Guests: Brave Girls (idol girl group)
My Entertainment Score: 7 out 10 laughs
A lot of this episode was funny. My score is only lowered because I felt that Brave Girls didn’t get to shine through as much as I would have liked. They were along for the ride and enjoyed themselves a lot, but I would have liked more of their personalities and humor to come through. I miss the old Running Man days where the idols all but took over the show on the episodes they were on.
What Happened:
Theme: A Day of Brave Idol Stars Race
Opening (start of episode- 3:10)
Member Arrivals (start of episode- 10:52)
The crew set up a photo shoot like the idols encounter when they arrive at shows for performances. Each member arrived, with much confusion, to be met with cameras and calls calling for poses, dances, and calls of encouragement. I giggled through most of this. In the last couple minutes, the members meet up and discuss Seokjin’s fashion, which is...different this week.
Guest Arrival (10:52- 15:40)
Brave Girls arrive. They give a short performance of their winning song “Rollin” and meet the members.
Race Explanation (15:40- 17:20)
The missions will be carried out as a 4 member ‘idol’ group. The winning group for each mission will get 5 ‘trophies’, second place will get 3, and last place will get 1. The leader of each group will then decide the order for members to pick up some trophies (so that there is an individual score)...this means the first person chosen could take all the trophies leaving none for the rest of the team. At the end of the day, the 3 people with the highest number of trophies (regardless of teams) will get prizes. On the other hand, the three people with the lowest number of trophies (regardless of teams) will get the punishment.
Mission results will not only be decided by the game results. Just as in music shows, there will be points awarded by judges (aka staff members), which can change the results of the games.
The idol groups were predetermined.
Team 1 (Team Squirtle): BG Yujeong, Jaesuk, Kwangsoo, Jihyo
Team 2 (Team Main Vocalist): BG Minyoung, Jongkook, Somin, Haha
Team 3 (Big Eyes): BG Eunji, BG Yuna, Seokjin, Sechan
The groups choose their leaders very quickly. I underlined those in the list above. The leader of each group is permanent for the whole day.
First Trophies (17:20- 18:20)
The members are shown their best photos from their arrival photo shoots. The top three members with the best photos, as chosen by the SBS PR team, will get 1 trophy each.
First Mission: Brave Showcase (18:12- 38:48)
Explanation (18:12- 19:23)
Four rounds will be played where the members can challenge the specialties that four Brave Girls members prepared. In each round, the winning challenger’s team will get 5 points for the mission (for 20 potential points). Then the 20 panelists will vote on how everyone did (we are never given standards for this and it seems pretty random). The combined score of panel votes and mission points will determine the winning team for the receipt of trophies.
Round 1: Dance (19:23- 23:17)
Each team danced. The team with the best dance using a prop takes the win. The funny part of this was how bad they were.
Round 2: Big Eye Contest (23:18- 27:55)
They measured the vertical width of several people's eyes. The team with the biggest eyes wins.
Round 3: Singing Any Song Sadly (27:55- 34:57)
Anyone was able to challenge by singing a song of their choice and trying to make it sound sad. Again, this was funny for how badly the members did.
**Round 4 was not shown.**
Mission Results (34:57- 38:48)
The results come out, including the panel’s votes, then the members take individual trophies. You may have guessed, just from the explanation earlier, that this process would be full of betrayals and selfishness.
Second Mission: Nickname Frying Pan Game (38:48- 52:47)
The members chatted on the bus for a while before the game began. (38:48- 41:16)
Nicknames Made/Explanation (41:16- 43:45)
Each member is given a nickname, like the idol members get. Almost all of them end with King or Queen and are puns.
The game is going to be played using the nicknames in the Nickname Frying Pan Game. If you watch any idol reality or variety content, you have probably seen the frying pan game. It is very similar to the Strawberry Game which I have explained in previous articles (and love to death). One member will call out a nickname and a number 1-4. The member who is called has to say their nickname the correct number of times, while staying on beat. For the frying pan game, you backload the nickname, so if a 2 is called, you skip the first 2 beats and then say your name twice.
The ‘panel’ for this round is simply the audio director that is riding in the bus with them.
Game (43:45- 50:23)
These members...they probably shouldn’t play games like this, but I’m so so so glad that they do!
Results (50:23- 52:47)
Third Mission: Kimbap Lunch (52:48- 59:51)
Explanation (52:48- 53:54)
**This is explained as the first set of members comes in, so I was a little unsure about how to put in the time stamps here.**
Each team will send out 1 member at a time. On the way in, the members will take their individual trophies.
Members will be allowed to choose 2 filler ingredients for making Kimbap from 8 available options. If each member chooses something different, they can keep all the ingredients. Any time a person chooses an ingredient that someone before them has, they have to turn that ingredient back in. If a 3rd person brings that ingredient, they get to keep it (so only pairs have to be turned back in). The team with the most ingredients at the end gets the most points.
Kimbap Game/Making and Eating Lunch (53:54- 56:19)
This was all shown in a basic flash.
