Running Man-a-lympics

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Episode 104:
Location: Seoul (various locations).
Guests: Eunhyuk (Super Junior), Eunjung (T-ara), Lee Joon (MBLAQ), Jung Yong Hwa (CN Blue), Siwan (Z:EA), Yoon Doo Joon (BEAST), Nichkhun (2PM).
Introduction (Olympic Park): Rock-paper-scissors to determine which team has to ride on top of the London-style double-decker bus to the next venue and who gets to ride in the air-conditioned lower level.
Nametag relay race (Seorae island): Running Man team vs. Idol Team compete in a relay race where passing the baton is replaced with attaching nametags onto the next runner. Relay match-ups: Haha-Nichkhun; Jong Kook-Siwan; Gary-Lee Joon; Ji Hyo-Eunjung; Suk Jin-Yoon Doo Joon; Gwang Soo-Jung Yong Hwa; Jae Suk-Eunhyuk.
Trampoline volleyball (Seongdong-gu station): Teams compete to 15 points on a specially-made trampoline volleyball court.
Swimming pool hurdle toss: In three rounds, teams compete to hurl one member over a series of 3 "hurdles" in a swimming pool and then take the flag to win. Round match-ups: Ji Hyo-Eunjung; Gwang Soo-Siwan; Jae Suk-Eunhyuk.
Alternating offense-defense Hide and Seek team elimination (Seoul Baekje Museum): The winning team of the previous three competitions chooses whether to seek or hide first. At 15 minute intervals, teams switch between seeking and hiding. Nametags are torn off by the seeking team to eliminate. Team of the last person standing wins.
Comments: Nichkhun's fifth Running Man appearance, Jung Yong Hwa's sixth appearance. Eunjung's second and Lee Joon's third appearance. Composer Jung Jae Hyung (eps. 88, 89 guest) cameos during the introduction. Episode is kind of a send-off for Korean athletes and an homage to the 2012 London Summer Olympics which opened on July 27. Eunhyuk was 2 years old during the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Nichkhun (in the U.S.) and Lee Joon were mere newborns, and the rest of the idols weren't even born yet.
- This has nothing to do directly with Running Man, but Nichkhun was involved in a drunk driving controversy two days after this episode aired. Since there wasn't an episode aired on July 29 due to Olympic coverage, this was the last Running Man episode before the T-ara controversy exploded on July 30.

Running Man Chaser

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Episode 107:
Location: Incheon (various locations).
Guests: Jang Shin Young, Kim Sang Joong (actors), Gaeko (Dynamic Duo); Gary absent but has a cameo.
Episode "plot": Kim Sang Joong has just been released from prison after 8 years on a corruption conviction. His aide, Jang Shin Young meets him at his release and tells him she has prepared for his comeback into politics and they have to get to a press conference at Yonsei University by a certain time with a "gold pin". The gold pin was supposed to have been delivered to them by courier at the prison, but was mistakenly delivered to someone else on the courier's list of deliveries, who all happen to be Running Man members. They must get the gold pin from the Running Man member and make it to the press conference on time. The items the Running Men receive lead to the first mission, including a car, keys to the car, GPS, a flashdrive with mission instructions, Running Man clothes and nametags.
Incheon parking lot mission: The Running Men search through unlocked cars to find a black box, which holds instructions to the next mission site.
Songdo elementary school mission: Find the car keys for the car prepared for them from amongst citizens in a street market by getting a correct response to their password. It is implied (and figured out by the Running Men) that one person will not be able to get into the car at the end of the mission, but it's not stated in the instructions that it's a competition.
Yonsei University (Songdo) mission: Kim Sang Joong and Jang Shin Young take the two members they've . . . acquired and make them hostages. With the Running Men witnessing, Kim Sang Joong whispers something in each of the hostages' ear, one being an important clue for the Running Men, and the other being something false and misleading. The Running Men then choose which hostage they want let go and the other is eliminated. Then everyone competes to figure out who has the gold pin, and while avoiding the security forces that are deployed, obtain it and get to the press conference by the given time and if this isn't complicated and muddled enough, there's a spy.
Comments: This episode is derived from the 2012 drama The Chaser, in which Kim Sang Joong played a corrupt politician who in the end is served justice and sent to prison for 8 years, and Jang Shin Young played his aide. The courtroom scene at the beginning of the episode is ostensibly a parody of a key scene from The Chaser, and includes a cameo by Jo Jae Yoon "reprising" his role as Park Yong Sik in the drama. Skull, Haha's partner in a recent music collaboration, cameos as "PK Skull", perhaps parodying the role of PK Joon in the drama (I haven't seen it). It was possibly shot to lay the stage for the episode for people unfamiliar with the drama, but was probably more likely shot because deep inside, the production team really, really wants to work on a drama, but is stuck with working on silly and frivolous Running Man. Haha & Skull's song Busan Vacance is used as BGM.
- After several episodes of getting back to Running Man basics, this episode brings back drama elements and likely staging and direction with a complicated "plot", which at many points doesn't make sense and subverts the idea of figuring out and completing missions. If they were straight-forward Running Man missions, I wonder if they would have been able to figure out what to do next given what is shown on screen. There is nothing shown through mission instructions about members disappearing or being abducted, and it seems unlikely that Running Man members would arbitrarily and independently leave a member behind at a location without being told it was fine to do so. While searching for the black box in the cars, they just give cursory looks into the cars, but in the car where they just happened to find it, they searched pretty vigorously. Aside from a mention of "gold pin" in a mission instruction, the Running Men are never told on screen what the objective is, so when they are given 5 seconds to make a getaway from the security forces, unless explained to them off-screen by the PD, they have no idea what it is they're supposed to do (further evidenced by Gwang Soo asking what the mission is). The security forces they are supposedly evading eventually disappear and become irrelevant.

