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All the discussion of Sailor vs. Alexa and one being more recognizable than the other cracks me up because of the 12 "stars," I'd only heard of five of them, and Christie was one. Now two-thirds of the cast I've never heard of before last night. Being an unknown hasn't stopped people winning this show in the past. Does anyone know why Val's face was blurred out in the Christie-falling video clip? Was it really Val? I can't imagine him missing a chance for his face to be on tv.

Your gif cracked me up. Thanks. Wasn't who invented the "high five" a clue on the show recently? I know I heard it not long ago. It was during a baseball game.

This was posted on yesterday's TheJeopardyFan.com. Andy gets his information directly from Jeopardy producers: "There are many cases in games such as this one where the show’s editors will clip contestant’s phrasing, as there’s no other way to fit the played number of clues into time. Rest assured that every response in this game was phrased properly."

I like starting at the bottom. As @suebee12 posted, it means more money faster, and if someone knows a category, the bottom clues aren't difficult. Fast money = more interesting game for me. Jason has been an invisible player IMO. He does nothing flashy or outrageous or anything to draw attention to himself, he just hunkers in and plays the game. I'm actually surprised when I see he's won as many games as he has since he's so "unnoticeable." As I've stated in the past, I like runaway games as I avoid stress whenever I can, and knowing who is going to win "takes a load off" my brain. Plus it doesn't matter to me who wins since I watch to play the clues, not to see people. (Fellow posters here the exception. You know who you are!) I've never found any Jeopardy episode "boring."

This. I was fine with Drew until the video package on his girlfriend ... who came out of nowhere, never mentioned before, never seen, never existed as far as viewers knew ... and now she's pregnant? And we see Drew being so cute shopping for baby clothes? I'm sure he's all into that. So girlfriend, good luck raising that kid on your own while your "boyfriend" spends all his time training for the next season. I hope you have some legal agreement, signed and sealed. Isaac had a long-time girlfriend who lived with him in that van and traveled with him and was at every event rooting him on. After he won, the next time we saw Isaac the girlfriend had disappeared, never to be mentioned again. Welcome to Real Life.

Go all the way to the very bottom. There are usually comments to Andy posted there ... I had one once! Jason's is the very first one, it's signed from JZ.

She's a professional beauty queen, that's her job. She scored a big "Eh" from me. Got a laugh that she got the forgettable-first spot while James got the pimp spot.

The Evil Me was hoping for that breakdown. It could have been The Most Dramatic ANW Finale EVAH!

Well, after Gino came in third, I turned the channel so don't know who won. Reading here, I guess Bailey did, but who cares. I think Gino's fabulous, I loved all his routines, he stole my eye in every one. I can totally see him on Broadway; I hope he can get there and be successful. So, congratulations GINO!

Sometimes in editing the "What is" is cut short or SEEMS like it wasn't said, but as @chessiegal posted, if the answer is not a question, it is ruled incorrect without fail. In the Jeopardy round, Trebek will pause or give the player a chance to realize he/she didn't say "What is." In Double Jeopardy, a player is wrong off the bat for not phrasing as a question, no second chance. There was a big discussion about this in the Season 35 thread which is where we learned about the editing thing.

That clue was something about kids raising themselves without parents. But someone answered Party of Five, not Jason, one of the other two got it.

Watching Daniel climb, I was thinking if I was on the other end of his safety rope, I would be cranking it up so he "climbed" WAY faster than humanly possible. No one would have noticed that, would they?

I just yelled "COME ON GD IT" to Gil as he was climbing, then said a few or your favorite word when Dreschel won. The heck. Not that he hadn't been getting the winner edit all season long. The bright hope is, maybe he'll disappear. I won't be able to stomach all his I'm-a-father-now videos next season.

I hope so ...

Don't forget he's a dancer too, which is why he coached Derek Hough during the celebrity ninja show.

Doesn't his family own a huge piece of land where the church is located? Lots of buildings, Gil lives in one of them. The show did a clip on it after one of the hurricanes affected his property.

Camus was also in a J6 last week. Both times made me laugh. I appreciated the snark of it, even if it was unintentional. I hope everyone who was gifted with a presidential trivia book ran that category today.

Aw, that just makes this show like every other "reality" competition show. It's all about the judges. I had this on last night but didn't pay a lot of attention to it. One thing I did notice, last season I didn't have a clue who Antonio Brown was; now I do!

I've got my money on Drew winning since he is getting that edit, what with showing him training at night and all. I do think that's smart since the runs are all night long. People used to sleeping at night are at a disadvantage. Maybe more train at night but we aren't shown that because they aren't going to win the mil. Drew also got the "I'm having a baby" edit, with cameras following him through the baby-clothes section of some store, like he's such a fun and special guy now that he got some woman pregnant. While I liked him okay before, that segment made me hope for his failure. But because this show hates me, I don't think I'm getting that wish. I don't remember Drew's girlfriend ever being shown or even mentioned before. Maybe I blocked it. I tolerate Grant ever since his back story friendship with Eskimo Ninja. So those backstories can work both ways with me. Add me to the list of people waiting for the ANW calendar.

Under risk of unleashing the Archery Poltergeist, I have discovered that bow season in Illinois is also called Archery Season and starts Oct. 1 so I'll be seeing some archery boys on my road in a couple weeks. In Wisconsin, where businesses shut down for the season, "Archery and Crossbow" season started yesterday. So it's not just Maryland, it's Archery Season everywhere. Except in my brain, obviously. Don't have a clue why Maryland was singled out by the J writers. I'd like to do a Take Back on my archery nit pick in hope of appeasing the Archery Gods before it's too late.

Not so far. Some players don't post over the weekend so there is still hope.

I planned to watch this -- it's the FINALE! -- but didn't get home in time so only saw the last few minutes. I guess it's good Poppy didn't knock on Jake's door. She prefers to stand outside and yell for someone. She also never turned the lights off on her little car, which is going to have a dead battery. I thought maybe they were automatic-off lights, but they were still on when the truck drove away. Speaking of the truck, where did it come from? It sneaked in under cover of the explosion and Poppy didn't see it because it's black. Yeah, that's how it got there. I got a laugh out of the bad guys tossing Poppy into the back of the pickup to roll around and bash her head a few times as they speed away to wherever they were going. What, no one owns a cargo van in that place? Does this mean Season 2 or will Poppy live forever in that pickup bed while being driven around Reef Island? Stay tuned ...

The outdoor show on the radio this morning was all about archery season/bow season, archery hunting/bow hunting. It's like I'm being trolled by the Archery Poltergeist. Heading now to my corner to sit quietly and not say anything more. Everyone: "Good. Stay there."

I'm watching the rerun since I missed the first acts of the live show. First, Queen was hilarious coming out in a track suit. But it was a fleece/fuzzy one, so I guess that's her fancy one. Then Simon stands up and he's wearing jeans and a stretched out t-shirt that was so bad, I have to compare it to the "You look so comfortable" commercial.

I guess the point is, never pick the first clue in the second or last category. Or any of the first clues if you want to find the DD! Thanks for posting!