2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 197- 198 Searching for Important Things 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: Searching for Important Things trip
My Entertainment Score: overall 8 out 10 laughs
What Happened:
Opening (start of ep 197- 12:20)
The members meet up in front of a mudflat! Along Seohaerang Trail, which is a walking trail along the entire west coast of the country.
Lunch Game: Finding Auntie (7:14- 1:02:30)
The members need to find the Auntie who will give them lunch. In order to find the correct woman, there will be three games where the winners will get a hint about her, with 5 total hints being given.
Team Creation Game - 7:57. The members dance to music and then form groups when the music stops by grabbing the people closest.
The teams become Junghoon, Seyoon, and Inwoo VS Jongmin, Dindin, and Seonho
Clue Game 1: Cover, Look, and Walk - 10:55. Each member gets an image or word stuck on his back. The pictures for the 3 members of a team work together to point to a single word or person name. Going along the Trail from a start line to a finish line, the members attempt to see the backs of the other team. The team that crosses the finish line first gets the chance to guess the word. Correct guesses earn a point. The race is played twice and a hint is given for each win.
Mudflat Clue Game 1: Steal the King’s Socks - 27:15. One member of each team wears a sock over his galoshes. The other team needs to get the sock to win the round. There is a set area for the members to stay in. Seyoon and Seonho become the sock-wearing kings for the game. Each time a team wins, they will get a hint about the Auntie. There are two rounds.
Mudflat Clue Game 2: Footrace - 37:30. Everyone begins on the same starting line and races toward a flag. The first team that manages to gather all its members by the flag and remove the flag wins the hint.
Finding the Auntie - 42:00. Note: I’m including a little bit of travel time at the beginning of this timestamp segment because they discuss the clues as they travel.The teams go one at a time down a row of food stalls, each with an Auntie. Using the clues they have gathered, they have to ask the correct Auntie to give them lunch, please. They take whatever is given to them to the lunch spot and check the results when both teams have arrived.
Lunch - 57:30.
Find Basecamp! (1:02:30- 1:22:30 of episode 197)
The members have one hour to use clues in the restaurant to find the basecamp. If they arrive within one hour, everyone will get to sleep indoors!
Dinner Game (1:22:30 of episode 197- 17:20 of episode 198)
Teams are chosen based on the color of the cushions that the members sit on when they arrive. The teams are Junghoon and Dindin VS Jongmin and Inwoo VS Seyoon and Seonho.
A roulette is brought in that is fairly split for each team 4 spaces for each team. The teams play a nonsense word game where members need to say a three syllable ‘word’ that isn’t real. The word must begin with the ending syllable of the previous answer. If a member says a real word or fails to give an answer, his team will lose a space on the roulette.
Refill Roulette Game - 3:50 of episode 198. For this, the members play a version of telephone. Again, the members must use 3 letter words that begin with the same ending letter as the previous word. This time, the words must be real though.
Roulette and Dinner - 7:53. The roulette is spun for each dish.
Sleeping Game (17:20 of episode 198- 1:04:20)
The members, one by one, enter three possible rooms. This forms the teams for the different sleeping situations. The teams are Junghoon and Seyoon VS Jongmin and Seonho VS Dindin and Inwoo.
Slight Spoiler here…every room says “You’re Sleeping Indoors!” But then the members reveal a (or several) mysterious numbers. So what is the secret of the numbers? It’s the times they can sleep. Either from 9 lm onward (all night and all morning if they want), or from 2 am onward, or until 3 am and from 6 am onward (aka…you’re going fishing!). If any room objects to their times, there will be a game to rechoose rooms. Obviously, the final room objects.
Stocking-Head 3-Way Tug-o-War - 27:56. One member of each team wears a stocking on his head. All three stockings are tied together at the other end. They run around until the stockings are pulled off. 3 points are given to the team who holds onto the stocking. 2 points for the second person to lose his stocking. 1 point for the team that loses his stocking first. There are two rounds so both teammates play and the combined scores after the two rounds determine which team gets to trade rooms.
Sleeping - 38:55. The members in the 3 am onward room have to join the fishing trip if they fall asleep before the 3am time. The PD watching them will also have to go fishing if she falls asleep before that time. I’ll include their struggle and the crab fishing trip (49:15) in a thunderstorm in this time stamp.
Morning Mission (1:04:20- end of episode 198)
The members get to make ramyeon with some of the crabs that were caught a few hours earlier. There is no game and everyone gets to eat.
Getting Off Work Mission - 1:12:30. The members are given a photo. Once they find that location, they will each get a map to the final location to get a ticket to get off work. The maps are all the same…and they are simply a flag with dots randomly around it. Turns out, the flag is in the mudflat…and as there is no scale, the members simply have to dig until they find a ball. Some balls are duds…the others…have a specific name written. Which means finding a ball could send a different member home. Haha.
Preview: The members travel to Yecheon in the North Gyeongsang Province for the Fall Foliage Hoodwinker Trip. The members need to find the Autumn Hwatu cards in order to avoid penalties.
*****SPOILERS*****
Lunch Game
Hint Games:
Walking Game- Jongmin, Dindin, and Seonho earn both hints
King’s Sock Game- Junghoon, Seyoon, and Inwoo earn both hints.
Footrace Game- Junghoon, Seyoon and Inwoo earn the hint.
Finding the Auntie: Both teams succeed! Everyone gets a nice lunch.
Find Basecamp!
The members fail to find the basecamp, so there will be a sleeping game.
Dinner Game
Spaces on the roulette after the nonsense word game:
Junghoon and Dindin - 3
Jongmin and Inwoo - 2
Seyoon and Seonho - 0.5
Spaces after refilling the roulette:
Junghoon and Dindin- 3
Jongmin and Inwoo- 2
Seyoon and Seonho- 7
Sleeping Game - Stocking Tug-of-War
I’ll list the members by the rank (so number 1 gets 3 points)
Round 1:
Seonho (Jongmin)
Inwoo (Dindin)
Junghoon (Seyoon)
Round 2:
Jongmin (Seonho)
Dindin (Inwoo)
Seyoon (Junghoon)
Final Room Arrangement:
Room to sleep from 9 pm onward - Jongmin and Seonho.
Room to sleep from 2 am onward - Junghoon and Seyoon.
Fishing Trip Room - Dindin and Inwoo.
