*2 Days, 1 Night is a show where 6 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: Stay on the Island Special trip
My Entertainment Score: overall 8 out 10 laughs
Episode 79 was an 8 for me. It only covered the lunch portion of the trip and showing off the landscape, but the games were super fun and the island was stunning.
Episode 80 was a 9 for me. The Shout in the Silence game was the highlight of the whole trip for me, but no part of the episode lagged.
What Happened:
Opening (start of ep 79- 6:50)
The members arrive...with luggage? The staff introduces the theme of the trip and the area of Yeonsu, known for its 365 beautiful islands. They will be going to the island of Chudo, also known as little Jeju.
Gifts/Lunch Games (6:50- end of ep 79)
As the island only has two residents that will welcome the members for this trip, the staff prepared thank you gifts for the members to bring to the residents. In order to get those gifts, the members have to play a game. There are 3 rounds for 3 gifts. The staff prepared 6 gifts total, so the members will have to carefully choose among them. When they arrive at the island, they can ask the residents which gift they would like best. If the resident (a man in his 60s) picks a gift that the members earned, they will get enough food for 6. If it is not, they will only get enough food for 3. If they fail to earn any presents at all, no one will get lunch.
The 6 available gifts are: 5 boxes of instant rice, 5 boxes of beverages (looks like soda to me), a large air fryer, 13 kg of pork belly, a complete tool set, and 3 boxes of a complete snack set.
8:53- First round game: Group drawing. 5 members will control 1 pen using strings attached to it. They will have to draw a keyword within 30 seconds without saying anything that might be construed as a hint. There will be 10 keywords. If the remaining member is able to guess 7 out of 10 answers, they will be able to choose a gift.
22:26- Second round game: Paper cup fishing. 6 paper cups are placed mouth down on the ground in front of a chair. The members will take turns getting up on the chair and lowering a paper cup on a string down onto a paper cup. With a flick of their wrist, they should be able to pop the cup off the ground into the air. If ALL SIX members manage to catch the cup that they have popped off the ground into the air, they will be able to choose a present. The nerves of everything riding on one chance got to them, which made for a pretty funny round.
29:53- Third round game: Band Slingshot. What looked a little like an exercise band to me was placed on the ground. One representative member, keeping their hands clasped, had to step into the band and then work it up their body to the neck within 30 seconds. After pulling it off over their head, they need to use the band like a rubber band slingshot to shoot a water bottle to get a gift.
40:59- Choosing gifts and travelling to the island. The nerds, I mean members, spent the entire boat riding hosting a song quiz for themselves and dancing. I love these guys so much.
50:16- Arriving at the island and meeting the resident. The resident is adorable. He chooses his most desired gift and decides the fate of the members for lunch.
1:00:12- The members are released to walk around and explore the island while the staff prepares lunch. I would love, love, love to live in a place like this.
1:06:36- Lunch. After eating, the members sing during their break time.
Dinner Game (start of episode 80- 39:00)
Fishing (start of episode 80- 16:00)
The members are told they will not be playing a dinner game. They can all eat whatever they are able to get from fishing and gather barnacles, etc. They split into 2 teams and set about acquiring ingredients.
Non-Sea Ingredients Game: Score with the Ping pong Ball (16:00- 23:22)
An egg tray is set up with numbers, beginning in the negatives and going up to 20. The members are each given 10 ping pong balls. They can practice as they wish and with only one, they say “Challenge” and bounce the ball off the ground, up onto the stool/egg tray. Whatever number is in the pocket where their ping pong ball lands is the number of additional ingredients they earn. There are 23 extra ingredients they can get.
Cooking (23:22- 34:36)
This went SO much better than the first time they had to cook for themselves. Everything looked edible.
Dinner (34:36- 39:00)
Sleeping Game (39:00- 1:03:50)
Shout in the Silence (39:00- 1:02:26)
For the sleeping game, the members split up into teams of two and play the shout in the silence game with the old man on the island playing as an additional player for both teams. The team that gets the most correct answers in 3 minutes wins the right to sleep indoors. The other team has to camp out in the old schoolhouse on the island which is now missing its roof and windows.
