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raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


mattfl posted:

Does anyone remember when on Wheel the contestants used the money their won during the game to buy prizes?? No one I know remembers that, I'm not making that up am I?


No, I remember it too, they'd have like a slow crawl past a room full of prizes and have a little bubble in the corner with the person's face. I think they did a parody of that on Family Guy once, and made me think "Who the hell is going to get this reference?"

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Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'
"Hi, we're Friday, December 7th's contestants and we don't know a god drat thing about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, one of the greatest plays ever written. Welp, see ya later!"

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Ken Jennings did an AMA on reddit today. He is a pretty funny dude.

KilGrey
Mar 13, 2005

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? Just put your lips together and blow...

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Ken Jennings did an AMA on reddit today. He is a pretty funny dude.

This first AMA is pretty hilarious too. I particularly like this answer:

quote:


Question: Did you have a "Duh!" moment when you missed the final jeopardy question with your answer of FedEx or did it truly stump you?

Ken Jennings Answer: I always did my own taxes. I could have thought about that question for 30 minutes, not just 30 seconds, and still blanked it.

Constructive note to all the people who like to come up to me on the street and tell me how "easy" that one was and "even they" knew it: go to hell.

I can't imagine how loving irritating that would be.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Ken Jennings did an AMA on reddit today. He is a pretty funny dude.

Username: WatsonsBitch.

hcreight
Mar 19, 2007

My name is Oliver Queen...
drat. Can't say I've ever met a Mormon who swears casually and makes cancer jokes.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

hcreight posted:

drat. Can't say I've ever met a Mormon who swears casually and makes cancer jokes.

He actually seems really cool and I want to be his friend.

Jose Oquendo
Jun 20, 2004

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie
He did a pretty good interview on Howard Stern last week. He's a super funny regular dude.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'
Only one contestant could get "what is a loving TELEGRAPH?"

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

I haven't been able to watch in a few weeks, but I recently saw a promo for a talk show interview with a Jeopardy contestant who was supposedly treated unfairly or lost due to a technicality or something. Does anybody know the deal with that story, or where I could find more information? I think I saw the promo around December 18 or so.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Jack Gladney posted:

I haven't been able to watch in a few weeks, but I recently saw a promo for a talk show interview with a Jeopardy contestant who was supposedly treated unfairly or lost due to a technicality or something. Does anybody know the deal with that story, or where I could find more information? I think I saw the promo around December 18 or so.

I tried Googling to see if I could find anything for you, but unfortunately searches looking for people losing jeopardy based on a technicality are very much law based and not TV show based.

escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming
Jeopardy has, in the past, let people come back on when they accidentally screwed them up with a technicality/answer that should have been accepted/etc.

Rousimar Pauladeen
Feb 27, 2007

I hate the mods I hate the mods I hate the mods! I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS! Hey wait a minute why do the mods hate me I'm contributing to the conversation I HATE THE MODS I HATE THE MODS I HA

Jack Gladney posted:

I haven't been able to watch in a few weeks, but I recently saw a promo for a talk show interview with a Jeopardy contestant who was supposedly treated unfairly or lost due to a technicality or something. Does anybody know the deal with that story, or where I could find more information? I think I saw the promo around December 18 or so.

This was Wheel of Fortune where the puzzle answer was Seven Swans a Swimming but the woman, being from the south, said swimmin' and was not awarded $3800. She went on to lose the game by $3200.

jscolon2.0
Jul 9, 2001

With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

hcreight posted:

drat. Can't say I've ever met a Mormon who swears casually and makes cancer jokes.

There's a Romney joke here that I'm not seeing.

RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

It's test registration time again. My odd work hours have meant that I can't watch regularly these days (or sign up for the test for any night except the last one), but I happened to see a promo for it tonight.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

Frot Lesnar posted:

This was Wheel of Fortune where the puzzle answer was Seven Swans a Swimming but the woman, being from the south, said swimmin' and was not awarded $3800. She went on to lose the game by $3200.

drat: I guess I should have been paying closer attention. Thanks for this, and thanks to everyone else for the extra information.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Jack Gladney posted:

I haven't been able to watch in a few weeks, but I recently saw a promo for a talk show interview with a Jeopardy contestant who was supposedly treated unfairly or lost due to a technicality or something. Does anybody know the deal with that story, or where I could find more information? I think I saw the promo around December 18 or so.

