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Running Man: Episode 300

Six years, 71 months, and 2,192 days. Running Man has been through a lot over the years, but it’s saved some epic missions for the big 300. Our cast will be put through a variety of challenges in this two-part special, where they’ll be pushed to their physical, mental, and emotional limits. The only way they can get through it will be to work as a team and face the next obstacle together.

EPISODE 300. Broadcast on May 22, 2016.

It’s been a long road, but we’ve finally reached the 300th episode of Running Man. The cast can hardly believe it either as they step into the Hall of Episodes and reminisce on episodes of yore.

Today brings a new challenge, 7 vs. 300, which will span over two days. Completing each mission will earn them necessary puzzle pieces for the final mission, so they’ll need to work together. Not only that, the prize money is three million won (about 3,000 USD).

The very first mission will put that money on the line—a trivia relay game where seven correct answers about the past 299 episodes are needed to win. However, they’ll lose 10,000 won with each passing second, meaning they could lose it all within 300 seconds.

Haha chooses first, with Episode 87: Who was Han Ga-in’s first love? He screams: “Me!” Gary chooses Episode 81, but he forgets that he was at King’s Cross Station. Ji-hyo picks Episode 150, the Running Man Avengers Special, and Suk-jin can’t remember what happened in Episode 79, the Sherlock Holmes Special.

Jae-suk tries to look for his Yoomes Bond episodes, but the clock’s ticking, so he chooses Episode 138. Jong-kook is tasked to recall how many cameras Jung Woo-sung was monitoring in Episode 151 and gets it right (108).

Kwang-soo can still remember the “Happy Kwang-soo Day” Special, when they caught him mid-brushing. Gary tries to remember who they threw in the pool in Australia two years ago (Rain and Kim Woo-bin), but it’s Jae-suk who has the most trouble recalling what happened. And who can blame him when he’s got so many shows to juggle.

They’re down to one million won now, but he keeps peeling one episode after another. He can’t remember what shape the rice balls were in last week, and soon the money dwindles to 200,000 won.

There are only a few seconds left, but soon it’s a big fat zero. Haha can’t believe that Jong-kook would remember something so specific from so long ago whereas Jae-suk can’t remember a thing. Suspicious, everyone asks if there’s some secret mission today.

Jong-kook gives Jae-suk a hard time about how he dealt with that stress-inducing situation, but no one can believe that he couldn’t remember anything about all the missions they’ve done over the years.

Their second game takes place outside where they’ll have 30 minutes to fill out 300 meters of text. That divvies up to about 430 characters per person, and the punishment here is a popped flour-filled balloon over their heads.

SpartAce starts off at opposite ends of the 300m long piece of paper, and the guys compliment Ji-hyo for being able to write so well. Ha, you’re not trying to push the task off entirely to her, are you?

While she’s scribbling names and future hopes, Jong-kook writes a meaningful letter about the past 300 episodes. Jae-suk: “Hurry up!”

Kwang-soo takes over and both Ji-hyo and Jae-suk yell at him for not skipping spaces. He starts taking down their dictation, and by the end, his handwriting looks like chicken scratch.

Jae-suk continues off of the “500 episodes” text to keep counting in hundreds. When the PD says he’ll only accept to 1000, Jae-suk counts in ones.

He then starts listing the production crew’s names, and asks for the all the names he doesn’t know. Jae-suk finishes writing around the 20-minute mark while Suk-jin is busy venting about the Sherlock Holmes episode. They finish with flying colors by the 23-minute mark and pick up a puzzle piece.

Their third mission is a food relay race where the cast will face off against their VJs in eating 300 dishes. Kwon-ryul VJ has nothing to say because Jae-suk still hasn’t forgotten what he said last time.

There are puzzle pieces and tickets to the lunch buffet on the line, it’ll be a race against the VJs to see who will clean up down the line.

Suk-jin’s VJ, Yoo-suk, takes his sweet time, and Haha switches out with Kwang-soo. Suk-jin complains about the food even before his first bite. He barely gets through a few more before passing it off to health junkie Jong-kook.

