Funny / Running Man

Notably, every episode has its funny moments and hilarity. Here are some that run higher.

Since Running Man is reacting to 600 episodes, in an effort to make the subpages look more organized the first episode until the 400th episode will be moved to a different page.

• Running Man Episode 1 to 400

Episode 400 - Present

• Episode 406 - 408: The Luxury Package and Shuddering Package:

The Luxury Package Team ^note Consist of Jong Kook, HaHa, Ji Hyo, Se Chan, Jin Young, and Ha Nee

• The teams are so happy to be heading to Switzerland until the PD told them that their mission is to complete the itineraries and avoid paying the additional fees. Most of them are not happy upon knowing the 'extra charges' they need to pay. To add fuel to the fire, the PD offers them that they could pay for free if they pick one of the 'extreme' challenges shown in the Shuddering Package.
• In one of the missions on who to pay for the paragliding fees, the team decides to play a game of 'Spot 5 difference' based on their gender. Hilarity Ensues when the women team didn't spot the most obvious difference and the guys decide to purposely throw the challenge. This line sells it causing the wrath of the women team even after the game is over:

Jong Kook: The weather has changed.

• After completion, Ha Nee and HaHa, who was picked by Ha Nee, to join her to walk the Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in order to not pay the additional charges that the PD set up. HaHa's reaction sells it.

The Shuddering Package Team ^note Consist of Jae Suk, Suk Jin, Kwang Soo, So Min, Sang Yeob and Da Hee

• Before heading to London, the teams play a mission where they need to push their hard case luggage near the line. Unfortunately, Kwang Soo's bag goes out of the line causing his 'disqualification'. Funnier when Da Hee also get disqualified the same way Kwang Soo did.
• Kwang Soo's Fruit plane. That is all.
• The return of the 30-minute silent game. There's not even one person ever try to stay silence due to the team member's cheating.
• The Entire Wind walking challenge. Jae Suk, Da Hee, and Kwang Soo were selected (or penalized) to perform the Wind Walking challenge, which both Suk Jin and So Min celebrates that they don't need to perform it happily.
  • When the pilot introduce himself, one of the best moment is his reaction upon realizing that Kwang Soo has to perform the level 3 challenge (more details below), he gives a sigh and a joking expression that he will not make it.
  • When Jae Suk takes the level 1 challenge ^note  Flying an altitude for 457m, his cowardly reaction says it all despite it being the easiest out of the three challenges.
  • When Da Hee takes the level 2 challenge ^note Same as Level 1 only the plane does a twist, everyone disses Jae Suk's level 1 attempt as his challenge is more like a 'sailboat' and not heroic. To add insult to injury for Jae Suk, Da Hee seems to be enjoying it than fearing it even to the point she lifts her legs up.
  • Poor Kwang Soo who has to take the level 3 challenge ^note  Same as Level 2 only it last for 10 minutes and added a vertical dive. Some of the notable funny moments are 1) He took the anxiety pills before the attempt and vomits out after completion 2) After completion, he criticizes Jae Suk for lying that Jae Suk's attempt is almost the same as his. 3) His fellow team members joked that he might end up going back to Korea by plane.
  • At the final challenge, Suk Jin, So Min and Da Hee have to sleep in the haunted Oxford Castle (after losing in a challenge off cam). But the funny part is they manage to sleep peacefully and soundly to the point where the PD were shocked upon seeing it.

