*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: The Super Hero Special
My Entertainment Score: overall 8 out 10 laughs. The guests were great picks by the staff. They all had the right attitude for the show and were able to add to the atmosphere.
Episode 81 was an 8 for me. The games were fun and the people seemed to enjoy themselves.
Episode 82 was an 8 for me. The main game in this episode was clever. I hope they do something similar in a future episode.
Episode 83 was a 7 for me. This episode, being the last of the trip, was more of a wind-down. It was still funny and I was very satisfied.
What Happened:
Opening (start of ep 81- 19:45)
The trip is taking place in Pocheon in the Gyeonggi Province. The concept of the trip was described. Teams are established based on 3 qualities required for entertainment shows: Strength, Voice (Talking/Reacting Ability), and Passion or Energy.
Voice: Jongmin and Seonho
Passion: Junghoon and Dindin
Strength: Seyoon and Ravi ---the eating brothers are back at it again.
GUESTS!!! Whaat? Three guests representative of the three qualities arrive to join the teams for the entire trip. Kim Minkyoung (comedian) joins the Strength team. Mijoo (singer of girl group Lovelyz) joins team Passion. Baek Z Young (singer) joins team Voice.
Transportation Game (19:45- 32:35)
They play 2 rounds. The winner of the first round gets to travel by luxury sedan. The winner of the second round will travel by a small car. The losing team will use a truck with only one row of seats.
The first round is the fish extract luck game. There is one one coffee among 8 coffees doctored with fish extract. The team with the member that chooses the good drink, gets the luxury car.
The second round is a helium balloon game. Each person takes a turn taking a breath of air from a balloon and singing. The team that gets a regular balloon instead of a helium balloon wins the small car.
Lunch Game (32:35- 33:48 of episode 82)
The first place team will get a full meal. The second place team will get the side dishes, without the main meat dish. The last place team gets….
There will be three games to demonstrate each super ability. The guest from each team (master) will play one-on-one against the members of the other 2 teams (the regular members only...4 opponents total) in their field. For each opponent they beat, they get one point. As soon as they lose, their run ends. So if they lose to the first opponent, they will get 0 points and no chance to face the other 3 people. The team with the most points wins.
The first round is for Baek Z Young to play the ‘Super Voice Speed Quiz’. She and the opponent of her choice will explain a word (phrase, title, etc) to their teammates at the same time. The team that gets the most correct wins.
48:00- The second round is for Mijoo to play a ‘Pedometer Dance Battle’. Each person will attach 4 pedometers: head, waist, arm, and thigh. They will dance to a song and the combined totals of all 4 pedometers will determine the winner.
1:05:55- The final round is for Minkyoung to play ‘Thigh Ssireum’. I’m sure you know this game. Players face each other, seated so one person has their legs between the others. The inside player tries to press outward to open the legs of their opponent and the outside player simply squeezes their thighs together to hold off the attack.
Start of episode 82- Two teams tied, so they play a game to decide a winner. They play “Doomchit Doomchit Memory Grow”, a game they played in a previous episode. Each member (similar to ‘in my suitcase I packed’) adds something for the next player, in this case, a dance move. They point to the next player that has to do all the dance moves in order and then add their own.
8:03- Traveling to lunch location.
11:20- Lunch. They play the omegi tteok game to get an extra bowl of rice after the ladies throw a fit (haha). That’s always funny.
Dinner Game (33:48- 20:14 of episode 83)
First they all travel to basecamp and take a short rest.
40:00- Dinner game Begins
They called the dinner game “Cheerful Sports Day with Super Heroes”. They will get to load up plates from the food truck that feeds the staff of 2 Days, 1 Night. The members love the food truck, so they’re very excited, until they learn the advantage for winning. The first place members will get a full sized tray to use. The second place team will get a child’s plate (3 partitions instead of 7) and the last place team will only get a ‘pocket-sized’ tray...looked like a dipping sauce tray to me. They will play 2 rounds. The winner of the first round gets first place and the large tray.
