"Screwballs 4" shows Joo Woo-jae experiencing a great setback in the era of the AI revolution.
On the 5th, the Netflix variety show Screwballs season 4: The Rival (abbreviated Screwballs 4) released still cuts from episode 7 airing that day. The photos show Screwballs members Kim Sook, Hong Jin Kyung, Cho Sae-ho, Joo Woo-jae and Woo Young appearing as human representatives challenging the AI revolution era and engaging in a great showdown with AI.
Among them, Joo Woo-jae is attracting attention by facing the risk of losing the honor of being the "official brain of Screwballs" in a battle of wits with AI. That day, before the showdown with AI, Joo Woo-jae displayed unusual confidence. The members murmured in fear of their opponent, saying, "I heard AI takes revenge if you treat it carelessly?" and "So they say you have to use honorifics."
Meanwhile, "spider-man" Joo Woo-jae appears like the protagonist of a superhero movie and declares, "Even if AI becomes our future, it can never catch up to human humor!" which draws laughter. Backed by the members' support, Joo Woo-jae boasts his "human sense of humor" when the production team asks what AI stands for, replying, "A(A)~ I(I) guess~ wasn't it?" to add more laughs.
But for a moment, Joo Woo-jae is engulfed in frustration as soon as he begins the full-scale head-to-head with AI. When the game "put the hook attached to your hat onto the aerial ring before the AI robot vacuum pops the balloon" begins, the "speed of thinking" emerges as the key. As the human representative who had been fired up for the showdown with AI realizes the absurd nature of the mission, he elicits roaring laughter by complaining of a reality check with a single line, "I've been tricked." Eventually, wearing a blue basket hat and headbanging into the air, Joo Woo-jae says, "It's absurd that I'm doing this in the middle of Seoul," causing his eyes to twitch, and Hong Jin Kyung, abandoning her natural enemy mode, soothes him with "Just don't think about anything," making everyone laugh.
Fuelled again by competitive spirit, Joo Woo-jae becomes so absorbed in the game that he even loses his focus, and while other members repeatedly complete missions, he only shakes his head to no avail, turning the scene into a sea of laughter. In fact, due to a hippocampus injury issue, Joo Woo-jae stands alongside Hong Jin Kyung, who is the weakest in the game, and the two form the so-called "bungling siblings," producing laughter at the scene with a bizarre two-shot of them flailing their heads side by side into the air with unfocused eyes.
Viewers are left wondering whether Hong Jin Kyung and Joo Woo-jae, who formed the "bungling siblings," can prove the human class against the threatening AI. Screwballs 4 is released every Sunday at 5 p.m.<
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