* little thing: seriously, i'm now convinced that prem was interviewing those clowns for a job, rather than the other way 'round. the way he marched back in, told 'em ''no thank you'' and told them who to hire instead!!! 🤣🤣 totaly like teacher triv says -- interviewers kay naam pey kalank! 🤣
* little thing: huh... a nihaal-vitchface segment. hmm... anyone else felt like that was the black spot that the creatives put on this episode - like the little black dot they put on babies to take away the evil eye?
and gosh! was it black!! i mean, did you see the way that vitchface threw the pots and food around?? dirty female! 😡 can't she have at least packed it away for the poor who gather 'round the temple of preet every wtf??? dirty person...😡😡
* heer thing: y'know? i'm a modern girl and all. but i sooo like heer-prem's-wife. the way she immediately trotted behind him and asked him if he got the job. soooo sweet. i mean, i can't see me doing it. but heer-with-prem? 'specially 'cause she has that slightly bossy i-own-you tone in her voice... totally loved it. don't really know why. ☺️
* preet thing: omg. y'know the funniest thing 'bout what i think of as the next preet segment? that what i remember 'bout it are the prem-heer reactions. is totally strange.
preet shouts ''job milgayi'' and i remember how proudly prem turned and smiled at heer. preet explains that it's pb that got the job, and he got the sweets. and i remember the way that quietly happy prem look goes into a look of quietly startled. and when preet proudly praises his heer bhabhi, i remember her little happy blush and quick look at prem. but .. oh, boy, was (god) preet a star or what?? *trying to remain calm while simultaneously suppressing the urge to fling myself into a (god) preet hug. and instead satisfying myself with saying ...* all hail! (god) preet! 😆
* preet thing#2: and after that, we get the prem-preet segment -- where all i really remember are the multitude of (god) preet smiles.
*sigh* 'cause that segment seriously had a new type of (god) preet smile, no? i thought and thought as i watched these two do their conversational thrust and parry of who is big and who is ... bigger! 😆 and then figured that the nature of the preet smile in that segment all boiled down to his last comment. ''no, bhaiyya. you will always be bigger. but now, i want to try to grow up too.'' *sigh!*
and that's the essence of it, no? no matter how much they try to turn back the clock to 10/02/08, these characters have gone through irrevocable changes -- and that cannot be turned back!
preet can laugh and play and fool around -- but there is now a gravitas in his smile. a new-found camraderie and mutual respect in his relationship with his father that will not, and cannot, be undone.
'cause that was the one thing that struck me visibly in this new take of the cigar/cigarette episode. when preet takes over the cigarette from prem, he starts on the track of getting pittai for lj from gayatri-mom. but there's a brilliantly subtle change in the track. he is still being loud and lj-accusatory. but under his breath, he is strategising with his father on how to get him out of the stick spot!!! oh, preet! you... (god)! that was sooooo brilliant.
this new characterisation for preet was just brilliant. and just spot on with everything that has happened. and made me bow down to the creatives for just that one act! it was perfect. this is just how it should be. and i totally worship these guys for having done that one teeny bit perfectly right.
i've said it before. i will say it again. i love how these creatives take things in this show just that one step higher. and this was certainly one of 'em!! super!!
and oh, before i forget? all hail, (god) preet. all hail, (god) preet. all hail? *together now!* (god) preet. man, are we gonna have a noisy pooja this weekend! 😆
* prem thing: how cute - young mr. juneja's bath is not complete if he doesn't find the clothes laid out neatly for him on his bed, by his wife, only his wife, and no-one else but his wife, kya??? prem!!! *gingerly patting those freshly washed locks of hair in approval*
the way his eyes were constantly looking for heer. the way he constantly disapproved of one more item of his clothing coming to him from someone other than his heer. awwww... poor prem. poor young mr. juneja. when she's right there in front of you, you're all hoity-toity and touch-me-not. so, what's the deal? you want her there in front of you just so that you can be hoity-toity and touch-me-not? tsk, tsk... 😆
personally, i thought it was kinda sweet. the way the nice junejas and lj 😆 came to cluck around their prem chick on his first day to work. 😆 but soooo not what their prem chick wanted or needed. 😆
but i was starting to become very impressed with this prem's ability to articulate... he actually asked meher ''where is your di?'' and then i realised: wait a bit! he didn't ask ''heer di''! it's actually just the name heer that the young mr. juneja has trouble reproducing clearly and without stumbling all over the place, no? heh.
