So how about James's Final Jeopardy zinger last night? All in good fun, of course, but I feel like Ken was kinda stumped on how to respond.
not really enjoying how hard they're trying to turn every player into a personality in this tournament. i think part of jeopardy's charm is how the gameplay is so rigid and formulaic that only tiny bits of personality are allowed to slip through, and only in certain moments. there's a built-in mystery as to who these people are. you're always left wanting more.
i liked every one of these six players more when i knew them less.
also i find james' zingers not all that zingy. a little cringe even.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 01:38 (one year ago) link
Not gonna spoil it, but tonight’s Jeopardy Masters outcome was as surprising as it was moving.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 01:01 (one year ago) link
Ken is a scab
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 12:57 (eleven months ago) link
I still lament that LeVar Burton didn't work out as host
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 13:41 (eleven months ago) link
Apparently the clues were all written before the strike, and there were only a few episodes left to film. I can see why it's maybe not a good look to go forward with production, but does that count as crossing the picket line? (I genuinely don't know.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:34 (eleven months ago) link
yeah it does
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:34 (eleven months ago) link
ugh this clue on celeb jeop tonite:
"when she performed 'crazy for you' in the high school wrestling film 'vision quest,' this pop star was virtually unknown"
i assume these episodes were written pre-strike, but maybe the jeopardy fact checking dept already had a foot out the door? (she had the #1 album in the u.s. the week the movie was released, had recently scored her first #1 single, and was well on her way to superstardom.)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 5 October 2023 01:31 (eight months ago) link
Julia Markham Cameron returns today for the Champs Wildcard Tourney for those who celebrate.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2023 17:46 (six months ago) link
For a second I read that as Julia Margaret Cameron.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 19:31 (six months ago) link
That would be an achievement.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:30 (six months ago) link
Yet another feather in the crown of AI.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:33 (six months ago) link
Trying to remember the James Blish story about that in all the anthologies.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:34 (six months ago) link
I did remember it correctly, just checked, “Common Time.”
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:35 (six months ago) link
Nope, it’s a different one, with art in the title, “A Work of Art,” maybe.
― Blecch’s POLLero (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:36 (six months ago) link
Hehheh, Queens of The Stone Age uploaded Julia's new contestant interview as a Facebook Reel yesterday.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 15:34 (six months ago) link
that's cool! I saw her talking about her mosh pit incident which was a nice change of pace from the boring shit usually discussed (lol who tf moshes to QOTSA but i digress)
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 15:37 (six months ago) link
Mayim is out
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/15/mayim-bialik-no-longer-jeopardy-host/71938407007/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:14 (five months ago) link
She wasn’t a great fit, sad to say
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 December 2023 15:37 (five months ago) link
she was an awkward host who never seemed comfortable running the actual game. i won't miss her. but she refused to cross the picket line last season and i'll always respect her for that. (and i'll always be suspicious of ken for not doing the same.)
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 16 December 2023 15:53 (five months ago) link
I found out about this via a Jim Jarmusch post on Instagram (which he appears to have deleted). Claimed she was the best Jeopardy host of all time.Real head scratcher, that.
― circa1916, Saturday, 16 December 2023 15:59 (five months ago) link
Jeopardy!'s official Facebook account posted a response (which they even formatted like one of their answer screens) that explained Bialik is only out as a syndicated host, reasoning that they wanted more consistency or continuity next season, and said they hope she will be back as a prime-time special host. (Also I guess they consider the exclamation point in their show's name to be mandatory, leading to some awkward looking punctuation in their response.)
Possible Jarmusch deleted that post simply because he found out she wasn't actually out of the show altogether.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 December 2023 01:48 (five months ago) link
FWIW, here's the Facebook post.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 17 December 2023 01:50 (five months ago) link
Ike Barinholtz on today's Champ tourney installment
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:34 (three months ago) link
*SPOILER ALERT*
Plain vanilla Jeopardy finally returns tomorrow.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:01 (two months ago) link