[Confession] Running Man Episode 324
*spoiler alert*
Tears.
When I decided that I will watch the recent episode of Running Man, I expected to shed a lot of tears. It is the episode where our squid-face Kang Gary is leaves the show.
Now I know what you're thinking. You must think I'm going with the hype due to Gary's parting commotion but I'm like this only because I've been a Running Man fan for as long as I could remember. Thus him leaving Running Man makes the banquet less appetizing. It wouldn't be the same. However, it is shameful to admit that I've been skipping episodes for awhile because I think the new PD isn't as creative as the old PD (but I've seen some of his episodes that are still fun). So before this, the last episode I watched was the 'Train to Prison' episode 316. Yeah, I don't deserve to be a fan!! ㅠㅠ
So moving on, this episode is, of course, dedicated to Kang Gary! The Running members gathered earlier to surprise Gary and they were given a secret mission that each of them has to steal something from Gary's studio (because they held their mission there) without him ever noticing. I do think at first that this was easy because you know how uncurious Gary is. He sees something strange but just shrugs it off. Haha! But after finding out that the object they stole must be bigger than the previous item presented, it kinda gets difficult.
Their mission that day was to accumulate the total kilometers of Gary's adventures from the seven years he traveled with Running Man (77,093km in total) by winning series of challenges that indicates kilometers ranging from 10,000km-77,000km, ranking the level of easy challenges to hard ones, respectively. The prize of these challenges is to give Gary a farewell gift. At first they tried to go for the one shot of 77,000km, only to find an old frenemy to face. Find out who! Haha
So after the fun day with Gary, they ate dinner and bid goodbyes while Gary returned to his house only to find gifts from his members! Running Man was successful in stealing things from his studio and in return, he received gifts and letters from them. This is the time I was crying a river and it's a good thing Gary isn't a crybaby or we'll cry along with his tears. The episode ends with a last short message from him thanking everyone who became part of his Running Man journey.
-- but wait there's more!
Before the end credits, we hear Gary's screams in vexation as he yells to someone to leave him alone! The subtitles marked that their beautiful goodbyes to Gary... did not happen!! What happened?!
.. to be continued.