Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

I went on a gameshow to finance my Transatlantic relocation. I even posted about it on ILX.

SEE?

ILXers, I need your help...A gameshow thread

What my dad might lack in speed he makes up for in loud passion and being right a lot.

NAME/SEASON/TOTAL
Tom Walsh 20 $ 184,900
Brian Weikle 19 $ 149,200
Arthur Gandolfi 20 $ 137,300
Sean Ryan 20 $ 123,797
Chris Miller 20 $ 123,597
John Beck 19 $ 117,099
Scott "Renzo" Renzoni 20 $ 112,998
Seth Alcorn 19 $ 106,400
Frank Spangenberg 6 $ 102,597
Tom Baker 20 $ 102,300

xpost you think I'm up that early?!?

Seriously though, good question. I don't know as I don't think I've paid attention while they interviewed him. I'll get back to you on it.

His movements are a little distracting -- he looks like he REALLY has to pee -- but I like him.

Ray’s great, but my husband says that podium dance makes him sea sick.

fwiw I read he has a back injury and the swaying keeps the pain at bay

Love this new guy hope he makes a run

having trouble finding a link to today's episode on youtube

Love this guy

It would be extremely easy to replace me with an AI because roughly 60% of the things I say come from the Poochie episode of Simpsons.

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 21, 2023

I don’t watch Jeopardy, but I am extremely invested in the guy who won three times but was apparently bad on the buzzer, then began a multi-week Facebook meltdown about how Jeopardy is not the REAL quizzing world and compared himself to Muhammad Ali. https://t.co/LmFd2fpUXL pic.twitter.com/LFN8QEajre

— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) January 23, 2023

i would like to know more about this

hahaha i read that tweet and knew exactly who it was about. dude was as arrogant and unlikable a jeopardy champ as i've ever seen.

his rants are amazing. he calls jeopardy "fundamentally incompatible with true social justice"

hey he's not totally wrong. for a competition that throws around terms like "greatest of all time" it's a fundamentally unfair format. what if NFL quarterbacks had to retire after a loss? if NBA players were forced to score 20 every game? if blowing a save blew your career??? then what

hmmm, i don't know, maybe he should try being an olympic gymnast or skier, where you spend your entire life training for a single event, at which you get one walk down the balance beam or one run down the hill (two if you're lucky), and if you fuck it up, that's it, probably forever.

Absolutely nutball ending to last night’s Celebrity Jeopardy. Patton had a solid streak towards the beginning, but Brendan soon mastered the buzzer. You could tell Patton was getting frustrated — when he did manage to buzz in (and he was always correct), he sounded more and more tense, especially after Cera hit a big Daily Double. I knew Patton would ultimately triumph, but I didn’t think it would be that dramatic.

Jeopardy! Has Finally Perfected the Post-Trebek Formula

Literal LOL’d the Connery/Moore comparison. They ain’t wrong.

British Jeopardy is coming: https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/jeopardy-new-host-stephen-fry.html

The story behind a season 2 winner whose episodes got pulled: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion

Anyone watching Jeopardy! Masters? I don't like that they reveal the locations of the Daily Doubles to the audience, but I kind of like the whole rankings and leaderboard setup. And of course it's extremely entertaining.

I kinda like the DD reveal, it added some anticipation when one of the players was running down a category & everyone missed the second to last answer so they decided to try a new category, but we knew the last answer was the DD just hanging out there waiting for them to come back to it.

The best part so far is James trying so hard to be evil and Ken making fun of him for it

dat that was an interesting article! sounded v petty on the Jeopardy producers part

Is it just me, or do the questions on Masters seem more difficult than on regular Jeopardy? I find myself muttering "those prizes are rightfully mine" much less when watching Masters.

I can't imagine "Who is Steve Nieve?" ever being a question on regular Jeopardy.

The questions this week have run the gamut, but I imagine everyone who watches Jeopardy has categories they're much better at than others

seen a few stories today about mayim, who was hosting the final weeks of regular jeopardy this season, walking out on the final week of shoots in solidarity with striking writers, and ken stepping in to shoot the episodes in her place. if true, that sucks. jeopardy's a union show. i loathe her as a host, but full-on respect to her for this.

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.

Ben! Tom the Deadhead & Lydia-Claire on now. Good old regular pro-union Jeopardy innnit?

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.

Not gonna spoil it, but tonight’s Jeopardy Masters outcome was as surprising as it was moving.

Ken is a scab

I still lament that LeVar Burton didn't work out as host

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.)

yeah it does

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.)

Julia Markham Cameron returns today for the Champs Wildcard Tourney for those who celebrate.

For a second I read that as Julia Margaret Cameron.

That would be an achievement.

Yet another feather in the crown of AI.

Trying to remember the James Blish story about that in all the anthologies.

I did remember it correctly, just checked, “Common Time.”

Nope, it’s a different one, with art in the title, “A Work of Art,” maybe.

Hehheh, Queens of The Stone Age uploaded Julia's new contestant interview as a Facebook Reel yesterday.

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)

Mayim is out

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2023/12/15/mayim-bialik-no-longer-jeopardy-host/71938407007/

She wasn’t a great fit, sad to say

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.)

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.

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.

FWIW, here's the Facebook post.

Ike Barinholtz on today's Champ tourney installment

*SPOILER ALERT*

Plain vanilla Jeopardy finally returns tomorrow.