This is a show about a guy repeatedly learning the same lesson in different ways. Peter's life is a loop of self-sabotage and recovery, the same mistakes dressed in different clothes, and somehow that becomes the whole point. The proverbs aren't imposed on the chaos, they emerge from it, which means you're watching a man accidentally teach himself, week after week, that nothing fixes itself without showing up. 773 episodes of a salary man pulling muscles and then doing it again is not for people who need narrative momentum. It's for people who recognize themselves in Peter's smallest failures and want to sit with someone else's bad decisions until they stop being funny and start being true.
Peter is a salaryman with a thoroughly unhealthy way of living. He goes without food and then overeats until he feels ill, or he lounges around at home until someone nags him into exercising, which always ends with a pulled muscle. Each short episode of this long-running comedy works as a public service piece built around a proverb of the week, with everyday slice-of-life mishaps setting up the lesson.