Results (56:19- 59:51)
The members moved to the last location before choosing their individual trophies. They showed the whole process and its betrayals this time around.
Final Mission: Nice Makeup Running Salon (59:51- end of episode)
Explanation (59:51- 1:01:29)
Each team will play offense twice and defense 4 times. On offense, there will be one person that simply rides the conveyor belt through the paint and other contraptions...getting makeup. Their partner will play ‘dibidibidip’ against 6 members from the other teams (3 from each). They play one at a time in succession, as quickly as possible.
Dibidibidip is a variation on rock paper scissors. Instead of the 3 hand signals, the players make a full body sign and instead of trying to beat the other person’s sign, you are trying to match it. For this game, the signs are all point moves from Brave Girls’ “Rollin’” choreography.
To reiterate, there are only 6 games, with only 2 people from each team riding the conveyor belt make-up contraption. The team that wins against all the defenders fastest (and thereby saves their teammate from the makeup), wins mission points.
The 4 assistant PDs are the panel for the round.
Nice Makeup Running Salon Game (1:01:29- 1:14:34)
This was pretty funny. They upgraded the conveyor things to include all kinds of things and the members were all kinds of strange.
Results/Punishment (1:14:34- end of episode)
The prize was supplements and food that are good for the body. The penalty was a luck game. The 3 losers had to pick a bucket to be poured on their head. One had black paint. One had water and one had confetti….this is worth watching.
Preview: The sweet and scary way home with guests Chae Seho and Choa. It appears that next week will be a battle to see if they end the shoot close to Mapo or Gangnam, giving half the cast a short commute home and half the cast a long rush-hour commute home.
!!!Spoilers!!!
First Trophies
Somin, Yujeong, and Sechan each earned 1 trophy for their arrival photos.
Brave Showcase
Round 1: Team Main Vocalists Win
Round 2: Team Squirtle Wins--thanks to Kwangsoo’s ability to open his eyes SUPER wide.
Round 3: Team Squirtle Wins
Round 4: Not shown, but Team Main Vocalists Win
Score Totals:
Team Main Vocalists Win-10 points in missions, 7 points from panel--5 trophies.
-Minyoung takes 3, Somin takes 2. Jongkook and Haha get 0.
Team Squirtle Second- 10 points in missions, 6 points from panel--3 trophies.
-Yujeong takes 1, Jihyo takes 1, Jaesuk takes 1---fair, what? Kwangsoo is left with 0.
Team Big Eyes Last- 0 points in missions, 7 points from panel--1 trophy.
-Eunji takes 1. Yuna, Seokjin, and Sechan are left with 0.
Nickname Frying Pan Game
*This was played as a team game and the scores were calculated based on how many misses people on the team had.*
Team Big Eyes Wins. Negative 3 mission points, 10 panel points.--5 trophies.
-Eunji takes 3!. The other members aren’t shown, but Seokjin is left with 0.
Team Main Vocalists Second. Negative 1 mission points, 0 panel points.--3 trophies
-Somin takes 1. The other members aren’t shown.
Team Squirtle Last. Negative 6 mission points, 0 panel points.--1 trophy.
-Jihyo takes 1. Yujeong, Jaesuk, and Kwangsoo are left with 0.
Kimbap Game
**Points were not shown**
Team Big Eyes Wins. --5 trophies.
-Yuna takes 3. Sechan takes 2. Eunji and Seokjin are left with 0.
Team Main Vocal Second.--3 trophies.
-Minyoung takes 1. Somin takes 2. Jongkook and Haha are left with 0.
Team Squirtle Last--1 trophy.
-Yujeong takes 1. Jaesuk, Jihyo, and Kwangsoo are left with 0.
**Currently, Jaesuk and Haha are in danger of getting the penalty with 1 and Kwangsoo and Seokjin are in danger of getting the penalty with 0.**
**Currently, BG Minyoung, Yuna, and Eunji will get the prizes.**
Nice Makeup Running Salon
Team Squirtle Wins--15 mission points, 7 panel points--5 trophies
Team Big Eyes Second--5 mission points, 10 panel points--3 trophies.
Team Main Vocal Last--0 mission points, 3 panel points--1 trophy.
Final Trophy Rankings
1-Minyeong 7 trophies---Gets Prize
2-Yujeong 6 trophies---Gets Prize
3-Yuna 5 trophies---Gets Prize
4-Eunji 4 trophies--Safe
5-Somin 3 trophies--Safe
6-Jihyo 3 trophies--Safe
7-Sechan 3 trophies--Safe
8-Seokjin 3 trophies--Safe
9-Jongkook 2 trophies-- Gets Penalty water bucket.
10-Haha 2 trophies--Gets Penalty confetti bucket.
11-Jaesuk 2 trophies--Spared from penalty by winning rock paper scissors.
12-Kwangsoo----NO TROPHIES hahahahaha. Poor guy. --Gets Penalty black paint bucket.