Bad Buddy Analysis

This started out as a collection of my comments on YouTube analyzing the Thai BL "Bad Buddy Series", but has since grown to include write-ups and reblogs that aren't on YouTube. I started this Tumblr upon the advice of a couple of other commenters, who suggested my YT posts be put all in one place. The episode instalments and timestamps are with reference to the official YouTube GMMTV episodes. Apologies if the verbal vommery gets a bit much, but this is one series that can actually stand up to scrutiny, and inspired me to lay down (a lot of) my thoughts in readable format. Hope you enjoy reading all the stuff I've posted! 💖💖💖

[ohmysea]

Pran looking sick with his own yearning except i just realised that the song he made for Pat in high school was playing in the background and we didn’t even know

[telomeke-bbs]

Reblogging with KK's tags because we now know how much poor Pran suppresses his feelings and denies himself: 😢

#the song fades away when pran wipes his eyes#like he's shutting the thought down

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[nongsun]

praninlove 😭

[telomeke-bbs]

Reblogging because of KK's tags above that have thrown me back into my feels and got me feeling the same way I did when Bad Buddy first aired 😭💖

[yeahhabsolutely]

why is pat wearing a tim hortons shirt in ep 3 🤣 i can't screenshot it bc i'm watching on viki but i was so caught off guard lol

[telomeke-bbs]

🤣 I can guarantee that the Bad Buddy fandom did not need any mention of which series or which character this post was about to know IMMEDIATELY which scene it was referencing. 🤣

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@yeahhabsolutely The reason Pat is wearing that t-shirt (one of many crazy tees, including the iconic Baseball Mom) is probably that Smile Cookie on the front: 😍

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In Bad Buddy, Pat is identified with the smiley, and he wears it on his T-shirts in a couple of scenes (including this one). Pran identifies Pat with it too, and decorates his personal space (his home bedroom and also his student apartment) with lots and lots of smileys everywhere, reminding him of his sunshine boy.

Pran also wears a smiley in one scene (in Ep.4), after he has his heart broken by witnessing multiple confirmations (from his POV) of Ink and Pat apparently a romantic couple. In that scene (Ep.4 [Part 3‌/4] 6.42), Pran has this reminder of his smiley face sunshine boy on the front of his t-shirt, right where his broken heart is, and it looks like he's trying to place a substitute of Pat where he knows he can't have him really: 💖

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Paging our BL wardrobe guru @dribs-and-drabbles in case you have anything to add. 🤩 And much love to all the BBS fandom, still stuck on that rooftop after all these years! 💖

[wordfather]

i love it when im rereading a story and i find these little breadcrumbs of foreshadowing the author left. everytime im like "ohoho!!!! i wouldve gotten that before if i had the big picture!!! and now i do!!! delightful!!!" and idk i just love being able to read the same story twice but have two different experiences. i like when a story has so many layers that it can keep you entertained for a long time as you unravel all its secret nooks and crannies. thats a good story.

[aroaceleovaldez]

forget if i've posted this one

[telomeke-bbs]

Sorry to hijack this post, but BBS fans will understand–

[sharingfandoms]

wai gave him spicy food

[telomeke-bbs]

[aroaceleovaldez]

forget if i've posted this one

[telomeke-bbs]

Sorry to hijack this post, but BBS fans will understand–

[horseintheshadow]

Hi there! 😍 I've got to admit I didn't quite know at first if you were being serious about locating horses in QL dramas, but I see that you have been posting horse finds and now I'm obsessed. 🤣

So the QL I'm most familiar with is Bad Buddy, and my initial reaction was "Surely there can't be any HORSES in there."

But then I went in for a look, AND OMG THERE WERE! 👀🐎🐎🐎

Here's a horse statue at Bad Buddy Ep.12 [2/4] 10.42:

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And you can hear sound effects of a horse whinnying at Bad Buddy Ep.5 [2/4] 3.03, when Pat tries (and fails) to woo Ink at the Gram Pancake Café:

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Do with this what you will, but anyway Happy Year of the Horse to you! 😍

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We are incredibly honored, and I was immediately excited becauseeeeee... *drumroll* we know this horse!!!

