Variety Review: Running Man Episode 611
Guests: Chorong and Bomi (Apink), KCM (singer), Mirani (rapper)
My Entertainment Score: 8 out of 10 laughs
I noted it below, but there was one (repeated) segment of this episode that had me in stitches. I sincerely hope they find more ways to include something like it.
What Happened:
Theme: Spoon War Race
Opening/Guest Introductions (start of episode- 22:23)
Guests - 8:32
Race Explanation/Team Formation (22:23- 28:38)
They will visit 3 popular (on SNS) restaurants. At each restaurant, they will play a game to decide which team will get to eat. The other team will also get to eat if they finish a mission before the other team finishes eating. I’m going to reveal that mission here, but it’s revealed only when necessary at the first restaurant in the show. The members of the losing team can eat if they make the other team raise a “STOP” sign. To do that, they text messages in to the staff which are then read out by a robot voice.
To decide teams, the guests play the game that messed up the members the week before. They are given the last half of a proverb and must guess the first half. Each correct answer lets them choose a member to join the team.
Teams:
Bomi-Chorong Team- Jaesuk, Haha, Sechan, Somin
KCM-Mirani Team- Seokjin, Jongkook, Jihyo
First Restaurant: (28:38- 53:49)
31:26- First restaurant. They traveled before that. The game for this restaurant is a quiz game! The members of each team must answer the questions one syllable at a time per member. The other team decides their seat order. The teams take turns choosing a category and point value for the questions and the team with the most points at the end of the game wins a meal.
46:42- First round of texting for food. ***THESE were EASILY the best part of this episode for me. The second and third round in particular were hilarious.***
Second Restaurant (53:49- 1:10:20)
The game for this restaurant is played on the bus on the way there. It’s a don’t laugh challenge where the members provide the entertainment. Each member takes a turn making a sound…any sound. Any member that laughs or smiles loses 1 point per sound.
1:05:35- Second round of texting for food. ***This is one of the segments to watch!***
Third Restaurant (1:10:20- 1:22:15)
The dessert game is a drawing game…because we know how good the members are at those. One member of each team has to guess a sentence. That sentence is draw, simultaneously, by all the other members, on their own pieces of paper, in 30 seconds. That means that after 30 seconds, the guessing member has 4-5 different drawings to use to get the answer. Easy enough, right?
1:20:21- Final round of texting for food. ***Conclusion of the texting drama…I laughed so hard that my jaw hurt.***
Final Results (1:22:15- end of episode)
Based on the accumulated points over the course of the day, each team is able to put the other team’s name on a certain number of roulette slots. They will add a slot each time that a team is not chosen by the roulette spin. The team that eventually is chosen by the roulette loses. They will then choose a balloon each to get popped over their heads. Half the balloons have confetti and the other half have flour.
Preview: Avoid the penalties loyalty game. The members are in for a real personal struggle next week as they have to choose between their comfort or the team’s overall comfort.
!!!Spoilers!!!
First Restaurant
KCM-Mirani Team wins. They get lunch.
Chobom Team manages to annoy the other team into letting them have lunch.
Second Restaurant
KCM-Mirani Team won by a landslide. Chobom Team is full of people that laugh easily. They had no chance. Lol. They are able to get lunch through the texting game though…and it was HILARIOUS!
Third Restaurant
KCM-Mirani Team takes it again in a tie-break arm wrestling match, but they’re unable to hold out against the texting game. Both teams get to eat again.
Final Results
Chobom Team is chosen by the roulette on the first spin, so they get the penalty. The members that got the flour balloons are Chorong, Bomi, and Sechan.
