Guests: none
My Entertainment Score: 7 out 10 laughs
Except for one mission, this episode was good. The hiding missions in particular were great.
What Happened:
Theme: Protect Money For Your Parents
Opening (start of episode- 6:49)
The usual banter. Jongkook was in a mood. They also announced that Running Man has passed the record for the longest running variety show in Korea. Congratulations!!! Who else has been watching this show from the beginning?
Race Explanation (6:49- 12:49)
All day long, they are going to get to choose. At the end of each mission, a box will be brought out. One side is a guaranteed amount: $200. The other side is a 50-50 chance. A ball will be dropped into a peg maze. At the end, it can land in either the $0 slot or the big money slot: $500.
They will be earning real money in this episode, so their choice could make a huge difference in what they walk away with. They start by doing one choice as an example before the race is fully explained.
The month of August has 3 member birthdays, so to celebrate the parents that gave birth to the running men, they are earning money to spend on their parents.
Every 30 minutes they will get to choose one of the two buttons, safe or 50-50. 6 members will get to pick one of those two. The last place member in each mission will have to push a different button (oooohhhhh). That gets explained after the first mission, but I’ll explain it here. The other button is the same on the safe option ($200) but on the 50-50 choice, it will either deduct $200 from everyone else deduct $200 just from him.
They will have two regular missions and two hiding missions.
First Mission- Hiding Mission:Chalk (12:49- 26:02)
Each member is given an 80 cm (crazy long) chalk stick in a different color. For 30 minutes, they need to hide or otherwise protect the chalk. At the end of 30 minutes, they will measure the longest piece remaining from each member and the member with the shortest length of chalk s will be in last place and have to make the dangerous choice.
Second Choice Time (26:02- 32:20)
Second Mission: Smelly Dodge Ball (32:20- 46:39)
The members will play 3 rounds of protect the queen dodgeball (Somin and Jihyo being the queens). Teams will be switched up for each round and the winners on the team of each round get 1 point. The member with the least amount of points at the end of 3 rounds will have to make the dangerous choice.
The smelly element has to do with their helmets. Each member will have to choose a card from seven possible ones. Five cards will have smelly options: fermented cheese, durian, onions and garlic, skate, and Sechan’s sock . The other two are safe blank cards. The smelly thing will be hung from a helmet. They choose cards for each round.
Teams are determined each round when the girls play rock paper scissors and then take turns choosing teammates. The winning person at the beginning gets an extra player on their team.
I found this game uncomfortably funny---like watching someone slip on the stairs. I wish they hadn’t done it the way they did. It felt a little cruel.
Third Choice Time (46:39- 48:42)
Lunch (48:42- 53:27)
For lunch, the members also got to choose the buttons. The safe button would give them a couple pieces of ham, rice, an egg, and kimchi. On the 50-50 choice, they could get grilled duck, chicken, and seafood soup OR rice and some seasoning only.
During lunch, the PD told them about the next mission. I’ll describe it in its section for you.
Third Mission-Hiding Mission:Slime (53:27- 1:00:36)
The members had to hide or protect their slime for 30 minutes. A team could take slime from another team and add it to their stash to get a bigger slime. The team with the least slime at the end of 30 minutes would face the dangerous choice. This was played in pairs, with one person working alone.
The pairs were as follows:
Jaesuk and Seokjin
Jongkook and Sechan
Somin and Jihyo
Haha by himself
OMG! Watch the first couple minutes of this. lol.
Fourth Choice Time (1:00:36- 1:06:04)
Starting here, they added a 3rd button to choose. The third button was also a peg maze, but it ended in 3 possible outcomes. 1- “Lucky” $1000. 2- “Vague” $100 for you and $200 for everyone else. 3- “Unlucky” You lose $300.
You can imagine with this group how things went…
For the last place person, the 3rd button did something different. 1- “Lucky”-Steal $300 from the member of their choice. 2- “Vague”- 3 members (including themselves) lose $100. 3- “Unlucky”- Give $300 to the member of their choice.
Fourth Mission: Speed Quiz (1:06:04- 1:17:56)
Sechan and Somin take turns to give a speed quiz to the rest of the members. They are only allowed to speak in English, cannot act out anything, and cannot say any names. The answering members have to have their feet in ice water to get the answer.The member who does the poorest at the end will have to make the dangerous choice.
This was hilarious. I felt bad for everybody but I couldn’t stop laughing either.