'Don't Walk, Date'

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Episode 108:
Guests: Gong Hyo Jin (actress), Lee Joon (MBLAQ); Gary absent.
Location: Greater Seoul (various locations).
Teams (fake 'Don't Walk, Date' drama press conference): Leading role team: Gong Hyo Jin-Gwang Soo; supporting roles teams: Jong Kook-Haha-Suk Jin; Jae Suk-Ji Hyo-Lee Joon.
Yangjaecheon Outdoor Swimming Pool mission: Teams must together find the balloons in the swimming pool that have questions in them. If they find a balloon with a question, they must answer it correctly together to pass. Two members of the winning team get a hint for the final elimination, one member of the second place team gets the hint.
Zoo cafe mission (Seocho-dong): Gong Hyo Jin is fitted with a heart rate monitor and teams compete for who can raise her heart rate the most. Two members of the winning team get a hint for the final elimination, one member of the second place team gets a hint.
Leading role team vs. supporting role teams elimination (NS Home Shopping building): Gwang Soo gets seven (7) nametags and all of them must be torn off for him to be eliminated and only after he is eliminated is Gong Hyo Jin able to be attacked and eliminated (she has complete immunity until Gwang Soo is eliminated). There are clues referencing past popular South Korean dramas hidden throughout the building and the supporting role teams must identify and enact scenes of those dramas before each of Gwang Soo's nametags are torn off. If a supporting role team member who has a clue enabling one of Gwang Soo's nametags to be removed is eliminated before the nametag is removed, that clue is nullified. Two "Goh sisters" scriptwriters can be found by either team and can be forced to write how the "script" for the episode can unfold (eliminate people). Once the script is written, the drama must be played out as written (within certain rules).
Comments: Lee Joon's fourth Running Man appearance. This episode seems to be taking the Running Man production team's obsession with wanting to be a drama in a new direction. Instead of scripting and staging scenarios in furtherance of a contrived drama-like plot, they're actually trying to convince themselves they're filming a drama, filming pretend press conferences and calling the missions "scenes". I think they need psychiatric help or should quit Running Man and go work for a drama if that's what they want so much.
- Suspicious: it is really hard to sneak up on someone in a stairwell (although with all the crew it might just barely be plausible. Barely).
- There's a lot that's suspicious in this episode. Everyone has their own bias and criteria regarding what they think is fake or not. I tend to give the show benefit of doubt, recognizing a lot is in the editing which may give the appearance of being fake when they're just trying to make the episode cohesive and focused, and including just the relevant bits. So my criteria for what's fake or not is plausibility. If it's vaguely plausible, I accept it as real. And that may be overly kind. Also barely, barely plausible is the team that reconstitutes and figures out the clue that had been destroyed. That one was really pushing the envelope of plausibility. It's a shame that there's even an issue amongst fans of whether missions are real or staged. It hurts the integrity of the show, which is supposed to be spontaneous. But it's the production team's fault that it has become an issue by going down that road of staging and scripting missions so obviously that fans noticed.