I think you're thinking of the Wheel of Fortune contestant who wasn't awarded with solving the puzzle in one round because she pronounced a word as "swimmin'" instead of "swimming".

e: beaten, of course.

escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming
Registered for the test. Any tips on studying? Rather than just straight up playing old episodes on J-Archive?

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.

raditts posted:

No, I remember it too, they'd have like a slow crawl past a room full of prizes and have a little bubble in the corner with the person's face. I think they did a parody of that on Family Guy once, and made me think "Who the hell is going to get this reference?"

According to my mom dad, one of my first full sentences was "once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep." I was apparently a huge Wheel Watcher back in the day :haw:

e: typed mom, meant dad :downs:

Soothing Vapors fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Dec 27, 2012

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005
I totally registered too, I figured once I put in my residency as Canada they would say I can't, but go figure, I'm still eligible!

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

HookShot posted:

I totally registered too, I figured once I put in my residency as Canada they would say I can't, but go figure, I'm still eligible!

I also registered. Not a lot of testing sites near VA, though, so if I pass the online test (I won't) I have to go to Nashville, TN. Like an IDIOT!

e: how would you NOT guess Mark Twain with a quote like that from 1886? THOREAU? What a bad guess, you absolute poo poo!!!

Glenn_Beckett fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Dec 29, 2012

escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming

Glenn_Beckett posted:

I also registered. Not a lot of testing sites near VA, though, so if I pass the online test (I won't) I have to go to Nashville, TN. Like an IDIOT!

e: how would you NOT guess Mark Twain with a quote like that from 1886? THOREAU? What a bad guess, you absolute poo poo!!!

Thoreau came to mind first, but I decided it sounds something way more Twain-esque, and changed my answer before it was revealed.

I've been killing the Final Jeopardy's lately.

MrNonacho
May 7, 2002

It ain't easy being white
It ain't easy being brown
All this pressure to be bright
I got children all over town!
Why didn't she just wager $0 and be guaranteed her $17K and another appearance?

KilGrey
Mar 13, 2005

You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? Just put your lips together and blow...

Glenn_Beckett posted:

e: how would you NOT guess Mark Twain with a quote like that from 1886? THOREAU? What a bad guess, you absolute poo poo!!!

I really wish you could go on the show and react like this to people. Complete with finger pointing.

Good luck with your White Whale hunts people! I'm not even going to bother.

escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming

MrNonacho posted:

Why didn't she just wager $0 and be guaranteed her $17K and another appearance?

I wondered the same thing.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

escape artist posted:

Thoreau came to mind first, but I decided it sounds something way more Twain-esque, and changed my answer before it was revealed.

I've been killing the Final Jeopardy's lately.

Thoreau died about 20 years before, so it was a smart move. Also, yeah, what gave it away for me was the humble-brag of "everybody drinks water." That was 100% Mark Twain.

KilGrey posted:

I really wish you could go on the show and react like this to people. Complete with finger pointing.

I'd like to think I'd behave with a modicum of respect, but considering that when none of the three candidates know something I know, I spend the time flipping off the TV and screaming "It's King Lear you idiot, moron cocksuckers! You suck cocks is what!" I don't know if I'd be able to hold it in. Even when whomever I'm watching with shouts the answer before me, I always let out a frustrated "noooo!" I've never seen someone on Jeopardy actually do that.

We'd come back from the first commercial break and I would clearly have been replaced by someone who looks nothing like me. My name would just be struck through and like "Andy" or whatever would be written above it.

Glenn_Beckett fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Dec 29, 2012

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.

MrNonacho posted:

Why didn't she just wager $0 and be guaranteed her $17K and another appearance?

That was absolutely mindblowing to me.

Also, if she was going to bet ANYTHING, she might as well have bet all but $1. The other girl HAD to bet it all. Betting $5000 was just stupid as hell.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

Soothing Vapors posted:

That was absolutely mindblowing to me.

