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! 💖💖💖
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This is Pran isn't it? 💖

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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE – QL EDITION
I was tagged by @hughungrybear at this post here and by @colourme-feral at this post here. Thanks for tagging me guys! 🥰
All three of these experiences were depicted in a QL show but only two have happened to me in real life. So one of the three is a lie.
Vote for the lie.
I hadn't intended for it all to be from Bad Buddy, but yeah these scenes are all from Bad Buddy. 😂
"I kissed a cute guy on a breakwater"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.11 [3/4] 14.00 – Pat and Pran kiss on the breakwater of Khao Tao Beach
"I lay awake broken-hearted and pining next to my sleeping, clueless crush"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.4 [4/4] 18.14 – Pran relives yet again the aching sweet sorrow of a love unrequited, when you're physically so close to your beloved, but kept apart emotionally by a gulf of unknowns and impossibilities
"I hung packets of food on my dorm crush's door handle"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.2 [1/4] 13.02 – Pran discovers Pat's gift of khanom jeep hanging at his door
Which is the lie? 😂
I'm so late with this that I'm just not going to tag anybody. But if you see this and would like to play along, consider yourself tagged! 💖 (Do tag me too so I can read your post. 😍)
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had kanom jeeb for the first time yesterday. bad buddy fans will Know™ what a big deal this is djfjcjjdjdfj
#bad buddy#kanom jeeb#khanom jeep#shao mai#siu mai#i am dying to have a taste of khanom thong yod now
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this might look like a normal photo but don’t be fooled. hoes used to cry on the floor about this back in the day.

#ah ep.12 fake breakup era#bait-and-switch#bad buddy#ohm and nanon gave pat and pran such a tense rendering in the reunion scenes#patpran looked like ex-lovers with so much history and so much still left unsaid between them#and we were being set up to think that way#but it was really pran all grouchyballs because pat went to the wrong airport and left him stranded 😂#while pat was full of dread‚ knowing he'd have to deal with cross kitty pran later 😂#why didn't pran have at least a travel bag with him though? 🤔
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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE – QL EDITION
I was tagged by @hughungrybear at this post here and by @colourme-feral at this post here. Thanks for tagging me guys! 🥰
All three of these experiences were depicted in a QL show but only two have happened to me in real life. So one of the three is a lie.
Vote for the lie.
I hadn't intended for it all to be from Bad Buddy, but yeah these scenes are all from Bad Buddy. 😂
"I kissed a cute guy on a breakwater"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.11 [3/4] 14.00 – Pat and Pran kiss on the breakwater of Khao Tao Beach
"I lay broken-hearted and pining next to my sleeping, clueless crush"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.4 [4/4] 18.14 – Pran relives yet again the aching sweet sorrow of a love unrequited, when you're physically so close to your beloved, but kept apart emotionally by a gulf of unknowns and impossibilities
"I hung packets of food on my dorm crush's door handle"–
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.2 [1/4] 13.02 – Pran discovers Pat's gift of khanom jeep hanging at his door
Which is the lie? 😂
I'm so late with this that I'm just not going to tag anybody. But if you see this and would like to play along, consider yourself tagged! 💖 (Do tag me too so I can read your post. 😍)
#two truths and a lie#ql edition#bad buddy#tag game#hadn't intended it to be all about bad buddy#but when is anything not ever about bad buddy?#so reblogging on my bbs blog
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What triggers memories of Bad Buddy for other BBS fans
tagged by @dimplesandfierceeyes! thank you for the tag! It's nice to see bbs peeps connecting 🩷
Lots of things still remind me of bad buddy, but a few specific things
Bets, deals and fist bumps - in dramas, in real life, I always think oooh we are patpraning here haha
Annnd also seaweed snacks. It's when I understood Pran was a true freak and I love him for it.
Hmmm tagging @pokomumee @galauvant @sunshinedobi @dancing-out-in-space @lurkingteapot if you want to play!
#fistbumps!#never occured to me because i don't normally fistbump people but you betcha i will think of patpran when i see or do this! 😍#also yeah tao kae noi is now a staple in my pantry#it's great on pasta and seafood salads 🤤#bad buddy#bad buddy tag game
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Thanks for the tag @telomeke-bbs for the bad buddy tag game !!
