Sunday, April 05, 2020

New Idea: TOC - Chess Nuts - S2E09

This idea is based on my idea to analyse every Friends episode.
In general the idea is to give you one episode per blogpost. In every blogpost I'll shortly describe what happens with the main characters of The Odd Couple in that certain episode. SPOILER
You can then play this in the game as you wish.
I don't know The Odd Couple as much by heart as Friends so I haven't written a main blogpost about it (yet).

Chess Nuts - S2E09
The apartment's doorman spills the beans that Oscar's ex-wife is still on the apartment lease, leading to the rescinding of their rent control and Oscar owing more than $10,000 in back rent. Later on, Oscar discovers that Felix used to play chess competitively, so he asks Felix to win his back rent for him.

Oscar
He wants to ease the doorman, Norman, because his ex-wife is still on the apartment's lease. He's too late however and the doorman already told the board about the lease.
When Teddy's son, Andre, comes over to learn chess from Felix everyone learns that Felix has played competition, but he had to stop because he couldn't remember it's only a game.
Oscar convinces Felix to play in competition in the parc again so he can earn his rent (12,000) back.
They changed the apartment's lease to Felix' name so he's not an illegal tennant anymore.

Felix
He (obviously) plays chess and agrees to Teddy to lend out his chess set so his son can learn it. He's not good at sports.
He insulted the doorman by texting emoticons to the apartment's board and that's the start of a fight between the doorman and Felix.
Felix already payed his half of the back rent, but he gets convinced to play chess again to help Oscar earn the money.
Emily notices that Felix is not acting like usual because he's playing so much chess. So she goes looking on the Internet and finds a broadcast of 1984 about Felix being in the finals of the youthcompetition of chess. He started with confidence, but loses to Joshua Norwall at the end and gets really mad and throws over the table.
He starts to wanting to do competitions again because he had always wondered how his life would have been if he didn't lose his cool. But then he starts to shout at an old lady who starts to cry. Emily and Oscar need to do something so they invite Joshua Norwall over to the apartment.
At first he doesn't want to play even though it could give him closure. But Joshua is a real jerk challenging him so Felix starts to play.
He realises Joshua loses on purpose becasue Oscar bribed him. It appears Oscar sold his favourite baseball signed by the Mets in '69 to have money to bribe Joshua. Felix realises him losing at the chess tournament in 1984 led him to a happy life. He doesn't want to play anymore.


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Text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Odd_Couple_(2015_TV_series)_episodes#Season_2_(2016)                          

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