Pen Tor

Pentor (Thai: เป็นต่อ) is a Thai situation comedy television program written by Takolkiat Weerawan, Kitti Cheawwongkul, Pruak Amaruji, Supakorn Rheansuwan and Jirasuk YoJiw. Pentor was first broadcast on every Thursday on Thai Channel 3. The pilot was first aired on 7 October 2004. The current season, Pen Tor 2020, is ongoing and is available on Channel One (31) and YouTube. (The YouTube version is time-locked in Thailand and will be available for local audience one month after original airing date.)

Plot

Pentor is a sit-com about modern working singles who are looking for their soul mates. It is centered on the busy life of Mr. Pentor, who is a businessman in the BKL company. He wants to have an easy life and just wants to be a normal businessman like other people in Bangkok. However, what he wants is never what he gets.

Characters

Main

• Pentor is a charismatic man working as a sales staff at BKL (Bangkok Life) magazine. After a break-up, he is currently single, but knows who the love of his life is and is, in addition to wooing around, also trying to win her back. He is usually the voice of reason and, being the most financially stable, the main patron in the quartet of BKL men especialy when it comes to paying for food and nightlife. Pentor is shown to have good pronunciation of English.
• Porjai is Pentor's younger sister who lives with him at his two-bedroom apartment. She usually is short-tempered and can be regarded as paranoid. She cares a lot about her brother and his ex-girlfriend, usually saying that Thip is the only woman she will ever accept as a sister-in-law.
• Thipayawan (Thip) is Pentor's ex-girlfriend. Although they went through a break-up, she is still on good terms with the rest of the characters. She is a devout practitioner of Buddhism and would practically never lie, despite being surrounded by people who trick and backstab each other all the time. As Karma would have it, Thip rarely, if ever, ends up on the wrong side of the stick. Thip generally does not start her own mischief, or even say a white lie, unless it is required to teach someone a lesson. When she does so, she begs "the grace of Buddha" for forgiveness, and her plans can be surprisingly effective. She is usually aware of Pentor's plans and still has feelings for him, but is afraid to resume the relationship.
• Kanthep is Porjai's current boyfriend (as of Season 2018). He sometimes participates in Pentor's antics, and their relationship is usually on a "lion and tiger" basis, meaning that they equally respect each other in terms of their man skills.

BKL

• Wisetniyom (Yom) is working as the art director at BKL. He has an imaginary friend named Sakhrin to whom he attributes all his wrongdoings and mischief. He dated Mint, Bangbar's owner, for a while. His evil plans are usually concocted by consulting Sakhrin, but they usually backfire. For example, he once implored the others to praise him as "Wisetniyom the Savior of BKL" bragging his leads to a five-million baht deal, only to discover that it was a ploy directed against Pentor and the deal never took place. He is usually teased about his father being behind bars. Despite his frequent failures, his plans are usually the most complicated and skillfully designed. Not that Pentor and his boss won't see through them, though.
• Wok is a young proofreader at BKL, the youngest of the BKL quartet. He used to date Chompoo, but broke up after a string of distrust. He owns a big bike and it is a big part of his lifestyle. He is usually cowardly and would find every single way to get out of fights. He is extremely afraid of ghosts and would even avoid uttering the word itself, using "suki" in its stead.
• Ood is the columnist at BKL and the oldest of the boys. He is into alternative music and lifestyle. His obese wife usually torments him and is the cause of his crisis. He used to hang out with the Dwarf Association until they banned his gang. He refers to himself as a "gray man", which indicates that he is merely following along with Yom and Wok's plans. That excuse usually can't exclude him from his responsibilities, though.
• Samon (Mhon) is the boss of them all, but is never above the shenanigans of the rest of the office. She expresses her fondness for younger boys and gives them the tough love. She is the main voice of reason for BKL, but is not above screaming and yelling at her subordinates, when they are acting like little boys themselves.
• Julia, a half-Brazilian, is a new online sales staff at BKL. She lives in the same apartment building as Pentor, and they met on bad terms after she called the police on the boys' loud party. She developed friendship with the boys after a scuffle at Bangbar, where she led the offensive against a group of employees from a rival company.
• Nipon is a high-level executive of BKL. He is off-screen, but sometimes extends the baton on Mhon and her staff and influences BKL policies and plans.

Bangbar

• Mint operates Bangbar, the local pub & restaurant. She used to date Yom. Despite the break-up, Yom still owns part of the share in the place. They are still friends with benefits when she's drunk, to the point that she would always interject Yom's advances that she would never drink with him again, usually only to fail and wake up naked next to him. At some point, Mint developed her own guardian angel, "Sakh-lilly," the female version of Sakhrin.
• Juab works as the chief of waitstaff at the restaurant. He usually handles the floor while Mint and Yom are not available. He has a cheesy demeanor towards the co-owners, but is otherwise competent.

Supporting Characters

• Golf is a kathoey (male with female behavior) servant at Pentor and Porjai's apartment. She is usually involved with her friends and often gets into trouble with "kathoey stuff" (brawls, jealousy, debts, etc.) and also often needs someone to bail out for her.
• Lai is the cashier and worker at the minimart at Pentor's apartment complex. The place almost went bankrupt during the original season, but Pentor and Porjai overtook the business to keep it afloat. The minimart has become an extension to their home since. It also has computers available for an hourly rate.
• Torpong is Pentor and Porjai's father. He rarely appears in the set and Porjai frequently expresses her longing to see her father again. He is a mischievous and tricky man, a gene that clearly reflected in Pentor.
• Yos is a police officer at the local department. He is known by the BKL quartet and rarely appears.
• Sakhrin and Sakh-lilly are Yom and Mint's "guardian angels," or more like imaginary friends. In the more recent seasons, it appears that anyone can summon them (males to Sakhrin, and females to Sakh-lilly) for advice. There is no clear criteria for summoning them. Yom is known to especially act out talking to Sakhrin in extended conversations, where he shifts around to imitate actually talking to Sakhrin. When these guardians are active, the characters speak in a more aggressive tone and end each sentences with "hey, hey, hey!" Despite not actually existing in the show, they play a lot of roles in providing evil mindset to many characters concocting their ploys on many occasions.

References

External links

• http://drama.kapook.com/view33110.html (Thai website)