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A mother from Fukuoka wrote to the long-running Japanese variety show Detective! Knight Scoop *(a beloved Osaka-based show where "detectives" — comedians — are sent to solve quirky requests from the public)* with an unusual family situation. While bathing with her 6-year-old daughter, the girl suddenly asked why girls don't have kintama — testicles. Upon learning that men have two, she reasoned, with impressive arithmetic, that since dad and her older brother each have two, that's four total — surely one could be spared. She has been going around asking every male relative to give her one, and has been turned down every time. Her wish for Santa this year: a kintama. She even told her kindergarten teacher about it, to her mother's great embarrassment.
The mother's request to the show: please help find a way to satisfy — or at least gently resolve — her daughter's kintama wish. The detective dispatched, Tamura *(Hiroshi Tamura, a veteran Osaka comedian)*, takes the assignment with full sincerity. The result is as wholesome as it is chaotic.
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The mom’s name contains tama (玉), which can mean “ball” — making it a perfectly unintentional match for the whole situation.