If you caught last week’s episode of AKBingo! you saw it was a tribute to the greatest scenes in the show’s two year history. And if you have been watching since the beginning you know that there have been many many memorable moments involving Meetan. Not the least of which is this famous scene from AKB 0ji59fun which marked the beginning of Meetan becoming a sympathetic comedy “victim” on the show…
Many people feel this marked Ohori’s upturn in popularity. I’m not sure about that. To me it was the last night of the 1st Shibuya AX Setlist concert in 2008 that did it. The “gold bikini” moment is celebrated to this day. But back to the scene…Yeah, she won the challenge, but how how is she going to get down? Well, you all know the end of the story…
She was “A-OK”! Yatta!!! As funny as that was, one of my favorite moments came a month later when the producers did two “special” openings for the show featuring Meetan. The thing was, Meetan was naked in both of them. I unfortunately don’t have the screencaps for that. Instead I will use Oku Manami’s artist rendering of naked Ohori…
Hehehehe. Yeah, I WISH I had screencaps of those two episodes. Actually I saw the entire series of AKB 0ji59fun available for download. Maybe I’ll grab it. More important is what was in my opinion the best Meetan moment in the history of the series. Perhaps it is because I am a huge Ohori fan, but I honestly believe the following was the most amazing episode of AKBingo! EVER!
I don’t know too many people who weren’t affected by Meetan’s 10,000 CD challenge final episode. It was heart-wrenching, heartwarming and frankly tough to watch at times. Sure it had a couple funny moments, but for the most part it left viewers on the edge of their seat with tears in their eyes.
I just knew it would have a happy ending. It would have been too cruel otherwise. I was really sorry not to see it in the Top 20, although frankly I understand. Even with a couple of tearful scenes, the “best of” episode was primarily about the funniest moments. But to me this should have made the list for sure…
At least they gave Ohori an “honorable mention” for being the victim of a “pie in the face” more than anyone else. Way to go Meetan! I’ll just add that to the lengthy list of why you are awesome!!!
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do you know which episode dates are the ones where they open with ohori “naked”? i saw it on youtube before but was taken down =( i was trying to find out what song that was too also that she was singing lol
wilsgun…I believe they were from the June 18th and June 25th episodes. The second half of June for sure. I know this because I wrote a post about it on my other blog on June 29th 2008.
if they wanted a funny moment,,they should put up that drawing! i gotta hunt down that episode