Jong-kook wonders how many calories the tart has before eating it, and Ji-hyo mixes in a few dishes before downing it. Gary’s VJ doesn’t even use his chopsticks, and Suk-jin gets yelled at for trying to stop right before the chocolate muffin.

The human garbage disposal Kwon-ryul VJ is up, and it looks like the RM cast is lagging behind when time is up. In the end the cast stops at dish 221… only five dishes behind the VJ team at 226.

Since they’ve lost, they must to cover the cost of the crew’s lunch bill of 1.14 million won between them. They cite that it wouldn’t have been an issue if they still had that 3 million won to burn, but ultimately decide that any given person could pay anywhere between a dance for the audience to one million won.

Haha has to pay 30,000 won whereas Gary need only pay 3,000 won. Ji-hyo is off the hook with a dance, and Jong-kook… has to pay the most: a million won.

Kwang-soo, Jae-suk, and Suk-jin open up their remaining cards, but are given multiple chances to blindly change their cards. Are they trying to get Kwang-soo to pay 100,000 won? Yes, yes, they are.

In the car, the cast puts a positive spin to Jong-kook’s rotten luck by saying that he’s super generous. Soon, the cast pulls up to the Han River, where so many cold memories were made.

But today, there’s another mission waiting for them—300 boxes… with special guests BTS: Jin, Rap Monster, V, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, and Jungkook. The casts fixates on the swag from Rap Monster, then turns to ’90s idol Jong-kook to show off the retro swag.

Here the cast will race against BTS to see who can pile more boxes onto their given trucks within the time limit. The boxes of ramyun will be donated under the winners’ names. Haha: “And if we lose? Do we have to pay more money?”

Ha, not in this case—the losers will donate another 300 boxes of ramyun, paid from their own pockets. Once the whistle blows, Suga races ahead to load the first box, while the others load up the wheelbarrow.

J-Hope shouts when he sees Kwang-soo trying to steal their boxes, then the boys have to deal with Suk-jin. Soon, the place turns into a warzone as Jungkook unloads the Running Man cast’s wheelbarrow, and Jae-suk accidentally adds to BTS’ total count.

Jimin’s got a tight hold on Kwang-soo, even climbing on his back to render him useless. Hee. Finally, Jong-kook has had enough and pins down two, no three of the BTS boys.

The final score is 157 to 143 boxes in favor of BTS, which means the Running Man cast will donate an extra 300 boxes. So they decide to divvy up the portions again, but then their jaw drops upon hearing that whoever pays for 250 boxes will set them back five million won. Whoa.

They reduce that number to 200 boxes all the way down to no boxes and a little dance. Their fate lies within the hands of the BTS members, and Haha gets 50 boxes. Gary lucks out with a dance, and Ji-hyo must pay for 15 boxes.

Again, it’s Jong-kook’s turn, but this time he’s blessed with a zero. Only Jae-suk, Suk-jin, and Kwang-soo remain, and we can see that it’s Kwang-soo who initially has the 200 boxes burden.

Like before, the trio is given a chance to switch cards, and Suk-jin switches with Kwang-soo. Oh man, I’m suddenly getting old-school Running Man flashbacks to the Catch the Thief card game when someone would try to get rid of their Thief card.

Cue more dancing, and the 200 boxes card slides into Jae-suk’s hand. And then Kwang-soo offers to switch cards again. Noooo, but you have five boxes! Don’t do it, Kwang-soo!

But they exchange cards, and Kwang-soo’s original card ends up back in his hands. Everyone agrees that whoever needs to pay for the most boxes should do so gladly… and then Kwang-soo takes one shocking look at his card before breaking down in a dance.

Kwang-soo (to Jimin): “How could you do this to me all day?”

Right now, the cast is feeling the pressure since they only have one puzzle piece. They brainstorm on what other “7 vs. 300” games they could play, including a 300-person nametag-ripping game.

Beating 300 people wouldn’t be easy, and Jae-suk gets nervous as they head towards Yonsei University. They can hear the noise even before they enter the gymnasium, where 300 energetic college students are waiting for them.

