Variety Review: Running Man Episode 621
Guests: None
My Entertainment Score: 5 out of 10 laughs
I could not begin to tell you why this episode just didn’t work for me. Unfortunately it fell very flat for me.
What Happened:
Theme: We Want to Go to Gangwon Race
Opening (start of episode- 9:35)
The members gather and share a meal while chatting.
***Note: They enter to RPG’s “Maniac”. RPG is the group with Haha and Skull that does reggae music. This is their newest song and I think it’s my favorite. I recommend everyone give it a try at least.***
Race Explanation (9:35- 10:49)
They got rained out of their original plans for this week’s episode and had to adjust. Instead of coins, the teams will work to get potatoes. After each game, the winning team will get 13 potatoes and the losing team will get 10 potatoes.
The team captains were Haha and Sechan…because of the Current Penalty Sticker situation. Each team has 7 penalty stickers in total at the start of the day.
Haha Team: Haha, Jongkook, Jihyo, Somin
Sechan Team: Sechan, Seokjin, Jaesuk.
First Mission: “How Have You Been?” Saatori Game (10:49- 22:46)
A phrase is given in the local Gangwon dialect and the members have to correctly guess what it means.
Second Mission: Kitchen Item Olympics (19:50- 44:50)
This was played as a best 2 out of 3.
Round 1: Kitchen Item Curling. (19:50)The members were told to go to the kitchen area and choose any one item before they were told what the game would be. The members use their chosen kitchen items to play curling on a mat that the staff created.
Round 2: Kitchen Item Table Tennis. (31:00) The members had to pick new items, knowing it was a different game, but not knowing which game it would be. The first team to 21 points wins. The game was played 2 v 2, but they had to change players at least once so that every person played.
Final Mission: Potato Betting (44:50- 57:50)
Travel time: (44:50- 50:00) The chit chat is shown for this section, but not the game that was played on the bus. Only the results of the game are shown.
Potato Betting Game: (50:00- )
The potatoes earned were split up into different briefcases. (4 cases for Haha’s team because there were 4 members and 3 cases for Sechan’s team because there were 3 members). *I’ll put the number of potatoes in the initial cases in the spoilers section because it would give away a bit of the results of earlier games if I listed it here.* Each member chose one case and checked how many potatoes they had.
The game was played in 3 rounds. For each round, the members of each team had to secretly submit as many potatoes as they wanted. The team that submitted the most potatoes won the round and got no penalty stickers. Round 1 was worth 1 penalty sticker. Round 2 was worth 2 and round 3 was worth 3 penalty stickers. At the end of 3 rounds, the member of the losing team with the fewest individual potatoes would get ALL the accumulated penalty stickers from the rounds.
Final Results (1:21:48- end of episode)
1:23:00- Penalty Possibilities Revealed!
Sky (Rope) bridge and flying swing in Yeosu
Cleaning the (outside of) the windows at the SBS building
Diving for abalone and octopus at Jeju Island
Panning for gold in Gangwon
Skyglider
Upgraded Water Jump
Sky Biking (I want to try this SOOOOOO bad!)
Preview: The penalty and final penalty member are chosen. The 2 members finally face their punishment. Who will it be? What will they do?
!!!Spoilers!!!
Saatori Game
Haha Team- 7 correct answers –13 potatoes
Sechan Team- 6 correct answers –10 potatoes
Kitchen Item Olympics
Curling: Sechan Team wins with 6 points
Table Tennis: Sechan Team wins.
Sechan Team wins 2 out 3, so they get 13 potatoes. Haha team gets 10 potatoes.
**Note-The game is tied at this point.**
Bus Game
Haha Team wins- 13 potatoes. Sechan’s team gets 10 potatoes.
Total going into the Potato Betting Game:
Sechan Team: 33 potatoes
Haha Team: 36 potatoes
Potato Betting Game
Starting Cases:
Sechan’s Team:
13 potatoes (Seokjin)
10 potatoes (Sechan)
10 potatoes (Jaesuk)
Haha’s Team:
10 potatoes (Jongkook)
10 potatoes (Somin)
8 potatoes (Haha)
8 potatoes (Jihyo)
Round 1:
Haha Team: 4 potatoes submitted (Wins)
Sechan Team: 1 potato submitted - 1 penalty sticker
Round 2:
Haha Team: 0 potatoes submitted - 2 penalty stickers
Sechan Team: 1 potato submitted (Wins)
Round 3:
Haha Team: 4 potatoes submitted (Wins)
Sechan Team: 0 potatoes submitted - 2 penalty stickers
Final Results:
Haha Team: (2 penalty stickers to lowest member)
Jongkook: 8
Haha: 6
Jihyo: 5 (sticker)
Somin: 9
Sechan Team: (3 penalty stickers to lowest member)
Seokjin: 12
Jaesuk: 10
Sechan: 9 (sticker)
Final Penalty Project Results:
Sechan-7 -confirmed for penalty.
Haha- 4
Seokjin- 3
Jongkook- 1
Somin- 1
Jihyo- 3
Jaesuk- 0 -exempt from penalty.
