apparently tried to
control the anger and three, the staff even reposted these terrifying moments and added
in animations effects instead of cutting it out.
Kuk Ju and Kang Jun pulling joke on Jackson Back in 2014 when Jackson was still a rookie
and got the chance to attend Roomate, many fans believed that he would for sure have
some most memorable experiences with this very first variety show of his career. However,
in total contrast to the belief of everyone, Jackson was completely left teary-eyed after
Seo Kang Jun and Lee Kuk Ju decided to pull a joke that his mom was paying him a surprise
visit.
For some of you might not really know about Jackson, he’s not a native Korean star but
born in Hong Kong and moved to the country after being scouted by JYP. Since the process
of training was super rigorous, it used to be super hard for him to return to his hometown
and of course, he was also unable to see his mom for quite a long time.
Knowing that Jackson’s mother was dearest to his heart, Le Kuk Ju and Seo Kang Jun decided
that they would prank him backstage at GOT7’s showcase that his mother came all the way
from Hongkong to support him on this special event. While it’s not hard to see how they
just wanted to add some fun elements to the serious atmosphere of the showcase, apparently
their joke had gone way too far and there was no justification for that when you look
at the reaction of Jackson.
So, how did it all start? Since Jackson once said that Kuk Ju was like a mother figure
to him, Kuk Ju and Kang Jun decided that they would prank Jackson by letting Kang Jun go
get him to the place where Kuk Ju was waiting as his “mother.”
Jun made things so real by asking implying questions like: “Now that you’re doing
a showcase, doesn’t your mother come to mind?” and “You miss your mom, right?”
that Jackson right off the bat believed him. He even teared up at the thought that his
mother was really there to see him after all this time but as soon as he entered the room,
the excitement was shattered and you can see how disappointment was written on his face.
Later in an interview, Jackson shared that he really thought his mother was pulling a
surprise for him and as things turned out to be just a joke, he admitted to have almost
cried on the spot.
Though Kuk Ju and Kang Jun did make up their joke by letting Jackson facetime his mom,
netizens were all pissed off for how the duo pulled such a joke by taking advantage of
Jackson’s feelings like that. They also believed both Kuk Ju and Kang Jun had lost
their sanity for some cheap laughs because as peers working in the same industry, they
must have known how hefty the price idols had to pay to stand on the stage yet still
decided to play him like that. It’s also not hard to see comments telling
the joke was “rude,” “insensitive” and “cruel”.
American Hustle Life pulling joke on BTS In 2017 when the group was having some activities
in the States, the production team of American Hustle Life decided to add some flavours to
the tour by staging a kidnap to scare the act.
Similar to all the previous ones, the initial intention was to entertain viewers but after
the video got uploaded, all they got was a big wave of criticism pointing at how rude
and ignorant the team was when using others’ fears for cheap laughs.
So basically, the story started out when BTS was in their van, then suddenly, a group of
people just jumped in and took them to a random place. Even when the story was just at its
beginning, you can already tell how mortified the group was just by looking at J-Hope’s
reaction. He literally jumped and was shaking up all the way to the hotel.
Then when BTS arrived at the location, they were also shouted in the face, being called
“fools,” and asked to do a bunch of stupid things like taking off their shoes, one of
their socks and watched documentary snippets about their own group.
However, do you know what was the rudest thing that happened that night? As if all those
frightened reactions weren’t enough for the content, they even made Jungkook almost
burst into tears after laughing at his socks several times. FYI, he was just sixteen back
then, spoke only basic English, barely understood anything but still kept getting shouted in
the face.
So, was this footage hilarious? Probably it was to somebody but according to many netizens,
the staff was crossing the line and being purely rude instead of funny. Jokes were always
meant to be funny and looking at the reactions of Jungkook and J-hope, they could feel nothing
but anger and hurt.
On Quora, there was even a seperate post about this joke and many believed the staff was
acting like what Canadians called “ugly Americans” who always tried to use others’
feelings for fun. At the end of the day, everyone, including BTS, would be frightened to death
if being thrown into that situation so there was no justification for staging such a traumatizing
experience and laughing it off under the name of jokes.
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