[MBC] OFFICIAL INFINITY CHALLENGE THREAD - [Currently Airing the music festival ]

[yoossi]

Translation of the first webtoon chapter: https://www.reddit.com/r/koreanvariety/comments/4pwlrp/infinity_challenges_relaytoon_1_haha_x_kian84/

[yoossi]

junha and gaspard are doing great!!! it's the best plot and drawing! i love junha's wits and gaspard must have pulled an all nighter to make those drawings~ i love how much efforts he put to make junha's drawing look pro.

 

and whoaa... the horror special is amazing... so much funny moments yet it's chilling at the same time. i hate when they talked about real horror story... esp yang sehyung story with that nine grader ghost because i had similar experience before... but with a mother and son ghosts wtf i recalled how they look now, i really hate that T_T still, i had a good laugh lmao. oh and never forget this wise quote: "you can bloom a flower if you don't step on them" (yoo jaesuk, 2008).

 

overall it's daeeebak~ hit-eu da hit-eu~!    can't wait for next episode. and i got used with yang sehyung's presence now. even if we can't have him as permanent member, let's make him a writer. he looks like he could plan a great project    

 

I agree, really enjoyed Jun-ha's chapter. Loved that he just tossed out Haha for so big parts of it. Too bad there won't be more of Tae-ho's voice acting! Laughed so much at his voice acting in the first chapter.

 

Loving the Wailing special too, I'm going to watch the movie tonight or tomorrow, because it looked interesting as well. Just hope I can take the movie seriously after seeing the MuDo members dress up like the characters in the movie.

 

I'm excited about Yang Se-hyung, I know opinions are a bit divided on him, as is expected I guess, but I've been enjoying most of what he's done in his numerous appearances. Will be interesting to see if keeps showing up as often after Relay Toon. I think he's going to be added as a member though. They've been dropping some small hints like they did before Gil was added, and also with Haha asking Tae-ho for another member almost in tears, and Kwanghee having to enlist in the army eventually, they'll need someone even when Donny returns. I guess we'll see, I like him though.

 

hit-eu da hit-eu~! I saw they were looking for the origin of that at the end of last episode.

[yoossi]

it's from ep485, i'm rewatching it now. lol. haha said his uncle used to say that a lot. xD

 

Yeah that's when it appeared on MuDo, but they were looking for the origin/where it came from. At the end of E488 they ask people to contact them if they know someone who has been using the phrase for a long time.

[yoossi]

i still like gaspard's the best. both story and artwork. but super pink's one is pretty good, she's able to upgrade jaesuk's drawing but still with his style. i wonder how this story will end though.

 

while watching horror story, i kept wondering how the ghosts endure everything. esp the restroom ghost (myungsoo/kwanghee's house) and hanging ghost (jaesuk's house), lol. anw junha is the mvp, no one will say no

 

I wonder how the hanging ghost kept from laughing when Junha kept getting scared every time she moved!

 

This picture from their facebook, sums up the episode beautifully:

 

 

He looked so happy when the others were getting scared in his house, not knowing what he was about to go through. Junha was really entertaining in this episode!

[yoossi]

The return of the Employee Kwon

http://www.allkpop.com/article/2016/07/g-dragon-kim-hye-soo-and-lee-jae-hoon-confirmed-for-infinity-challenges-infinity-company-special

 

That says 'according to insiders', but Tae-ho PD flat out confirmed Kim Hye-soo & Lee Jae-hoon. Jo Jin-woong (the third guy from Signal) couldn't do it because of his schedule. Likely to be because he's filming Entourage Korea.

 

Looking forward to seeing Hye-soo, Jae-hoon and GD though.

 

 

Btw, they're posting making-of videos from Muhan Blockbuster on pooq. Think you need a korean number to sign up and watch more than 30 seconds though.

 

 

 

 

 

 

kim hyun chul is so funny lol

 

and if i'm not wrong, kim shin young said "hiteu da" in invincible youth before. but she only copied what noh chief (?) or road grandpa (?) said... i forgot their name. i'll look up the invincible youth episodes but i'm not sure myself...

 

 

Yeah loved Hyun-chul on this episode ! Didn't know that. They'll probably bring it up during her testimony. Looking forward to it. Also next episode is last Relay Toon. So we'll find out what the punishment is pretty soon :D

Edited July 25, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

http://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=109&aid=0003365174

 

Hyung-don is officially leaving Infinite Challenge.

 

There's still no news about his other programs, but he's leaving Infinite Challenge. Statement says it's still too early to consider returning to any broadcasts, and that his health has to come first. He will look into a possible return once he decides to/feels ready.

 

Since they met regularly, I'm sure Tae-ho would've had hints that this was coming, might be the reason Yang Se-hyung is featured so regularly lately. Infinite Challenge is probably the hardest show to be on in Korea due to the scrutiny every little thing is subjected to, I guess the recent rumors about Hyung-don's imminent return didn't help things. Will definitely miss Hyung-don on the show
 

[yoossi]

i'm too lazy to look up the episodes lol but here are the projects i recommend. you can look up infinity challenge wiki page for which episode.

