History Funny / RunningManEpisode1To400

* Episode 242. The ENTIRE episode of "Mission WorldWide" where the missions are based on the running man fans' suggestions. The teams form up into two groups of 3 (Kim Jong Kook, Lee Kwang Soo & Jung Il Woo) and 7 (The rest of the Running Man cast including, Jung Yong-Hwa & Lee Hong-ki).

** After the Million Seller Race, the Running Man cast are given a treat by setting up a night market for their 5th anniversary night festival for free. However it's actually a ruse as their true mission is [[LoyaltyTropes "The horrifying loyalty test with the staff"]]. Behind the night market is an abandoned girls' school, which the PD and the crew rented for the day. Their mission is each Running Man member is paired up with their VJs [[note]]Video Jockey[[/note]], who has been with them for 5 years, as a team and enters the haunted school to find both of their name tags. Once they find it, they could leave the school and go home even if their partner couldn't find it. To make it more interesting, if the VJs has the highest heartbeat, that person has to go first along with the Running Man member. They even can select one more Running Man member so the last person has to go without one of his fellow cast. [[ButtMonkey Suk Jin]] is the last person.

[[folder: Episode 201 - 300]]

[[folder: Episode 301 - 400]]

** When checking the bags, So Min realizes that Kwang Soo brought a PS4 game console, thinking they would have some free time than doing missions. While most of the cast questions on his thinking, it also happens to be the answer to the first question where Kwang Soo manages to land the coin on top of the game console. You could hear the PD sputtering laughter upon his misfortune. Here are some of the cast members' comments:

** In the final stage the gatekeepers, Choi Min Ho (Shinee) and Choi Hong Man (strongest man in Korea who also wearing a [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Wreck-It Ralph cosplay outfit)]] appears for the first time to eliminate the RunningMan cast and special guests Girls Generation group (With the exception of Yoona for being the GameMaster). Despite Min Soo's amazing performance for [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome eliminating most of the cast with his athletic speed]], anyone who's caught by Hong Man, PlayedForLaughs.

--> '''Jae Suk''': What was Napoleon's famous line?
--> '''Kwang Soo''': Please lend me 4,000 Won!

--> '''Jae Suk''': Can you please recite one of the lines from Hamlet, a famous tragedy play by Shakespeare with strong emotions?

* Episode 18: Gary and Ji Hyo's Titanic Moment. That is until Jong Kook appears.

** Later on, when Min-soo found out that [[spoiler: the staff pulled a trick and placed one of Jae-suk's nametags on his personal cameraman]], he said the next time he comes back on the show, he would hunt the cameramen and PD.

** Before this happens, since this is recorded during Christmas, the Running Man cast have to pair up for the party at the designated location in Ilsan by wearing matching gloves from their partner. Problem is only one of the member ends up being left out alone. [[spoiler: That person is Jae Suk.]]
*** [[spoiler: What happened was that Jae Suk calls up [=HaHa=] so they can team up. The problem occurs when Jong Kook calls him before Jae Suk so he has a hard time choosing. When they meet up and take a cab, [=HaHa=] ask the Taxi driver to stop at a nearby gas station to take a leak. After [=HaHa=] returns, he makes a beeline towards Jong Kook's car, which [=HaHa=] manages to call him in time. Jae Suk tells him he still needs the matching gloves since both have the same pair but [=HaHa=] reveals that [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome he shows him a fake glove to Jae Suk while revealing the real pair to Jae Suk]].]]

** Jong Kook and [=HaHa=] guessed that Kwang Soo is a spy [[spoiler: They're right]] since he lasted way longer. So they decide to ask him to come in the room to eliminate him. Unfortunately Ji Jin-Hee happens to enter to eliminate Jong Kook while [=HaHa=] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere sneakily bails out of the room]]. When he tries to eliminate him, what Jong Kook does to save himself? He [[ISurrenderSuckers begs him to let him go]] while Jin-Hee laughs and manages to escaped once he let his guard down. Jin-Hee manages to tell this to the eliminated members about it as some of them wishes to have seen it.

** Everyone start pointing fingers among each other that they're the culprit such as Jong Kook blames Kwang Soo for stealing it while [=HaHa=] blames Suk Jin for a self-fabrication scenario. [[spoiler: Turns out [=HaHa=] was right.]]
** The guest Do-Hyun genuinely had no clue who the culprit was before getting eliminated and he's the only person who didn't get eliminated by the culprit [[spoiler: Suk Jin]]. The rest of the eliminated players mercilessly teased him and told him to watch the broadcast when he went home. Poor dude.

