NaN/100 votes#1 - Kefir
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/19/1991
Scriptwriter, Nashiya Sutami, is addicted to energy drinks and Moguro offers him Kefir instead, but he must care for the culture and keep it alive. Sutami's health improves, but he develops a writer's block. He blames the kefir and destroys it. Before he can apologize, the kefir consumes him.
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#2 - Man Who Looks Down
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/1991
Kazuo Uwame is a middle-aged company man who is always apologizing for his behavior. Moguro takes him to the top of a skyscraper to live for a week so he can look down on everyone else instead of always looking up at others. His attitude changes and he gains more respect at work, however when he returns home, his domineering wife beats him back into the submissive man he was before.
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#3 - Golf Freak
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/1991
Company man Kyouichi Shiratama is obsessed by golf, but he is a terrible player. Moguro offers to make him a super golfer, and gives him a magic golf club, but he must not let anyone else use it. However, after Shiratama's boss insists on using it, Shiratama's next ball hits a gangster in the head and his associates take their revenge on the unlucky Shiratama.
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#4 - Old Face, Young Body
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/1991
Company President, Izumo Wakashi is 73 year old and feels his age, but he looks much younger. Moguro gives him special dumbbells for training which he must use with a special incantation to recover his youthful strength. However, it only works if he sticks to golf and does not pursue women. Wakashi ignores the warning and spends the night with a young woman, which does not effect his muscular body, but causes his face to decay rapidly into that of an old man.
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#5 - The Chair-Man
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/1991
Printer Anraku Kazuhisa often works late and sleeps on uncomfortable office chairs at work. Moguro offers him a large comfortable bed above the Demon's Nest Bar and he takes the bed home for his family. However, his family all sleep in the bed so he goes back to the factory to sleep and Moguro turns him into an armchair.
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#6 - Decision Stick
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/1991
Mayoi Oushi, a 25 year-old company man has difficulty making decisions and exasperates his co-workers. Moguro gives him a "decision stick" with an arrow head to help him make decisions, but he must always follow the stick's decision. Things go well when he follows the stick, however when he goes against its decision, the next time he throws the stick into the air, it kills him when it falls.
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#7 - Hot Spring Eccentricity
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/14/1991
Company man Kibara Shisao decides to take a side trip on his way home from a business trip, and Moguro takes him to a Mystery Onsen. They spend the night drinking with geishas, but to Kibara they look like his wife except a beautiful young woman named Chi. Moguro arranges for Kibara to spend the night with her, but in the morning he awakes with a geisha who looks like his wife and an expensive bill.
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#8 - Security Capsule
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/21/1991
Company man Heiichi Uranari (from episode 2) feels more comfortable living in his old car than staying at home, but the car breaks down so Moguro takes him to a capsule hotel. Uranari sleeps badly because of hearing others snoring, so Moguro takes him to another hotel with security capsules that seals out the outside world. Uranari sleeps so well, that when he emerges he finds a post-apocalyptic world where he is the only survivor.
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#9 - Pride in My Work
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/28/1991
Ban Moriyasu is a struggling artist and Moguro takes him to the wealthy Mr Narugane who commissions him to paint a van Gogh replica for his office. Narugane then sponsors Moriyasu to paint, but Moguro warns Ban that he must not lose his artistic integrity. However, Ban reluctantly agrees to copy a Gauguin painting rather than lose his sponsorship and Moguro condemns him to be like van Gogh. Ban severs his ear and spends the rest of his life painting self-portraits.
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#10 - Home Vegetable Garden
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/4/1991
Company man Deri Keita is extremely fussy and always brings his tea and food from home. He is asked out for a business dinner but he finds the food inedible and drinks too much. Moguro offers Deri a device which will detect if food contains harmful substances and sends him fresh organic food which soothes his conscience. However, Deri becomes suspicious of the quality and Moguro condemns him to survive alone by turning his apartment into an organic farm.
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#11 - Mean Drunk
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/11/1991
Company man Yotte Sourou is meek and incompetent, but after drinking alcohol he becomes loud and obnoxious. Moguro shows Yotte video footage of his behavior and Yotte vows to give up alcohol. Moguro does not trust him, and gives him a bag into which Yotte can vent his pent up rage. The arrangement works fine until he arrives home late one night. A an angry drunk accosts Yotte and pulls open the bag to receive a tirade of abuse. Insulted, the drunk pushes Yotte down a flight of steps and he ends up in hospital.
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#12 - Paradise Bath
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/18/1991
Yuami Yoshio is a waterworks agent who enjoys bath houses and Moguro promises to take him to one of his favorite ones, the Edo style ukiyo Paradise bath house. Moguro gives Yuami a free entry pass, but warns Yuami that he will be banned if he takes any modern devices inside. One day Yuami takes in his pager and Moguro gives him the choice of never going again or never leaving. Yuami chooses never to leave and he becomes an attendant in Paradise
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#13 - Rental Girlfriend
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 6/25/1991
TV production staff member, Tsunei Kazuto, is invited to a function with the other crew members and must bring a girlfriend, but he doesn't have one. Tsunei asks Moguro to find him a partner for the night and he agrees, although Tsunei must not fall in love with her. On the night, Eri, a beautiful woman in a sports car picks him up and takes him to the dinner, making his colleagues jealous. Tsunei pleads with Moguro for a chance to see Eri again, but this time she arrives with her pushy manager who demands money for the service.
