Guests: None
My Entertainment Score: 7 out 10 laughs
I tend to enjoy the mystery type episodes quite a lot and this one was pretty good all around, but I didn’t get any riotous laughs out of it and it was pretty slow building. I would have enjoyed it more, I think, if they had cut a little of the beginning plot and initial hint game from the show to focus more on the members as they tried to work out the mystery.
What Happened:
Theme: Haunted Doll Mystery
Opening (start of episode- 8:57)
The members arrive one by one to a ‘doll exhibition’. They are told to pick their favorite doll from numbered cases. Then the ‘artist’ that created them arrives to give explanations about each design. She suddenly drops dead! *Gasp* And rolls herself onto the gurney for the people taking her body away! *hahaha*
Race Explanation (8:57- 10:21)
The artist was prepared, never fear! She left the mascot of the exhibit with the terms of her will just in case she suddenly passed away.
According to the will, whichever member ends up with the most expensive doll by 8pm will inherit all the artist’s assets. It isn’t explained in the show here, but it makes more sense here in the article. The members can exchange dolls by mutual consent OR force a trade by ripping someone’s name tag.
The members will first face a test to see who is most worthy of the inheritance. The two winners will get a hint for the rest of the game.
Then they split up in the artist’s school and have to find hints to discover which doll is the most expensive. There is a whole big mystery that unravels and I won’t spoil it even in the spoilers. It would be too complicated to write out all the twists and turns.
After a twist, they learn that they can win by cutting open the belly of the most expensive doll (because ghosts!) If they pick wrong and cut open a different doll, the member whose name is found inside will be out.
Throughout the school, there are envelopes with pictures of the dolls on them. They can place two pictures and a name (theirs or another member) in an envelope to determine if one of those dolls has the chosen person’s name in the belly.
At certain points, they gather at a doll house to try to determine the most expensive doll in a “judgment time”. At the judgment time, three people put their names and the dolls they believe have their names in the belly on the top floor of the dollhouse. All the others go on the bottom floor. If all three are correct, the humans win. If not…doll ghost murders a doll and the member whose name is inside the belly is out.
There is a spy (ghost) among the members, so there is no one they can trust. All 6 of the “human” members face a penalty if they can’t figure out who is possessed and which doll is the most expensive.
First Hint Mission:Draw Using Memory (10:21- 15:35)
The members heard the name of a well-known brand and simply had to draw the logo as they recalled it. The staff decided the winners. I didn’t find this super super entertaining.
Second Mission: Tour Entrance Ranking (15:35- 28:14)
As they take a bus to the school, they play a game to determine who will be allowed to enter first and start looking for clues. The game was “Admit it to get out”. Essentially, one person would ask the person next to them something like “You need the restroom, don’t you?” and the person would need to reply without hesitation, “I do need to go to the restroom.” Hesitation or refusal to answer was a negative point. The person with the highest score at the end would exit first and so on.
Third Mission: School Investigation (28:14- 1:24:00)
As I said, they split up and searched for clues. I’m only going to put time stamps for the dollhouse checks in this section and the results of that in the spoilers section. If you want all the twists and turns and plot of the story, you’ll have to watch the episode.
34:07-More specific game rules that I outlined above are shown. And more plot is explained.
46:55- First judgement time at the dollhouse. You learn the rules (that I explained earlier) of the judgment time at this point in the show.
1:01:07-Second judgment time at the dollhouse.
1:18:40-Third judgment time at the dollhouse.
Closing (1:24:00- end of show)
The punishment was to make a handmade doll before going home.
Preview: Couples Race with guests Yoon Siyoon (actor), Hani (idol of EXID), and Park Kiwoong. This doesn’t look like it's going to be the awkward fake dating concept. Thank goodness. Look forward to it!
!!!Spoilers!!!
Draw Using Memory
Round 1: Jaesuk
Round 2: Haha
*We find out later that the hint says the most expensive doll is cursed. The hint tells them to go to Room 203 to learn more! In the room….the horror special begins with many many mishaps where others get the hint too!*
Admit It to Get Out
Sechan
Jihyo
Jaesuk
Haha
Not shown from here on: Jongkook, Somin, Seokjin
First Dollhouse Judgment
Top Floor: Dolls #3 (Jaesuk), 4 (Seokjin), 7 (Jongkook)
*Result: INCORRECT. -- Ghost doll murdered doll #5-Jongkook out.
**They confirm Jaesuk’s number between judgments.**
Second Dollhouse Judgment
Top Floor: Dolls# 1(Jaesuk), 7 (Seokjin), (Haha)
*Result: INCORRECT. -- Ghost doll murdered doll #1-Jaesuk out.
**Haha cuts open #3 to avoid Seokjin’s suspicion.-Seokjin out.**
Third Dollhouse Judgment
**They know who the ghost is, but they don’t win unless they put the correct dolls in the dollhouse or cut open the correct doll. --They cut open #6-Jihyo out! The ghost is caught!**
Jihyo alone had to do the punishment.