Four Seasons Training Race

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Episode 109: part 1
Guests: Park Tae Hwan, Son Yeon Jae (Olympic athletes).
Location: Yangju, Gyeonggi-do (various locations).
Intro/Team formation (Art Park): Guests do rock-paper-scissors to choose their teams. Remaining three become a team. Son Yeon Jae-Jae Suk-Gwang Soo; Park Tae Hwan-Jong Kook-Gary; Ji Hyo-Haha-Suk Jin.
Spring Training mission (Duri Family Land): Trampoline karaoke: Score 80 points or more in karaoke with the microphone suspended above the trampoline; pool challenge: two members cross a pool, one on an inflatable raft, one in a water hamster ball, both must memorize a phrase presented halfway through and repeat it at the end, while the person on the raft has to pick up the third member halfway through and bring that person to the end. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage, or give a member of their team an advantage. 
Summer Training mission (Uijeongbu Budaejjigae (army stew) Street): Teams compete in games of alkkagi for ingredients for budaejjigae. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage or give a member of their team an advantage.
Winter Training mission (Uijeongbu indoor ice skating rink): Trash bin curling: Teams compete to push a member across the ice closest to the finish line. Winning team gets to choose whether to give a member of another team a disadvantage or give a member of their team an advantage.
Autumn Training mission, part 1 (Pocheon Herb Island): Find the bottles of colored water "potions" and bring them to the "witch", who conjures the result of each potion.
Comments: Trash bin "curling" was used in episodes 4/5 (Gwacheon Nat'l Science Museum (Jessica, Nichkhun)), although not done on ice then. Budaejjigae is a dish that was developed during and after the Korean War (1950-1953) when food was scarce. U.S. Army bases had surplus long shelf-life food, such as spam and hot dogs, which were used in stews to feed people. Uijeongbu had U.S. army bases and is considered one of the originating locations for budaejjigae. The pool challenge seems kinda arbitrary, but I think the point of how it was edited was the hilarity of the hamster ball. Revealing edit: even though the opening appears like seamless shooting, Ji Hyo is not there in the very first shots, presumably late, but suddenly appears within the first minute of the episode, so they must have broken shooting for her to get miked up and get on set. Exactly opposite, towards the end of the opening, they don't edit the part when the PD is trying to get the cast's attention to announce the rules. Probably known to regular Running Man fans, but Gary was absent for two weeks due to a back injury and returns in this episode, and recently Haha announced his engagement to singer Byul; both are referred to in the opening. Staging suspicion: in the very last sequence, the VJ of the member spying on the member getting the potion conjured would have been in plain sight, so although he was supposed to be spying, if staged, the other member knew he was there. The result, though, won't be made clear until part two.

Target Hunting

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Episode 110: part 2
Guests: Park Tae Hwan, Son Yeon Jae.
Location: Pocheon, Gyeonggi-do.
Autumn Training elimination, part 2 (Herb Island): Find the bottles of colored water "potions" and bring them to the "witch", who conjures the result of the potions (blue makes nametags huge, red gives one-time protection from nametag elimination and deflects the elimination to any one member of their choosing).
Morning indoor games: Each member writes down an activity they're good at that must be able to be done in the room and using the materials available. They're each given 10 stones for betting, and the PD randomly chooses activities to do. For each activity, the Running Men choose whether to participate, and bet stones based on their confidence in winning. If they win, they get double of what they bet. The winner gets an advantage in the final elimination (gonggi (similar to jacks); ddakji (paper flipping); stretching; holding the most water in their mouths; stone sliding). 
Target Hunting elimination (Daejin University): Each member privately chooses a number from 1 to 9 upon entering. Starting from number 9 moving sequentially to number 1, each member in turn becomes the target for elimination by everyone else. As soon as a person becomes the target, that person is allowed to tear off anyone's nametag, and if successful eliminates that person and takes over that person's number. Everyone else can only eliminate the target. Two eliminated members are resurrected during the course of the game.
Comments: The original morning mission was cancelled because of the approach of Typhoon Bolaven, which made landfall later that day, August 28 (assuming the two-day shoot was Monday and Tuesday). The indoor games obviously wasn't planned and is conducted very loosely without strict adherence to rules (I don't think anyone will deny Son Yeon Jae is given the softball treatment), and actually has a nostalgic feel of early Running Man episodes when similar games were regularly featured. The likely staged portion of the previous episode looks like it just sets up the running gag between those two members afterwards. The winner of the indoor games doesn't get any real advantage shown on-screen, but it's possible that although they were all supposed to pick their number randomly, that member was "given" that number as part of the design with the PD knowing about the resurrections, and that was the big advantage. That's just speculation. Personal note to Ji Hyo: Don't ever go to either Boston or New York wearing that baseball hat with both Yankees and Red Sox logos on it. I guarantee in either city, within 30 minutes on the streets, a total stranger will walk up and unapologetically knock that hat off. Or not. Or worse.

About Enlgish windows and Chinese windows language?

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English windows cannot read Chinese programs, its a bunch of random codes if you try, but Chinese windows is able to read ENLGISH program.





the problem is


-Does this apply for windows VISTA too? or only XP %26lt;-- coz i read it on XP.


-If i have chinese windows, can i change the whole computer into ENGLISH menu like you can do in XP on vista?





thanks








P.s getting a laptop thats why, and want to download some chinese programs|||yes you can change to english in vista

Change wii menu?

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i bought a wii over the internet from china very cheap but obviously the menu is in chinese, is there anyway of changing to english|||Yes, look at your friend's Wii and memorize the menus that change the language and do it yourself|||In the Wii Settings! duh!|||hm....is your booklet that came with it in Chinese? do what the other guy said. memorize someone else's menu and do it from there. you can still probably figure some of the stuff out in wii settings if its in chinese. the booklet should have some english in it.|||Buying it from China was the 1st mistake. Because now you HAVE to get all your games from over there. And just an example. Brawl comes out like... MArch 08 or something in USA. If you wanted that you wouldn't b able to get it until like... december @ the earliest because of region locked. you have to wait for the games to come out in china. good luck!