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Alan and Prima gets a job as a paid boyfriend of graduating college students.


This episode contains examples of:

  • Abhorrent Admirer: Yola, an overweight, unattractive and very clingy fresh graduate, gets Prima as a paid boyfriend. Prima decides to escape the university rather than doing a marriage proposal as she wants.
  • Blatant Lies: Bambang frowns and sits alone in the car wash instead of going home. Anto can easily tells that Bambang is sulking even though he denies it. Becomes more blatant after Bambang rants about Prima within Anto's earshot, yet he still denies it.
  • Call-Back: One of Prima's argument that he was not trying to woo Melani is Bambang himself said that they (and Alan) have different taste in women, which he said back in the first episode.
  • Continuity Nod:
    • When Prima complains that his current job as coordinator doesn't line up with his dream of becoming an actor, Mami Bibir brings up it was Prima himself who screwed up his role in AADC.
    • When Melani accidentally sprays Bambang with a hose, they remember Bambang did that to Melani too so it's fair.
  • Double Entendre: Bambang calls Alan and Prima "cowok panggilan", which literally means "guy who get called" (since they are called and paid to be a fake boyfriend) but can also mean prostitutes. Alan and Prima have no problem with the term but it causes misunderstanding when they tell Mami Bibir and Pipin.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: When Wawan asks what would Pipin think if he wear nice clothers like Alan's, Pipin tells him to be confident and that he doesn't have to listen to what others say. Wawan is shocked Pipin could actually give someone a working advice.
  • Gray Rain of Depression: Alan lampshades how it suddenly rains when he cries about losing his job. Subverted since it's just Bambang spraying Alan with a water hose to invoke/parody this trope.
  • Halfway Plot Switch: The first quarter of the episode is about resolving the plot of the previous episode (jealous Bambang and ill Melani). The rest is about Alan and Prima becoming a paid boyfriend.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Chef MSG is offended that Mami Bibir is disgusted with his cooking. One tasting later, he has the same reaction as Mami.
  • Ship Tease: It's hard not to see Bambang and Melani playing with water in the car wash as romantic.
  • Working Through the Cold: On the first day, Melani wants to do this just like in the previous episode, but is stopped by her co-workers off-screen. Taking some rest and eating some fruits makes Melani healthy again and can work normally by the next day.

"Being alone is indeed terrible. But trust me, friends, being chased around and forced too marry someone is much more terrible."

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