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qbert posted:Pretty much everyone knew Goo Hara was a solid variety show guest at that point. Fortunately Hara is one of those people where her personality itself is entertaining, she can just be her dorky self and it's always funny. Which is why she ended up being one of my favorites on Invincible Youth.
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Speaking of people with prior variety experience, i'm not surprised they stuffed the first few episodes with experienced people to make sure the show got off to a good start. But had Ji-Hyo been in many such things before this?
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qbert posted:I think you mis-typed, the RM eps aired in 2010, not 2011. So smack dab in the middle of when IY1 was still running. Yup - made a stupid typo. They overlapped a little, but IY1 really didn't have a big presence overall in Korea, ratings-wise(esp after the member changes), and was a big factor in its early cancellation. The fanbase / 10-20s generation enjoyed it of course, but it failed to get the wider range of audience needed to keep the show alive. A bad side of Korean television culture is that a lot is determined by ratings - even if the show might be good, does good things, etc, if it doesn't get ratings (and therefore doesn't attract commercials), the Broadcasting Companies are likely to cancel it. Such a shame that IY1 got cancelled... Also, I don't think Gwangsoo actually minds his character that much... Of course, it gathers sympathy, but it also helps him become more recognizable and distinct with such an early establishment of character - many newcomers to variety shows have trouble finding a character and sort of fade into the background doing odd things. Archer2338 fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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Revenant Threshold posted:Speaking of people with prior variety experience, i'm not surprised they stuffed the first few episodes with experienced people to make sure the show got off to a good start. But had Ji-Hyo been in many such things before this? Not to my knowledge...I think she was mostly just in dramas/movies/commercials.
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Revenant Threshold posted:Speaking of people with prior variety experience, i'm not surprised they stuffed the first few episodes with experienced people to make sure the show got off to a good start. But had Ji-Hyo been in many such things before this? I think she's mostly just an actress, but she also hosted Inkigayo for a while.
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Revenant Threshold posted:Speaking of people with prior variety experience, i'm not surprised they stuffed the first few episodes with experienced people to make sure the show got off to a good start. But had Ji-Hyo been in many such things before this? 2004/10/8; 2007/4/23, 2007/12/17- SBS <Yashimmanman> Guest on EP80,208,240 2004/10/9- MBC <Come Play> Guest on EP20 2007/12/7- MBC DRAMA <Three-color Guest Talk Show> Guest on Ep55 2007/11/11- ~ 2008/5/4 SBS <Inkigayo> MC 2008/8/10- SBS <Yashimmanman> Ep51 (Horror Queen Special) 2009/7/11- tvN 《/드스페셜 LOVE》 Philippines Ep 2009/8/2 ~ 8/9 SBS <Family Outing> Guest on Ep58,59 2010/3/7 ~ 3/ 14- MBC <Sunday Sunday Night - Danbi> Guest on Ep.14,15 2010/4/29 ~2011/2/24- SBS <Night of TV Entertainment> Host Then RM, of course. She was a pretty popular actress, and judging by her appearances/fixed host&MC positions, she probably had shown some talent in the entertainment/variety area to the PDs that picked the guests.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 05:18 |
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I did wonder. There's talk about a few of the cast basically being newbies, and of course there's Jae-Suk et al who have lots of experience (though less than the man himself), but I wasn't sure how much of an established quality in variety she was.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 05:22 |
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qbert posted:I agree they should probably put the spy stuff on the back-burner for now. They've used it a bit too often at this point, that everyone is immediately suspicious of everyone else right when the hide-and-seek missions start.
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Lyer posted:Goo Hara was the blue team's MVP. She single-handedly won it for for the blue team. Between finding a ton of golden pigs and dropping 4 in a row in the guessing game, she was boss. Does anyone know when this show aired? Was it before/during/after IY1? I had only briefly skimmed the description of the video before watching this episode, so I thought that the female contestant that was staying on the show was going to be Hara, and I got so happy because she's been the most competent female on the show so far.
