Variety Review: 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 143 pt. 2- Gourmet Experience 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: Gourmet Experience trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 9 out 10 laughs

Episode 143 pt. 2 was a 9 for me. This episode had all my favorite tortures: mud flats, salt farms

Episode 144 was a 10 for me. I enjoyed all the games. The members got to show off some of their personality and there was a twist I didn’t see coming. 

What Happened:

Opening (5:50 of ep 143- 10:16)

They are in the South Jeolla Province which is known for its excellent food. 

Today….for every game, one member will get a full, tremendous meal. The other four will get a related mission. 

First Course: Catch The Older Member (10:16- 42:20)

Food at stake: an octopus meal.

Alternate mission: hunting for octopus on the mudflat!

Essentially this is a targeted chase game. The target for each member is the member immediately senior to them in age (except for Junghoon who chases the youngest member). When you tag your target, they are out and you take over their target. 

Mudflat - 20:19. Dindin is given a table, chair, and umbrella in order to eat his meal. He also gets binoculars to watch the rest of the members struggle.

**One of the cameramen sank hip deep and lost his boot in the mud…the members didn’t hesitate to come over to help. I wanted to share that sweet moment.**

Octopus Hunting - 33:00. The members were told that the first of them to catch an octopus would be allowed to join the solitary gourmet at the octopus feast.

Second Course: Watermelon Pick (42:20- 1:09:00)

Food at stake: Beef Tartare

Alternate mission: Making Sedge Mats

The members each have to choose a pre-cut piece of watermelon. The member that gets the full (largest) piece gets the meal. 

The sedge mat members split into 2 teams: 1 to harvest the sedge and 1 peeling the harvested sedge plants. They play a game to decide which team gets the harder task of harvesting. One member feeds the other a LARGE slice of watermelon. The first team to finish gets the mat creation task. 

Split for tasks and meal - 51:30

Third Course: 5 grams of Salt (1:09:00 of episode 143- 4:15 of episode 144)

Food at stake: dried yellow corvina

Alternate mission: salt farming!

Members will take turns pairing off in a survival type game. The two members competing will each pinch salt that they feel is 5 grams and it will be weighed. The member closest to 5 grams wins and gets to play against the next member. Obviously, its advantageous to be at the end, so they play rock, paper, scissors to determine the order of play. Inwoo - Seyoon - Dindin - Junghoon - Jongmin.

Split for tasks and meals - 1:19:04 of episode 143.

Sauna Break (4:15 of episode 144- 9:58)

This place looked SOOOOOO awesome! I want to go! 

Dinner Game: Quadratic Formula for Meat  (9:58- 28:46) and (41:22- 51:50)

This had nothing to do with the actual quadratic formula…fear not. The members had to play three games. They would get a number for each game. Then roll a die to determine the symbols between them ( + - x / ). The number of servings of pork they would get to grill and eat would be the result of that math equation. It was a team match from start to finish. Because they could end up with ridiculous numbers, like negatives or hundreds, they set a limit on both ends. They could earn servings from 2-30.

Group Jump Rope - 13:48. The number of group jumps is their number for the equation.

Shoot the Ball in a Row - 18:15. The members all sat in a row (front to back). The first member in the row would set (as in volleyball) the ball to the person behind all the way down the row. The final member in the row would shoot the ball (as in basketball) over all the members’ heads into a basket. The number of balls that make it into the basket in 3 minutes is their equation number.

Hansun Chance - 22:14. They call Hansun (Junghoon’s friend from the last trip) and ask his favorite number. The end. 

Signs Dice - 25:00. 

Dinner - 41:22

Sleeping Game: Dynamic Visual Acuity Game (28:46- 41:22)

Before eating, they play the sleeping game. The winners will get their food made for them and served indoors. The losers will eat outside and grill for themselves before camping.

Something will be shown to them quickly. The two members that are able to guess what was shown (this means there are at least two rounds) get to sleep inside.

Morning Mission (51:50- end of episode 144)

Before they sleep, they get the morning mission. In the morning, they have to run out and get a flag. The first 3 to get a flag will not face a horrible consequence: a boat trip to catch gizzard shad for everyone to share. Turns out…the ‘morning’ was only 30 minutes after they went to bed. 2AM…an hour which should not be seen. The gizzard shad is going to be breakfast! Yikes!

Consequence - 1:02:00. Due to bad weather, they couldn’t go fishing, so the losing members instead had to find a recipe and cook gizzard shad for the member’s breakfast.

Scenic Tour - 1:08:05

FINAL COURSE - 1:12:40. The members each choose a drink. Just one is the lotus leaf latte. That person is the final lonely gourmet.

Preview: Train Trip. The members are going on their first train trip! Unfortunately…their staff seems to disappear at one of the stations. What will they do?

*****SPOILERS*****

Octopus Game

Dindin wins the meal!

Junghoon, Jongmin, Seyoon, Dindin, and Inwoo head to the mudflat!

Jongmin is the first to catch an octopus, so he joins Dindin at the feast.

Beef Tartar Game

Inwoo wins the meal!

Junghoon, Jongmin, Seyoon, and Dindin go to make sedge mats.

Junghoon and Dindin form a team and do the peeling.

Jongmin and Seyoon form a team and do the harvesting.

5 Grams of Salt Games

Inwoo wins the meal! – and he was in the first round! 

Junghoon, Jongmin, Seyoon, and Dindin become salt farmers.

Dinner Games

Group Jump Rope- 0

Shoot the Ball in a Row- 5

Hansun Chance - 20

The signs are … (-) and (/)

The final amount of servings is…. 0 - 5 / 20. Ignoring order of operations, that comes out to -0.25, so they get the low limit of 2 total servings.

The members roll for who gets those servings and Junghoon and Jongmin will get those.

Sleeping Game

Inwoo and Jongmin guess correctly and get to sleep indoors.

Junghoon, Seyoon,and  Dindin sleep outdoors.

They ask for another round and one more person to sleep outdoors. 

Junghoon is correct and gets to sleep indoors.

Morning Mission

Jongmin, Seyoon, and Dindin get the flags.

Lotus leaf latte goes to Jongmin….so he has to go somewhere and have a final delicious meal while everyone else goes home. Is this a benefit or a punishment??