Fifth and Final Choice Time (1:17:56- end of show)
After making the 5th choice, they were faced with a last option.They could choose the safe option and keep the money as it is. Or they could choose a 50-50 option that would either multiply their money by 1.5 or by .05. The person with the least amount of money was given a different 50-50. She could make 3 members of her choice donate their money OR she and 2 members will lose all the money they have accumulated.
Preview: Guests Lee Yongji and Hur Yongji come to win the members over to their Yongji Team. Which of them will be able to attract the most members?
!!!Spoilers!!!
Opening Choice
Seokjin- 50-50 choice-- $0
Jaeseok- 50-50 choice-- $0
Jongkook- safe choice-- $200
Haha- 50-50 choice (forced when Jaesuk pushed the button for him *eye roll*)-- $0
Jihyo- 50-50 choice-- $0
Sechan- 50-50 choice (forced when Haha revenge button pressed *eye roll*)-- $500
Somin- 50-50 choice-- $0
Hiding Chalk Mission
Seokjin has the shortest chalk piece.
2nd Choice
Seokjin- dangerous 50-50 choice-- $-200 from everyone else TOTAL $0
Jaeseok- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL$300
Jongkook- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $200
Haha- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL$300
Jihyo- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL $300
Sechan- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL $800
Somin- 50-50 choice-- $0 TOTAL $-200
Smelly Dodgeball
1st Round: Somin (onion and garlic) gets Jongkook (skate), Haha (safe), and Seokjin (Sechan’s sock). WINS--1 point each
Jihyo (durian) gets Jaesuk (fermented cheese) and Sechan (safe).
2nd Round: Somin (safe) gets Haha (skate) and Jongkook (durian)
Jihyo (Sechan’s socks) gets Jaesuk (safe), Sechan (fermented cheese), and Seokjin (onions and garlic). WINS--1 point each.
3rd Round: Not shown--- End results have Sechan at the bottom
3rd Choice
Seokjin- 50-50 choice-- $0 TOTAL $-200
Jaeseok- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL $600
Jongkook- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $200
Haha- safe choice-- $ 200 TOTAL $300
Jihyo- 50-50 choice-- $0 TOTAL $100
Sechan- dangerous 50-50 choice-- $ -200 from everyone else TOTAL $800
Somin- 50-50 choice-- $500 TOTAL $100
Lunch
Everyone chose the 50-50 chance. Jihyo, Somin, and Jongkook succeeded in getting the duck soup meal. Sechan, Jaesuk, Seokjin, and Haha only get rice and seasoning.
Sechan and Jaesuk give $10 to each of the 3 members with the full meal in exchange for an egg to go with their rice. Based on the results after the next choice, I think more exchanges went on, but they weren’t shown.
Hiding Slime Mission
Jihyo and Somin come in last. They must play rock paper scissors to determine who has to make the dangerous choice. Jihyo loses and is considered last place.
4th Choice
Seokjin- 3rd choice-- $-300 TOTAL $-110
Jaeseok- 3rd choice-- $1000 TOTAL $1920
Jongkook- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $820
Haha- 3rd choice-- $100 for him, $200 for everyone else TOTAL $580
Jihyo- dangerous 50-50 choice-- $-200 TOTAL $320
Sechan- 3rd choice-- $-300 TOTAL $820
Somin- 3rd choice-- $100 for her, $200 for everyone else TOTAL $440
Speed Quiz Mission
Seokjin came in last and would have the final dangerous decision of the day.
5th Choice
Seokjin- dangerous 3rd button choice-- $300 stolen from Jaesuk TOTAL $190
Jaeseok- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $1820
Jongkook- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $1020
Haha- 3rd choice-- $1000 TOTAL $1820
Jihyo- safe choice-- $200 TOTAL $520
Sechan- 3rd choice-- $1000 TOTAL $1820
Somin- 3rd choice-- $-300 TOTAL $140
Final Choice-Before Somin
Seokjin- 50-50 choice-- x0.5 TOTAL $95
Jaeseok- 50-50 choice-- x0.5 TOTAL $915
Jongkook- safe choice-- stays TOTAL $1020
Haha- 50-50 choice-- x1.5 TOTAL $2380
Jihyo- 50-50 choice-- x1.5 TOTAL $780
Sechan- 50-50 choice-- x1.5 TOTAL $2730
Somin- dangerous 50-50 choice-- Somin and 2 others lose everything. Somin chooses Sechan and Haha who were in 1st and 2nd place.