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Archer2338 posted:Translated from her Wikipedia page: She was pretty entertaining as a guest on Family Outing. She claimed to have memorized the choreography to 4Minute's 'Hot Issue', but her execution was adorably terrible. She actually does it again in a future RM episode. Edit: Found the clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0-lkpYJ9lM
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I watched episodes 2 and 3 back-to-back. With these already being aired, I just can't wait to finished two-parters, so I'm glad you'll be posting them together from now on. I'm loving all the guests from Family Outing showing up. It's so weird seeing Chunhee without his stepmother though, but it's nice to see he hasn't changed much. Smartly getting a free ride to the location... the wrong location. Hara's still mostly the same too. Stealthy and sneaky. Not as much stealing as I would have expected. I was also surprised there was no rules for catching the other team this time. Maybe they needed to reconsider it after the first episode resulted in them ripping the entire sewn-on tag from the jumpsuit instead of simply peeling the name off. Without Hyori, the picture challenge wasn't AS fun, but still managed to be pretty drat fun. Something about everyone shoving each other like fussy children and making funny faces (and Gary) is just good television. My favorite parts had to be Kwangsoo on the diving boards, constantly debating between 7.5m and 10m. The Oldboy and Lady Vengeance soundtracks just go with everything, don't they? I also loved them searching the stadium seats, and the crew getting exhausted, and the cast all taking a break to playfully pick on them for it. Also during that search, Kwangsoo's sudden burst of speed to get the last piggy bank. Oh, and the soccer goal challenge. Kwangsoo hangs there and deflects balls. Joong-Ki hangs there... and is too short, so they all casually kick the balls in under him. I laughed so hard at that. I was also surprised to see that Jong-kook got his "Spara-kook" nickname so early in the show. And that is sticks for so long.
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Tiara posted:I had only briefly skimmed the description of the video before watching this episode, so I thought that the female contestant that was staying on the show was going to be Hara, and I got so happy because she's been the most competent female on the show so far. If you want more Goo Hara awesomeness, I recommend watching Invincible Youth season 1. She was pretty tame in RM compared to what she does there. Looks like it was right at the height of IY1 during this filming, no wonder she seemed to comfortable on tv. Of all the IY1 stars, I really miss Hara and Narsha the most, I don't count any of the SNSD members since they're on a bunch of shows already and show up a bunch of times on RM! Lyer fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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So here is a weird question: does the Korean word for air conditioner sound like the word for penis? (~3:00 into this video)
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 19:52 |
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The Korean Word for Air Conditioning sounds like "Air Con". The Korean word for Penis is "Gochu" unless I'm mistaken.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 20:00 |
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Alright that's a bit of subber fail as well... The phrase Sukjin says is "에어콘 좀 빡쌔게 틀어줘", which phonetically is close to "Aircon zhom Bbak-sae-gae tuel-uh-zeoh". Bbak-sae-gae is sort of a modifying word /adj to make sth more extreme. The insertion of the word into the normal phrase "turn on (the AC)" makes it into something like: "Dad please friggen blast the AC" Korean word for A/C is indeed AirCon, except the pronunciation has slipped a bit into something like "Air Kkon". Korean words for dick that are generally used: gochu (somewhat mild slang), zhot (basically a curse), guh-si-gi (lit. means "that thing"), and Jaji (hard slang). Don't really see anything that might sound like what sukjin says.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 20:32 |
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I might be misremembering, but isn't gochu "pepper?" Going back to the editing of the show, my comments of the first episode were that they had completely edited out an entire segment of the challenge. Removing a few people taking on a challenge is to be expected at times or editing the show to not follow everyone at the same time is normal. So the editing of the show seems to have improved real fast, and I'm happy about that.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 22:57 |
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Gochu is indeed pepper. And slang for penis.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 23:23 |
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Arctic Baldwin posted:Gochu is indeed pepper. And slang for penis. God drat, I'm a genius with Korean! Now if only I could form sentences.
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# ? Jan 10, 2012 23:39 |
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Just ran across this show via the thread yesterday morning and since then I've gone from episode 1 to just finishing 13 which is absolutely deserving of that #1 spot (from what I've seen thus far). I thought the earlier episodes were a bit disjointed, but that was just a matter of them getting their footing with the format. It really does seem like it'd be an absolute blast to do: somewhat akin to the Gaki No Tsukai annual batsu games, except every week (Hulu had the show briefly awhile back. Highly recommend the 24-Hour Tag Batsu). I really like that cheating is not only allowed, but encouraged as it allows for some surprising outcomes that would otherwise have been a foregone conclusion. May just give episode 13 a rewatch. Thanks for acquainting me with this show!
