BobH

I don't understand what happened with that King Arthur thing. I think the celebrities might have misread a cue from the first contestant and assumed that "King", the obvious answer to "Not a Queen...", wasn't part of the answer. But yes, as noted, it should have been easier with some actual clues like "Camelot". Looks like I missed a few episodes due to Thanksgiving pre-emptions. "Jabberjaw" as a photo clue it totally unfair.

Always weird when the stumper on the last round turns out to be one that seems so easy, after they already got a few that seemed much harder. Not sure what else you could say for "solitaire" except that it's a card game you play by yourself.

I like to think I'd do good on the game, but I have to confess, between this and Hollywood Game Night I've probably heard the clue "Judge on The Voice" a dozen times, and I could not, gun-to-my-head, name a judge on The Voice. About half the sports ones would stump me as well.

Thanks, that was a pretty neat clip. Nice to see them have fun with it. I look forward to seeing what they do if a case like that ever comes up on this show. And while I know it's almost impossible in practice, in theory a team could get $3000 from just the first two rounds by getting all ten right in each round. I wonder what the rules are on that? They wouldn't just skip the third round, would they?

Sorry, I was unclear. I know how the Family Feud last round goes, I was asking if it ever happened that the first person playing got all 200 points required, making the second player's round superfluous. That would be the equivalent of one person on this show getting all 10 names in the last round.

Wow, that contestant who played with Cat Deeley and Ross Mathews was pretty great, almost finished the board by herself (helped that she had two good celebrities, but she'd have done well with almost anyone. Except maybe Sherri Shepard and Courteney Cox...). Wonder what they would do if someone did finish the board solo. I think they should cover up all but one answer, bring out the partner and tell her that they need to get nine more in 30 seconds, and then have the answers shown be impossible ("Tsar Nicholas II"). Worth it just to see if anybody could keep a straight face (on Family Feud, did anyone ever finish the last round without help from their other family member?).

Yeah, I've thought a few times that it would be better if the first contestant intentionally said a word in a really hard answer and hope for a better replacement, especially if it's something you know the celebrities or your partner are weak in (some people just don't know sports figures, or recent music, or older music). Since I spend too much time thinking of strategies for game shows I'll never be on, I'd say: First round, you're mostly at the mercy of the celebrity but don't hesitate to urge them to pass at the first sign of hesitation. With ten answers there should be at least four or five which are easy in most categories, and getting four in this round is pretty good. Unfortunately some celebrities take three or four seconds just to get their first meaningful clue out, and take too long to pass. Second round you have some more control, try to get through all ten names, assign each answer a difficulty rank of 1, 2 or 3. 1 you think you can get in just a few seconds, three or four words, pass if they don't get it right away. 2 you play, give a few more seconds (but not more than 5 or 6). 3 you pass right away unless it's one of the last two, in which case you give it try unless you absolutely don't recognize the name. Don't waste time trying to cobble together a name from other celebrities with common first and last names. That rarely works, and even when it does it takes so long you might miss a chance to do two or three easy ones. Third round, obviously, the only strategy is not to buzz in unless you're 100% sure, and listen carefully for when Craig decides just to give you the answer. Final round, I wonder if it might be best if the first contestant intentionally leaves a few easy ones on the top row, ones they're confident that their partner can get, in order to get through all ten names and defuse any potential landmines by saying a word in the name of answers that seem impossible. So try to get maybe two answers on the top row, leaving three easy ones (or replacements if any seemed impossible), and then play pretty much like normal on the second row, but try to pass fairly quickly so you at least see all ten answers. Of course this depends on the celebrities being reasonably good players, but if they aren't then you're screwed regardless. One advantage of this is that the second player has a good chance of starting with some easy ones you left, instead of starting with one you got stuck on, so they get eased into the game instead of thrown into the deep end. One wrench in this strategy is the photo answers, if you don't know the name you can't intentionally blow it.

Man, Sherri Shepard trying to remember Scooby Doo was painful. She's one of those players on the game whose brain can pull out just enough to make you think she's going to get the answer, so you don't want to pass quickly like you would if it was a complete blank stare, which only winds up wasting time. I think she did the same with "Hansel and Gretel" in the final round that episode.

Bad enough they have so many reality show "stars" as answers, but Tila Tequila as an answer in 2014 is ridiculous. I think they need to have a rule on the final round that reality show stars have to have had a show on within the last year. I had to look up what Tequila's show was, and it ended in 2008! Given the half-life of reality TV fame, that's like using a silent film actor other than Charlie Chaplin as an answer. This was at least the second time a team with a good shot of winning lost out based on a reality show star who's been off-air for more than four years. Also, while he's not a bad player and I appreciate he's enthusiastic, I could do with much less Tom Arnold on my TV.

Man, losing out on 20k because neither celebrity (who were otherwise pretty good players) remembers "Jackie Robinson" based on the best possible clues, that had to hurt. I guess if there were a few more seconds they could have gotten it in a more roundabout way ("blank Joyner-Kersee plus Swiss Family blank").

To be fair, when Craig is giving the clues there has to be an answer eventually, passing isn't an option. It's great when even rhyming doesn't work and he just gives them the answer and it takes a few seconds for one of the contestants to realize it.

Okay, not accepting "Alex Keaton" instead of "Alex P. Keaton" is just wrong. I'm shocked they allowed "Fred Rogers" for "Mr. Rogers" given the other decisions they've made.