But only one of them will be facing the 300: Jae-suk in a game of ddakji. He needs to flip the students’ paper squares before his is flipped over to win. Jong-kook points out that Jae-suk might have an advantage since not many young people play ddakji anymore.

Unfortunately for him, they have. The first student steps up to the plate, and then Suk-jin rips off his nametag when going in for a hug. Seconds later, the student rips his nametag off, too.

The mat hyungs wonders how old the student is when he uses the older form of “grade school” (since the younger generation would more commonly use an updated phrase of elementary school), only to be taken aback that he’s a ’96-er. Suk-jin: “1996? I met my wife in 1997.”

Jae-suk can feel the crushing burden of all eyes on him, so the others pour on the praise. Jae-suk throws the ddakji down, and the other paper square flies into the air, but falls on the same side.

Ha, the guys buy a few seconds to firmly step on Jae-suk’s ddakji, then try to distract the student as much as possible. But the young man throws down his ddakji…

…and we’re left to find out what will happen next week, in Part 2 of the 7 vs. 300 Special. Just from the preview alone, there’s going to be plenty of blood, sweat, and tears shed on that gymnasium floor. And that’ll just be the beginning of the horrors ahead.

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another great episode!! i hope tmr's episode will get better too, then it shall be name, The Return of Running Man.

anyway i'm still so damn surprised that Jongkook remembered that 108 cctv cameras. Like how...... Jaesuk can't even remember anything HAHAHA!

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haha I think it's due to the fact that Jaesuk has so many programs that he can't keep track of them all

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This episode is definitely better than the previous one. It was almost like watching the old running man. But still the editing had not become better at all. They dont even explain about the puzzle pieces that they are supposed to collect nor did they show how the members were given the puzzle everytime they successfully completed a mission.

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when they won the poem race they actually did show the puzzle, in a zipper bag. idky it's like they suddenly become lazy to find a better prop for anything.

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Opposite for me.

While this ep was entertaining, the previous week's was more fun (more banter and hi-jinks).

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As long as I remember yjs has been a hole in team in important and stressful situation except as a spy.seems he lost to 1st student too.he gets nervous easily.but it sometimes help episode like unanimity race or even this episode.as for this ep in best case he could save 1200$ which was enough for 7vs 300 bowl but I really liked the chance card for paying.it was fun and best part for me.but I see kids cavil about it here and there while that amount of money is 10 times less than their income for one episode of RM.
Look forward for next ep.

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This episode was fun. Specially loved the dance card exchange.
I have a question which is not related to this episode. What is that 'party party' song that usually plays in Running Man?
It was played in that episode with Hong Jin Young, Baek Ji Young and Lee Guk joo and i remember gfriend's Yerin dancing on that song too.

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DJ HANMIN - Show Me Your BBA SAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6gbGbNioFo

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Yeah thats the one. Thank you.

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Kwang Soo is more handsome now than 6 years ago, he has an amazing body too.

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Happy 300th episode Running Man!!! This show has never failed to entertain me every week. And big thanks for keeping recapping!

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Me too ! Thanks Gummi ! :D

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I want to wach soong joong ki and moon chae won together next episode.

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I really love when they ate a lot of food. idk why but I feel so happy :D I'm really curious about what haha, sjh, sukjin, and yjk wrote in the paper!!

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I had not been watching much running man, not because of their "quality drop" but i have been really busy and i have just shifted so i dont have a proper wifi just yet. But then i saw that BTS is coming and i was like, priorities aside, i HAVE to watch this one! And im glad i did! I loved this episode! In fact if they have RM members just sitting around, talking i would watch the hell out of that episode! Running Man can never be boring!!

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First congratulations to the whole team of Running Man for reaching this milestone of 300 episodes, it's no easy feat considering where they started off and everyone thinking the show wasn't going to last for long. I'll admit I got a bit teary-eyed at the intro when they showed us side by side footage of their first appearances to now, all the members have come so far but in particular Kwang Soo's rising star of being an unknown to now having so many fans across the world is quite heartwarming.

Also thank-you Gummi for sticking around and continuing to recap the show for us all, I personally don't say it enough but I'm really grateful for your input and efforts in doing this for us each week.

