Variety Review 2Days, 1Night, Season 4- Episode 148 pt.2 -150 pt.1 Boost Excitement with New Friends 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 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: Seasonal Foods with New Friends trip

My Entertainment Score: overall 8 out 10 laughs

Episode 148 pt. 2 was a 9 for me. Although this was only a team forming game and guest introduction, it was full of funny moments.

Episode 149 was a 7 for me. This had its moments and had a lot more games, but it didn’t keep me engaged quite the same way.

Episode 150 pt. 1 was an 8 for me.

What Happened:

Opening (34:13 of ep 148- 39:22)

Guest Missions (39:22- end of ep 148)

(39:22) The members ride a monorail from which they can see the backs of the guests and their locations. Many, many guesses abound.

Match the Guest Team Formation (48:55) Kang Haneul and Ha Jiwon are at two opposite places in a park. The members have to choose one member to go to, but that doesn’t automatically form the teams. First they must match the guests' (previously answered) answers to either/or questions such as ocean or mountain. If they answer incorrectly, they have to go to the other guest and try there. If they answer correctly, the guest can accept them as a partner or send them off to try at the other guest’s spot.

Final Teams:

Jiwon: Dindin, Inwoo

Haneul: Junghoon, Jongmin, Seyoon

Lunch Games (start of episode 149- 19:52 of ep 150)

Guest Introductions/Race Intro (start of episode 149)

The members are going to do a regional food race. A board is provided with various foods as possible choices. Haneul’s team gets to choose one food option because of the team formations. Several more games will be played to get the rest of the foods. 

Location Change (9:45)

Picture Game (16:30) There is a timer set on a camera whose frame is above the normal height of the members. One member of each team will start on opposite ends of a cafe. They will run to the center, read the ‘emotion’ and then jump into the frame to take a picture expressing it. Points are given to the member that is in frame and expressing the emotion best. Two foods are chosen by the winner.

Location Change (36:28)

Bobsled Game (41:00)

A bobsled experience place is the location for this. There is a track, but the bobsleds have wheels and are for 1 person at a time. It looks really fun!

Anyway, two members of each team race. Each of them has a sticker on the back of their helmet. The person that finishes fastest gets the right to guess the phrase created by those stickers. The rest of the foods are assigned using this game.

Food Switching Game (58:48)

The teams take turns playing a twist on . They will read the lyrics to a song (NO SINGING or MELODY), but they will have to read it based on a randomly chosen emotion. After each correct answer, the members rotate so that a new person is giving the clue. Most correct answers wins and can switch the meals for the team.

Lunch (1:13:00)

Outdoor Spring Break (start of ep 150) Everyone goes to a hot spring and enjoys some free time. They play a rhythm game which ends up being hilarious because of the guests…who don’t follow the beat.

Guest Farewell (15:00) The two guests cannot stay the night due to their drama filming schedule, so they head out here.

Sleeping Game (19:52 of 151- 26:00)

The members are served a birthday cake for Junghoon’s upcoming birthday. Unfortunately, one of them gets wasabi cake. Guess we know who’s sleeping outdoors. Through two more rounds of unlucky food games, three names are chosen to sleep outdoors.

Morning Mission (26:00- 37:25)

The members are told the night before that they will get breakfast if they wake up before Junghoon in the morning. Breakfast is available starting at 7:30am. They have to turn in their phones before bed so that they will have no alarms to wake them, however they know sunrise is about 7:30.

Breakfast (33:40)

Getting Off Work Mission (37:25- 47:25)

The members must not smile. The first 3 members to smile will have to wear a suit to the next trip. They can’t go home until 3 members smile.

Preview: The members go on a Super Luxury Trip…and a reprisal of the Take One Away Trip (episodes 125-126) where the members will trigger conditions that get them sent away on special extra tours! 

*****SPOILERS*****

Lunch Game

Jiwon’s Team wins the Picture game.

Haneul wins the coffee, but Dindin is able to get a high score on whack-a-mole so Jiwon’s team also gets coffee.

Haneul’s Team wins the Bobsledding game.

Haneul’s Team wins the food switching game. They roll dice to determine how many dishes they can steal. Haneul rolls a 2, but they are SUPER kind and for their second switch, instead of taking another food, they switch the food they had already given them. That mean Jiwon got to keep her top 2 choices.  

Sleeping Game

Dindin eats wasabi cake.

DINDIN eats vinegar yogurt….poor man.

**Dindin actively wants to have the last bad thing as well to save his members…**

Inwoo eats mustard rice cakes.

Dindin and Inwoo will sleep outside.

Morning Mission

Seyoon drags Jongmin out before Junghoon gets up and Inwoo arrives on time too. Inwoo woke Dindin, but Dindin wasn’t fast enough. Everyone except Dindin gets breakfast.

Opening Punishment Mission

Junghoon, Jongmin, and Dindin must wear suits for the next trip!