2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 162 pt 2- 164 pt 1 Seoul Heritage trip Review

May 5

May 5 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 162 pt 2- 164 pt 1 Seoul Heritage trip Review

*2 Days, 1 Night is a show where 5 regular cast members take themed trips around Korea to show off its charms. Each trip is designed to highlight an area or else to create cohesion for the games they play. The general formula for a trip is a lunch game, a dinner game, and a sleeping inside or outside game, a morning mission, and a getting off work game. Half of the members (in teams or as individuals) will win lunch. The same will be true of dinner and the right to sleep inside instead of in a tent, etc. Trips often cover several episodes.*

This Trip’s Theme: Seoul Heritage trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 9 out 10 laughs

This trip was formatted a little differently than usual, but it worked very well. Solid trip and funny episodes all around

What Happened:

Opening/Team Formation (8:55 of ep 162- 31:30)

The three elder members are positioned in cafes near the opening area. The younger members have to call the elder they want to make a team with and convince him to tell where he is. The members that meet up and get back to the opening area first get a bonus.

The teams for the day are:

Junghoon and Dindin

Jongmin and Seonho

Seyoon and Inwoo

Trip Explanation - 26:30. The members have to protect their heritage. In this case, that means putting together a 6 piece puzzle of the 2 days 1 night poster. They gather pieces of the puzzle by playing games in the area. The first to finish their puzzle will get a full traditional meal for dinner. Each team gets 1 puzzle piece simply for forming their teams. The team that arrived first gets an extra puzzle piece.

Lunch Puzzle Games (31:30 of episode 162- 11:55 of episode 163)

First Puzzle Game - 33:00. Goon Dae Hee visits the show for this game. He plays a king to whom the members have to make pleas. Cues are given such as “when this person nags, people’s ears start to bleed”. The members then have to make the argument that one among them fits that description. Whomever the king chooses as most appropriate to the cue is out. The team with the last man standing will get a puzzle piece.

Second Puzzle Game - 51:50. Heave-ho the Parking King. One member sits on a small trolley and holds a cup of water above his head. His teammate will pull the trolley through an obstacle course with a time limit of 60 seconds to finish. The team with the most water remaining at the end of the course will get 2 whole puzzle pieces.

Third Puzzle Game - 1:03:15. PingPong Race. The winning team of this game gets to steal a puzzle piece from another team! One member of each team will blow a ping pong ball along a long table littered with random obstacles (toilet paper, pencils, cups, etc). The other member of the team stands at the opposite end of the table and ‘defends’ by blowing opponent teams’ ping pong balls backwards. If a ball falls off the table, the owner must start from the beginning. The first ping pong ball to arrive at the end of the table wins.

*Note: At the beginning of this segment, the PD offers canned coffee for the member that guesses what a specific rock is.

Final Puzzle Game - 1:12:00. The winning team can steal all the puzzle pieces from both other teams and will therefore win the meal.

*Note: at the beginning of this segment, the members do a bit of tourist photo op and then travel back into the city proper.

The final game is called “Know Thyself”. There are three rounds and the final winner will be determined by combining the scores from all three rounds. 1st place gets 3 points. 2nd place gets 2 points and last place gets 1 point in each round.

Round 1: Do not get recognized. (1:17:48) One member of each team will go stand in a square. The member that stays anonymous to the crowds passing by the longest will win.

Round 2: Get your identity revealed. (1:22:16) One member from each team will go stand in the square. They need a passerby to ask for a photo (without any inducement from the member) in order to win.

Round 3: (start of episode 163) Every member has to stand in the crowded square and shout “Follow me”. The members with the loudest shout wins.

Lunch - 7:05.

Getting Off Work Game (11:55 of episode 163- end of episode 163)

Each member gets an individualized mission based on either their strengths or weaknesses. If they pass the mission, they are able to cross the bridge (at the Han River) that leads home and get off work very early.

Jongmin’s Game- 14:52. Cup Noodles Hole-in-one. Just as it sounds, Jongmin has three tries to make a hole-in-one into a ramen cup.

Inwoo’s Game- 24:35. Common Knowledge Quizzes. Inwoo gets to choose between 4 categories. In that category, he must get 1 out of 10 questions correct in order to go home early. The four categories are Captials of Countries, Proverbs, 4 letter idioms, and Math.

Seonho’s Game- 30:00. Arm wrestling. Seonho must beat 1 out of 3 female staff members in order to go home.

Junghoon’s Game- 41:45. Junghoon has to choose a cup of ice cream. If there is a ‘get off work’ sticker at the bottom of the cup, he succeeds. There is only 1 correct cup.

Dindin’s Game- 48:45. Dindin has to defeat a grade schooler (the 6th grade son of a baseball great in Korea) at basketball. If Dindin manages to score 1 point before the 6th grader gets 5 points, he wins.

Seyoon’s Game- 1:01:45. Tablecloth pull. The lamb skewers must stay on the plate and all the other items on the table must stay on the table. He has only 1 try.

Getting Off Work Dinner Game- 1:08:35. The remaining members are given one last mission to allow one of them to go home. Everyone is allowed to order any menu item that they want. The member that gets his delivery fastest will be allowed to eat dinner and go home!

Last Man Standing Game- 1:22:51. Members will write a math problem on the bottom of a tea cup. Then they will drink from their tea cup. The members around them have to read the bottom of the cup, calculate the answer, and then guess the answer. An answer can only be given when the guessing member has drunk all of his juice. Members who correctly guess answers get to go home until there is only one left for the night.

Basecamp and Sunrise Mission (start of episode 164- 8:00 of episode 164)

The final member will get off work as soon as he sees the sunrise the next day. To decide which scenic spot he will watch the sun rise from, he spins a roulette to decide where the basecamp will be for this trip. One of the options was to stay at a member’s house and then see the sunrise together with that other member.

Preview: Surprise Minimalism Trip. The staff is out to teach the members to give up their greed, so that they can enjoy a trip without all the trappings. Do you think the members will be willing to learn that lesson?

*****SPOILERS*****

Kingly Pleas Game

Round 1- Inwoo is out.

Round 2- Jongmin is out.

Round 3- Dindin is out.

Round 4- Junghoon is out.

Round 5- Seonho is out.

Seyoon (and Inwoo) win a puzzle piece.

Currently Seyoon and Inwoo have 2 pieces, Junghoon and Dindin have 2 pieces (one from being the fastest team to form), and Jongmin and Seonho only have 1 initial piece.

Heave-ho The Parking King

Jongmin and Seonho - almost no water, 59 seconds

Junghoon and Dindin - almost all the water, 48 seconds –They get 2 puzzle pieces (4 total now)

Seyoon and Inwoo - medium water, 44 seconds

Ping Pong Race

Seyoon and Inwoo win. They steal a piece from Junghoon and Dindin.

Current standings.

Junghoon and Dindin - 3 pieces.

Seyoon and Inwoo - 3 pieces.

Jongmin and Seonho - 1 piece. **Reminder: 6 pieces will complete a puzzle**

Know Thyself Games

Round 1: