Variety Review 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 132 pt 2- 133 Beat the Heat trip
*2 Days, 1 Night is a show where 5 regular cast members take themed trips around Korea to show off its charms. Each trip has a theme 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. 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. Trips often cover several episodes.*
This Trip’s Theme: Heat-Free trip
My Entertainment Score: overall 8 out 10 laughs
Episode 132 pt 2 was a 7 for me. Solidly funny. I’m personally starting to find the song recognition game a bit repetitive. We all know who’s going to win and who isn’t.
Episode 133 was a 9 for me. I got to use one of my favorite words (spelunking) and they had some fun twists in the show along with good games.
What Happened:
Opening (7:38 of ep 132- 27:40)
The members gather at a place known for its cold springs and learn that they are taking a trip meant to beat the heat. The staff has prepared 15 items, some that will beat the heat with cold (like fans or mesh shirts) and some that with beat the heat with heat (like wool jackets or heated backpacks). The members will each start with 3 items, then play games to try to give up their items. The members with the least items at the end of the day will get dinner. To decide the order of choosing items, the members play a cold endurance game by standing in the cold spring water for as long as possible.
Cold Endurance Game - 14:07
Initial Item Picks - 17:50
Allowance/Car Choice - 21:59 They are all given $20 allowance for the day and move to the parking lot to go to their next location. Turns out they have to pay some of their allowance to take a car: $5 for a car with air conditioning or $1 for a car without air conditioning. The split on the cars is 2 to 3…care to guess who picked the air conditioning?
There is a benefit later to having more money left, but they don’t reveal that until it’s time and tracing all the money exchanges would be tedious and boring for all of us, I think, so I’ll only leave the final results in the spoilers.
After stopping for snacks, the members move on to the next location.
Summer Songs Quiz Game (27:40- 46:43)
After hearing the first second of a summer song, the members simply have to guess the artist and title of the song. The first 2 members to get 3 correct answers get to give one of their items to any of the non-winning members.
Game Penalty - 41:28 The three members that didn’t succeed have to choose a closed cooler, then eat ALL of the cooling summer fruit that’s inside. The tools to eat the fruits are available to use if purchased with their allowance money.
Lunch Game: Pass the Ticking Bomb (46:43- 1:05:50)
After hearing a keyword, each member will have to give an answer that fits before they can pass on an alarm clock. The member holding the alarm clock when it rings is out. The last two standing will get lunch and be allowed to give one of their items to another member.
Lunch - 54:19. The members were given the opportunity to buy hot and cold coffee as well.
Location/Car Change - 1:00:29. The members leave lunch to find one of the cars missing. They must pay again in order to get into the cars currently available.
Spelunking (I love that word! –Cave Exploring) Game (1:05:50- 20:01 of ep. 133)
The members play rock-paper-scissors against a cave tour guide to determine who gets the easy/comfortable spelunking experience (paved path, nice temperature) and who gets the wild spelunking experience (crawling through tight spaces, cold temperature). Each time they win or tie, they stay in place. If they lose, they must move down one step toward the guide. Everyone plays at the same time, but the members are only competing against the guide. The first 3 to make it down the steps get the tough cave and are eligible to receive an item from the two winners.
Redemption Game - 1:13:30. The three members that lost have to change into special spelunking gear. They are told that the first person to get fully changed (belt, gloves, helmet, suit…everything!) would be allowed to go on the easier cave tour.
Spelunking! - 1:17:20. Actually caves aren’t shown until the start of episode 133. The members had a hidden mission as they toured the caves that was meant to prove they were learning from the experience: The members that asked the most questions in each tour got to give away one of their items. This was the last chance to get rid of items.
Dinner Game (20:01 of episode 133- 31:37)
A tie-break needed to happen because the distribution of items didn’t give a clear first and second place. The amount of allowance leftover allowed the two most frugal members to give away one more item each.
Dinner - 22:10.
