2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 183 - 184 Summer Vacation that Transcends Time and Space trip Review

Dec 29

Dec 29 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 183 - 184 Summer Vacation that Transcends Time and Space trip Review

*2 Days, 1 Night is a show where 6 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: Summer Vacation trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 10 out 10 laughs

This trip had me laughing from start to finish. Particularly episode 184 was a gem! The games do not sound nearly as funny as they turned out on screen, but I shed tears laughing…both times that I watched it.

*Note: This trip started a series of episodes where I’ve said aloud “Why on earth did they pick that song for the BGM?” Did anyone else find the choices incongruent?*

What Happened:

Opening (start of ep 183- 5:31)

The members gather in Suncheon, in South Jeolla Province. The entire city is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, so it is incredibly lovely.

Lunch- Transcend Space- Games (5:31- end of episode 183)

The staff has prepared a special world tour for the members, on a budget. In order to transcend space, the world tour will be held entirely in the garden where the trip begins. The garden has 10 sections which are marked with a country for the members on a map. Each ‘country’ has a mission (related to the country). Hilariously, when a mission is failed, they are “deported” rather than ‘failing’. Passing a mission earned a stamp in ‘passports’. The team that successfully visits the most countries in an 80 minute time limit wins lunch.

Teams were formed based on a ‘travel style’ quiz. Questions like “Do you prefer to schedule trip events or roam freely?” were asked until the members were split 3 v 3. Junghoon, Dindin, and Inwoo VS Jongmin, Seyoon, and Seonho.

World Travel - 13:38. I won’t cover each step of this part because it got WAY too confusing to read when I started. I’ll just note the games by country.

Thailand - Endure a massage from the staff without making a sound RELAY. The members collectively needed to endure for 2 minutes
Japan - Hit or Miss Wasabi Egg Roll Game. All the members had to choose a good egg roll.
England - Follow the correct etiquette rules of England for tea time. Each member gets an attempt and has 3 warnings before being out.
Turkey - Each person needed to catch and eat the Turkish ice cream in 30 seconds…If you don’t know why this was hard, search up a video. Those vendors are downright mean.
Germany - Collectively, the members of a team must move 50 beer mugs from one table to another without spilling…the catch is that they each only get one chance to grab/move mugs. That means each person needed to carry 16 or more in one trip!
Netherlands - Find the 4 VanGogh paintings among all the paintings the staff has placed in the area. They had 2 chances.
Spain - Guess the words in the flamenco dancer’s castanets.
Italy - Memorize a 4x5 grid (in 3 minutes) of different pasta names and correctly name 3 of them.
USA - In 2 minutes, 10 proverbs needed to be guessed correctly. One member would describe the proverb and the other two would guess, then they would switch. All descriptions had to be entirely in English.
Mexico - Guess 5 KPOP songs sung by a Mexican who is hearing the song for the first time.

Lunch - 1:17:45.

Rest - 1:24:10. The members are allowed to rest. The garden has a glamping site where people can stay. It looks so nice! They also took a walk around the garden and introduced more of its charms. This place looks like a fantastic spot to vacation!

**Note: at 1:27:00, the members board a boat to head to the part of the trip where they will ‘transcend time, but as nothing of that is shown this episode, I’m leaving the timestamps as end of the episode/start of the episode.**

Dinner- Transcend Time- Game (start of episode 184- 36:52)

The members go to a drama set that recreates the time between 1960 and 1980, roughly. It is the size of a village, so there is plenty of room to play a large game. This is a history based game of tag. Two members are enforcers aka taggers. The rest of the members are team long hair. This dates back to a time when it was illegal for men to wear their hair longer than their shirt collar (along with women having mini-skirts and staying out later than 11pm). The enforcers would actually cut the hair in the street when a man was caught.

For the game, the long hair team has to avoid the enforcers while carrying out 5 missions in order to win dinner. If the enforcers manage to catch all the members of team long hair, the enforcers get dinner. The enforcers do not know the missions that team long hair have to complete.

Enforcers: Dindin and Seonho

Team Long Hair: Junghoon, Jongmin, Seyoon, Inwoo

Team Long Hair Missions:

Wear School Uniforms and take a couple photo
Put ‘2 Days 1 Night’ on the nameplate and the county office
Sing the first verse of a song at a karaoke bar
Complete a hopscotch course
Find a guy ‘fainted’ on the street and escort him to the hospital

Game - 5:15. Every bit of this was fun to watch!

Dinner - 28:55.

Sleeping Game: Deficiency Entertainment (36:52- 1:10:10)

The game was played in teams of three. There were 2 rounds and the higher combined total determined the team that was allowed to sleep indoors.

Teams: Junghoon, Seyoon, Dindin VS Jongmin, Inwoo, Seonho

Round 1 - 31:10. I LOVED THIS GAME! I’m calling it Marionette Charades. Two members of a team see the keyword. The third member then turns around and allows the others to control his body to ‘act out’ the keyword. The member who is being controlled has to guess the keyword. Each correct guess is a point.

Round 2 - 47:48. Head Basketball. Members must use their head to roll balls across a wall and into a basket. Each basket is a point. This was definitely funnier than it sounds.

Special Round - 60:00. Catch the Toast. The member that catches (in his mouth) the toast that randomly pops up will ALSO get to sleep indoors. This chance was given because there was an extra single room in the house that they were staying in. And again….this was much funnier than it sounds.

Bedtime - 1:08:25.

Breakfast Mission: Rescue the Duck (1:10:10- 1:28:10)

A large pot with a rubber duck at the bottom was placed in the courtyard of the house. Each member got a bowl with several holes poked in it. They had to travel quite a distance to the mineral spring where they could fill the bowls with water. Bringing enough water back to fill the large pot until the duck fell out was the goal. Fastest team gets breakfast. This was played using the same teams as the dinner games the night before.

Breakfast - 1:23:55.

Getting Off Work Mission (1:28:10- end of episode)

Everyone travels to Sunam Temple, which has a 1,000 year history and is recognized by UNESCO for its cultural relevance.

Preview: 1:31:25! Next trip is 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS and will tour the ENTIRE COUNTRY! The members are given backpacks to fill with whatever they want INCLUDING SNACKS!

*****SPOILERS*****

Lunch World Travel Game

Junghoon, Dindin, Inwoo - 3 countries visited

Jongmin, Seyoon, Seonho - 5 countries visited

Dinner Games

The enforcers (Dindin and Seonho) catch everyone and earn dinner.

Team long hair had completed all but one mission…to help the man reach the hospital.

Sleeping Games

Round 1:

Junghoon, Seyoon, Dindin - 5 points

Jongmin, Inwoo, Seonho - 4 points….Jongmin ‘barking’ instead of talking. I laughed so hard!

Round 2: