Awesome Music: Moby's Extreme Ways, which plays whenever something big happens. If that doesn't get your blood pumping nothing will.
"Melodie" by Idiotape from the opening, especially with the way the show mixes the percussion part in the beginning with the pre-match banter of the contestants.
Pluto, also by Idiotape, is used when host explains the game rules.
Base-Breaking Character: Tactical Yutnori to western viewers. Some find it to be a good game of strategy that gives plenty of room for competition, while others think it's far too slow to be interesting.
Yoo-young and Ji-won Stealing Doohee's ID card, causing him to come in last during Monopoly Game A lot of viewers note especially Korean ones see it as cowardly and unfair, while others see it as perfectly fine and well within the rules.
Broken Base: The Monorail deathmatch in Season 3. Some saw it as unjust that Dongmin should win from a losing position. Others thought it was an example of his incredible force of personality.
Determinator: In Season 3, Yeonseung gains this image for being able to overcome many setbacks during the series.
Fridge Brilliance: The way the alliances form in S4 E2 (Horror Race) guarantees that as long as everyone remains loyal; Junseok, Jinho, and Yoohyun cannot be sent to the death match.
Ho Yay: Sangmin and Sungkyu. Taken up to eleven when Sungkyu is revealed as one of the guest players for the Layoff game in Season 2
Memetic Mutation: Kim Gura's "I'm losing my taste for this" became an in-series meme, with later contestants saying it then they're in a bad situation.
Nam Hweejong's infamous performance in S2 E1 (Food Chain) inspired several memes in Korea, including his threat "you better get on my good side" and the soopdeul dance◊note Hweejong repeatedly tells Yoonsun to go to the field (soop), then the forest (deul). When put together, they sound like an onomatopoeia for wiggling; a popular image depicts a cartoon lion, Hweejong's chosen role, doing a silly dance with "soopdeul" sound effects.
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