Am I the only one who thought not allowing "Prince Joffrey" because he was a king when he died was a total rip-off. There have also been a few others in the past that bugged me, like not allowing "Huck Finn" or "Ben Franklin" until they said the full name. Hell, they insisted on "Vivica A. Fox" even when she herself gave her name as "Vivica Fox". Also, did those contestants not realize Martha Washington was George's wife? They were lucky they had time to spare with that roundabout way of getting that one.

Wonder how many days of taping it took for Craig to decide to ditch the tie and untuck the shirt? Felt sorry for the team that lost out because they didn't recognize "Tonto". Maybe if that Johnny Depp movie last year had done better more people would know the name.

I kind of like the show so far. I'm not sure it'll hold my attention in the long run, but for now it's okay. A few of the regular guests are kind of annoying, but a few others are consistently entertaining. And a few of the same names do come up too often. And some of those never seem to get a decent clue despite that. I do not like the photo clues in the last round. A few of them I didn't recognize at all, and even the ones I did it would take me a few extra seconds to process, which is pretty precious time with only a combined 75 seconds to get 10 correct. I remember one of them was a cartoon animal I wouldn't have been able to name at all (and the contestant clearly didn't know either).

I think the bandage would be on Phil's shirt, not his chest. And that would be just perfect.

The bandage over the tight jeans (over an injury which involved an actual impaled leg and hypothermia less than a day earlier) was just great, next level crazy. I guess the costume department insisted Rachelle Lefevre had to wear tight jeans. How the heck did the dome contracting a few feet at the slow pace we saw crush someone's car and kill them?

I missed the line about 2000 people being in the dome. That is totally crazy, even by the writing standards of this show. There have been a hundred things which don't make sense with that number, unless you assume that 90% of the population never goes to those mass meetings at the church or restaurant or school and just stay in their homes, ration their supplies and ignore Big Jim and Julia and the rest. Which probably makes them the smart ones.

My memory of the show is pretty hazy, did Archie ever use "meat head" as a general insult for other people as well as Michael, with Michael just being the most frequent target because of the nature of the show, or was it used exclusively for Michael? That would be the dividing line for me. So, for example, "Hot Lips" or "Radar" wouldn't be allowed for MASH (especially with the perfectly good clue "Career" available for that show), or "McDreamy" for GREY'S ANATOMY.

It's called science.

Good episode, but I expected Seth to do much better in the last round. He took way too long to get to the point on most of the clues. He might not have won with some of the brain freezes the contestant had, but they should have done better than six. The new game, No Harm No Vowel, was pretty good.

I think there's only the one egg, Melanie was holding it when she died, they buried her with it with her, it absorbed her memories, then for some reason formed the dome 25 years later, and when the egg was dropped in the lake it either re-incarnated her or took her form. Presumably there's still some more backstory to come to explain how Junior's mom knew that there was a dome coming.

I forgot that the pig farm we saw was the last of seven they visited. Seven pig farms inside the dome! Plus several crop farms that Barbie had to spray from the air, a small airfield, a fairly large high school, at least two lakes (one fresh water, now filled with methane, one I guess salt water), half of an island, a large wooded area right in the middle of the dome. All in an area small enough that Joe was once able to walk from the edge of the dome to the middle, dig up the mini-dome and walk back in one night. Man, I would love to see what the writers consider a realistic scale map of this town. I wouldn't be surprised on this show, but I don't think so. Jim went to find her at the school, and that's when he found out his access card was missing (but he still got in the lab to confront her no problem, so I guess he has multiple access cards). If it were in the school, presumably Rebecca would have access to it. Plus a small town high school having active samples of influenza is a stretch, even for this show. Much more realistic for the used car salesman to have the access cards to a separate high tech med lab...

Man, this show. I just never get the idea that the writers have a clear idea of the size or population of the dome, except for "whatever's convenient for this episode", and how rational people would act in any given situation. All the people except the series regulars just seem to be hanging around the diner and church, not doing anything. They're always talking about limited supplies, but the house that Melanie lived in looked to be untouched since the dome went down, and certainly an abandoned house like that would be a better place to stay then Big Jim's Bed&Breakfast. The kids not telling anyone about the internet thing for a whole day was crazy. They should have someone in the school 24 hours a day, constantly checking if the internet is back up, and with instructions to send out some pre-written e-mails and upload some files with any information on the dome they can gather to an external server the second there's a connection, in case it's only up for a few minutes. And why does Big Jim have an access card to a high tech med lab? And Julia and Sam rush back to town, telling the pig farmer to quarantine his healthy animals (as apparently he's dumb enough to leave his healthy pigs in a pen with the ones who just died suddenly until told otherwise). They make a quick stop in the diner, and then rush to the church, and that same pig farmer is already there (did he decide not to quarantine the pigs, or did he just do it really fast?), and his priority is to talk about religion with the new mother (I'd forgotten all about her, as did the writers until they needed a sympathetic face for the "survival of the fittest" argument), instead of telling Rebecca, who's standing right there, that the pig flu was spreading.

That was not a great episode. I expected not to like Leah Remini, and she was even worse than I imagined. I felt sorry for Nick Swardson and Scott Foley having to sit next to that for the whole show. If you're going to be that annoying, you had better be really funny or really good at the games, and she was neither. I thought the first team had the worst round of How Do You Doo we'd ever see, then the second team went up and shattered that record. The bonus round was weird, since I never would have got about half of Scott's clues based on who people are married to, but they seemed to be the right clues for Amy.