The game was to mention What triggers memories of Bad Buddy for other BBS fans
It's a cruel thing to make me choose a single thing because this show has consumed me entirely and made itself home in every neuron in my brain. Random things remind me of bad buddy out of nowhere. Like recently I saw something related to Pokemon I thought PatPran might have competed on who could memorize more Pokemons.
But if I had to choose one I'd pick Beaches.
I've never been to one but every time someone mentions it I remember our boys playing in water
Or sitting side by side in comfortable silence
And the whole ep 11 made bad buddy and beaches inseperable to me. So every time someone mentions beaches I'm back thinking about these two away from everything, where they can be themselves for a while and not having to constantly watch their backs.
Lmao this seems more like a rant 😂
Don't know if they have been tagged yet. No pressure tags for
@watchingblsnowandforever
@desi-yearning
@sharingfandoms
@airenyah
@dimplesandfierceeyes
@hereforlou
@pokomumee
Anyone who saw and wants to play can be considered tagged. Just tag me back so I can see them.
Ok byeee!!
#beaches!#thanks for playing; your bbs memory trigger really resonates with me 🥰#i've loved the beach ever since i was a wee lad and now after bbs i CANNOT feel the sand or smell sea air and not think of patpran#may have to book a trip to hua hin to feed my addiction 🤣#bad buddy#bad buddy tag game
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@greenteadumplings and @telomeke-bbs , thanks for the tag game tag!
The game was to mention:
What triggers memories of Bad Buddy for other BBS fans
Oh boy.... for the longest time, almost anything and everything would make me immediately jump to Bad Buddy, but these days my brain has calmed down, at least somewhat.
Now I'd say the most likely thing to get me swept up in it again would be: rooftops
Yeah I'm predictable as fuck but any time I see a rooftop scene, my head is right back here:
And here:
And we're all still on the rooftop with them, right?
Tagging:
@galauvant
@trilliastra
@onstoryladders
@incandescentflower
@ephemeralunicornsstuff
Sorry if anyone has already been tagged and obviously no pressure, but if you wanna join in feel free!
#bad buddy tag game#thanks for playing!#yes every time i walk up steps to a rooftop (and i do have to‚ from time to time) my mind zips back to those bbs scenes! 😅#bad buddy#some of us are never leaving that rooftop 😂
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bad buddy tag game~~
tagged by: @telomeke-bbs (thankies for the tag! btw i Live for ur thesis length bbs posts 🤭)
oh so many things but if i have to pick I’d have to say pran’s scent. let me explain…elaborate—extrapolate if u will: i have the cologne that pran’s scent is based on. it’s honestly one of my signature scents and i get So Many compliments on it—highly recommend. It’s the Kiehl’s cologne for anyone wondering, Director Aof tweeted about it years ago when the show was first released 🥹
i always think of them when i wear it, particularly the scenes where pat can’t stop himself from sniffing pran just a lil bit more (which is also the case irl btw). the scene where they hide in the music store from chai and have the forced proximity that makes pat question what detergent pran uses…yeah that.
#ooh thanks for playing! 😍#i never thought about pran's scent and yes i can see how that would be a real-life reminder of bad buddy‚ and so evocative too#tbh i don't know what it smells like#my next mission will be to check out the nearest kiehl's store#bad buddy#bad buddy tag game#what reminds you in real life about bad buddy
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Thanks for playing! 🥰 This was a fun read. And here's that post again about khanom thong yod, that sent me on another investigative spiral and why those little golden balls of deliciousness actually have a double meaning in Bad Buddy: 🤗
Bad Buddy tag game
@telomeke-bbs thank you for the tag.
The question is: What reminds me of Bad Buddy?
I have to say my reminders of BBS are pretty mundane. Basically, any time I see Ohm Pawat or Nanon - thank goodness we have at least one actor who doesn't share a nickname with any other actor, so I don't have to disambiguate - in a series, I compare their performance in that series to their performance in Bad Buddy, the first series I saw either of them in. It's definitely a thing for me that I love to see actors who I like doing different kinds of work in different series.
I would have thought I would think of Bad Buddy every time I have Kanom Thong Yodd, but thinking on it, no, I don't. And I've had it several times. I just think about its delightful sweetness. I think it doesn't trigger Bad Buddy vibes because I had it for the first time before I saw Bad Buddy for the first time. It's more that seeing it in Bad Buddy reminded me of the last time I had it (as of when I watched that episode). But now that you've asked, perhaps I will think of Bad Buddy when I have it in the future. Which might be today.
