The Phua family is at a loss when they discover that after 40 years, the renowned institution, Watermelon KTV lounge, will be closed down. The family hold many dear memories at the lounge - it's where Kang and Rosie first met and fell in love. After considering the options, they decide to buy in and take over the Watermelon lounge. It will soon be 'PCK Pte Ltd - Construction and KTV'. However, they don't have enough cash to make the purchase alone. They enlist the help of Kang's old friend, Kok Peng, and a successful charming businesswoman - Candy Chew. Candy is an ex-hostess who now runs a Property and Lingerie conglomerate. Things start looking up as the deal is put to paper. But disaster strikes when the Phuas discover Candy has played them out and intends to demolish the Watermelon lounge and build a Spanish restaurant for higher profits.

Save the watermelon Part 1

Gurmit Singh

Pierre Png

Tan Kheng Hua

Irene Ang

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Are you man enough

While trying get along with his babies, Chu Kang loses Romeo on his way to buy 4D. He seeks the help of King Kong and Ah Goon and hides from Rosie.

Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

Chu Beng discovers that Margaret has accepted a job offer in New Zealand and is hurt the she did not tell him personally. Chu Beng encourages him to be a man and assert his husbandly rights.

He's the wife

Rosie tries to manage motherhood on top of the rusual housekeeping duties, and her slimwrap, mahjong and facials. Chu Kang is left eating instant mee, and losing clients because he has to look after the babies.

A breath of fresh air

Chu Beng is excited that Margaret will be taking a short break from her filming commitments in New Zealand to celebrate their wedding anniversary together.

A sip of brandy

Tired of being mistreated and yelled at by Kang, King Kong, Ah Goon and Bobo decide to form their own company (Happy Coconut Pte Ltd) and work for themselves.

Worker's inc

Kang and his workers notice Beng has been acting suspiciously of late. They suspect that he's having an affair since Margaret is away in New Zealand and besides, who can blame him for straying after being controlled by Margaret all these years.

Full body massage

Chu Beng, tired of being constantly humiliated by Chu Kang every time he wants to borrow Kang's car, decides to secretly buy his own automobile. He loves it like a child and parks it a few doors away on the street, anything to keep the purchase from Kang.

The Beng mobile

Margaret returns from her two month stint in New Zealand, and is shocked to discover Beng has become more brash and confident.

No retreat no surrender

Margaret warns Rosie that her unhealthy eating habits could have adverse effects on her children in the long term.

Healthy wealthy and unwise

Margaret urges Chu Kang and Rosie to get Romeo and Crystal places in a prestigious preschool even though they're less than a year old. It's the only way to ensure their children will get a good educational foundation. Kang and Rosie take her advice and soon learn that enrolling in the school involves a little blackmail as well. Soon the Phuas are constructing a new school wing, helping out in the cafeteria and garden, all in the hopes of getting their children places in the prestigious school. Meanwhile Margaret is concerned that Aloysius's taste in death metal music is too morbid for his own good. Together with Beng, they try to reach out to their son by gaining an appreciation of the darker side of rock and roll.

Are you good enough

When Chu Kang is hit with a bout of hypertension, brought on by stress, he is forced to stay home and relax. However, he finds this a more difficult task than he had bargained for. From getting stuck in complex yoga positions to struggling with complex jigsaw puzzles. Kang starts feeling even more stressful by staying at home. Without his supervision, Chu Beng is left in charge of a prestigious project with dire consequence. When the toilet bowls are fixed the wrong way around and a series of mishaps occur, the client threatens to pull the business from PCK Pte Ltd. Not wanting to further stress out Kang, Beng enlists Margaret's help to schmooze the client and keep the job. However, the client becomes smitten by Margaret's charms and proposes to her.

Rest and relak

Kang's ex-boss, Wong Tua Kee, makes a return and announces that he's retiring from construction. He plans to pass over all his contacts and projects to his favourite ex-worker, Chu Kang. But on one condition: Tua Kee wants Chu Kang to prove he's a good contractor by working with Tua Kee on a very small security guard hut job. Chu Kang is ecstatic and agrees. What could be simpler? Things take a turn for the worse when Tua Kee makes Kang do menial construction work, makes King Kong and Ah Goon supervise Kang's work and starts treating Kang the way he used to in the past- with rudeness, insults and smacks to the head. Meanwhile, Margaret is upset that even though she and Chu Beng own 50% of the Phua house, the entire home barely has an ounce of their influence. She secretly attempts to replace the living room's ah beng decor with some up-market art pieces.

Who's the boss

It's Chinese New Year, Kang devises an elaborate scheme to maximise Romeo and Crystal's ang pow takings. Margaret gets an enexpected visit from her sister Melissa, who makes a shocking request from her. Meanwhile Beng has to deal with an irritatingly polite hotel clerk.

The reunion

Kang and Bobo are out to prove who is the more macho of the two. They embark on a Fear Factor-style contest which Kang easily wins. Bobo accepts defeat graciously until he learns that Kang cheated by replacing his real bugs with chocolate bugs. Now Bobo wants to take the contest up a notch. Beng also wants in on the contest but he's shown little respect by Kang and Bobo so he resorts to a macho contest of his own by baking the lightest, fluffiest chiffon cake known to man. Meanwhile, Margaret attempts to get Aloysius and Lynette back together, but her plans backfire when she discovers he's been dating someone new.

The Phua family is in a frenzy as they attempt to un-do the damage caused by Candy and Kok Peng. They go to great lengths to get the lounge back - they use their brains, wit and the art of seduction - but nothing works. The family resigns itself to the fact that Watermelon is no more. Rosie refuses to accept the fact and soon, she and Chu Kang have barricaded and cuffed themselves to the lounge premises as the bulldozers approach...

The sitcom centres on an eccentric contractor with his trademark yellow boots, curly afro hair and large facial mole. While it carries the traditions of a sitcom, many unusual elements were used such as flashbacks, quick gags and celebrity cameo appearances.

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