Running Man Episode 640 pt 2 - 641 Review

Guests: None

My Entertainment Score: 4 out of 10 laughs

This, like the Running Man Family Outing episodes, was a lot more cooking and chatting. I miss the games. Especially the games where they…ya know…run. 

What Happened: 

Theme: Winter Retreat

Opening/Guest Introductions (43:52 of episode 640- 49:48)

Race Explanation (49:48- 53:37)

They are given a Winter Retreat schedule. The only rule for the day is that they MUST immediately stop what they are doing at the correct time and move on to the next schedule. That means that if they are in the middle of cooking and the food is half raw when meal time is supposed to begin, they will have to abandon the uncooked food.

Grocery Shopping (53:37- 1:18:26)

**I”m including travel to the camp in this section.**

Making/Eating Lunch (1:19:26 of episode 640- 45:17 of episode 641)

Additional Rules Revealed - 7:15. Each time the members complete a schedule on time, they will be allowed to choose from a table of gifts. Two gifts include penalty transfer cards (these can only be used between april and june). Several include luxury brand items and the rest hold household items.

Presents - 33:25. The members decide among themselves that the order of choosing gifts is important and play a “do not laugh” game to set the order.

Nap Time (45:17- 57:39)

Jihyo inadvertently starts a joke here that runs through the upcoming episodes…”Us young people,” she says. 

Recreation Time (57:39- end of episode)

First Recreation - 57:39. The members are split up as the younger members and the older members. They take turns giving advice or asking questions. 

Presents - 1:11:45. 1 younger and 2 elder members will choose presents in this round.

Second Recreation - 1:14:55. The members have to beat a drum to bounce a ball off of it, then catch the ball in a plastic cup on their heads. Anyone that succeeded could choose a present. The present choices were montaged.

Final Recreation - 1:15:50. Freeze tag. Each round is 3 minutes long and there are 3 rounds. The tagger is randomly chosen. The tagger gets points for tagging members. However, the members can call “freeze” and remain motionless to avoid being tagged. Another member can tag a frozen member to allow them to move again. While a member is frozen, the tagger can throw snow or water at them to try to make them move and thus get them out and gain a point. If everyone freezes, the tagger gets full points and the round ends immediately. Surviving members at the end of 3 minutes get a point. The members with the top 4 scores at the end off all 3 rounds will get to choose a present.

Round 1 - 1:17:00. Sechan is the tagger.

Round 2 - 1:20:00. Jaesuk is the tagger.

Round 3 - 1:21:22. Haha is the tagger.

Final Presents - 1:24:20.

Preview: 2023 Winter Festival with special guests SEOGI (singer), Byul (singer andHaha’s wife), and Kyeong Hwan (comedian). I always like the winter sports episodes and this promises to be entertaining.

!!!Spoilers!!!

Presents

Jihyo gets the penalty transfer card in the first round of presents, but Haha manages to steal it in the final game and then loses it to Sechan.

Sechan gets the other penalty transfer card in the final round of presents.

In the recreation round, Somin, Jongkook, and Jaesuk chose presents from the first recreation time. Everyone except Jaesuk chose presents from the second recreation time. And for the final four, Seokjin, Jaesuk, Jihyo, Sechan and  get to choose presents.

Freeze Tag

Round 1 - Sechan 6 points

Round 2 - Jaesuk 4 points, Jihyo 1 point, Somin 1 point.

Round 3…Not sure about the points.

But the top 4 were Seokjin, Jaesuk, Jihyo, and Sechan…probably not in that order.