I've seen Ohm in:
Bad Buddy (duh)
He's Coming to Me (delightful)
Vice Versa (just barely)
Our Skyy 2 (does this count? It's the same role)
10 Years Ticket (hard to take early on, ultimately rewarding)
Kidnap (doesn't stand out for me)
I've seen Nanon in:
Bad Buddy (again, duh)
55:15 Never Too Late (a masterpiece performance, highly recommended)
Midnight Museum (small part, but wild)
Our Skyy 2 (same note as for Ohm)
I Love a Lot of You (very different performance, but not enough to keep me interested in the series)
Telemeke, you've pretty much tagged nearly everyone I would have tagged and I don't have the spoons to do an in depth search, but it looks like I can tag:
@lurkingteapot
@bengiyo
@shortpplfedup
No pressure!
#bad buddy#bad buddy tag game#thanks for playing!#this was fun to read 🥰#i most DEFINITELY will think of bad buddy whenever i have khanom thong yod!#little flirty golden balls#and i now have a new nickname for pat! 😅
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fav boy of the week
pat
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BAD BUDDY TAG GAME!
Inspired by this post by @papagowon HERE, I was thinking about all the times something happens IRL and I'm swept away back to 2021/2022 and to a particular scene in Bad Buddy (yes, that's how much my brain chemistry has been altered, that it's become a reference point for reality 🤣).
And then I wondered—what triggers memories of Bad Buddy for other BBS fans? So tell us if you will (in the format below), and tag others to do the same! 💖
So @papagowon I see you and raise you! 😍 Here's mine–
everytime i get a wrong food delivery order, it's like uh 🤭 ooh 🤭 this is fate knocking 🤭 where is my hot childhood rival 🤭 that i can gift him my sweet oishi in return? 🤭
(above) Bad Buddy Ep.2 [1/4] 8.39 – Pran gets more than he asked for when his food delivery arrives
Tagging some superfans off the top of my head–
@miscellar @dimplesandfierceeyes @inventedfangirling @rythyme @airenyah @waitmyturtles @neuroticbookworm @grapejuicegay @lurkingshan @pandasmagorica @patpran-bbs @greenteadumplings @hughungrybear @dribs-and-drabbles
and anyone else who wants to play! (Don't forget to tag the one who tagged you if you do, so we can read your response. 💖)
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(above) Bad Buddy Ep.4 [1 /4] 10.34 – Pran searches for his earphones on the ground outside the South Technology U Archi faculty, while saying "Where are you?"
everytime I drop my bluetooth earphones on the ground it’s like uh🤭where🤭 is my hot childhood rival 🤭 that’s gonna help me look for them 🤭
#omg this is the bad buddy version of the sherlock drunken smartphone charger 🤣#“where are you?”#you thinkin' bout your earphones or pat there‚ pran? 🤣#bad buddy
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BAD BUDDY EPISODE 3 – THE WORLD'S ONE AND ONLY HANDSOME PICK
OMG, I can't believe I never noticed it before... 🤦♂️
I'm sure others have pointed this out in ages past, but this scene of Pat cutting up his student ID card and handing it to Pran to replace his missing guitar pick isn't just telling us how he is always giving of himself, especially for Pran.
The fact that Pat destroys his ID card is absolutely foreshadowing how he will go on later, out of his own free will, to dismantle his very sense of self, image and identity as a super-macho mini-Ming, bitterest enemy of the Siridechawats next door (molded since birth by Ming himself) – sacrificing and also reinventing himself, on his own terms, and all for his beloved Pran.
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Ep. 3 || Ep. 5 friends lovers
#bad buddy#i can't believe i missed this the first time around#such a wondrous parallel and i'm tearing up again#airenyah you're a genius for picking up on this#they're even dressed the same way!#pat in a sleeveless top and pran in a baggy blue t-shirt#only baseball mom was missing from ep.3
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Oh easy answer.
Bad Buddy – it would've made growing up in my teen years, growing into my own identity and the process of self-discovery and self-acceptance so much easier.
I hope young 'uns in high school (and young 'uns later in life too) will get to experience it too– 💖
youtube
Reblog this and tag it with a piece of media that you discovered as an young adult/adult that would've completely rewired your neurons had you discovered it in middle school
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