Next, in "Don't Drop the Paper Balloon! Domino Challenge," the duo had to line up 20 dominoes while keeping a paper balloon aloft with a folding fan. They started out with Namikawa on fan duty and Shimono on dominoes, but the challenge proved difficult, and they struggled to succeed.
As they kept trying to deliver that "excitement," an accident occurred on their third attempt when Namikawa crashed straight into Shimono. Caught off guard, Shimono broke from his usual polite way of addressing him and blurted out his bare name over and over, shouting, "Namikawa! Namikawa! Namikawaaaaa!" Namikawa fired back, "That's because I get pulled toward you!" and "Also, you just called me by my name without any honorific too, in all that chaos, didn't you?!" The studio was instantly filled with laughter.
At that point, they wondered, "Wouldn't Shimono be better suited for the fan role?" and swapped their assignments. Sure enough, they succeeded right away on their next attempt. Namikawa cheered, "That's so moving!" and the studio erupted in laughter at the pair's chaotic challenge.
In the viewer poll that followed, "I was deeply moved" came in at 37%. Meanwhile, with "I was a little moved" at 23% and "I felt nothing" at 14%, the pair laughed together, joking, "What do you mean, 'a little moved'?!" and "14% felt nothing? (laughs) That's quite something," keeping the studio lively to the very end.
Later in the show, the "Hiro's Secret Challenge" segment took place. Focusing on Namikawa's distinctive "analogy quips" that pop up in every broadcast, it was revealed that Shimono had secretly been on a mission that day to draw out at least 10 of Namikawa's analogy quips, as part of a hidden-camera-style prank.
Upon hearing the reveal, Namikawa looked utterly disbelieving, saying, "Was a page missing from my script?" and "It's just like love — I was blind to it," clearly flustered. Then, when a VTR compilation of past "analogy quips" from previous broadcasts was shown — including lines like "What a hard-to-date girlfriend!" and "Am I the protagonist of a manga or something?!" — he turned red, exclaiming, "What is this?! So embarrassing!" When a second VTR compiling just that day's analogy quips was shown, Namikawa immediately fired off another one, blurting, "Is this a wedding video or something?!" — impressing Shimono, who remarked, "That's amazing."
After watching both VTRs, Namikawa was pressed further about his "analogy quips," which he said he makes unconsciously, and he was left utterly defeated, saying, "This might be the most embarrassing thing on Yoasobi" and "It's not fun to watch at all! My comparisons are always such a struggle to come up with!" Shimono, on the other hand, praised Namikawa's analogy quips, saying, "No, but they really are funny, you know?"
Finally, Namikawa made a suggestive remark, saying, "But someday, you'll have this too, Shimono," to which Shimono laughed wryly and replied, "That's a little scary. We all have habits we're not aware of, after all." After the reveal, there were moments where the two grew a bit awkward with each other, overly conscious of their own analogy quips, but the segment stayed full of laughter right to the end.
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