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Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Season 1 Episode 5

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AIRED: 11/3/04

A festival comes up and Saitou invites Koyuki to play in a contest with his old band, who looks to cover a Rocket Boys song for the event. Koyuki practices hard, but is unsure if he'll be ready by the time the contest starts. The time has come for the soon-to-be complete band to be named and nothing sticks out until Chiba hears Beck's barking and suggests the name Beck for the band, which is final choice. The day of the festival arrives and Maho visits Koyuki and they head to the festival together and find the bassist of the band drinking heavily and drinks too much and passes out. With the singer also gone, Maho offers to fill in as a lead singer. The two share an intimate moment afterwards while singing that same Dying Breed they were singing earlier.moreless

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This is a great episode filled with lots of music.

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By smanxmonkey, Apr 01, 2007

This could be considered a sub-plot episode, but even saying that it is one of the best episodes in my opinion. It is filled with tons of music references like The Beatles, The Pixies, and more. It is devoted to building Koyuki and Maho's relationship through memorable scenes. The songs Follow Me and Moon on the Water, which are great songs, are featured in this episode and take up most of it. This episode is filled with comedy and even a bit of skinny dipping(still not interested?). Loads of character building in this one and you get to find out how the band was named. Amazing episode that could be my favorite of the series.moreless
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Tomohisa Asou	Beck
Yuuma Ueno	Ryuusuke Minami
Miki Maruyama	Izumi Ishiguro
Miho Saiki	Maho Minami
Shintarou Oohata	Chiba
Daisuke Namikawa	Tanaka Yukio / Koyuki

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Touru Suiura	Horiuchi	Guest Star
Ryouhei Nakao	Kamejima	Guest Star
Mitsuo Iwata	Tanabe	Recurring Role
Enapou	Kayo	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Chiba came up with the name Beck.
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QUOTES (1)
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- Maho: "Koyuki's guitar playing seems like he's trying to catch up to the chords. It doesn't have any emotion. The most important thing is to try to send a message to someone."
  Koyuki: Send?
  MahoRyuusuke said that.
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NOTES (2)
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- Follow Me is orginally done by the Beat Crusaders.
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- Made it's debut revival on MuchMusic at March 30,2007 at 8PM EST.
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ALLUSIONS (5)
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- Nas :
  
  Chiba owns a CD labelled "MAS" which is a reference to Nas, a famous and influential hip-hop artist.
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- Jack Daniel's :
  
  In the festival Saito was drinking "Dack Daniels" which is an obvious play on Jack Daniel's whiskey, the bottle design is exactly the same.
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- The Pixies :
  
  Koyuki's shirt on one scene is labelled "Pixis". This is refering to The Pixies, one of the most influential punk bands in history.
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- REM:
  
  When asked about what band name he wants Ryuuskue lists a bunch and one of them is "REM( Ryuusuke Excellent Minami)". With all of the music references in the series this is definitely a plyon of REM, a very influential rock band from the late 80's to the early 90s.
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- The Beatles :
  
  Saito tells Koyuki about how The Rocket Boys were under the shadow of The Beatles in the British Rock era. The Rockets Boys are a fictional band and in the poster they look very similar to The Beatles.
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