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Ghostpilot posted:Just ran across this show via the thread yesterday morning and since then I've gone from episode 1 to just finishing 13 which is absolutely deserving of that #1 spot (from what I've seen thus far). Give Family Outing a try aswell after you've watched all episodes.
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 01:22 |
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qbert posted:Some quick thoughts on today's episode (Ep 76). I see what you mean about the mission being stupid, but I thought it was still pretty entertaining except for that last bit with Jong Kook. That sort of running around is only fun if it's somebody like Jae Suk who you don't really expect to be the last man standing. It's always good when jong kook is a little afraid of the guests, though. I really liked Sangwook making the female staff member knock the door to the restroom to confuse Jae Suk. Ji Hyo's complaint about them picking the worst possible spy was good too. On the topic of bad episodes, The only one I really hated so far was episode 23 at the ski resort. Some of the others weren't great, but that one didn't work for me on any level. I think the problem was the guest just sucked.
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Xandu posted:On the topic of bad episodes, Totally agree. Definitely the weakest episode of Running Man so far, mainly due to the guest. He kind of dominated all the proceedings, and everyone had to be respectful to him because of his age and allow it. They spent way too much time trying to learn old-style comedy.
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 03:49 |
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Now I'm really eager to see that bad episode. It can't have been that bad...
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 04:02 |
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The rear end in a top hat got what was coming to him though. You guys probably aren't familiar with this, but he tried his hand at movies after succeeding as a slapstick comedian in the 80s. He directed a string of absolutely horrid movies (ex: D-War). His latest movie and the one he was trying to promote in that RM ep, "The Last Godfather," was a terrible movie that bombed. His company went bankrupt with something like $6 mil in debt and hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages for the workers. He also used his company money for personal gambling (actually illegal in Korea) at a foreigner casino, and used money in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was also accused of being apparently involved in the directing of prostitution towards government officials in order to gain their favor. He also illegally converted a gas gun into a deadlier version for threatening his employees who asked for their unpaid wages. He was also sued for fraud as he tricked investors into giving him money for a movie that he never produced. Considering he received tons of government support (and thus the Korean taxpayer money), he had a responsibility to use the money wisely/effectively; instead, like little child, he spent it on himself and his whims, not even paying his employees their wages. Basically, he was an idiot and a scumbag totally over his head in managing a company that only managed to get there thanks to his previous popularity. I think he has to end up coughing up like $10 million dollars or something like that in total damages/fines/loans/whatever. He hasn't shown any remorse for what he has done either, publicly denying most of the accusations until they were proven true in court. Personally, I hope the bastard scumbag rots in prison for the rest of his life. Back to RM: Yeah, when a scumbag like that comes on as a guest, you definitely aren't gonna get a good ep. Don't get the wrong idea about older comedians in general though, the vast majority are good, or at least decent, human beings and generally know their place when they appear as guests in newer-gen variety shows. Archer2338 fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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Archer2338 posted:His latest movie and the one he was trying to promote in that RM ep, "The Last Godfather," was a terrible movie that bombed. Ah, he's that guy. I saw the trailer for that, it looks so bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVgHq3vVIQ
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Archer2338 posted:Whoa, I had no idea about any of that, but it somehow makes me like the episode even less. Another reason I remembered disliking the guest, I don't care how old you are, don't you tell YJS he's doing slapstick comedy wrong! He was being perfectly funny and the guest was being nit-picky as hell just to assert his dominance.
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 04:45 |
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Ha, that's my least favourite episode, as well, though it does have a couple of good bits. Good to know i'm not the odd man out on it. Anyway, next episode's another two-parter, and i'll have both up tomorrow. I'd honestly forgotten which episode this was, so it was a nice surprise - it's actually one of the first I saw, and it's as funny in the rewatch as it was the first go round.
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 05:01 |
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I thought this episode was good up until the end. Even though I'm not at all familiar with the guests, I enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed [spoiler]Kim Jong Kook begging[spoiler].
