Recap / Mimpi Metropolitan E 37

YouTube title: "Patah Hati Seorang Bambang" (lit. "A Broken-Hearted Bambang")
Zulu title: "Patah Hati Bambang" (lit. "Broken-Hearted Bambang")

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"This whole time, I thought you feel the same way as I do, Mel. But it turns out I was blinded by my feelings. Maybe I'm just meant to be the guy who wished for the moon."

— Bambang

Melani rejects Bambang's love confession, which leaves Bambang heartbroken and jealous-prone. Mami Bibir convinces Alexi's mommy to let Alexi works with her. Wawan tries to find a way to live in the dorm too. Now that he is healthy again, Juna returns from the hospital and resumes his life on the dorm.

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This episode provides examples of:

• Apology Gift: To apologize for making her customer leave in the previous episode, Wawan buys Pipin a dress. It works very easily, even to Wawan's surprise.
• Aside Comment: Wawan faces the camera (and away from Pipin) when he comments how easy it is to win over a woman.
• Big "WHAT?!": This is both Mami Bibir's and Alexi's mommy's response to Alexi saying he wants to join Bybyr Agency. The difference is Mami Bibir considers it a happy surprise while Alexi's mommy is angry.
• Call-Back: Melani can't help Mami Bibir deal with Alexi's mommy because she can't stand Alexi's mommy's feather fan because of her allergy, just like in their first meeting.
• Idiotic Partner Confession: Melani sends some medicine for the ill Bambang to Pipin, telling her to not let Bambang know who send it. Pipin proceeds to talk to herself (out loud, right beside Bambang) about how good Melani is at choosing things to send for Bambang.
• Like a Son to Me: As Mami Bibir explains to Alexi's mommy, everyone in her agency (implicitly including Alexi) are like her own children to her, hence she is comfortable with giving Alexi's mommy some parenting advice.
• Literal-Minded: Pipin treats Wawan's declaration that his preparation is "ripe" (as in "mature") as if they are food and asks if they could be half-ripe like an egg instead.
• Love Confession: After the cliffhanger of the previous episode, we get to see Bambang's full confession to Melani. Unfortunately for Bambang, Melani tells him that she sees him as a friend.
• Malaproper: Alexi refuses to go to work because he is tired and needs "hibur nasi".^note Literally, "entertaining rice". Yeah, it doesn't make much sense even in-universe. Prima corrects him that the right word is "hibernasi" (hibernation).
• Personal Raincloud: Conversed. When Alan and Prima talks about a sulking Bambang, Alan feels like there's a dark cloud above Bambang's head and a lightning (Bambang's wrath) might strike them at any point.
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Melani tells Mami Bibir about how people in Hits TV sarcastically nicknamed Alexi and his mom the eight and ninth wonder of the world, Pipin is confused as she have never heard of the Seven Wonders of the World.
• Say My Name: When Bambang realize Alan (technically Prima, but it was Alan's idea) is the one who wrote the asking-out message and not Melani, Bambang exclaims Alan's name in anger.
• Shout-Out:
  • Alexi's mommy's line when telling Prima that what he was asking is not his business is a clear reference to the then-province-governor-and-PSSI-head Edy Rahmayadi's response to being asked about his double job, which went viral two weeks before the episode aired.
    Mami Bibir: I feel like I've heard that somewhere.
  • The ending quote is a Shout-Out to "Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?" poem from the 2002 film of the same name.

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A woman comes under the name of Melani
She likes to make this man dream really high
Then she has the heart to drop him again
What is the matter with Melani?
Truly, this heart does not understand