Guests: None
My Entertainment Score: 7 out 10 laughs
I had a blast watching the first two thirds of this episode. The beginning and first of two games were great for me. The second game was fun in its way, but never quite got up to super funny levels for me and the conclusion was about what you’d expect. The preview for next week got me hyped up though...looks like a hidden mission type episode and those are hard to mess up.
What Happened:
Theme: Strange Family Photo Race
Opening (start of episode- 29:53)
They first released several chatting scenes from last week that got cut because of the excellent fan response to the episode and requests for those cut out scenes.
Opening (10:48- 19:14)
Members arrive one by one and have a mini photoshoot in front of a flower wall, along with a phrase that is supposed to represent them.
Race Explanation (19:14- 23:43)
In honor of the show’s 11th anniversary (OMG, already!), they take a group photo. They then learn that they will take a second photo at the end of the race. They will have to choose from 7 characters to dress up in for the second photo. The characters will be bought at an auction after the games are done.
The members are split up into 3 teams (2, 2, and 3). They will play two games to earn funds for the auction at the end. They have to choose to donate funds to the team fund. The team fund is what will be used to get the characters that the team members choose from. After the team has their characters, they can purchase the individual character from their personal funds that were not donated to the team.
The characters are: Dad (mustache, wig, floral shirt), Mom (wig, female makeup, dress), Teenage Daughter (wig, female school uniform), Grandma (grey wig, stereotypical country old lady clothes), Newborn Baby (pacifier, lacy bonnet, swaddle blanket, heavy pink blush), The family pet (dalmatian costume), and The Family Plant (green onion costume).
Team Split (23:43- 29:53)
The teams are split based on the photographer’s rankings of their individual photo shoot photos. The first place photo gets $350 and each rank after that goes down by $50. I’ll put the rankings down in the spoilers and just leave the teams up here. Somin and Jaesuk are a team. Jongkook and Seokjin are a team. Jihyo, Haha, and Sechan are a team.
They do their first round of handing in money to the team fund. This is all done secretly and the totals are not revealed to the members until the very end. The show only reveals some decisions to us as the audience. Money gets handed in after each round of the game in the same mysterious way.
First Mission: Indoor World Travel (29:53- 51:15)
Upon arrival, the members are given snacks as a product placement. These guys are a hoot.
32:10- Begins the mission. Indoor World Travel. Each member is on their own computer. They will use street view on something like google maps. They are given a list of things to find and the number of points that finding that thing will give them. For instance, 3 points are given if you find a person laying on a bench. There are 1 point, 3 point, and 5 point missions. (a giraffe is a 5 point mission). The only rule is that they cannot look up anywhere in Korea. Once something has been found by one team, it cannot be found again.
This was far more adorable than you would expect.
Second Mission: You Can Tell By Looking In The Eye (51:15- 1:07:19)
This was played like a self-created version of the game “Taboo”. Each team had to guess 3 words (speed quiz style) without saying the words banned by the other two teams. So, as an example, if the word was “Finding Nemo”, the other teams might ban “fish”, “lost”, “son”, “ocean”, and “Dory” in order to make describing the word difficult. They were timed and 10 seconds was added for each banned word that either member said. Fastest to finish wins.
Auctions (1:07:19- 1:18:07)
The roles are purchased for the teams using the team money. This was sadly funny.
1:15:36-Individual auctions take place.
Results (1:18:07- end of episode)
The members get into costume and take their family photo.
Preview: Make Your Wish Come True and Pay The Price Later. Three guests are coming to help the members fulfill their wishes. Ha Dokwon (actor), Nam Jihyun (actress), and Chae Jonghyup (actor) are promoting a drama called “The Witch’s Diner”. It looks like Jihyo will be out for revenge next week.
!!!Spoilers!!!
Individual Photo Rankings/Team Split
First Team:
1st Place Photo: Haha gets $350.
2nd Place Photo: Sechan gets $300
3rd Place Photo: Jihyo gets $250
Second Team:
4th Place Photo: Somin gets $200
5the Place Photo: Jaesuk gets $150
Third Team:
6th Place Photo: Jongkook gets $100
7th Place Photo: Seokjin gets $50
Indoor World Travel Game
Seokjin and Jongkook earned 4 points and each get $100.
Haha, Jihyo, and Sechon earned 18 points and each get $200.
Somin and Jaesuk earned 19 points and each get $300.
You Can Tell By Looking In the Eyes
Haha, Jihyo, and Sechan got first place. The other teams decided to give $350 to Haha, $300 to Sechan, and $250 to Jihyo.
The two other teams went well over the allotted 5 minutes, so they had to play rock, paper, scissors, to determine the places.
Jongkook and Seokjin got second place. The other teams decided to give $200 to Seokjin and $150 to Jongkook.
Somin and Jaesuk were in last place. The other teams decided to give $100 to Somin and $50 to Jaesuk.
Team Auction
Haha, Jihyo, and Sechan have $180 to spend collectively. ($110 of this from Jihyo)
Jaesuk and Somin have $370 to spend collectively.
Jongkook and Seokjin have $680 to spend collectively.
The role of dad gets sold for $250 to Jongkook and Seokjin.
The role of mom gets sold for $300 to Jongkook and Seokjin.---Their team can no longer bid.
The role of teenage daughter gets sold for $200 to Somin and Jaesuk. ($170 left)
The role of grandma gets sold for $180 to Haha, Jihyo, and Sechan. --Their team has $0 left.
The role of newborn gets sold for $170 to Somin and Jaesuk. --Their team can no longer bid.
Haha, Jihyo, and Sechan automatically take the dalmatian and plant roles.
Individual Auction
Jongkook turned in all his money, but Seokjin held back $20, so Seokjin was able to choose his role from dad or mom. He chose dad, so Jongkook was left with mom.
Somin chose the newborn role and Jaesuk took the teenage daughter role.
Sechan had $760 dollars. Haha had $870 dollars. Jihyo had $590. This team was a mess and it was hilarious. Haha picked the grandma role. Sechan picked the green onion role and Jihyo was left with the dalmatian.