Sleeping Game: Worst Relay Ever (31:37- 49:35)
The three winning members get to stay in a glamping tent. The other two will sleep in a regular tent. The members have to complete 3 missions fastest in order to get into the glamping tent. 1. With their hands behind their head, kick a 20 kg blanket completely off their body and the mat they are laying on. 2. Unfold and wear a jacket and pants…which are frozen. 3. Melt a block of ice to get out the whistle in the middle and blow it (...but half of the whistles are duds that make no sound). The game does not restart when a whistle is blown. The first 3 members to blow a whistle win.
Sleeping - 45:45.
Morning Mission (49:35- 59:41)
For 10 minutes only from the time of the morning song being played, the members will be able to eat breakfast. There are five individual tables set up…not all close to the camp. They simply have to get up and find a table and scarf down their breakfast as quickly as possible.
Getting Off Work Mission (59:41- end of ep. 133)
The members take a drive up to a mountain. Before they arrive, a poll is given to the people currently hiking and enjoying the scenery to decide who would be allowed to go home early. The 2 members with the most votes were able to leave immediately. The remaining members wear their heavy winter training coats and start hiking.
2nd Chance to Leave - 1:10:20. The members do a 600 second plea on a live social media broadcast about why they should be allowed to go home. A 3 minute vote is conducted immediately following that on the social media account and the winner is allowed to leave. The remaining two add a layer of winter jacket and hike again.
3rd Chance to Leave - 1:15:50. Votes are collected from the 3 members that have already left to decide who gets to leave this time. The last member wears all the winter jackets and finishes the hike.
Preview: Deserted School Horror Special….I CANNOT WAIT!!!! I love these horror specials (because I’m not doing them. haha) and this cast is full of guys that will react big time. YAY!!! Stay tuned!
*****SPOILERS*****
Cold Endurance/Item Picks
Junghoon - Umbrella hat, fan, cooling vest
Seyoon - Cooling necklace, Bamboo body pillow, heated vest (ooohh…loyalty)
Inwoo - Mesh jacket (my son said this looked like he was wearing a backpack on his head…so right), Fur-lined shoes, Balaclava
Dindin - Mesh shirt, Ear muffs, Wool scarf
Jongmin - left with Fur hat, Long winter jacket, Short winter jacket.
Summer Songs Quiz Game
Seyoon gives the heated vest to Inwoo.
Dindin gives the wool scarf to Inwoo.
Item count:
Junghoon - 3
Jongmin - 3
Seyoon - 2
Dindin - 2
Inwoo - 5
Penalty Fruits:
Junghoon - Watermelon
Jongmin - Coconut
Inwoo - Pineapple
**Allowances were used to sell their fruit to the winning members when they got full.**
Lunch Game
Jongmin and Seyoon win and get lunch.
Jongmin (2) gives his padded jacket to Dindin (3).
Seyoon (1) gives the necklace to Inwoo (6!!).
Spelunking Games
Jongmin, Seyoon, and Inwoo lose the rock-paper-scissors game.
Dindin (2) returned the padded jacket to Jongmin (3).
Junghoon (2) gives the fan to Seyoon (2).
Jongmin wins the redemption round and gets to take the easy tour.
Jongmin and Inwoo asked the most questions and got to give away an item.
Jongmin (2) gives the padded jacket to Seyoon (3).
Inwoo (5) gives the heated vest to Seyoon (4). This was really nice of him as it left the other 3 members tied for first with 2 items each, so they could all have dinner…if there wasn’t a tie break.
Dinner Game
Jongmin and Inwoo have the most allowance left, so they can each give up an item.
Jongmin (1) gives his other padded jacket to Dindin (3) after he lost rock-paper-scissors against Junghoon.
Inwoo (4) gives the scarf back to Dindin (4). That leaves Jongmin as 1st place with one item and Junghoon as 2nd place with two items and they get dinner.
Sleeping Game
Seyoon finishes first- Glamping.
Jongmin finishes second- Glamping
Dindin finishes third- Glamping.
**Junghoon got 4 duds in a row!! Talk about bad luck!!**
Getting Off Work
Jongmin and Junghoon are able to go home without getting off the bus.
Dindin leaves after the social media vote.
Seyoon leaves after the member vote.
Inwoo completes the hike in his own adorable way. He acts out the other member’s reactions at the end of the hike.