• Episode 409: Summer Waterpark Couple Race
  • Every single moment where Jeannie from Black Pink has way worse luck than Kwang Soo. Her most infamous moment was during the mission where she and Kwang Soo enters the haunted house maze. She decides to be to enter the haunted house maze first due to HaHa's lies, which ended up her started screaming and crying in fear at the start of the challenge to the point Kwang Soo purposely throw the challenge. Kwang Soo's line seals it after he tells everyone of their experience after the said mission.
  Kwang Soo: (About Jeannie) I think she's the biggest coward I've ever seen in my life.
• Episode 410: The Mission Impossible Race
  • The first mission is Sound of Breakfast. ^note Members need to pair up in teams of 2 to eat a meal without making a sound louder than 60dB or they'll be hit by a squeaky hammer by the other members. Teams with the fewer times being hit by it wins. It's not as easy as it sounds.
    • Due to being blamed for purposely hitting Jong Kook too many times, during Kwang Soo and Suk Jin's group turn, Jong Kook manages to get his sweet revenge by hitting him multiple times, despite the fact his hit causes the decibel meter to go over 60dB.
    • Due to a mistake by the PD sounding an alarm sound in their phone, Kwang Soo decides to set his alarm as payback due to Jae Suk's snarky remark on Kwang Soo's 'bad luck' during Jae Suk and So Min's group turn.
    • HaHa and Se Chan's team Rage Quit moment since they've selected the noisiest set to eat.
  • Any moment that involves Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, and Henry Cavill especially the mini-games. Especially Simon Pegg who gets way into the variety TV show.
    • In the Metal Box Quiz, fed up of Jae Suk's skills, Henry decides to hold the box by force to see what's inside. Upon winning, while some complaints of him cheating, Henry pretends to move Jae Suk out of the camera, which the cast comment that he's the American Jong Kook.
    • None of the American actors are afraid to guess what's inside the mystery box to the point much to the members' dismay.
    Subtitles: (It's more like a Speed Quiz than a Mystery Box challenge)
• Episode 411: The Missing Jong Kook Shoes episode.
  • After a lunch buffet, Jong Kook's shoes end up missing and they need to find the thief/thieves who stole it. everyone except Jong Kook is the thief of stealing his shoes. However... Due to Suk Jin's awkward actions, the moment Jong Kook found out that his shoes are missing, he was the first person to blame since Suk Jin's the last person to move his shoes inside the PD's car. In fact, for half of the episode, Jong Kook keeps insisting it was him who stole it.
• Episode 413: Unlucky Vacation.
  • Jeannie from Episode 409 returns for this episode's guest. She blames Kwang Soo for giving her bad luck... that is until she ends up picking the unlucky team which seals her unlucky fate.
    Kwang Soo: Never blame me again!
  • The water soccer ball challenge ^note One team needs to pick one out of two soccer balls and one of their team members need to kick the ball to the goal. However one of the soccer balls contains water inside, which is really heavy to kick. Highlight mentions are Suk Jin and Kwang Soo's turn.
  • In the last challenge, the start of HaHa's Dang Diggi Bang song and dance. That is all.
• Episode 414: Out Dot Com Race.
  • The episode guest Kwak Si Yang suffers Jong Kook's wrath just because Si Yang follows the rules literally.
    • After Suk Jin's team wins, the PD informs them that since they cheat too much, one of their team members need to slap by one of the loser team members so that the PD needs to approve their win. Si Yang from losers side and Jong Kook from winners side were selected. The members warn him not to hit him hard as he takes revenge easily but unfortunately Si Yang did slap him too hard that some of the cast tell him to run away.
    • To add fuel to the fire, before Jong Kook got slapped, after knowing where Si Yang lives due to his other friend Cha Tae Yang happens to live at Si Yang's area, Si Yang informs him that Tae Yang has already moved out to Apgujeong without Jong Kook knowing. Whoops.
    • This leads to Si Yang suffering Jong Kook's powerful squeaky hammer hit in the following mission.
  • The final mission: Mission Impossible All Out. ^note Each member will be placed a bit based on their amount of R Dollars and highest bidder would be able to eliminate that member. Last person standing wins. Expect a lot of backstabbing and Too Dumb to Live moments.
    • When it was HaHa's turn be bid, he request Kwang Soo to bet him 90 R dollars at him since he bet 90 R dollars to Kwang Soo. Upon hearing the announcement, HaHa was very happy that he was bet 90 R dollars and assume Kwang Soo buys him. This idea could consider a Moment of Awesome but unfortunately, Kwang Soo betrays HaHa by asking Jae Suk to bet 90 R dollars for him while he bet 19 dollars only.
    • After the above, due to Kwang Soo tricking him into losing his money, Jae Suk steals Kwang Soo's belt before he gets to sell it. Eventually, he manages to outrun him and sells Kwang Soo's belt for a hefty lot of money.
    • Jae Suk was torn between helping Suk Jin or Kwang Soo to help eliminate the other. He intends to eliminate Suk Jin until Kwang Soo accidentally send the bidding to Jae Suk which was suppose to be sent to the PD, causing Jae Suk to change his mind and both him and Suk Jin goes after him instead. Karma is a bitch, Kwang Soo.
• Episode 415: Happy Death Day, Along with the Birthdays Race. ^note  Kwang Soo, Se Chan and So Min need to help Ji Hyo,HaHa and Jae Suk to be reincarnated to win while Suk Jin and Jong Kook need to make sure they didn't win as prosecutors based on the new Korean Movie.