This is the horse lamp also to be found in Yesterday The Series and Air Moment. It is by the brand Moooi and retails for around 7000€! (In case you wanted it) So far, it is the only horse we have seen in multiple shows, which is wild considering it's price tag.

Thank you so much for helping us with the research; we'll definitely cherish this information and credit you when we do a full Bad Buddy post in the future. And trust us, a horse will always be where you least expect it.

Happy Year of The Horse!

[malecfordays]

The biggest twist of them all is that the opening score has been pran's song the whole damn time

[telomeke]

[airenyah]

special shoutout to ohm's acting choices of looking down towards pran's crotch

and then sticking his tongue out

showing us exactly what kind of reward pat wants

[airenyah]

RIP "ohm pawat has suffered from a gun shot wound on camera only one single time and it was in a fucking romcom" (2021-2024). it was fun while it lasted...

AND IN THE SAME FUCKING SPOT TOO. gmmtv is just mocking me at this point... but hey i guess at least it wasn't christmas eve this time around

[grapejuicegay]

The thing about bad buddy brain rot is that there are other brain rots out there. There is stuff that bewitches you mind body and soul. There are new things that you live love and feel that giddy over and it WILL feel unique and special and change you. But at some point you will compare it to bad buddy. You'll think about how the brain rot compares to bad buddy. You'll make parallels to bad buddy. You'll talk about how it deals with things differently. It will be its own unique thing. But bad buddy will still be on your mind one way or another

[telomeke-bbs]

BAD BUDDY/HEATED RIVALRY – WARDROBE, PERSONALITY AND PARALLELS

Something something big brash sports guy favors bright, loud Hawaiian shirts that echo his in-your-face personality.

While his legendary rival who's so guarded and introverted takes refuge in layered, monochromatic, long-sleeved armor…

Anyone getting the feels for Bad Buddy again? 😍

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P.S.

Excellent framing up top as Hollander and Rozanov get to know each other socially while the guardrails are still up all around them…

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[greenteadumplings]

I don't want grand gestures.

Just cut me your student ID when I forget my guitar pick.

[greenteadumplings]

I watched bad buddy insane amount of times. And today I was rewatching (as one should!) ep 9 and I observed a detail I never did before. In the scene where they are on the bench Pat offers to post that Pran and him broke up if it gets Wai to talk to him and Pran slowly pulls Pat's hand away from his phone. Remember that scene??

So what caught my attention was Ohm's acting choice right after Pran releases his hand

See?? See how he rubs his hand.

By this time we know that PatPran aren't "officially" dating for that long. This is a very new relationship. Sure they had the best era but that's mostly flirting and riling each other and each other to the edge. And they touched many times before to fight and push around. But this not that kind of touch. Here Pran's touch is very soft. Very emotional. He's trying to convey many things. And it's a sudden touch. Pat wasn't expecting his hand to be held. As soon as Pran held his hand Pat's hand got that tingling feeling which you'll get when the person u love the most touches you. They aren't familiar with each other's touches yet. Not in this way anyway. So I think that's the reason Pat rubs his hands, he likes Pran so much that his touch made his hand tingle.

I caught up so much in the way they are trying to emotionally adjust to each other in this scene that I almost forgot they might be trying to physically adjust too like any new relationship. The same way Pran reacts when Pat takes his hand right outside his dorm for the first time asking for a sweet moment as boyfriends.

[gotmehookedonthekpop]

Pran it's just lying there PINING, listening to Pat talk about his positive qualities and how he wonders if Ink likes him back.

That tear was in the corner of Pran's eye during Pat's whole monologue.

Ugh. I forgot how painful this part was.

[hereforlou]

missing them....

[telomeke]

Ah, I would know these two anywhere. And we're all still stuck on that rooftop missing them...

If you know, you know...😭