This week's guest is probably the most awaited, since he's coming back to Running Man after his debut on the Major League Baseball for LA Dodgers in the US. Ryu Hyun Jin was also a guest together with Choo Shin Soo in episode 119 last November 2012.
Like what was said in the long preview last week, Hyun Jin will be able to "control" the Running Man members through several missions that he did in the US. The members will be given 2 choices, and they must choose between those two to know the next location that they will go to. If the answer that they picked was right, they will go to a location with an easy mission. On the other hand, if they're wrong, they will do a really hard mission.
Hyun Jin's first mission is to do hula-hoop for at least 30 seconds. The Running Man members (most of them) didn't believe that Hyun Jin could do it, so they picked the second choice, in which Hyun Jin could not do hula-hoop for at least 30 seconds.
It's really fun watching the members be together in doing missions. Like perhaps when they were in the car on the way to the next mission location, they were all too noisy and they were definitely like a family going out for a road trip.
Unfortunately, Running Man's answer was wrong. The mission that they would do should they get their answer right was a spa, and they will be getting a massage together but they should not make any noise. Pretty easy, huh?
The hard mission, however, was an intricately made baseball game, specially for the Running Man members. It has a really complicated rule, and I won't bother telling something about it in here.
All I want to say is that the first one who'll handle the ball is on a flying chair operated by a fork lift. Haha! Gary was the one originally on the flying chair, but when someone makes mistakes and ends up sabotaging the group's effort, then he/she will be riding the flying chair next. Yoo Jae Suk was forced to ride the chair because of his mistakes.
Ji Suk Jin also was forced to ride the flying chair, and because of that, he felt really dizzy and couldn't even properly throw the ball.
After 14 tries, Running Man team finally won, with Gary in the flying chair. They've all mastered each of their roles in the game and it was fun watching them succeed at a really unbelievable game created by the staff.
Running Man team had to watch (again) a video of Ryu Hyun Jin in the US, where he's touring the Running Man staff in the Dodgers stadium.
The second mission for Hyun Jin was to turn around in an elephant pose for 7 turns and then he'll pitch a strike. The question for the Running Man team was that if he could pitch a 'strike' or pitch a 'ball.'
After a rock-paper-scissors game, they decided (or most likely just Kim Jong Kook) on choosing that Hyun Jin will just pitch a 'ball,' which means he'll not be able to pitch a proper 'strike' due to his dizziness.
After the members had arrived in the next mission location, they found out that their answer was right, and got a signed baseball from Ryu Hyun Jin. Ji Suk Jin got to keep it because the other members thought that it would be much easier to steal it from Ji Suk Jin than from anyone else. The ball is important because the one who has it in the final mission will have an advantage.
Should they have gotten the answer wrong, they will go to a rice paddy field (again) and turn in an elephant pose (like what Hyun Jin did) and look for baseballs in the field. They were so lucky!
Their mission was an easy one, since they got their answer right. What they'll do is just stack a piece of grilled hanwoo meat (yumm) and let it stand for 3 seconds. If their meat tower ends up being destroyed, the Running Man staff will get to eat the meat.
Like a noisy family that they are, they continue bickering and having their own opinions on what they should do about the meat tower. Yet one member (Gary) on the far right seems to be just as peaceful and doesn't want to be entangled in the noisy bickering of the other members. Peaceful Gary makes a comeback!
On their first try, they weren't able to keep the meat tower from falling, and so the staff gets to eat the meat. However, the Running Man members were much faster in getting the meat, so it ended up on their mouths and tummies.
On their second try, the RM team failed again and this time, the PD who should be getting the meat brought another plate to cover the plate with meat on it so that the members wouldn't be able to steal the meat anymore. He succeeded.
The staff then enjoyed the 7 pieces of meat.
RM team finally won on their third try, and then they got to eat a bountiful meal of delicious hanwoo.
The next mission for Ryu Hyun Jin is to play a alkkagi with right-handed pitcher, Yoon Suk Min.
The RM team had to guess who wins the alkkagi game between two celebrated Korean pitchers.
In the end, Yoon Suk Min won, and the RM team's answer was again correct.
Song Ji Hyo gets to keep the signed baseball by Yoon Suk Min.
Before the next game started, it was revealed that Ji Suk Jin's baseball was already with Haha, with Ji Suk Jin thinking that he left it in their previous location, which was the hanwoo restaurant.
Had they gotten their answer wrong, they would have created a boat again made of cardboard and cross the Han River. It sounded so impossible that's why it really made the RM members laugh at how unbelievable it was.
The easy game was buying things in the market. However, the things that they should buy should be something that starts with the last letter of the word/thing the last person buys before them.
Everyone got really creative and instead of choosing what things to buy based from the last letter, they instead thought of adjectives starting with those letters and buy anything that they might see first in the market. Hahaha! However, in the round where they finally won, Ji Suk Jin was the only one who didn't get creative with the things that they bought and just simply bought "chi yak," which means toothpaste. Other members bought (for example) a pretty looking small radish, or something like that.
After they did the mission, they got a call from Ryu Hyun Jin, who just then, had arrived in Incheon.
The next mission for Ryu Hyun Jin is just to pick between Jjampong and Jjajangmyeon. Picking between the two is a struggle among Koreans who want to eat Chinese food.
Running Man team chose Jjajangmyeon.
Finally, the other guest stars appeared on Running Man, which is EXO.
The game that they'll be playing is rotational hide-and-seek, where a team would be chasing first (the other team will hide) and after a few minutes, they will hide and the other team will be chasing. The game is between Running Man and EXO, and RM team hides first since their answer, Jjajangmyeon, was wrong.
EXO caught the commander first, and also successfully got rid of him.
The next one to become out was Gary, and he even remembered Chen's name because he was the one who got him out.
Two of the strongest Running Man members were already out by the time they (RM) became chasers.
The first one who got out from EXO was Kris.
The second one was Baek Hyun.
The third one was D.O.
The fourth one was Xiumin.
Finally, when there were only seconds left in the clock for RM team to hide again and EXO to become seekers, Yoo Jae Suk courageously went and confronted Tao and Suho, and attempted to remove their name tags within those short seconds left. The episode then ended there as a cliff-hanger.
In the next episode, Running Man will be having Ryu Hyun Jin and Suzy as guests. Too excited for this!