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 08:53 |
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Man, it's getting confusing having everyone talking about a bunch of different episodes at once, especially when there are so many of them.
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# ? Jan 11, 2012 10:42 |
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While the newest episode was a bit lacking, I still enjoyed it. I will agree it was a bit one sided, but were the writers and producers expecting the members to find the golden boat? Also, I didn't even have a "worst episode" in mind until people brought up episode 23...yeah, it's pretty much the worst. The next episode looks like it's going to be great.
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Episodes: 4 + 5 Location: Gwacheon National Science Museum Guests: Song Ji-Hyo (2nd App.) Jessica (Idol, SNSD) Nichkhun (Idol, 2PM) 1 2 3 4 I’m uncertain whether Ji-Hyo is technically still not a regular, so she’s a guest again. The other two guests this week are both foreigners; Jessica, as you may have guessed from her name, is American, while Nichkhun is Thai and research suggests has lived all over the place. Just as an aside, it’s remarkably surprising if you’re watching some show and suddenly a girl switches unexpectedly from fluent Korean into English and what’s probably one of the most stereotypically Valley Girl accents I’ve ever heard. And yes, if you’ve been following along with the Invincible Youth thread, this is yet another SNSD girl, and there’s still plenty others. The contrast between the two first tasks really seems as though there was supposed to be some choice or game to decide who got which, rather than it just being assigned to them. Unlike last week, I can’t really sympathise with the fear of the iguanas. Snakes, maybe, but iguanas are alright. And then probably one of my favourite bits so far, with the pool high jump, which is hilarious in and of itself even before the entire red team decide to gently caress with Gary and Kwang-Soo being drowned. The next task also seems pretty skewed in favour of the blue team, with Jae-Suk being much easier prey than Jong-Kook. I suppose this is also technically the first hide and seek game in the show; expect plenty more of these in the future. And finally for the first part, bin boules, in which they could have at least turned Suk-Jin round a bit. ----------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Hopefully this is just my computer, which has been on the blink lately, but there may be sound delays here. I couldn’t find a Youtube version which didn’t have them, but it’s possible it’s just me.) The thing I notice most after watching both halves of this is… Jessica’s really not the best of guests. After Goo Ha-Ra last time setting the bar so high for idol guests (not to mention IV), in comparison she’s just not all that interesting here. Anyway. After the end of the bin game, it’s another round of getting your face in the picture, this time back in the pool, and with the return of everyone’s favourite peaceful subject. They’re also still at the stage of the show where the cast decide on their own to come up with some rules for tasks, which works pretty well and actually sticks around, though to a lesser extent. And another pig hunt, though I have to say if I were locked in a museum overnight I’m pretty sure I’d be playing around just like Jae-Suk. And serious kudos to that crew member’s stamina and balance. After the dance-off; Stripping! Can’t say that I’m the best judge of these matters, but possibly there’s something of interest to watchers of the right persuasion in the bus challenge, but there’s not very much to say about it other than that it gives the male cast a chance to be massive cheaters again. Finally there’s more golden pigging, and probably the coolest pig location so far with the observatory roof closing. The winners seem somewhat unfair; while the coins do allow a bit more nuance in scoring as well as not really knowing who’s doing well until the end, it’s a bit too random for how much effort is put in. Next time; A familiar face for the IV thread followers! Probably not one of the ones you're hoping for!
