Variety Review: Running Man Episode 602

Jun 20

Jun 20 Variety Review: Running Man Episode 602

Guests: Yuri and Hyoyeon of SNSD (Girl’s Generation), Cho Junho and Cho Junhyun (twins who both compete in Judo)

My Entertainment Score: 9 out of 10 laughs

This episode had almost everything I like best. There was nonsense sports, a quiz that they couldn’t escape and generally a nice atmosphere all around.

What Happened:

Theme: Enemy Cha-Cha-Cha

Opening (start of episode- 5:15)

The day of the shoot was Jongkook’s birthday, so they made a huge fuss to mess with him. Lol. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JONGKOOK! They enjoyed a meal together before they started as well.

Race Explanation/Guest Introductions (5:15- 19:11)

A letter arrives that describes the ‘long-standing grudges’ held by Town A (Seokjin, Haha, Jihyo, Hyoyeon, Junho) towards Town B (Jaesuk, Sechan, Somin, Yuri, Junhyun). The guests are added to the teams after the reading of the letter, but it’s simpler to list the whole team together.

Jongkook is “Cheif Jongkook” and he will join whichever team he wishes to join for each game after a negotiation of some kind. After each game, the winning team members will randomly draw a card from the good set ($0, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3) and the losing team members will randomly draw a card from the bad set ($1.5, 1, .5, 0, -.5, -1.5). Though they compete in teams, it is an individual competition, so at the end of the day, the two members with the most money will get a prize and the two with the least amount of money will get a penalty.

First Mission: I Can Shoot (19:11- 23:40)

Jongkook doesn’t play this game at all. The members paired by ‘grudge’ compete by assembling, filling, and shooting a water gun at tissue in order to read a word behind it first. The winner gets $2 and the loser gets $1 in each round.

Jongkook’s First Team Choice (23:40- 27:55)

To entice Jongkook to their team, delegates are allowed to convince him with words. They can also offer him a reward for joining their team. The reward must be half covered by their own funds, but they can collect funds from the rest of the team to cover the other half.

Second Mission: Strip Judo (27:55- 53:00)

They called this “Judo with now Friendship and No Mercy”, but…well, you’ll see. The members play 1 v 1 against their rivals. Jongkook gets to choose who he plays against. Each round lasts for 2 minutes and points are earned for the items of clothing a member takes off their opponent. 1 point is earned for each sock removed. 2 points are given from ripping off the opponent’s name tag and 4 points can be earned if they manage to strip the judo top off their opponent.

Jongkook’s Second Team Choice (53:00-53:26)

Junho and Junhyun are the negotiators this round.

Third Mission: Yutnori Quiz (53:26- 1:23:40)

The members throw Yut (like pick up sticks). Their score moves them forward on a board. Where they land determines their quiz category. They must answer the question correctly in order to move forward. The last 5 spaces on the board are ‘final questions’ ranked by difficulty, so they don’t want to roll too high at the end.

Final Card Draw/Results (1:23:40- end of episode)

The prize was a honey gift set for the top two players. The penalty is to come to the next episode 1 hour early.

Preview: Ultimate Running Man. The staff gets to vote on who will win each game and can earn a big prize if they make it all the way to the end.

!!!Spoilers!!!

I Can Shoot

*$2 to the winner, $1 to the loser*

*I’m always going to list Team A’s member first*

Haha v. Sechan- Haha wins

Junho v. Junhyun- Junho wins

Seokjin v. Jaesuk- Jaesuk wins

Hyoyeon v. Yuri- Hyoyeon wins

Jihyo v. Somin- Somin wins

*Team A wins overall, so they each get an extra 50 cents.

Strip Judo

**Jongkook is on Team B for this mission, getting a reward of $1 each from Yuri and Jaesuk**

Seokjin (2 points) v. Jaesuk (4 points)

Junho (4 points) v. Junhyun (2 points)

Jihyo (8 points) v Somin (0 points)

Hyoyeon (1 points) v Yuri (3 points)

Haha (0 points) v Sechan (4 points)

15:12 going into the final match

Seokjin (0 points) v. Jongkook (2 points)

Team A wins 15 (to 14). They get good envelope choices. Team B gets the bad envelope choices.

I’ll list one by one what they got in their envelopes with a running total in parentheses.

Hyoyeon- $0 added ($2.50)

Haha-$2 added ($4.50)

Junho- $1.5 added ($4.00)

Seokjin- $3 added ($4.50)

Jihyo- $0.5 added ($2.00)

Jaesuk- $1.5 added ($2.50)

Junhyun- $0.5 lost ($0.50)

Jongkook- $0.5 added ($2.50)

Yuri- $1 added ($1.00)

Sechan- $0 ($1.00)

Somin- $1.5 lost ($0.50)

Yutnori Quiz

**Jongkook joins team A for $1.50 reward**

Team B wins and gets the better envelopes. Somin used a previously earned ability to get a quiz answer correct in order to answer the final question. Hilariously, her answer gets dubbed over by a voice actress.

Final Results

**The last draw wasn’t shown so that the final ranking would be a surprise**