‘What do you do when you play?’ Yoo Jae-suk and Haha came face to face with Im Woo-il‘s mother, whom they could never have imagined.

The MBC ‘What do you do when you play?’ (directed by Kim Jin-yong, Lee Joo-won, Wang Jong-seok, Ahn Ji-sun, Bang Sung-soo/written by Noh Min-sun) broadcast on the 29th was decorated with the ‘My Friend’s Table’ episode with Im Woo-il and Oh Sang-wook. The salty friend Im Woo-il introduced a cost-effective restaurant course, and the Daejeon friend Oh Sang-wook introduced his favorite regular restaurant course, drawing attention.

The ‘What do you do when you play?’ broadcast that day recorded a 1.9% viewership rating for the 2049 demographic, a key indicator of channel competitiveness and topicality, taking first place among all Saturday entertainment shows. The viewership rating for households in the metropolitan area recorded 3.7%. The best minute was the scene where Yoo Jae-suk and Haha burst into laughter at Lim Woo-il‘s mother’s fact-bombing wit. The story of his mother watching a trot broadcast while Lim Woo-il was receiving the Popularity Award at the 2024 MBC Entertainment Awards brought laughter and the highest viewership rating per minute rose to 5.0%. (Nielsen Korea, Seoul area)

The first place Lim Woo-il took Yoo Jae-suk and Haha was a tteokbokki restaurant in Incheon Namdong Industrial Complex. Yoo Jae-suk and Haha, who had been complaining about never having tteokbokki in the morning, swept up a whole table of snacks. Yoo Jae-suk was embarrassed when he made three consecutive mistakes at the table next to him during the talk, and since he was already paying, he rang the golden bell and received cheers. At the second Oido Ocean View unmanned cafe, Yoo Jae-suk also paid for Lim Woo-il, who went to answer the phone, and Haha, who had unavoidable circumstances, instead.



In the meantime, Yoo Jae-suk and Haha were dumbfounded by Lim Woo-il‘s comment about hospitality, saying, “When did you ever treat someone without spending a single penny?” Lim Woo-il claimed that he quickly refilled the fish cake soup, water, and danmuji at the tteokbokki restaurant, and that he sang a song for them in the car, all of which were hospitality. Following his groundbreaking “no-spending hospitality method,” Lim Woo-il caused an explosion of laughter by going wild with Yoo Jae-suk and Haha’s banter. When Yoo Jae-suk pointed out his slip of the tongue, Lim Woo-il, who had been watching his reaction, politely folded his hands and said, “Senior, you don‘t like rumors these days. You’ll get lonely later on,” and spread the rumor. Yoo Jae-suk responded without any sense of impact, “I have a family,” making everyone laugh.

The last course of Im Woo-il‘s cost-effective meal was his mother’s house. Yoo Jae-suk and Haha were flustered by the unexpected visit to their junior‘s home and greeted Im Woo-il’s mother for the first time. Im Woo-il‘s mother said, “I invented a kimbap,” and went to prepare it. While looking around the house, Im Woo-il bragged that his mother writes down the times of the programs and reruns that her son appears on on a whiteboard, but his mother corrected the misunderstanding, ruining the emotion. Im Woo-il tried to be more touching by saying that his mother opened a study room to educate him, but his mother bombarded him with facts, saying, “He’s not smart.” Amidst their mother‘s eloquence, Yoo Jae-suk and Haha finally tasted Im Woo-il’s mother‘s “Vietnamese kimbap.” Yoo Jae-suk and Haha said, “This isn’t the kimbap we know,” and enjoyed the ‘Vietnamese kimbap’ that used seaweed instead of rice paper.

Joo Woo-jae, Lee Yi-kyung, Park Jin-joo, and Mi-joo followed the regular restaurant course guided by ‘Daejeon‘s pride’ Oh Sang-wook. The first stop for the bread pilgrimage was a famous bakery in Daejeon. Joo Woo-jae spread a rumor, saying, “If you go in front of it and say, ‘I’m Oh Sang-wook,’, they‘ll open the door right away,“ and Oh Sang-wook bluffedly retorted, “They’ll empty the store right away.” However, ‘Daejeon‘s pride’ Oh Sang-wook made everyone burst into laughter when he lost to ‘Daejeon Day 1’ Joo Woo-jae in the popularity vote for a bet to force people to eat.

Oh Sang-wook then took them to his favorite restaurant, a famous chicken kalguksu restaurant, saying that he always comes here after competing overseas. While Joo Woo-jae and Lee Yi-kyung were having a good time using MZ-style expressions for food like “sexy food”“spicy kimchi”, Park Jin-joo made everyone laugh by saying, “Then I’ll drink ssak ssak water!” without understanding what he meant. Oh Sang-wook showed off his appetite by finishing off the chicken, kalguksu, and three rounds of fried rice, and even ate what Joo Woo-jae left behind. In the game of calculating again, Joo Woo-jae won, and ended up becoming Oh Sang-wook‘s meal table that Joo Woo-jae bought all day, making everyone laugh.

Meanwhile, the preview for the next episode raised expectations by showing the return of ‘Return of the Conscience Refrigerator’, which has been back thanks to a hot response. Lee Kyung-kyu showed Joo Woo-jae the favor of excluding him from the ‘Blacklist of the Entertainment Industry’. Attention was focused on whether he would be able to succeed in the conscience mission with an increased difficulty level. MBC’s ‘What Do You Do When You Play?’ airs every Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com

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