  • In the first trial, Jae Suk and HaHa were accused of multiple cases of betrayal. (minus Ji Hyo since she doesn't have any serious betrayal cases.) The Queen of Death, Noh Sa Yeon will judge if their sentence will be increased or reduce by 1 to 3 water slaps which will be played later after the first mission.
    • The entire Running Gag where Sa Yeon keeps snacking her food during the trial.
    • Suk Jin and Jong Kook are in shock that they'll received the same punishment if they give the wrong accusation. This causes the other members to compliment on Sa Yeon's fair trial.
    • Suk Jin blames Jae Suk for betraying his wife based on the lie detector during Ji Hyo episode week. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to convince Sa Yeon since she too felt embarrassed after being asked on an embarrassing question about his husband. So Suk Jin decides to pressure on asking stupid questions on Jae Suk's wife. This cause the entire defendant to blame him for not loving his wife causing him to be penalizes instead. This conversation seals it the moment they've discussed regarding not making excuses for their wife on the phone:
      Jong Kook: But doesn't every husband do that much?
      Jae Suk: Not everyone does.
      Jong Kook: Who doesn't?
      Jae Suk: (pointing at Suk Jin along with HaHa, Ji Hyo and So Min) THE ONE NEXT TO YOU DOESN'T!!!
  • During the first mission "Deity Mission", when HaHa and Se Chan were trying to decide whom they should pass the water slap to, Suk Jin suggest to pass it to "Team New Identity", which was their team. It was quite obvious which team gets more water slaps too.
  • The water slap penalty. Somehow Jae Suk's team didn't need to endure 8 water slaps at all as some were to punish Suk Jin and Kwang Soo. It has to watch to understand what's going on.
  • In the second trial, Kwang Soo gave up on defending Ji Hyo on her sleeping habit. That is all.
• Episode 429 - 431: Year End Special, Losers Bracket ^note Teams of 3 have to complete two of the previous Worldwide missions they've failed. However, due to shooting complications, the mission will be made easier and possible to complete.
  • Before the mission starts, The team leaders (So Min and Ji Hyo) were given a mission to find their destination at Banpo Hangang Park after forming a team of 4. However what the leaders didn't know was that their team members were given a hidden mission where they could join Lee Si Young Team and it's only limited to one person from each team. HaHa and Kwang Soo (due to his keen sense) manage to join Si Young's group and somehow suffers their original team leader's wrath for betraying.
  • When the mission starts, each team needs to select a location where one van leads them to the airport, heading to Hong Kong while the other at Gangwon Providence. As everyone expected based on the previous cutscenes... Team So Min has to go to Hong Kong.
  • For many years, Kwang Soo was very popular among everyone even in Asia but upon calling Mr. Kang, a shepherd, for a mission to get 4L of milk from the sheep, he doesn't seem to know him except all the Running Man members. After realizing that his ranch fits the requirement conditions, HaHa and Si Young make a bet to Kwang Soo to give all his votes if he doesn't recognize him. Kwang Soo refuses at first assuming they're a pack of scammers but later agrees.
    • Upon arriving at the ranch, they make Kwang Soo and PD Joo Yong to swap outfits to see if the shepherd really doesn't know Kwang Soo. He doesn't. Poor Kwang Soo as he sulks upon it while his team members tried their best not to laugh.
  • Ji Hyo team have to cook for 100 people for their mission (which was adjusted from the 100 waiting line mission in Hong Kong). However knowing this is a hard mission, they decide to have Byul, HaHa's wife, as a special guest and helper for their team. You could see HaHa's reactions the moment they met at the resting place after completing their first mission.
  • Poor Team So Min (Consist of Jae Suk and Suk Jin) have to suffer eating noodles again only this time they're doing it in Hong Kong where they have to ask a local to recommend 'steak' much like in Okinawa. Sadly they failed.
  • Any time that Kwang Soo gets punished (or beaten) by Si Young. Especially when Kwang Soo steals the ballots. Twice. Lesson learn of the day, never try to steal or betray a former amateur boxer.
• Episode 432: The Furious Santa episode.
  • Before the episode begins (Actually it is the second half of episode 431), due to Kwang Soo and Suk Jin being punished, the PD decides to make them as spies for this episode. However upon reveal that they need to decide who would be reveal earlier, both members picked each other and realize that the PD gave up on the new year spy theme. In the end Suk Jin is selected.
  • During the first mission, one of the topic each team need to pass is to give their best Christmas date memory. However HaHa and Kwang Soo's guest partners Sung Hoon and Park Ha Na ends up quarreling to the point where Sung Hoon explodes when Ha Na mentions she's living the same area as he is now. This continues until Sung Hoon reveals that she has a boyfriend already, which she admits. Unfortunately poor Kwang Soo (which he didn't know of that secret info) realizes that he has no chance in dating her and all her words during the selection are false hope. Due to that, everyone decides to let Kwang Soo's team win out of pity much to Kwang Soo's disagreement.