*** The amazing acting performance by [[HoneyTrap Lee Ga Hae]]. Some viewers may think she's annoying and weak but [[spoiler: [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she manages to eliminate everyone.]] See Crowning Moment Of Awesome for more details.]] With her obtaining the spies' secret song by eavesdropping Jae Suk, who happens to sing it, she manage to lie to him and Gary that she's a spy and with her acting performances. Jae Suk (and later Gary) already suspected that she's a spy and calls her out on being a terrible one. Oh how wrong they are.

----> '''Jong Kook''': We got scammed by the ladies [[spoiler: (actually it's only Ga Hae)]]!! We all got cheated!

** [[spoiler: What actually happened was Yoon Jong-shin, Kim Bum-soo, Yoon Do-hyun are spies teaming up with Ji-Hyo to find the real stolen gold's location. However, they set up a trap by making Kim Bum-Soo 'capturing' Yoon Do-Hyun and revealing to [=HaHa=], and Gary who happens to be hiding without the spies knowledge, that they are spies. They make their plan so complicated that [=HaHa=] tells them that they shouldn't tell him in the first place while Gary's laughing to himself in the corner knowing that there's even worse spies than he does. Eventually they intend to eliminate [=HaHa=] but Gary manages to save him and eliminated Do-hyun quoting the title about.]]

** The final mission, also count as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, where the team has to flip the unbeatable Ddak-Ji, a Ddak-Ji that is so powerful, that even the staffs can't flip it after 158 times. [[spoiler: Jong Kook flips the Ddak-Ji over in his first try, making the entire staff and players broke down in disbelief. The second time he did it breaks everyone into a giant laughter.]]

* Episode 118: Kwang Soo is used as [[spoiler: Choi Min-Soo]]'s mouthpiece but started acting out on his own, such as slapping Jong Kook in the face. Cue [[spoiler: Min-Soo]] immediately saying it wasn't on their order and Jong Kook returning the slap.

*** During the second round, Suk Jin accidentally gave the bomb to [[ButtMonkey Kwang Soo]]] and you probably knows the result since there's no take backs.[[spoiler: Not only that Kwang Soo does absolutely nothing. Poor dude.]]

* Episode 141: The final mission's over! [[spoiler:Lee Kwang Soo]] wins! The big prize is a golden crown! The buildup to the coronation is about to start...[[MoodWhiplash and then Yoo Jae Suk detaches the centerpiece]].

** [[spoiler: The Production team win in the end... but they are the ones getting soaked due to a technical glitch.]]

*** When Ha Neul of Suk Jin's team has to answer the question: "What material is used to make billiard balls? Hint: Universities are called "this" tower. What is "this"? Answer: Ivory. Ha Neul's answer? [[spoiler: [[EpicFail Plaster.]]]] Even Jae Suk admit that it was hilarious.
*** Kwang Soo needs to answer his next question wrongly for Suk Jin's team to get another shot at winning. So before his question is finished, he immediately picks the first choice of his multiple choice question. [[spoiler: [[EpicFail He got it right by accident.]]]]
** At the end, with the help of his teammates, Suk Jin won the episode and is given a choice: distribute his 10 gold coin rewards to all of his teammates that helped him so far, or keep it all to himself. [[spoiler: Of course he runs like hell with his gold.]]

** [=HaHa=] recently gained the info that the clue is hidden in the shoes of the secret spy. However if he checks a non-spy shoe (regardless which shoe is checked), they will get eliminated. Cue [=HaHa=] ousted himself by checking his own shoe[[note]][[spoiler: Only Ji Hyo & Jae Suk's shoe is safe to be checked]][[/note]] only ''moments after'' gaining the info. Even though he was told he was eliminated by such actions, he disagrees and complains about it. Poor dude.
* Episode 247. The Desirable Lee Kwang Soo [[spoiler: a.k.a Hidden Camera for Lee Kwang Soo]] episode. Knowing from [[ButtMonkey Kwang Soo's]] fame in the show, you'll be laughing silly on this:
** [[spoiler: Kwang Soo is the main story of the episode but not the way as he wanted. The real mission is to deceive Kwang Soo that he wins solo. If they do the rest of the six cast will get 1 million Won each after the show ends but if they don't Kwang Soo will get the hint of the hidden camera and wins 6 million Won for himself.]]

