Tabasco Cat

So true. We plan on DVR'ing the remaining episodes through Christmas. Which will be a dilemna in January when we plan on some cord cutting. When the DVR goes out the door, so will everything saved on it. Which raises a question: should we even bother? I think we will and cross the cord-cutting bridge when we come to it. Sometimes I miss my old VCR. We still have boxes full of VHS tapes in the basement from the 1980s. SP tape of Scarface recorded in 1984, anyone? That was recorded before Alex Trebek started on Jeopardy! (Or possibly just after. I remember winning almost $1,000 at an Atlantic City casino, when casinos there were still new-ish, and blowing most of it on a top-of-the-line VCR at Crazy Eddie's. Scarface was the very first thing I ever recorded.)

I hope that news crew called him ahead of time.

Sean Connery and now Alex Trebek within a week of each other. Saturday Night Live spoofed Jeopardy! more than once with Will Feral and Darrell Hammond imitating Trebek and Connery respectively. A strange coincidence... the two real people being spoofed both passed away so close together. Damn.

I saw that in an interview from earlier this year. It was not released posthumously. It had already appeared elsewhere. ... (Edit) found it! This January 2020 article from the LA Times says it's from a live ABC primetime broadcast that aired around the beginning of the year.

OT but Wheel..... Their All-California-All-The-Time contestants (many, not all) so far this season are driving me crazy. Some of them are really awful. I've sworn off it for a while since last week's REALLY awful... ___ IS__C NEWT_N Contestant: "Tom Isaac Newton".

They didn't. I couldn't understand him very well either, at first. It got easier. I give him a ton of credit for pushing through. He was an excellent player and I really was rooting for him to win at the end.

I think they made a terrible decision. When it happened and Christa was allowed to go first in the Double Jeopardy! round I thought that they'd automatically have to invite the guy back at some point even if he lost the game. I still think they should do that. There's no way in heck they can say preventing him from going first had no impact on the rest of the game. No way.

Referring to the FJ answer (or 'question', if you will), what on earth does "Type A" have to do with a cannonball? Alex seemed to imply one had somthing to do with the other. I don't get it.

Did PRIMETIMER remove this show from its main forum page? When I looked for it tonight I had to search for it. Last week I think it was there on the list.

I didn't mind Tiffany by the end. She lost because her New York fu wasn't up to snuff. Couldn't name the lone Ivy League school in NYC and choked away the SNL question. The latter I had to think about because while I knew the year 1975 was right I didn't think "prime time" would encompass a show that didn't air until 11:30 PM in the east. I got to SNL by default because I didn't have anything else. Live from New York! The banking annoys me a lot. I think one time they got to a 4th question in the chain before blowing it. They rarely seem to ever get 3 in a row, though, so I understand why everyone's yelling BANK after 2 correct answers. Still annoying. I really don't remember that they ever had a "long string" going. Only that one time when they tried for 4 and couldn't get there.

I can't stand Ken Jennings for all the reasons typically heard around here. I hope they don't go there. I blame him for the contestants not clearing the board in the first round the other (last?) night. He was useless. I have low confidence overall that the executive producers will make a good choice. But I'll disagree that Vanna did job good filling in for Pat on WoF a few months ago. I thought she was awkward, unpolished, unprepared, and seemed super uncomfortable.

She was anti-entertaining. When Alex said, "She's having fun and we all love it!", I yelled at the TV: NO WE DON'T ALEX

If I was Dave I would've told her to please keep her virus-laden respiratory droplets to herself after she turned to face me and yelled. "BET IT ALL DAVE!"

I have absolutely no desire for Ken Jennings to be joining Jeopardy! as a producer or anything else. I think it's obvious, now, that they're greasing the skids for Jennings to replace Alex Trebek as host when the day comes. I'll be a former-fan before I ever watch an episode where he's the host. He's a little too obnoxious and impressed with himself for me. In fact, I might be a former-fan next week depending on how much Jennings is actually on my TV screen.

Really?!?! Didn't know that. Life's strange and weird coincidences. Twice in one day.

