Also the first few minutes against the "gadabout" when he absolutely destroyed dude and gadabout was all but holding the buzzer over his head trying to get a question in was straight comedy.
OH GOD THAT GUY! Watching him try to answer and freaking out with his buzzer was amazing.
― ENBB, Monday, 27 July 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
btw I used to watch Jeaopardy with while holding a calculator and keeping score while I was in high school. Yes, I was that sad.
yeah I dvr the series, jaymc. somehow I owned a dvr for months before realizing I should be.
hahahaha yes! Was so glad that tool had his ass handed to him. A lot of being a good Jeopardy contestant comes down to having quicker reflexes than your opponents. The gadabout's strategy seemed to be to press that mofo a bazillion times as soon as you know the answer, whereas Stefan's seems to be press it once as soon as the question (er, answer, i mean) is "open".
xps
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 27 July 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post uuuhhhh Jeopardy, rather
― ENBB, Monday, 27 July 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Based on what I've read, you have to trust yourself enough to be ready to buzz in as soon as alex is done talking if you even THINK you know the answer to get that rhythm.and i click the "clear" button on the tivo to buzz in. and shout at the screen a lot.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 July 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Buzz-in timing skills are the key to my unbeatability at PS2 Jeopardy vid game.
― bad-boy cartographer (Abbott), Monday, 27 July 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
press that mofo a bazillion times as soon as you know the answer
duuuuuuuuuuuuude I think he learned his Jeopardy skills (nil) from Soul Calibur
― bad-boy cartographer (Abbott), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I think gadabout was there to write a short story wherein he fulfills the dying wish of his sister. He was more emotional than anyone I've seen play jeopardy ever. When he all but swept the Dylan category he FINALLY calmed down, but dude was really out of control. That's kind of what I imagine I'd be like if they ever let me on.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone else enjoy the Jeopardy video game?
'The 1 Bill'
― bad-boy cartographer (Abbott), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
They should just put that shit up on Hulu.
― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
God help anyone near me if I know the answer and nobody playing the game does."Pimento. Pimento. Pimento! PIMENTO MOTHERFUCKERS! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL IT'S PIMENTO! PIMEEENTOOOOO! SAY IT YOU COCKSUCKERS! PIMENTO!""...and no one knew, 'What is... Pimento.'""GOD I HATE YOU FUCKERS!"
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Based on what I've read, you have to trust yourself enough to be ready to buzz in as soon as alex is done talking if you even THINK you know the answer to get that rhythm.
Well, the main issue, I think, is that if you buzz in before Alex is done talking, even by a microsecond, then you'll be locked out for an entire second, giving your opponents an opportunity to buzz in instead.
― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
(Actually, it might only be a quarter-second, but that's still long enough.)
― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always wondered how the Jeopardy buzzer system works. Also, is there some guy whose only job is to judge when Alex is done talking? Or is it done with a computer?
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 27, 2009 6:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Haha me, too, and the only time I ever watch Jeopardy is in the laundromat, so that's kind of fun.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 27 July 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
From Ken Jennings's (highly recommended) book Brainiac:
http://i28.tinypic.com/34yzak8.jpg
― jaymc, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
CHILL OUT POINDEXTER YOURE NOT IN A MOSH PIT
― 69, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
― ENBB, Monday, July 27, 2009 3:58 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
And what was with the sequined cravat? Or was it an ascot?
― kate78, Monday, 27 July 2009 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know but whatever it was it was awful. I hated him instantly but then he pulled out the dead sister dying wish thing and I felt sort of bad about it.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ARGH i forgot that was the last episode of the season and that guy is on ice for the next several months!When's the next season start? January?
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
MOTHERFUCKER SERIOUSLY? I just watched today's episode and was pissed there'd be 2 weeks of teen tournament, but there's no new ones til winter? I don't think of Jeopardy as having seasons.
I love it when contestants get so frustrated with someone else constantly ringing in first that it becomes their only mission to edge them out, and then they finally do and for a milisecond they're thrilled but then they realize they have no clue what the correct response is.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
according to youtube: Jeopardy! usually starts on the first Monday in September (occassionally, it may start the second Monday in September), so the 26th season should start Monday September 7th.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ken jennings has blogged about the henry gates arrest. huh.
The coverage of the Professor Gates arrest is starting to astound me–mostly Internet comments. I violated the First Rule of Staying Sane Online: “never look at the comments section under any non-sports story on a newspaper’s website.”
― thomp, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Having occasionally had the misfortune to read comments on sports stories I don't think you're helping your sanity reading those either. Jennings come off as an incredibly balanced guy.
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.jeopardy.com/showguide/virtualsettour/Hope they fix the goddamn music.Looking forward to seeing the return of captain nerdy.
― EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 September 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
new set is bonkers
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah and they fixed up the music alright too! I'm pleased.
― EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I’M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The only time I have ever thought about getting TiVo/DVR/whatever is to watch Jeopardy! A total travesty that it's nowhere online or on DVD.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
After the digital switch I lost the network that shows Jeopardy! in my town. Totally pissed.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
That sucks! I get Jeopardy on two channels: one American, one Canadian.
― kate78, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
man Wolf Blitzer getting his ass handed to him by Andy Richter tonight was one of the greatest Celebrity Jeopardy moments EVER
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3526/jeopardy.jpg
― murda mo not mo murda (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
that new set is great; for some reason I am thinking they should change the Jeopardy intro music to AWK's "It's time to PARTY" except he'll sing "It's time for JEOPARDY" instead
― Randy will be autographing copies of his fascinating autobiography (dyao), Friday, 18 September 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, you suck Wolf Blitzer!
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 18 September 2009 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
it was seriously staggering how boneheaded a lot of his responses were -- in a category where all the answers had 3 E's in them, after Dana Delaney fumbled and said "excerpt" instead of "excerpted," Blitzer rang in to say: ANNOTATED
― murda mo not mo murda (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
HAAA OWND BY A COMEDIAN
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
are people really surprised that wolf blitzer got schooled by andy richter in matters of general knowledge??
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 September 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
not surprising. columbia college education.xp
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 18 September 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
not surprised per se, it was just crazy how BADLY wolf did, like it was almost like an SNL skit
― bitches love me on friendster (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
that is way beyond a schooling just fyi - im not surprised wolf lost but gdamn - i mean negative on celebrity jeopardy where the questions are sooo easy - AWKWARD
― ice cr?m, Friday, 18 September 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, he was in the red for pretty much the entire episode, and then at the end they gave him a free thousand to bet on w/ Final Jeopardy, and he got to double it with the softest of softball questions (something about "an actor that ironically lost a role as Vice President in 1960 for not looking 'presidential' enough")
― bitches love me on friendster (some dude), Friday, 18 September 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Wolf was pretty bad in the training game, too. I thought The Tonight Show just edited to make him look bad, but it's clear that they didn't have to.
― jaymc, Friday, 18 September 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wimp.com/alextrebek/
HA!
― Evan, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, that's alex
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Does the returning champion on tonight (Jesse) remind anyone else of Puddy from Seinfeld?
― kate78, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol my dad said the exact same thing. i'm inclined to agree btw
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 28 October 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i was thinking the exact same thing about puddy actually no joke
― del griffith, Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ken jennings to face off against robot on jeopardy
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, is that happening? I forgot to read the NYT Magazine article about it.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds sick - I hope the robot is programmed to give all its questions in the "fitter, happier" voice
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
also i hope it looks like this:http://i.cnn.net/money/popups/2006/consumer/expensive_toys/robby_robot.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link