** The second game 'As Kwang Soo says'. Kwang Soo is the caller while the rest of the Running Man cast sits on the chair. Between the chairs are ropes with a number each. Kwang Soo has to let at least one member survives as one of the numbers will make them drop into the pool. [[spoiler: Although the cast knew which number makes them drop.]]

** Of course even after the show ends and all the cast leaves, cue to Kwang Soo's house with Kwang Soo, Suk Jin and Jae Suk interviewing him on his reactions after watching the episode, live. At least [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Suk Jin and Jae Suk DID tell him]] rather than the Tru-Gary Episode [[spoiler: Hinting that both members knew the hidden camera but acted as they didn't know they were tricked.]]
* Episode 248. The Polar Opposites Penalty Race has a funny moment involving Jong Kook and his question for the first mission where everyone has to prepare a question their teammates can answer [[note]]His question is "What's the name of the Japanese street snack with an octopus?"[[/note]]. It was meant for his teammate, Kangnam [[spoiler: who is Japanese]]. Both Jae Suk and Suk Jin answer with [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels "economy-yaki"]].[[note]]The word they are thinking of is okonomiyaki and it isn't even the right answer. [[spoiler: It's takoyaki and Gary ends up getting it right.]][[/note]]

** In the final stage the gatekeepers, Choi Min Ho (Shinee) and Choi Hong Man (strongest man in Korea who also wearing a [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Wreck-It Ralph cosplay outfit)]] appears for the first time to eliminate the RunningMan cast and special guests Girls Generation group [[spoiler:( With the exception of Yoona for being the GameMaster)]]. Despite Min Soo's amazing performance for [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome eliminating most of the cast with his athletic speed]], anyone who's caught by Hong Man, HilarityEnsues.

*** The [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome best moment]] is Gary and Suk Jin, Gary's hero, to battle against criminal Profiler, Pyo Chang Won in a game of 'Catch the Thief' card game [[note]]Each member will be given cards of a number where they have to pair it up. The objective is to discard all the cards in your hand while avoid grabbing the thief card as the person who has the thief card last loses.[[/note]] You may think that Pyo would win them easily due to his experience but... [[spoiler: he lost in one round]].
*** [[spoiler: What happened was that Gary have the thief card first and the moment Pyo makes a comment that he reads him easily, he [[EpicFail picks the thief card]] when Gary doesn't know how to lie. Throughout the entire game, he ''STILL'' have the thief card in his hand and they beat him easy; laughing the fact that they beat an expert.]]

*** HilarityEnsues the moment they intend to type [=HaHa=] or Gary's names.[[spoiler: In both case both were eliminated even without writing their full name yet.]]

** After the Million Seller Race, the Running Man cast are given a treat by setting up a night market for their 5th anniversary night festival for free. However it's actually a ruse as their true mission is [[LoyaltyTropes "The horrifying loyalty test with the staff"]]. Behind the night market is an abandoned girls' school, which the PD and the crew rented for the day. Their mission is each Running Man member is paired up with their VJs [[note]]Video Jockey[[/note]], who has been with them for 5 years, as a team and enters the haunted school to find both of their name tags. Once they find it, they could leave the school and go home even if their partner couldn't find it. To make it more interesting, if the VJs has the highest heartbeat, that person has to go first along with the Running Man member. They even can select one more Running Man member so the last person has to go without one of his fellow cast. [[spoiler: [[ButtMonkey Suk Jin]] is the last person.]]
** Before the mission starts, some of the cast tries to scares each other. This includes Jong Kook's ankle grab on Suk Jin, and Ji Hyo screaming "Toshio!" to the rest.

** In order to determine the three leaders for today's episode, Kwang Soo, Jae Suk, Haha and Suk Jin, whom are considered to be the unluckiest among the Running Man cast, have to select three floors out of ten floors inside an elevator. Whoever gets more punishment than the others will be nominated as the leader for the team. Guess who scores all three punishments. [[spoiler:It's Kwang Soo]].
** After the above, the other four members have to stand behind the leader to form the team. Guess who's the unlucky one who doesn't have a single team member. [[spoiler:It's Jae Suk, since the cast realizes that Kwang Soo and Suk Jin have worse luck than him]].