Also, if she was going to bet ANYTHING, she might as well have bet all but $1. The other girl HAD to bet it all. Betting $5000 was just stupid as hell.

I thought she deserved to lose for not guessing Twain, so I was glad she wagered badly.

HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Glenn_Beckett posted:

I also registered. Not a lot of testing sites near VA, though, so if I pass the online test (I won't) I have to go to Nashville, TN. Like an IDIOT!

e: how would you NOT guess Mark Twain with a quote like that from 1886? THOREAU? What a bad guess, you absolute poo poo!!!

I live in Vancouver and the closest testing place to me was literally Los Angeles, a three hour plane ride again.

I chose Toronto so I can stay in the same country, seeing as it's only an extra two hours by plane.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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Glenn_Beckett posted:

I thought she deserved to lose for not guessing Twain, so I was glad she wagered badly.

If there's a tie, do both move on to the next episode? Does one of the people they originally cast for the next episode get the shaft in that case? That's kinda lovely if it's the case.

e: vvvvv Oh, duh. That makes sense. I don't know why I thought that they would be gone permanently. It's been a long week of extended relatives. :)

QuickbreathFinisher fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Dec 30, 2012

Officer Sandvich
Feb 14, 2010
Both move on in a tie. There's even been a three-way tie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zn2KODSsY

I'm not sure about the next game but I think they have a pool of people to draw from, if you make it that far in the casting process they're not going to send you home.

jscolon2.0
Jul 9, 2001

With great payroll, comes great disappointment.

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

If there's a tie, do both move on to the next episode? Does one of the people they originally cast for the next episode get the shaft in that case? That's kinda lovely if it's the case.

In the event of a tie, both competitors return. I think there's been at least one three way tie in Jeopardy history. And the other guy would still get on, he'd just have to wait an additional episode. It's not like he'd be permanently bumped off the queue.

Glenn_Beckett
Sep 13, 2008

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television I'm just like 'Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaqua'

Officer Sandvich posted:

Both move on in a tie. There's even been a three-way tie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zn2KODSsY

I'm not sure about the next game but I think they have a pool of people to draw from, if you make it that far in the casting process they're not going to send you home.

What I'm curious about is if they all received all their winnings. If so, holy moly, everybody do that every time.

Discount Viscount
Jul 9, 2010

FIND THE FISH!

escape artist posted:

Registered for the test. Any tips on studying? Rather than just straight up playing old episodes on J-Archive?

Pay attention to current events in January, they always throw a couple of those questions into the online test. If you have any areas where you are sketchy but it isn't that hard to learn the major touchstones, like opera, then there are probably good lists out there that can be studied.

InsensitiveSeaBass
Apr 1, 2008

You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter The Scary Door.
Nap Ghost
God tonight's contestants suck.

Riptor
Apr 13, 2003

here's to feelin' good all the time
This 1920s newsflash category is annoying as gently caress and takes too long

I hate when they don't finish all the clues in a round

EDIT: what the gently caress was with Alex recapping a geico commercial for NO reason

Riptor fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Jan 3, 2013

Soothing Vapors
Mar 26, 2006

Associate Justice Lena "Kegels" Dunham: An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.

Riptor posted:

This 1920s newsflash category is annoying as gently caress and takes too long

I hate when they don't finish all the clues in a round

EDIT: what the gently caress was with Alex recapping a geico commercial for NO reason

I swear to god he's going senile.

escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming
They had at least 8 clues left on the board. That pissed me off.


Also, yeah, the contestants were moronic. I might have won if it weren't for that loving baseball final jeopardy.

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Christ ditch the stories segment already. I have yet to hear one that isn't some stupid as gently caress no one cares type poo poo. Give them more time to finish off the board or at least edit away some of that dead air when noone rings in.

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escape artist
Sep 24, 2005

Slow train coming

zVxTeflon posted:

Christ ditch the stories segment already. I have yet to hear one that isn't some stupid as gently caress no one cares type poo poo. Give them more time to finish off the board or at least edit away some of that dead air when noone rings in.

DVR baby. I never listen to that crap.

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