  • At the final mission, Kwang Soo and Jae Suk meets up with HaHa which both claims that they eliminated Suk Jin. Jae Suk realizes that Kwang Soo's the spy and tries to eliminate him, asking HaHa for help. Until Kwang Soo shows proof that the clue he found stated "The Furious Santas (Spy) are shorter than 190cm." Turns out that Kwang Soo manages to create a fake clue beforehand which HaHa automatically believes him. After both Jae Suk and HaHa were eliminated, both ends up furious upon elimination realizing his intentions.
• Episode 433: RPG (Running Man Playing Game) Stage 1: Rice Cake Soup in the Sky. ^note In this new project theme, each members must complete various tasks or missions in order to level up or level down depending on the mission.. Whoever reaches level 10 first will be given an unbelievable first place reward.
  • After completing the first mission, Kwang Soo and So Min are given a task to retrieve the ingredient that they didn't obtained. However upon reaching at the checkpoint, they're given a choice where they could choose either to take the Rice Cake ingredient or eat the rice cake soups and level up. Obviously, they choose the latter since So Min is level 0 while Kwang Soo is born that way. Upon return, the betrayal duo tries to smother themselves with snow; they intend to lie that they fail due to a fake mission. Unfortunately, before they manage to explain, Jae Suk notice that they have level up based on Kwang Soo's badge. Instead of making excuses, Kwang Soo just stated that So Min started eating first. (which it is true.)
    • Due to the above, everyone decides to penalized the duo by putting them in 7th and last place during the second mission. ^note  They are given 8 dumplings for each members. However each member can eat as how many dumplings as they want. Due to the show's outcome, they never get to eat it. However...
  • After completing the above, Se Chan, who ate the most dumplings, must select a member (HaHa), to retrieve the ingredients. Upon leaving, both members also intend to level up the same way Kwang Soo and So Min did. Due to that, the remaining members were not too happy about it until they realize that... everyone who's inside the building has been level up while the two greedy members didn't. The PD seems to know their actions pretty well.
• Episode 456: Two members each are tasked with making a sales pitch for an item in a box that they can't see and are graded based on their performance and answering questions from the other six members (who can see what the item is). Yang Se Chan and Jeon So Min are paired, and Se Chan begins by suggesting that the item be used when looking for a date. So Min runs with the idea and suggests using it on a first date. As the pitch proceeds, the two admit to using it essentially all the time and claim that women love it, with Se Chan eventually claiming to first use it in 3rd grade while So Min says her first time using it was at age 20; to Haha's question about what they would say to those who would be scared of using it they suggest covering their eyes and turning out the lights; Se Chan goes for the finish by proclaiming that when used with the lights off it'll feel like a "special event". At that point, the rest of the Running Men accuse the two of having peeked at the box and the production crew step in and insist on throwing out this round and doing it over...because the item in question happened to be a pair of handcuffs.
• Episode 473: The House that has no exit Race. Considered to be one of the funniest episode of 2019 by fans.
  • The entire 'No laughing' Route. The mission sounds simple as the assigned member(s) have to buy stuffs in the convenience store without laughing by passing 5 stages. All the members assumed that it's very simple. Unfortunately they soon realize that it's not easy as they think.
  • The best notable mention is the final stage to the point Se Chan comments that this route is design for them to fail.^note  Even though Se Chan fails at Stage 4, he manages to get a glimpse how the last stage is upon buying food inside the convenience store. Turns out standing behind the cashier is Han Ki-bum ^note  First appeared in Episode 402, Kwang Soo's 'doppelganger' and look-a-like. When Kwang Soo and Jong Kook starts, the moment Kwang Soo steps foot into the store and sees Ki-bum, he immediately collapse out out of the store while laughing himself silly. Once Jong Kook starts, both Kwang Soo and Chul Min PD agrees that this stage is cheating.
    • This doesn't help the sheer hilarity when Han Ki-bum acts one of young Kwang Soo's comedy antics and making puns where you can see Kwang Soo unable to control his laughter on the ground.
    • Jong Kook's tactic of not laughing: "Make an awkward crying/sad expression" anytime something funny happens. Thanks to that, this was also consider a Moment of Awesome where Jong Kook pass even Han Ki-Bum praises him for it.
  • During the quiz game, when the PD ask Kwang Soo and Se Chan "A submarine that is made of lead is carrying 30 men and 29 women. But why did it sink?". The answer is "It's a submarine." However, both men gives the best ridiculous answers.
    Kwang Soo: When you add 30 and 29, it becomes 59. But lead's atomic number is 60. ^note  Actually it's 80
    Se Chan: Because they're missing a woman.
    Kwang Soo: There's a pregnant woman among them.
• Episode 478:
  • The return of the 'No laughing' mission (or challenge). Whenever one of the members laugh or even giggled, they would be punished by pulling them away and giving them funny disguises. However in the final challenge, that didn't happened since Han Ki-Bum makes his return with two other girls (one from Episode 473) as a band members. This causes everyone to laugh to the point that no one was pulled out for the punishment just to see their skit (even though the PD counts their laughter).