It might be an option, but if it is then it's well hidden. When you confirm recording it's just a Y/N choice, there's no way to do it quickly. You might be able to bring up your scheduled recordings and tweak the start/stop times, but with Comcast it's not real easy.

It got to be that way after a while. 2 words: Wolf Blitzer (although we were laughing AT him). Tonight was the very 1st Celebrity Jeopardy! ever and they didn't do too bad, I thought. I've always liked Carol Burnett. And I only "discovered" Regis back in his "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" days. I've never watched anything else he was on, and certainly not any daytime talk shows. But I did like him on Millionaire. Ironically, it was when they started to do "Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire" that the show finally self-destructed. Too much yukking it up and self-promotion for a general-knowledge type quiz show. That killed it off because the ratings for that were awful. I do blame Regis for talking Norm McDonald out of a $1 million answer, however. Norm was the last celebrity contestant that week and he was really, really good. When he got up to the $1 million question he knew the answer. Regis talked him out of it. "You don't want to chance that your charity will lose out on all that money you've already got, do you?" Norm got nervous and decided to take the money, leaving the $1 million prize on the table.

I just want to say that I despise my local ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach. They always start Jeopardy! about a minute early (wall clock time) so when you want to record Jeopardy! you've got to DVR Wheel of Fortune at 7 and then Jeopardy at 7:30. Then you've got to FF through WoF (unless you want to watch it) right to the very end in order to see the beginning of Jeopardy and the categories in the first round. It's not just a timing glitch; it's like that every day. I forgot to do that this evening so of course the DVR missed the Jeopardy opening with the title card that dedicated the episode to Regis Philbin. Missed that part. Oh well, when we finally cut the cord in a couple of months it won't matter because when cable co. takes back their DVR unit everything recorded on there will go away, too. Still mad though.

🙂 This question separates the adults from the children. I won a $1,000 bet in RL in early 2000 regarding the question of whether or not the 21st Century started on Jan 1, 2000. Of course, it didn't. And of course I chose my betting partner carefully. He paid off.

I started out planning to DVR the entire season so I could binge it over the summer. But even with cable AND Amazon Prime video, there are nights where there's nothing on at all that interests me. So I started DVR'ing and mini-binging every 2 weeks. I'm with you on most of the characters either aren't compelling or interesting. I'm holding out for LJ to get some sort of gruesome punishment and will be disappointed if we don't get it by the end of the season. Everyone else... meh. I am definitely losing interest in everything else.

I usually root for people from New York. But I can't stand Meggie. Too bubbly, too stylish (if you can call it that) and way too in love with the sound of her own voice.

Yay!

I think so, too. Unfortunate since I don't want to watch the "Jeopardy! Poodle On Your Head Tournament". I can't believe they'd let anyone go on TV with hair like that. If it was hair. I seriously expected it to look up and bark a few times.

I've never read it, either, and the name Lady Brett Ashley didn't ring a bell at all. I did remember, however, that Hemingway lived in Europe for a while between the World Wars. "The Sun Also Rises" was his first published novel and, to this day, considered by many to be his best. The timeframe matched so I went with it.

The 40 Acres backlot (actually about 30 acres) was owned by several studios over the years including MGM, Desilu and Sony. There's a great website that covers its history here. The Andy Griffith Show exteriors, several original Star Trek episodes, at least one Batman (ca 1964) episode, Gomer Pyle USMC, and Hogan's Heroes sets were there. Many movies were filmed there, too. The Tara mansion from Gone With the Wind was there, as were sets for Tarzan. The original King Kong movie was shot there. More recent, both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune studios (Sony) are there, as are studios for Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen series. If you're so inclined, open Google Maps and type "8655 Hayden Place Culver" in the location box. That's almost exactly where Stalag 13 was located in the show "Hogan's Heroes". The Baldwin Hills are just to the south across Ballona Creek and Jefferson Blvd. I've spent hours poring over that website in the last few years. (I almost wrote "foolishly wasted", which wouldn't be correct at all!)