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#14 - Memory Bar
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 7/2/1991
Ageing company man, Kaikou Sumitarou, longs for his younger days out at night before bars became dominated by noisy karaoke. Moguro takes him to the Taishō era Akaneko bar where he meets the beautiful hostess Etsuko. Kaikou becomes a regular, but Moguro warns him not to fall in love. Unfortunately, Kaikou falls for Etsuko and when he visits again, he discovers that the bar is a ruin after being abandoned for decades, and the Etsuko who greets him is undead.
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#15 - My Wife's Lunch
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 7/9/1991
Wagatsuma Tsuyoshi's wife Hanako always prepares lunch for him. Although her cooking is inedible, he does not have the courage to tell her and instead, he always eats sandwiches bought from a store. Moguro offers to provide a delicious lunch in exchange for Wagatsuma's at a jizo statue each day. The arrangement is successful, but Wagatsuma is not allowed to know who eats Hanako's lunches. One day, Wagatsuma sees that it is a homeless man who eats the lunches which breaks the deal. When Tsuyoshi returns home he finds the homeless man in his place, being fed by Hanako.
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#16 - Divorce Club
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/16/1991
Bon Fukumizu is a hotel banquet host, but has a lifeless and miserable married life himself, living with his wealthy wife and her mother. Moguro offers to help him with a divorce, and introduce him to a divorce club where he must choose someone regardless of looks or wealth. The club is on a cruise ship and he meets a beautiful woman and they marry, even though his wife is a cross-dressing man.
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#17 - Dream My Home
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/23/1991
Moguro offers to help Ikko Tateo find his dream home, but finding something suitable within his price range proves impossible. Eventually he finds the perfect home for Ikko's family, a free concept home which is modern, spacious, close to transport and the sea. The only drawback is that it is built out from the side of a cliff.
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#18 - Love's Parting Gifts
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 7/30/1991
Moguro catches up with married travelling salesman Uwaki Shirou who, three years earlier, met and became infatuated with the attractive Ubuna Yoshiko. Moguro reminds Uwaki that he helped him woo Yoshiko, but Uwaki was supposed to reveal that he was already married. instead, Uwaki deserted Yoshiko and now as his punishment, Uwaki discovers that Yoshiko has moved in next door to his family, and she has a baby.
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#19 - The Ideal Family
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 8/6/1991
Moguro meets company worker Yanai Samushi who is unhappy at home with his wife and son and he suggests that Yanai change families. Initially Yanai refuses, but after another fight at home, he agrees. Yanai finds himself outside another house with his name, and is welcomed home by a woman and daughter he met previously at a blood bank. Yanai's wife and son begin to miss him, so Moguro takes them to his other home where they find him being sucked dry by a vampire mother and daughter.
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#20 - Love Across the Glass
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 8/13/1991
Computer programmer Kouda Kametarou is obsessed by turtles and Moguro offers him a chance to swim with his favorite sea turtle Kamejirou at the local aquarium. Moguro releases Kamejirou but Kouda takes it home against Moguro's instructions, so Moguro turns Kouda into a turtle.
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#21 - Barhopper
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/1991
Novelist Koshiba Shousuke is an inveterate bar-hopper, but he has trouble meeting his deadlines. After a night on the town, Moguro introduces Koshiba to his attractive drinking partner Sakai Nomiko, but warns Koshiba that he must not make a pass at Nomiko. They agree on a bar-hopping expedition along the Yamanote circle, and Nomiko outlasts Koshiba who ends up a drunken wreck.
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#22 - Long-Term Break
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 8/27/1991
Mature company man Nagai Yasumi is forced to take four weeks vacation, but has no idea what to do with his time so he rides trains and sits in parks during the day. Moguro offers to help by introducing him to volunteering, however Nagai must expect nothing in return or become personally involved with the people he helps. He helps with the rehabilitation of a young woman which he enjoys, but he becomes attracted to her. When Nagai returns to the apartment, instead of the young woman, he finds an aged version of himself needing home care.
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#23 - House Lady
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 9/10/1991
Wagama Machiko is a fashion designer, but never has time to tidy her apartment, so she is reluctant to let her boyfriend Bonchi see the mess. One evening when Bonchi arrives to pick her up, Moguro has the apartment tidied beforehand by the housekeeper Catherine Baker. Catherine proves invaluable, but Machiko thinks Bonchi finds her attractive so Machiko fires Catherine. However, Bonchi realizes that it was Catherine who cooked and cleaned so he dumps the messy Machiko and marries Catherine.
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#24 - Sleep Pillow
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 9/17/1991
Muneri Kiyoshi is a company man supervisor who has trouble getting a good night's sleep. Moguro gives him a small electronic pillow to attach to his neck which will allow him to sleep while appearing to be awake. However, Muneri must remove the device when a buzzer sounds to avoid overuse, but he ignores the buzzer and it overloads during a business meeting. He then finds his inability to sleep ideal for his new position, as night watchman.
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#25 - The Mystery Star
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 9/24/1991
Moguro restores Katte Ryouzou, the former film actor known as Hoshi Shinzaburou, to stardom, but another actor emerges claiming that he is the former actor. They both appear on TV for the audience to identify the real star, but Katte loses and Moguro sentences him to acting out his role in his retirement village.
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The Best Episodes of The Laughing Salesman Season 2
Every episode of The Laughing Salesman Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Laughing Salesman Season 2!
Based on the horror manga created by duo Fujiko Fujio, The Laughing Salesman tells the story of a salesman named Moguro Fukuzo, whose job is...
Genre:Animation
Network:TBS
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Kefir" is the best rated episode of "The Laughing Salesman" season 2. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/19/1991. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Man Who Looks Down".