** The winner is [[spoiler:Ji Suk Jin. Kwang Soo fails one game shortly after winning a lot of unlucky mini-games.]]

** With the Running Man cast being chased all over Seoul, Kwang Soo, Suk Jin, and Jae Suk are approaching Seoul University to try to get a hint to unlock the safe with their prize inside [[spoiler: not knowing that their pursers are already at the building waiting for them]] when suddenly Kwang Soo gets a phone call. They've been on the run for several hours already and have spent them on edge with the graphics suggesting their pursuers might be trying to play mind games, so Kwang Soo nervously answers the phone... to a telemarketer trying to sell black garlic. Kwang Soo ends up awkwardly telling her he's kinda busy at the moment.

*** Jae Suk answers a question correctly by eating one of two similar-looking snack foods, and Kwang Soo decides to try the remaining morsel out of curiosity. He spits it out quickly upon realizing [[spoiler: it contains wasabi]]. Of course, Song Ji Hyo does the same thing later when her fellow team members answer another question correctly.

* Episode 321. Poor Lee Kwang Soo and Ji Suk Jin. They manage to win the game... [[spoiler: When there's no prize involved.]]

** In "Money or Loyalty", the eight pairs have to organize into four teams of four, where every member on each team has to write down an amount of money up to 5000 won (about US$5) in secret. If they all write the same amount each member gets that amount; if they write different amounts whoever wrote the lowest amount gets ten times that amount while everyone else gets that low number. There's a CallBack to a previous episode with a similar game between So Min, Kwang Soo, and [=Haha=] were the first two wrote 500 won when [=Haha=] wrote 3900 - in the present, So Min feels the effects as the other members leave her out in the cold at the start. The funniest effects, though, go to the group with [=Haha=], Park Geun Sik, Kwang Soo, and Hang Ho - the PD set the stage by [[{{Foreshadowing}} announcing their group's result would be done last,]] resulting in immediate backstabbing accusations on Kwang Soo. When it's their turn, [[TokenGoodTeammate Hang Ho wrote 5000 won]], Geun Sik wrote 1900 won, and Kwang Soo wrote 490 won. Everyone assumes Kwang Soo wrote the lowest amount...until the PD reveals (through sputtering laughter) that [=Haha=] put down [[spoiler: ''150 Won''.]] Kwang Soo is definitely not amused.

* Episode 378 & 379: The Swallow Butterfly Tail episode. The cast members are split into two teams which are Team New Zealand ([=Haha=], Se Chan, Jong Kook, and Ji Hyo) and Team Australia (Kwang Soo, Jae Suk, Suk Jin and So Min) as the ones who are not punished are there to support them. Unfortunately... [[spoiler: due to the Chance cards they used, it turns out that everyone gets penalized.]] Here's the breakdown for each team:

*** In the second question: "What is the name of the organization that pursues to preserve the world's natural and cultural heritage?", the fact that Da Hee took too long to answer 'NE' in 'UNESCO' sounds like a goat and the fact that Kwang Soo mistaken the answer for 'UNICEF', which the PD calls him out with sputtering laughter.

** [[spoiler: What actually happened was Yoon Jong-shin, Kim Bum-soo, Yoon Do-hyun are spies teaming up with Ji-Hyo to find the real stolen gold's location. However, they set up a trap by making Kim Bum-Soo 'capturing' Yoon Do-Hyun and revealing to [=HaHa=], and Gary who happens to be hiding without the spies knowledge, that [[WhatAnIdiot they are spies]]. They make their plan so complicated that [=HaHa=] tells them that they shouldn't tell him in the first place while Gary's laughing to himself in the corner knowing that there's even worse spies than he does. Eventually they intend to eliminate [=HaHa=] but Gary manages to save him and eliminated Do-hyun quoting the title about.]]

** The entire first game. Each team has to select two members to play the part of Santa and Rudolph. After sliding down a snowy mountain, the person who plays Santa must take off their socks and wear a special pair of socks below and cross the finish line. Lets just say that there's a lot of TooDumbToLive and WhatAnIdiot moments when both team members tries to grab the special socks until the teams decides to let the other team member win to end the game.