As for the 300th episode, I was actually disappointed at first when I read that BTS was going to be guests on the show for this one. Not because I'm a hater or anything, I personally wanted the 300th episode to be just them and the way the media reported it, made it seem like they'll be there for the whole thing. Thankfully that didn't happen and it is an episode based on the members, I'm happy to say that from start to end I loved this episode, the games were all good and each had their lol moments. I'm glad they involved the VJ's in one of the missions, they've been there from the start and had to endure a lot so seeing them onscreen was great.

I'll be sticking around for however long the show lasts, despite the highs and lows of it all, I know this will always be my go to variety show.

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Agree with each and every word you wrote. The intro did make me a little emotional too and seriously Kwang Soo has come a really long way. Thank you so much Gummi for recapping this every week.

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<3 <3 <3

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I got so emotional at the end of ep 299 when they showed the trailer for next episode. I literally had goosebumps as I realized that the biggest milestone is here! Running Man is the only variety show that I watch and I love every member to bits. I am really proud of every member for sticking with this show, even when they wanted to quit.

I have heard some fans talking about how some of the members should be replaced with new ones, but the real magic of RM is in their unity. If even one of them leaves, then it won't be this awesome anymore. A embarrassing as it sounds- 7012 forever

This episode was everything ep 300 should have. They were running, being funny, and playing games- just like the old days. And the next episode looks interesting too.

Thank you gummimochi for your wonderful recaps and for sticking with recapping this show.

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Yayyy. Finally RM hits the 300 mark. Wow.. what a journey it has been! A big thanks to gummimochi for all the A-mazing recaps..

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Running Man 7012!

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300 episodes! Way to go RM!

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Aww this felt like a throwback :) And it was more focused on the Running Man, I don't actually remember that much of the guests just Jimin hugging Kwangsoo adorably (heh) and Jong-Kook's three men down attack. That was hilarious. *sighs* Running Man, may you forever ruin the 'cool' image of boy group members for many more episodes to come.

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1st off, love the GOT theme music at the beginning (esp. as just had finished watching last season).

YJS really let down his fellow RM members this ep.

Sometimes YJS does get flustered, but in the trivia relay game (as pointed out later), there was no need for him to keep running back and forth to the mic and wasting precious time when (as pointed out to him) should have just kept ripping off the covers to the questions until he found one that he knew (and should have started from the most recent eps and worked his way back instead of picking willy-nilly).

And then YJS's mistake of bringing his team's cart full of boxes to the other team probably was the difference in that game.

Together, both these major blunders seem suspicious as YJS is usually quick-witted like in the character/text writing game where YJS adroitly works around the limitations that the PD gives him.

Pretty amazing that KJK remembered the # of cctvs, but not surprised that he did.

KJK usually avoids punishments, except it seems when it comes to paying for food.

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The Ace Sparta pairing one earns/works for his luck while the other just seems to have been born lucky, for games with luck or fate they are best to be paired with.

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Congratulations RM! 300 episodes and counting... Yey, Mansei! ^^

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This one's a good episode! It had a good start and it was a relief the energy didn't went down during midway and even at the end it was still good~ Although it may not be the best episode out there but it was a decent one compared to the other recent episodes~

The editing needs more work tho but all in all, it was a good one. Too bad the ratings didn't reflect it~~

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1 night, 2 days much more entertaining and funnier. Just my opinion...don't shoot me.

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Ahh the intro made me cry they've come so far I'm so proud of them.. Also I remembered the 108 cctvs and said it with kjk that's why I wasn't that surprised that he knew it..it was just a number that stuck I suppose lol then again I love running man and I remember a lot of things maybe too many haha. Honestly enjoyed this episode so much..still not used to the new editing tho it seems kind of off but whatever still love all of the rm <3

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That intro showing how Runningman started made me emotional. Especially LKS part. He was a nameless actor to now Asia Prince T_T
I wish I can read what they wrote. I'm really curious with KJK's essay.
Anyway RM 7012 Congrats. 300 episodes is such a big milestone. <3

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