* prem-holding-a-cigarette thing: ooooh! so prem now knows how to hold a cigarette. now knows how to better warn his father his mother is there. now knows how to look reprovingly at his father's bad habits! hmmmm, so this little chick has done some growing up...? 😆
* heer-grabbing-prem thing: omg! that was brilliant! he was sooo not expecting it. i loved that he was walking holding that ridiculously large, round tiffin 🤣, muttering to himself 'bout his family, his missing heer - when whamo! out of nowhere, her little hands yank him into a room.
and then! omg! be still his rapidly-escalating-it's-beating heart! she shuts the door!
'kay, i loved hc's totally jumpy act then. oh, i know it was kinda corny. but it sooo showed that he was dying for some luuuuv action from his wife that i loved it, corny or not! best part? when she asked him to remove his jacket -- and then put up his hands, his face then! i mean, his hands were already on his tie, ready to pull it off. omg, his face was sooo totally ''huh??! heer?? my hands up?? uh... are we doing kinky? what have you been learning while i was away? heer!!'' man! that expression was ... precious! 🤣🤣🤣
and i must admit it: the best part of that segment was not the gingerly way in which he stuck his hands up. but the way heer straightened his hands up. not the way he kept one eye open. but in the sheer joy of her smile when both eyes were closed. i liked that cute little action of her patting down his hair and his face -- what was that about?? but i liked it. 😍
i liked the way he constantly babbled 'bout what is she gonna do, as if that stream of words would be his protection against his wife's ''attack''. 😆 and the funniest part was the sheer contrast between the hot thoughts that was making him stand all stiff and prepared for some ... uh .. action! while in reality, heer was all innocence and giving and caring.
seriously, though? i sooo want to know what prem thought she was going to do to him when she said that if he didn't remove his jacket, she would do it herself!!! 🤣
i sooo loved the way everything about his attitude changed when she put the sweater on. when he saw her love and the innocent happiness in her eyes shine through at seeing him warm and safe, you could practically see him melt.
and so i thought he was being particularly naughty when he said that wearing the sweater would make him feel ''hot'' 'cause he'd imagine her around him with it on. i mean, did you hear how husky his voice got then?? after squeaking like a scared rabbit just a minute before??! hey! guy! you were the one with the steamy thoughts -- stop making her think 'em too now!
and i think he managed to get through to the heer who was happily smiling at the thought of her husband being all warm and toasty and protected from cold-cold winds. 'cause i'm not sure that that last smile she tried to hide behind her hand at the end was all that innocent! heer??!! 😆
*sigh, sigh, sigh* y'know? while it was not quite the tingling prem-heer moment, it was a stellar one. a new one. a prem-heer as h&w one. and ... i liked it. i did! 😃
and so, am happily w&w for tomorrow's show. not sure when the bt,lt will come up -- is one of my horrible school days. but i'll try to get it done... hmm. there's something more i wanted to say today. what was it? what was it? ... oh yes!!
* fiercely disapproving prem thing: why, oh why!?!?!, has prem started wearing one of those undershirt-thingies ... well, under his shirt?? why???? it spoils the line of the sleeve for sure! it spoils the pureness of the white against his skin. it soooo spoils some of the fun of helping the guy into his white shirt - damnit!!! i mean, would you blame me if i sulked the whole time that i did this one?
stooooooopid guy. *major sulking session on... i'm actually thinking of quitting my job! so don't talk to me!*
highlight of the episode: *sulking and starting to whine...* but i liked the whole episode! i did! why do i have to pick out a highlight? *more sulking* oh, alright! i liked preet's smile at his pb when he said he now wanted to grow up. i liked the happiness of heer's smile when she managed to get petrified prem to shut his eyes. i liked the huskiness in prem's voice when he said that he's gonna be hot in the sweater 'cause he's gonna imagine her around him while wearing it... *oof.. mean guy! wearing that stoooopid under-shirt thing.. sulking some more...*
*hey! khushi's got caps up! at