The teams are:
Team HoRaviFatty- Ravi, Seonho, and Seyoon
Team Sea Lice- Dindin, Jongmin, and Junghoon
This was the highlight of the trip for me.
Bedtime (1:02:26- 1:03:50)
Morning Mission (1:03:50- end of episode 80)
The members threw fish traps in the water the evening prior. They pull up their trap and if they have at least 1 edible item in the trap (not the bait or starfish), they will be allowed to leave on the first boat out. If not, they have to stay on the island, make their own breakfast and clean up debris/trash from the ocean in the 3 hour interim before the second boat comes.
Preview: The next trip has the members looking for more ways to entertain the viewers….and some ‘superheroes’ will be guests on the show. I don’t know who these people are, but some of them seem to be females. How will that affect the team dynamics?
*****SPOILERS*****
Lunch Game
Group Drawing-Seyoon guesses for the 1st round- Correct! 1 out of 10
-Seyoon guesses for the 2nd round- Correct! 2 out of 10
-Seyoon guesses for the 3rd round- Incorrect. 2 out of 10
-Seyoon guesses for the 4th round- Incorrect. 2 out of 10
-Dindin guesses for the 5th round- Incorrect. 2 out of 10...they cannot afford any more wrong guesses now.
-Dindin guesses for the 6th round- Correct! 3 out of 10
-Dindin guesses for the 7th round- Correct! 4 out of 10
-Dindin guesses for the 8th round- Correct! 5 out of 10
-Dindin guesses for the 9th round- Correct! 6 out of 10...almost there!
-Dindin guesses for the 10th round- Correct! 7 out of 10! They made it!! 1 gift!
Paper cup Fishing-
- Dindin succeeds.
- Seonho succeeds.
- Junghoon succeeds.
- Seyoon succeeds.
- Jongmin fails...spectacularly.
Band Slingshot- Seonho is chosen as the representative after many failed practices among the members. Seonho made the shot in time and didn’t hit the bottle. The bottle wobbled because of the wind of the band and the camera director said the band touched the bottle, giving the members leverage to negotiate for a second chance to earn a present. His second shot was taken with plenty of time and was a clear success. They get a 2nd gift.
The members choose the pork belly meat and the air fryer for the residents. After an agonizing discussion where the members lead him to the correct choice, the resident chose pork belly meat as his most desired gift, allowing all the members to eat. The show, graciously, gave the resident all 6 presents.
Dinner Game-Score With a Ping Pong Ball
Dindin plays first- After 2 practice throws, he challenges and misses the egg tray.- 0 extra ingredients.
Seonho- After several bad practice throws, he challenges and misses the egg tray.- 0 extra ingredients.
Ravi- Also misses on his challenge.- 0 extra ingredients.
Seyoon- After 2 practice throws, he challenges and lands on negative 5- Negative 5 ingredients...oh dear.
Jongmin- After 3 practice throws, he challenges and lands on 3- Negative 2 ingredients, 1 player to go.
Junghoon- Challenges on his last ball and lands on 9- The earn 7 additional ingredients.
They choose flour, spaghetti noodles, peeled garlic, chili peppers, thin noodles, and 2 trays of eggs.
Sleeping Game: Shout in the Silence
Junghoon, Jongmin, Dindin Team gets zero points...not even close to getting points, if I’m honest. It was a hot mess start to finish.
Seyoon, Seonho, Ravi Team gets zero points...in similar fashion to the first team. Haha.
They let the old man go because he was tired and replaced him with Kwon PD for a rematch.
Seyoon, Seonho, Ravi Team played first this time. They get 2 hilarious points.
Junghoon, Jongmin, Dindin Team gets 1 adorable point. Kwon PD is amazing! I’m a fan.
Seyoon, Seonho, and Ravi will sleep inside.
Morning Mission
Dindin has a crab, but its an inedible type, so he has to stay.
Seonho has 2 blowfish. He can go home early.
Ravi has 1 blowfish. He can go home early.
Junghoon has 2 blowfish. He can go home early, too.
Seyoon has 1 eel. He can go home early.
Jongmin had 1 blowfish, but it escaped as Jongmin pulled in his trap. Hahahahaha. He has to stay behind too.