 

if you love music: 2015 music festivals

if you look for nostalgia and music: saturday saturday i'm a singer, saturday saturday i'm a singer 2 (sechs kies)

if you look for heartwarming: wedding singer (+nice music too), express delivery

if you look for meaningful, retrospective: extreme part time jobs (the first ones with cha seungwon)

if you look for adrenaline: speed racer

if you want out of the box concept: dream (the ones where they guested in another show), sixth man (i really enjoy the special projects with semifinalist)

 

i think you'll have hard time finding some of them tbh.. lots of them have been taken down :/

 

Every episode of Infinite Challenge since E349 (2013 Music Festival) is available online through the licensed sites. E349 to present is all on Dramafever, which is available in USA. E463 to present is available on VIU, which is available in Singapore.

 

If you're not from USA or Singapore, just use a free VPN browser extension like Browsec VPN.

Edited August 16, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

 

This episode gonna be awesome. Blockbuster !!!

 

I'm looking forward to it!

 

Going by reports, 27th is the BTS/Making of, then the following two weeks are going to be the blockbuster in full-length!

[yoossi]

Movie is today. Can't wait   

 

I know right?

 

There's a bunch of preview pictures here if you want to get even more excited.

 

btw, the movie is airing over two weeks, as was initially reported. They're going to wrap up Relay Toon as well. Full translated preview here.

Edited September 3, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

In case anyone wants more Infinite Challenge, there's a masterlist of all subbed episodes on Reddit.

Edited September 4, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

I thought the EXO episode was good. The dancing was great, both the chorography and the variety dancing. Espically the variety dancing. I laughed so hard at the krump battle.

 

But only one episode? MC Minzy got 3 or 4 and this is YJS. I expected 2 partial episodes at least. And what was up with Kyuhyun? Does SM not trust EXO on their own?

 

 

Looking dowdy to variety vs actors chase.

 

 

 

That Jun-ha move had guffawing.

 

 

Also, MC Minzy project only got one episode. They teased him about in several other episodes, but that was mostly because of Haha, and now it's become a thing. Not sure why you would want more EXO now anyway. It was a fun episode, but I'm glad they did it as one episode. Pace felt good, and they wouldn't have added any minutes if they did a split. If they'd gone with the split, the other half would be the tough guy special with Asura, which looks exciting.

 

No idea about Kyuhyun. If I were to speculate I'd guess it was his own initiative. He's been looking to do more variety, so maybe he's hoping to guest MuDo or something. No idea though.

[yoossi]

They had zico on to help him, illionaire was also on, then he, haha and zico did their song and finally there was the actual smtm episode.

 

I'm just surprised that this one only had one total episode. I'm not saying it should have been more, just surprised by it. And I really don't think SM trusts EXO. They do the lady amount of variety out of all of their groups. I'm pretty sure Kuyhun was asked to be there. It could have made the guys more comfortable to have a familiar face as much as it would help to keep things moving along nicely.

 

Illionaire wasn't on to help him, that was on E437 for the 2015 music festival, then Beenzino joined him in the studio to help with the 'Doto Jambo' song. That was before MC Minzy came to life. Zico teaching him and doing the MV was for MC Minzy episode. I guess you can count the Los Angeles thing as an extension of the MC Minzy episode, but if JExodus is still popular in a few months, like MC Minzy was, they might do something similar with it.

 

Still no idea about Kyuhyun. I guess it makes sense to ask him to be there to make the first meeting easier. He would be the first choice since he already works at MBC.

Edited September 18, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

Was illionaire that long ago? MC Minzy was mentioned so often I think I'm confusing myself (doesn't help that I'm so busy at work that I'm brain dead outside of it right now). I went back and saw that Zico had been on 4 or 5 episodes this year. I'm really starting to mentally lose it.

 

Jun-ha raps in both episodes, so it's easy to get them confused. Zico was on Talents for Sale, Sister's Slam Dunk, Radio Star and SMTM too, he's popping up all over the place. 

[yoossi]

 

 

MuDo recorded their 500th episode today!  

[yoossi]

Where do you guys watch previous ep of IC like years back? Servers in Kshowonline aren't working. 

 

First post on this page for subbed ones. For unsubbed ones, they're all on MBC's youtube channel. Just search for 'YYYYMMDD Infinite Challenge'.

[yoossi]

Infinite Challenge E244 | April 09, 2011 | The War of Money

 

Freshly subtitled by AnyhowSubs

[yoossi]

Yeah, that was a great episode. @ Kwanghee constantly losing his cameraman every time there's a chase game.

 

And Kwak Do-won is hilarious. He's so easily excitable, and his laughter was infectious.

