MrAtoz

Sorry to be "that guy," but it was Mae Clarke, not Jean Harlow.

That ("cran") is how I have always pronounced the word "crayon." I thought everybody pronounced it that way.

I finally got around to watching the first episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy! This was the first time I had ever seen Colin Jost in anything. And I'm sorry to say that I have no desire to see more of him. I found him immensely irritating, and will probably not watch any more episodes.

From the opening narration of Casablanca: "Here, the fortunate ones through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon; and from Lisbon, to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca... and wait... and wait... and wait."

1939-1962, according to Wikipedia, so a bit later than Brandeis. Interestingly, Frankfurter joined the court on January 30, 1939, and Brandeis retired on February 13, 1939. So their terms overlapped by 15 days.

I thought about Brandeis, but ended up going with Felix Frankfurter. Who was a bit too late for the clue. I also misunderstood it to think that the Justice himself was an immigrant, rather than being the child of immigrants.

I've been getting those posts as well! We both must match some kind of algorithm.

No King Phillip, or any other foreign potentates, and their sex lives for us. Instead it was food-based clothing vandalism: Kim Put Candy On Fred's Green Suit.

I wonder what Rachel was thinking of with Rutherford B. Hayes? Maybe just a random 19th century president to avoid putting down nothing. There is at least a dance called The Madison, although it wasn't created until the 1950s, so Joey's guess wasn't entirely unreasonable. It was probably a particularly difficult clue for Chris. If they said where he was originally from, I didn't catch it. But given his accent, I'm guessing he didn't grow up in the U.S., so 19th century American presidents are probably not something he would have learned much about. I thought it was one of the easier FJ clues in awhile. Polk=Polka popped into my head immediately, and I never thought about anything else.

Ken needs to brush up on his Friends knowledge, though. Ross, Rachel, and Susan was not a love triangle.

That was my theory; I think they were just trying to think of a Best Picture winner from around that time period.

I found out about the numbers at J-Archive quite some time ago, but before then, I had never even noticed they were there. Somebody told me you could follow the order of clues by following the numbers. My reaction was "What numbers? There are no numbers." In my defense, they are very tiny numbers. I did get the "Thirty days hath September..." rhyme, but here's my hot take. That rhyme is useless as memory aid. It requires you to already know the thing you're trying to remember in order to get it right. If you get the months wrong, there's nothing to tell you that you're wrong. Consider this: Thirty days hath September/May, July, and December. That scans perfectly, and rhymes perfectly. But it's wrong. The only way you can know it's wrong is if you already know what the months are supposed to be. And if you already know that, why are you reciting this little poem?

If Facebook is to be believed, a lot of fans are saying that Weimar-rye-ner should have been accepted, because "that's how everybody pronounces it!"

I had seen some mention of it in the media ("debuting a redesigned set," something along those lines). That said, in watching I didn't particularly notice the difference, and did not remember that there was supposed to be a difference. It was only this morning, when I saw some other people online talking about it, that I realized, "Oh, yeah, I guess that change was this week." So it didn't make a big impression on me.

Well, The Sopranos debuted in 1999, so Ken was right by a tiny margin. 😀