2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 194 pt 2 - 196 Autumn Fairy-tale trip Review

Mar 18

Mar 18 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 194 pt 2 - 196 Autumn Fairy-tale 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: Autumn Fairy-tale trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 9 out 10 laughs

This probably would have gotten a 10 from me if it weren’t for the dance battle segment. I just felt so much second-hand embarrassment from poor Dindin who clearly hated it. The theme was amazing though and I adored everything else!

What Happened:

Opening (48:07 of episode 194- 1:09:08)

The trip is taking us to Gangwon Province, the town of Taebaek.

As Autumn is upon us, the staff was feeling a bit sentimental….which obviously means fairy tale characters…that are under a curse. Haha…I love this show.

Dindin- Little Mermaid - can’t speak unless using helium

Seyoon- Karen (from the Red Shoes) - must dance whenever there is music

Inwoo- Lumpy old man - gets an additional lump (water balloon on his headband) each time he uses a foreign word.

Seonho- Genie (of the lamp) - must grant the wishes of 3 other members (Jongmin, Seyoon, and Inwoo are chosen randomly).

Jongmin- Won Bin - With Junghoon, on the hour, every hour, they must reenact a famous scene from a drama.

Junghoon- Song Hyekyo. He low-key makes this hilarious as the day goes on.

The members will have 3 missions. Each time a mission is completed successfully, he will get an opportunity to break his curse. Anyone that doesn’t break the curse through the missions must stay in character until midnight.

Curse Breaking Missions (1:09:08 of episode 194- 1:04:00 of episode 195)

Mission 1 - 1:10:35. Arrive later than the member chosen at random. They have 10 minutes to get to the top of a path, but they need to arrive later than the member that they chose by random draw.

Note: A ‘mountain spirit’ gives them the mission and lets them choose the member to follow. This character shows up again, always bringing more missions or annoyances…and he’s hilarious.

Curse Breaking Chance - 1:20:58. Members that pass a mission can play the hit or miss game with ‘potions’ that will break the curse. Anyone that passes can escape his character. This is true for each curse breaking chance.

Note: I included some travel time in this segment.

Lunch - start of episode 195. The members get to eat without a mission, but still have to carry out their curses during the meal. (Mountain Spirit is back!)

Note: At this point, Seyoon and Inwoo make wishes for Seonho to join them in their individual curses. So Seonho now gets water balloon lumps for saying English words and must dance any time there is music.

Mission 2 - 13:20. This mission takes place at the Taebaek Experience Center. This is a mining learning center and looks pretty cool to me! For this mission, the members needed to run around in the mines and find the 7 dwarves to learn all their names…The dwarves were 5 year-old children. This mission was both hilarious and adorable. The first two members to memorize the names would get a chance to break the curse.

Note: The dwarf’s names were the actual English names from the story: Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Dopey, and Doc.

Curse Breaking Chance - 37:18.

Mission 3 - 39:30. Shepherding Mission. Each member claims a spot. Then there are 20 minutes for the members to lure (with food) as many goats (who seem really friendly at this farm!) to the spot. At the end of 20 minutes, the member with the most goats will get the chance to break his curse.

Note: Occasionally a drone (wolf) was sent overhead to scatter the goats again.

Curse Breaking Chance - 54:45. After this, I’m including travel to the basecamp and the darts (with a forehead flick punishment) game that the members played while waiting for the next thing.

Dinner Game: Initial Sounds Game (1:04:00 of episode 195- 1:27:07)

All the ingredients for the dinner were laid out when the members arrived. In order to use the ingredients, they needed to complete questions in the initial sounds game. For this game, the first letter of each syllable is given and a category. Each member must come up with a different word that fits the category and has the correct letters. This game wouldn’t work as well in English. In this particular game, each member is given a different set of syllable letters. So, for example, everyone would have the category food. The first member could be shown the letters I-C and could answer IceCream. The next member might get H-D and could answer HotDog. The total time for each question was 30 seconds for ALL the members to get a question correct. Each question failed would require the members to give up an ingredient.

Dinner - 1:18:54. *The mountain spirit visits again here and continues to be hilarious.*

Sleeping Game (1:27:07 of episode 195- 1:00:00 of episode 196)

Street Sleeper Fighting. In teams of two, the members will have dance battles with other teams. The teams are Junghoon and Dindin, Jonmin and Inwoo, and Seyoon and Seonho. There are two battles. After each battle, the teams will get points based on their rank. The team with the most points at the end of both rounds gets to sleep indoors.

Round 1 - 13:55 of episode 196. Members are called forward one at a time. Each member gets to choose his opponent. Then each battling member gets 40 seconds to perform. Two staff members judge the dancing. The team with the best record at the end of the 6 battles gets to sleep indoors.

Round 2 - 40:30. For this round, the members play on a padded log bridge (the rolling kind). Teams will choose the ‘king’. Two teams will get on the log facing each other and have a pillow fight. The team with the king that stays on the log the longest wins. There are 3 games so each team plays both other teams.

Sleeping - 53:22. The members are told at the beginning of this time stamp that they will be performing a fairy tale according to Junghoon’s direction for the morning mission. They get the script and can prepare as they wish.

Morning Mission (1:00:00 of episode 196- end of episode)

Preview: The members are going to be looking for the important things in life…namely the woman who will give them lunch. To find her….mudflat games!! YAY!

*****SPOILERS*****

Curse Breaking Games

Mission 1: Everyone except Dindin gets the chance to break the curse. No one is able to!

Mission 2: Dindin and Seonho correctly get the names of the dwarfs and get a chance to break the curse. Both members break the curse!

Mission 3: Junghoon has the most goats and gets the chance to break his curse. He fails to break the curse.

Sleeping Game

Round 1:

Junghoon and Dindin - 2 wins, 2 loses (3 points)

Jongmin and Inwoo - 1 win, 4 loses (1 point)

Seyoon and Seonho - 3 wins, 0 loses (5 points)

Round 2:

Junghoon and Dindin - 1 win, 1 loss (3 points)