[yoossi]

MuDo traveled to Russia today for space training. If anybody is interested in the project, I wrote a long piece about it here, summing up what we know about their space project, explaining what their planned flight is, and more.

Edited October 19, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

I didn't think they were serious about the Space thing as that is going to take a toll. 

 

I think Tae-ho PD has been looking for that really big project for a while already. A couple of years ago, in 2014, when they did the Speed Racing specials, they were hoping to do well and get experience in the domestic racing leagues so they could apply to compete in the Dakar Rally, which would've been a huge project. It was planned as a 10th anniversary project, as they wanted to use 2014 to get enough the experience to be eligible for the Dakar Rally, and then compete the following year.

 

The original space announcement, also mentions they've been thinking about in since 2014, which would be when Dakar Rally plans fell through. The space project was also a project for the 10th anniversary, although the 10th anniversary have already come and gone at this point, the first estimation was that they would be able to go up in space by the end of 2015.

 

The Russia trip is meant as a "fun" special like Tae-ho said, but I'm certain Tae-ho is going to push hard to make the actual space project happen.

[yoossi]

Oh yeah, and also, anyhowsubs have subbed another old episode.

 

Infinite Challenge E315 | 130202 | Vampire Hunting (Part 2)

Edited October 24, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

Yeah, I'm still not sure if they can go through with it. The thing is it cost a lot and there are limited resources. Also, this isn't simply domestic. They'd have to find the country that could allow it. 

 

You should have a look at the space project write-up I linked further up on this page. Goes through everything we know about the space project so far, and speculates in which company they're going with. Finding a country that could allow it is not an issue.

 

Not sure where they got funding, but indication is that they're going to send only one, or few, members up, and if it is with the company that looks the most likely, then going by the timeline, MuDo most likely signed up and before they raised ticket prices.

Edited October 24, 2016 by yoossi

[yoossi]

Kim Tae-ho PD first asked about this break in late 2007. It was about time they got it. 7 weeks is a decent break, even though Kim Tae-ho PD have said previously that he wants a 3-month break every year. I think he has been pushing for it ever since april last year, when he mentioned his wish for a break publicly again.

 

Also, Tae-ho's second-in-charge Jae Young-jae PD leaving the show 3 weeks ago probably had a lot to do with it as well.

 

 

It'll be rough going 7 weeks without MuDo, but I can't wait to see what they've come up with during the break. I'm sure it'll be good. There's also a empty seat needing to be filled now that Kwanghee is leaving. There were news that he would enlist in February.

 

I know he said in the most recent episode that 'when the enlistment dates are decided, I will reveal them on Infinite Challenge first', but then someone mentioned the break and he said 'what did I do wrong to deserve this?', so I'm assuming that the news about february is accurate, with the exact date yet to be decided, which would match what the articles about his February enlistment said.

 

I wonder who they'll choose to join. There were a lot of news stories about Noh Hong-chul returning earlier this month. He even mentioned it on his radio show, without really saying anything. Earlier, Hong-chul turned them down for a guest appearance on Muhan Company Blockbuster, so I'm not overly optimistic that it'll happen, but it would be really great having him back on the show. If Noh Hong-chul doesn't return this time either, I think they will officially announce Yang Se-hyung as a member (no he's not officially a member yet), and start looking for Kwanghee's replacement.

Edited January 23, 2017 by yoossi

[yoossi]

Infinite Challenge E246 -- Speed Rowing Special #2 (ENG SUB)

 

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[yoossi]

 

 

 

Kwanghee joined the army yesterday. The members and staff had a send-off party for him before he left.

 

 

 

 

 

They have filmed during the "break", unsure how many times, but Kwanghee will be in some of the upcoming episodes including the one that airs this weekend. He'll probably have some sort of send-off on the show as well. Let's wish him all the best for his military service.

[yoossi]

Was anyone else...um, disappointed? I don't enjoy it as much as I had wanted to.

 

This episode was just them enjoying themselves and spending time together. They filmed it to stay ahead of their schedule, so consider it a bit like the Bangkok vacation episode, or the What Shall We Do Today episodes that replaced their US Trip that got cancelled.

 

They have already aired 5 episodes that were filmed during their break, and next week is a continuation of their 'break', with the members going clay shooting and playing soccer (looks like Tae-ho PD is joining them for the latter). It's basically them filming while they're still on 'break' having fun, and if you're not enjoying it then think of it as a great way for them to be relaxed while maintaining their chemistry and staying ahead of the TV schedule, which will allow them more leeway when they're doing future projects.

 

After the bangkok vacation episode, they did both the music festival and the express delivery episodes where they delivered food around the world. Now they have the locker room episode with the wordplays and such to air, but I'm sure they have something cool planned for after the relaxing episodes. I'm guessing a longer project.

 

 

 

 

 

Also, in case people haven't seen it, Haha & Byul welcomed their 2nd son into the world today.

Edited March 22, 2017 by yoossi