Episode 50 leaves us with these storylines:
Miran, on her way to yet another musical audition, has another glowering run-in with Bruce. Most of these confrontations include a couple of fat jokes made at each other's expense, with Bruce feeling intimidated by the formidable Miran. Surely, the beginnings of an auspicious romance.
Songpoong and his mother-in-law go off to a museum without telling Eunji or the father-in-law. There's even a line of dialogue when Songpoong says to the mother-in-law that they are on a date. Hmmm...how will the neglected Eunji take this? Will she feel forced to mature or will she sulk?
Mipoong, playing hooky from college cram school, goes to the army base to talk with Yong Chul who tells him that Soohee likes Mipoong and that he intends to give up on Soohee.
Bokshil is surprised by her father, half-sister, and Daepoong who join her at her mother's graveside for her final goodbye before leaving for America. On their way to the cemetery, Bokshil learns that her half-sister's mother was also ill for a long time, with the father rarely being at home. At the cemetery, Bokshil's father pulls out a photograph of Bokshil's mother when she was 25. When Bokshil asks her father for the photograph, he tells her that he cannot let her ever go back to America, that he plans on spending the rest of his life with her by him. This episode reveals more depth of feeling on Bokshil's father's part, with him even admitting how he is the cause of problems for both Bokshil and her half-sister. On the way back from the graveside to the car, Daepoong takes Bokshil's hand on the pretext that the path is rocky.
Soo Jin, out to prove herself as a perfect daughter-in-law, gets up early in the morning to cook breakfast for the Song family. However, she doesn't even get to enjoy her breakfast as she rushes out the door to check up on her niece and nephew before going to work. Poor Soo Jin...is she just adding on more responsibilities to an already large burden now that she is the Song family's oldest daughter-in-law? There is a great scene where Soo Jin and Jinpoong decide to say goodnight formally to their elders before going off to sleep. Unbeknownst to them, the father is only in his underwear as he's trying to convince the mother that they should make love. When Soo Jin and Jinpoong knock on their door, the father hastily dresses into a white shirt and tie!
One of the things that makes My Too Perfect Sons a fantastically funny drama are the actors playing the mother (Yoon Mi Ra) and father (Baek Il Sub). The mother is brisk, sarcastic, energetic, and prone to a little bit of hitting when the sons are behaving badly. The father is laid back, a lover of Korean dramas, and the opposite of his wife. Whenever things are going badly or his wife is upset, he says "Okhee [elongating his wife's name's last syllable], it will be okay."
In episode 50, a new theme rises where the family begins to insinuate that Soo Jin is going overboard on daughter-in-law perfection because of the mother's harshness!
My Too Perfect Sons often include scenes with food. In this episode, Soo Jin cooks kalbi jim.
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