Variety Review: 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 135 pt. 2- 138 pt. 1 15 year anniversary trip

Sep 2

Sep 2 Variety Review: 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 135 pt. 2- 138 pt. 1 15 year anniversary 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: Nostalgia trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 7 out 10 laughs

Episode 135 pt. 2 was a 3 for me. This was only 10 minutes…basically the opening and then a cliff-hanger that I’ll admit made me grumpy. WHYYYY? But essentially, this score is relatively meaningless because there wasn’t a whole lot of content in this content.

Episode 136 was a 6 for me. I very much appreciated the care the staff took in honoring all the things that had been done previously, but this episode was overall a bit slow for me.

Episode 137 was a 9 for me. My only disappointment was borne of the fact that one member got sick, so the original plans had to be canceled. Stay well guys!!

Episode 138 pt. 1 was an 8 for me. I like watching the members just mess around. I was also touched by members reading fan mail out and responding to it.

What Happened:

Opening (1:06:33 of ep. 135- 1:13:00)

After a few congratulatory announcements, the members learn about the concept of the trip. It’s the 15th anniversary of 2 Days, 1 Night, so they will be returning to the places visited on previous episodes (especially the first episode). Jongmin even recreated his outfit from the first ever episode. They are also going to be eating the foods most enjoyed by the members. In fact…

Breakfast Roulette Game (1:13:00- 6:13 of ep 136)

One member volunteers to pay for dinner…unbeknownst to him, a roulette has been prepared with the best foods over the years and he must personally go collect the food that is chosen! The roulette result was left as a cliffhanger for the audience between episodes 135 and 136.

He sets out immediately after the roulette is spun. (Write-ups are so much harder when they split up like this. WAAAHH.)

Lunch-ish Time (6:13 of ep 136- 24:09 of ep 137)

Rest Stop Game -10:00 - This is a classic game from an early episode. They take turns running into the rest stop with $10. They must wash their hands in the restroom, buy a water bottle at the convenience store, buy a cup of milk coffee from the vending machine, and buy a bowl of garak guksu from the cafeteria then bring them all back to a table by the van. They are allowed to use a tray but ONLY for the garak guksu/utensils. Slowest buys lunch for the rest of the members with his own money.

Breakfast Traveler Check-in- 26:24

Lunch Game for the Traveler- 30:30. The solo member plays his game against a staff member. Each chooses a cockle and places it on a grill. If his cockle opens first, he can eat lunch.

Group Arrival at Base Camp Town- 33:30.

Tour Guide Choice Game- 36:15. A previous village head and his wife (who had been on a previous episode) as well as the new village head and his wife, pair up with the members. They play a game called zero people. Each pair takes a turn trying to defend as many times as possible. To defend, they must NOT match the number the PD yells out. They begin sitting and the number called is for the number of people standing, so at the count of three, the PD will call out either 0, 1, or 2. At the same time, the pair must either remain seated or stand.

The losing members faces a roulette. On the roulette are the best places the show has visited over the years. He must go to the chosen place alone!

Breakfast Traveler Check-in- 51:28.

Tour Guide Check-in- 56:03.

Group’s Sightseeing Nearby- 57:55. Aka: Stone tower building followed by the most adorable tour train I’ve ever seen.

Base Camp- 1:04:56. This is the same base camp as the very first episode, so they do a commemorative ceremony (including a tree planting with the requisite digging of a hole), then relive some of the moments from that first episode….like having a snack, playing a nonsense word game, and outdoor bathing.

Tour Guide Check-in- 625 of episode 137. Just as the first time a member came to this destination, there is a mission to take a photo with 100 people (not all at once). Hilariously, this turned into an impromptu fan meeting. Then, the member decided he really liked the area and began wandering around like a real tourist….which kind of gives away who went on this trip…

Back at Base Camp- 14:14. The breakfast member finally makes it back to the group.

Tour Guide Check-in- 18:42. This member goes on a mini-unplanned trip to a nearby spot. In a fit of general rebellion, he says he has no plans of finishing his mission and going back to base camp. Haha. The PD has to call for help.

Dinner (24:09 of ep 137- 32:59)

The members eat the meal brought by the breakfast trip member.

Sleeping Game (32:59- 6:26 of episode 138)

There are 3 games that Jongmin made legendary by being bad at them. The members have to win 2 out of 3 in order for all of them to sleep indoors.

Perfect Pitch Game- 34:15. For those that don’t remember, this is a game where each syllable must be emphasized one at a time in order. For example, if the word was happiness, they would have to say HAP-pi-ness, hap-PI-ness, hap-pi-NESS. The members have 100 seconds for all 5 members to correctly complete one word, each in a row, correctly. If a member messes up, they must start over again from the first member. They have several tries with different legendarily difficult words.

Separate Your Brain- 43:14. This game seems absolutely impossible. While singing the first verse of a popular summer song, they must read the lyrics to two lines of a common children’s song and fill in the blanks. To get a success, two members must correctly fill in the blanks.

CHANGE OF VENUE/TIME- 55:50. Jongmin began feeling poorly between the games and came down with Covid, so they canceled the rest of the shoot and gathered back together at a later date to finish the trip. Luckily he recovered quickly and none of the other members came down with it.

The final mission of the trip was diving in the water. To decide who would go in the water, they played the zombie game. All the members, except one, are blindfolded. They must catch the unblindfolded member and make him surrender by whatever means necessary. Each member gets a turn being the ‘human’. The member that gets caught the fastest must take a dive.

Plunge Roulette- 1:11:10. They spin a roulette to decide where the dive will take place, based on places the show has done a dive before…It also lists the number of members that had to dive on that episode. The loser of the last game needs to choose enough members to recreate the scene if the number is more than 1.

Preview: A battle of heaven and hell. The members have to fight to the death! Just kidding. They are going to go to one of two islands…one barren and wild, one lush with all the amenities provided. This one will get fierce, I’m sure!

*****SPOILERS*****

Dinner Roulette Game

Inwoo volunteers to pay.

The food he has to fetch is cockles from Suncheon (approximately 6 hours away).

Rest Stop Lunch Game

Dindin- 5:40:43

Seyoon- 4:45:18

Jongmin- 4:37 -disqualified for putting water on his tray

Junghoon- 5:26 -disqualified for putting water on his tray

**The slowest was meant to buy dinner. Because 2 members were disqualified, they did a new race between the two. They had to get a vending machine coffee and return the fastest without spilling anything.**

Jongmin- Spilled —Buys lunch on his own card. He also treats the staff to coffee.

Junghoon- 1:42

Inwoo’s Lunch Game

His cockle DOES open first, so he is able to eat lunch.

Tour Guide Game

Dindin’s Team (new village head’s wife) - defends 2 times

Seyoon’s Team (former village head’s wife) - defends 3 times

Jongmin’s Team (new village head) - defends 6 times.

Junghoon’s Team (former village head) - defends 0 times

Junghoon’s roulette destination is….Seonyu Island in Gunsan.

Sleeping Games

Perfect Pitch- Success on the last try.