* Episode 246. There are two WhatAnIdiot moments in this episode:
** When [[ButtMonkey Kwang Soo]] keeps questioning the guest, Seo Joon, trying to see if he's a fake detective, Jae Suk decides to prank him by moving his car to another location... [[WhatAnIdiot when Kwang Soo didn't close the door and leaves his car keys inside.]] Of course after Jae Suk's 'mission' is complete and Kwang Soo tells the viewers of his detective message, he turns around to find his car is missing while most of them leave even without knowing where to go. How does Kwang Soo escape? Steal Suk Jin's car.

** [=HaHa=] recently gained the info that the clue is hidden in the shoes of the secret spy. However if he checks a non-spy shoe (regardless which shoe is checked), they will get eliminated. Cue [=HaHa=] ousted himself by [[WhatAnIdiot checking his own shoe]][[note]][[spoiler: Only Ji Hyo & Jae Suk's shoe is safe to be checked]][[/note]] only ''moments after'' gaining the info. Even though he was told he was eliminated by such actions, he disagrees and complains about it. Poor dude.

** The moment they find all three golden tabs for the second time, Kwang Soo and Jin Ho lock the room making sure they don't enter. Unfortunately, Kwang Soo has to go to toilet and [[WhatAnIdiot intend to go outside to pee]]. Despite Jin Ho ask him to pee in the bottle, Jin Ho [[TooDumbToLive opens the door]] but was shocked to see Jong Kook outside waiting for him while pushing the door (with Jae Suk's team).

*** Jong Kook was up first and he manages to fool two customers. However the third customer is a foreigner and he [[TemptingFate relaxes, thinking he doesn't recognize him.]] However he soon realize he gets caught because 1) The foreigner can speak and understand Korean fluently 2) Kook adjusted his hat multiple times 3) After paying his stuffs he ask for a selfie 4) The PD tells him he fails, which he argues that [[WhatAnIdiot the customer need to say his name... while the foreigner is still inside the shop.]] Cue to the foreigner coming back in correcting it while everyone cracks up even the actual cashier.

-->'''[=Haha=]''': That's so unfair!
-->'''Suk Jin''': Come on! That's horrible!
-->'''Se Chan''': Let's be fair! There are too many missions.
-->'''Kwang Soo''': Does that make sense? We already cleared the mission.
-->'''[=Haha=]''': [[MomentKiller Am I going to New Zealand?]]
-->'''Ji Hyo''': (to [=Haha=]) Watch the video! Forget about New Zealand!
** When checking the bags, So Min realizes that Kwang Soo [[WhatAnIdiot brought a PS4 game console]], thinking they would have some free time than doing missions. While most of the cast questions on his thinking, it also happens to be the answer to the first question where Kwang Soo manages to land the coin on top of the game console. You could hear the PD sputtering laughter upon his misfortune. Here are some of the cast members' comments:

** If So-min becomes a spy, she makes a worse spy ever. Unfortunately, Ha Nee was so gullible that she [[WhatAnIdiot believes her lies that she's a gold medalist,]] causing her to tell everyone that she's not a coach. Upon meeting Jong Kook and Ji Hyo, both disbelieve of Ha Nee's hunches until an announcement tells everyone of So-min being eliminated and her being the coach. This causes Ha Nee to just realize the truth, causing Jong Kook and Ji Hyo to laugh themselves silly of her gullible attitude despite the many hints that So-min was the coach.

** There are two WhatAnIdiot moments which cause both spies to gave themselves away until the third spy, [=HaHa=] gives up on them, despite him trying his best to survive.
*** So-Min lies to Kwang Soo that she's the gold medalist. Unfortunately, it also considered a TooDumbToLive moment as Kwang Soo happens to be the real gold medalist and manages to eliminate her after taking a picture of her. [[note]]Coaches and the gold medalist can eliminate people if they manage to take a picture of that person and take off the tag of the person they've taken the picture.[[/note]]
*** At the final court, when both Sang Yeob (the real coach) and Kwang Soo are suspected being the coach, both confessed that they're the real gold medalist. Unfortunately for Sang Yeob, upon being questioned on how he manages to eliminate So-min, he slips up by [[TooDumbToLive not realizing that the gold medalist could also eliminate people as well]] when Jae Suk tells him about it.

*** , Sure enough, he was quite pissed after struggling to find the correct voice.

*** , Of course, they decide to choose the latter. Unfortunately, the ones getting dunk (Suk Jin, [=HaHa=], Kwang Soo and Jong Kook) are not too happy about it so they decide to dunk them with an ice shower after Se-chan and So-Min safely lands on the ground.