| The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 4 | |
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| Japanese title | Suzumiya Haruhi no Tameiki IV (涼宮ハルヒの溜息IV) |
| Season | 2 |
| Season Two (Chronological) Broadcast No. |
23 |
| Air date | September 3, 2009 |
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| Previous (Season Two) The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 3 |
Next (Season Two) The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya Part 5 |
Key Events[]
- The SOS Brigade continue their movie-making endeavor.
- They film the scene when Mikuru is thrown into the water.
- They film the love scene at Tsuruya's huge house.
- After Kyon discovers Haruhi slipped sake into Mikuru's drink, the two argue.
- Kyon reconciles with Haruhi.
- Haruhi makes sakura appear in the midst of summer.
Summary[]
The SOS Brigade continue their movie-making endeavor, proceeding to a pond blocked off by a chain-link fence. Nagato pries the fence open; the film's extras (Tsuruya, Taniguchi, and Kunikida) write off this superhuman feat by assuming the fence was old. After filming Asahina and Nagato's characters taunting each other, Haruhi gives Asahina a new contact lens. Nagato jumps on Asahina and gets rid of the lens, but not quickly enough to prevent it from cutting a V-shape into the chain-link fence.
Haruhi explains that they are filming a scene in which Nagato takes control of innocent bystanders (played by the three extras) and has them throw Asahina into the pond. Asahina is mortified at this prospect, especially as the pond is polluted, but agrees to do the scene since the SOS Brigade have mutually come to the conclusion that stopping the filming will provoke Haruhi into remaking the world. Afterwards, Koizumi helps her out of the pond, and Haruhi declares that the next scene will be Koizumi bringing Asahina back to his home. When Haruhi brushes off Kyon's objection that the movie doesn't explain why Nagato and her possessed underlings don't persist in their attack, he comes to the conclusion that she devised the pond scene just to humiliate Asahina.
Tsuruya volunteers her house as a filming location for the love scene, and Haruhi dismisses the other two extras. They head over to Tsuruya's huge house. Haruhi dresses Asahina in a revealing nightgown and spikes her drink with alcohol in order for her to come off more "sexy". When Haruhi orders Koizumi to kiss Asahina for the scene, Kyon begins arguing with her. After he realizes she spiked Asahina's drink, the argument escalates, with Haruhi declaring that Asahina is merely her "toy" and that everything is hers to control. Kyon's breaking point is reached, and he tries to hit Haruhi, but Koizumi restrains him.
Koizumi informs Kyon that Haruhi is so depressed by their falling out that no Shinjins appeared in response to his defying her, meaning she cannot even feel frustrated. He shows Kyon that all the pigeons in the shrine have turned white, in response to Haruhi's earlier wish to film the scene with white pigeons. Kyon maintains that he cannot forgive Haruhi for her mistreatment of Asahina.
At lunch Taniguchi, sore that Haruhi dismissed him after just one scene, derides her movie. This angers Kyon, and he realizes that he too constantly criticized the movie even though he made no effort to come up with anything for the cultural festival himself and was perfectly willing to help Haruhi every step of the way. This moves him to head to the clubroom and tell Haruhi that they should finish the movie.
Reinvigorated by her reconciliation with Kyon, Haruhi makes cherry blossoms bloom in the midst of autumn. She also decides to get a cat to be a familiar for Nagato's character.
Characters[]
Paranormal phenomena[]
Nagato tears open a chain-link fence.
Haruhi gives Asahina's contact lens the ability to project a high frequency molecular cutter.
Haruhi's wish for white pigeons turns the pigeons' feathers white.
Haruhi causes cherry blossoms to bloom out of season.
Quotes[]
- Kyon: "Cut it out! How is that supposed to help? And how is any of this gonna fit in the movie?"
- Haruhi: "Huh? What's your problem? I don't have to tell you how I'm gonna use this; that's my business."
- Kyon: "You can't tell me because you have no idea! Stop making excuses!"
- Haruhi: "Yeah, like you know anything! You don't even know what this movie's about! How dare you make selfish demands!"
- Kyon: "You're the one who's being selfish here! You're just hitting Miss Asahina because you want to! How dare you treat her like that!"
- Haruhi: "Don't you talk to me like that! Who do you think you are? This is called story and it's important for my movie! Get it now?"
- Kyon: "It's not important! Know what? This sucks! Miss Asahina is not your toy!"
- Haruhi: "Shut up! It's important to me! And I can treat her like a toy if I want to!"
- [Kyon tries to hit Haruhi, but is stopped by Koizumi]
- Haruhi: "Wha... What is it? What is your problem anyway, huh? You just have to do what I tell you! I'm the Brigade leader, I'm the director! ...Whatever! Do what I say or get out!"
- Kyon: "Let go Koizumi! I don't care if it's a person or an animal, if they won't listen they deserve to be smacked! If she doesn't learn her lesson now, she's gonna grow up to be some kind of lonely freak!"
- Koizumi: "Miss Suzumiya thought that no matter what happened, you would always be on her side. That no matter how much you complained, you alone would always forgive her."
- Kyon: "The only one that could forgive her is a martyred saint."
- Kyon: "At least Haruhi is doing something for the school festival. She's trying to be involved. But what about you? Even if it is stupid, at least Haruhi's trying to make something. All you're doing is sitting there and complaining."
Trivia[]
- This episode was the 23rd episode broadcast for Season 2, but was the thirteenth new episode.
- This episode begins mid-scene, picking up after the previous episode's abrupt end.
- The opening theme does not play.
- In the dubbed version Asahina apologizes to Nagato for unintentionally cutting up her hand before asking what she injected her with. She makes no expression of concern for Nagato in the subtitled version.
- This episode is one of the few times that Koizumi is called by his given name, though technically Haruhi is referring to the character he plays in her film.
- In the subtitled version, Koizumi hypothesizes that it is Haruhi's job to fix the world's problems, and Kyon accepts this hypothesis, though perhaps only for the sake of argument. In the dubbed version, Koizumi instead says only that Haruhi may be the only one with the power to fix the world's problems, and Kyon rejects this hypothesis.
- When Kyon goes to apologize to Haruhi, he sees her putting her hair up in a ponytail, but she stops as he walks in. (In The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya VI, Kyon admits that he finds ponytails a turn on and that on Haruhi they looked "so good it was criminal".) This is changed from the light novel, in which she already had her hair in a ponytail and undoes it when he comes in. She also throws away some curry bread that she presumably baked herself, whereas in this episode, she can be seen still holding the bread when Kyon speaks to her.
- This is the first time Tsuruya's house is seen.
- Kyon saying that Haruhi's film is going to be awesome appears only in the dubbed version; in the subtitled version he expresses only a resolve to finish the film.
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