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Revenant Threshold posted:
Jessica actually has one of the most entertaining personalities out of all the SNSD members, but even her fans(nor she) won't deny her lethargy and lack of athleticism. That's why I found it funny, they literally couldn't have picked someone less suited to this than they did. She was pretty entertaining in episode 63-64, at least. But like I said, her sister inherited all the athletic ability in her family rather than her And if you think she has a valley girl accent, how would you describe Tiffany? Khun is always a good guest for these sorts of things, certain idols like he and Minho are pretty well known for their competitiveness. And like you said it's kind of interesting seeing how Jaesuk used to explain some of the tasks himself, but I guess it makes more sense the way it is now. Nowadays what with all the mystery guests and seperate missions it makes more sense for the PD to do it. edit: Also I watched episode 76 andI didn't think it was as bad as some people said. Granted the initial odds did seem ridiculous(4 guests + 2 spies vs the remaining 5 cast members), but once I realized that it was actually possible for the chasers to get knocked out of the game for once it didn't seem so bad. Some pretty funny parts in there, too. Like when they recruit Kwangsoo and he's like OH MAN GUYS THIS IS GONNA BE SO COOL Then when they got Jihyo she's just like 'why did you pick Kwangsoo...'. Selane fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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Selane posted:Jessica actually has one of the most entertaining personalities out of all the SNSD members, but even her fans(nor she) won't deny her lethargy and lack of athleticism. That's why I found it funny, they literally couldn't have picked someone less suited to this than they did. She was pretty entertaining in episode 63-64, at least. But like I said, her sister inherited all the athletic ability in her family rather than her quote:And if you think she has a valley girl accent, how would you describe Tiffany? Nichkhun's good fun. I think the two things that are really necessary to be a successful guest on these types of shows are gameness and a willingness to get involved of their own accord, both of which he certainly has. And he's certainly the only person to have had basically their entire family on the show.
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# ? Jan 12, 2012 01:38 |
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In watching the earlier episodes, I wonder when they start developing the characters I've come to know them as presently...like Commander Jae Suk, Grasshopper Jae Suk, Ace Ji Hyo, Monday Couple-Gary/Jihyo,etc.
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Nickhun is just a beautiful beautiful man.Revenant Threshold posted:Next time; A familiar face for the IV thread followers! Probably not one of the ones you're hoping for! You mean the best person on the show and the most obvious thing missing from the new series?
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Selane posted:Some pretty funny parts in there, too. Like when they recruit Kwangsoo and he's like OH MAN GUYS THIS IS GONNA BE SO COOL Then when they got Jihyo she's just like 'why did you pick Kwangsoo...'. Also, when Haha suspects Kwang Soo of being a spy, simply due to him still being alive.
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sharktamer posted:Also, when Haha suspects Kwang Soo of being a spy, simply due to him still being alive. I've used that line of reasoning in games of Mafia myself.
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# ? Jan 12, 2012 01:51 |
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Episodes 4 and 5 were one of the first ones I saw, and its the one that made me want to start from the beginning. Even at the beginning, without the experience and developed characters, the cast had enough chemistry to make almost any game fun. I've re-watched both pool games at least four times at this point.
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Selane posted:Jessica actually has one of the most entertaining personalities out of all the SNSD members, but even her fans(nor she) won't deny her lethargy and lack of athleticism. That's why I found it funny, they literally couldn't have picked someone less suited to this than they did. She was pretty entertaining in episode 63-64, at least. But like I said, her sister inherited all the athletic ability in her family rather than her Regarding athletic ability: yeah, her sister got the athletic talent. I mean, holy poo poo, look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeOyaByw1g I don't think Jessica can quite pull that off And I still think Sukjin not being turned around for the entirety of the trashcan game and him complaining is one of the best moments of the show. EDIT: Confirming that Jihyo is not a fixed cast member yet. She is officially confirmed in E7. Archer2338 fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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I really loved these two episodes, mainly because of the awesome venue. Just being able to roam around a Science Museum and do challenges sounds like a fun experience all around. I'm pretty sure Jessica got a bit of criticism for her non-presence during these episodes, and it shows later on when she returns as a guest and is about 10x more upbeat and funny. Seriously, she was the MVP of Eps 63-64 for me. Nickhun is always a good guest, as he's one of the few people who's willing to go head to head with Jong Kook, and I believe he's been on the 2nd most number of episodes as a guest, the first being my FAVORITE guest of the series, Yonghwa! Things I loved about these episodes include Jae Suk messing with Gary throughout the various challenges (especially in the pool), Suk Jin still being funny with his family anecdotes and his positioning during the trash curling game, the astronaut holding onto the golden pig, and the HILARIOUS bus challenge. Gary getting his shirt ripped is still some of the hardest I've ever laughed watching the show. I believe this is the last time we'll ever see the golden pig format. Beginning with the next episode, they introduce a reward format that will become the norm on the show for many, many episodes to come. qbert fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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