43:35- The first round is ‘Group Obstacle Race’. For the race, the members will share 3-person..skis for lack of a better word and will go around the obstacle course together. The fastest time wins. In order to determine the order the teams will run in, they do a common sense quiz.
1:04:24- The second round is ‘Bucket Ball Toss’. One member of each team will wear a large bucket above their heads. The other members will try to score goals in the bucket. At the end of 3 minutes, the team with the most goals wins the medium dinner plate.
After several tiring rounds with no scores, the PD switched the game to the Word Chain Game of Wits. They played this in a previous episode. They have to pop up and say a word that begins with the ending syllable of the previous word. When all three members of a team say a correct answer, that team wins a point. For this game, it was first to 3 points wins the medium plate. (This began about 1:05:49)
Start of episode 83--Dinner
14:14- Relaxation time. The members chase away their sleepiness with a rousing round of forehead flicking.
Sleeping Game (20:14- 59:49)
The first and second place teams will be sleeping inside. The last place team is going to sleep outside under just a bug net, not a tent. To determine the winners, they will do a Super Star Talent Show!
21:29- Performance Preparation. Hilarious.
28:22- Teams gather, judges and scoring introduced. Each member not performing can give up to 10 points to a performance and 4 ‘judges’ aka staff can also give up to 10 points. A perfect score would therefore be 100. The team with the highest score wins. Jongmin is given the task of MCing the function and chooses the order by random draw.
37:00 PERFORMANCES! Team Super Voice Goes First. Team Super Power (43:31) goes second. Team Super Passion (46:44) goes third. The judge panel’s results were given out right away. The member scores were only revealed after all three teams had performed (53:11 ish).
54:56-Bed time!
Morning Mission (59:49- end of episode 83)
Mijoo had to leave early for another schedule, so the morning mission was conducted without her.
For the morning mission, the staff produced a wall of balloons. Only 2 were marked “get off work”. The teams take turns sending a person up to the line to throw a dart. The two teams that hit the “get off work” balloons get to eat breakfast and go home first. The third team has to perform an encore of their Talent Show number from the night before until the other two teams leave. They’re allowed to do more than one song using a karaoke machine.
1:05:10 Darts game. This was short.
1:06:48- Breakfast and Encore Performance! The encore team performed a whopping 18 songs. It was basically a concert.
Preview: The next trip is designed to take the members back to the time of youth. How will these men fare playing children’s games?
*****SPOILERS*****
Transportation Game
Team Voice finds the real coffee in the first round. They get the luxury sedan.
Team Strength finds the regular balloon in the first round. They get the small car.
Team Passion is left with the truck.
Lunch Game
Team Voice lost on the first opponent-0 points.
Team Passion won all 4 rounds- 4 points.
Team Strength won all 4 rounds- 4 points.
In the play-off, Team Passion won and got the full dinner.
Dinner Games
Round 1-Group Obstacle course--
Team Power- 4:08-- last place--must compete in round 2
Team Voice- 2 minutes and some, 8 seconds slower than the winning team-- second place--must compete in round 2
Team Passion- 2 minutes and some-- first place--wins the big tray for dinner.
Round 2-Bucket Ball Toss-->Word Chain Game of Wits.
Team Power- first round, third round--loses 2-3 and has to eat with the teeny plate.
Team Voice- second round, fourth round, fifth round--gets to eat with the medium plate.
Sleeping Game
Team Super Voice earns 29.5 points from the staff panel.
Team Super Strength earns 33 points from the staff panel.
Team Super Passion earns 36.5 points from the staff panel. OMG HOW?
With the addition of the member votes:
1st Place- Team Strength. 71 points
2nd Place- Team Passion
3rd Place- Team Voice---has to sleep outside!
Morning Mission
Team Passion and Team Voice pop the “get off work” balloons. Team Strength has to do their encore performance.