Episode 126, part 1:Guest: Choi Ji Woo (actress).
Location: Busan.
Episode mission (fake): Earn stars throughout the day competing in missions. The person who has all seven stars at the end wins. Spy mission: Find the accomplice and eliminate everyone else to gain their stars to win. Or not. 7:1 challenge: Trick the spy into believing they don't know about the spy mission and rig it so the spy wins . . . to win.
Beach obstacle course race (Songdo Beach*): In pairs, race against each other in three rounds to win a star (tire tunnel crawl, two forward rolls, hoop challenge).
Choi Ji Woo quiz (Gamcheon cultural village*): Answer questions about Choi Ji Woo's past roles to earn Running Balls. Number of Running Balls earned are determined by the order in which they answer the questions, the last place person gets none. Running Ball lottery determines who gets the one star.
Final mission (Busan Gyeongnam Horce Racing Park*): Spy mission commences to find the accomplice by getting a proper response to a secret action and then eliminate everyone else and accumulate all seven stars . . . which results in failure. The 7:1 mission continues to all get eliminated without raising the spy's suspicion that it's a set-up, but everyone who hadn't earned a star yet has a clue for the spy placed under their nametags, which supposedly blows their cover and gives the victory to the spy. They must earn stars by completing tasks found in hidden envelopes (duck walk 100 steps, stick 5 post-its to the ceiling, change Choi Ji Woo's nametag to Choi Ja Woo, yell Ji Woo's name at 125 decibels, pepero game (two people eat a pepero cracker stick from either end and must end up with a piece less than 2cm long)), thereby having the clue removed, and then engineer their own elimination without raising the spy's suspicion.
Comments: The premise is similar to the TruGary episode. The introduction at the Busan National Maritime Museum is shot very close to where the introduction of ep. 111 was shot, and the museum was the final destination for that episode. The Songdo Beach location is also almost exactly the same as in that episode. Observation: Her name is written as "Choi", but pronounced "Chae", which is also an Anglicization of likely the same last name. Possibly similar to the way "Lee" is pronounced "ee", but is anglicized "Lee", "Li" or "Rhee". So confusing.
- epdrama's subtitles for this episode are much better than kshownow's, which are at times, I think, nonsensical for native speakers. Neither subtitle teams seem to have caught the theme from "Star Wars" playing as BGM when the mission is announced.
Re-iteration of comments about x:1 challenges:
I've commented before about the x:1 challenges being heavily weighed against the 1. I think it is simply not within human nature for a person (the 1) to be given a set of circumstances or instructions in a controlled situation like a TV show, and then figure out that there is a totally different set of instructions or circumstances at work for everyone else that will lead to a completely different conclusion from the one that person was anticipating.
As RM has shown over and over again (including here, they're practically trying to sabotage each other initially), even when confronted with multiple suspicious incidents and actions in that situation, the 1 will still not figure it out (there's a psychological study in here somewhere). I even think that if the spy had to figure out the nametag clue to win, rather than just ripping it off as the show's captions suggest, there's a good chance it still wouldn't have been figured out. Perhaps in Korean it's easier to figure out, but as translated into English, it's not that obvious.
- There are others, but off the top of my head, the only time I can think of when the 1 beat the challenge was Kim Jae Dong in ep. 21, and he's a seasoned veteran of variety and a comedian (he's so unimpressed he even starts messing with them).
- The final reaction to the TruGary episode was never revealed in any English-language media I've found. This episode might arguably rectify that by showing the reaction of someone who is fooled into thinking they're supposed to be doing one thing, but then finding that what they thought was success was actually a failure, and that every element, even supposed allies, was working against them.
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