HelenBaby

I felt bad for April & her wager but I was glad she didn’t win because she was Mattea bad—I hate the running commentary on the clues & answers.

I live in the Central time zone and my local affiliates (there have been two here ABC & NBC) have always shown it during the day except for one season when it came on at 6:00 pm. But the competing channels always had news at that time so the NBC affiliate gave up the show & the ABC affiliate started showing it at 3:00 with a repeat at 3:30. They have since switched it to show the repeat at 3 and the new one at 3:30.

It could be worse. One of the other kids is Chet Hanks!

I knew it was going to be a rerun but I’d forgotten Matt was the retuning champion. I didn’t watch much of his run because he bugs me. I gave it another chance today. I changed the channel before double Jeopardy. I’m just not looking forward to the TofC even though I like Amy & Ryan.

Did this happen on your viewing of yesterday’s episode? In the -ola category, the clue for Shin-ola was revealed but it skipped whether anyone guessed and went directly to the next clue. I can see where maybe it was problematic.

I think the note did have Endeavour written on it. All of the handwriting on the note, sparse as it was, was small.

I think I gave up on James & Matt very early in their runs. I liked Amy but I was ready for her to go by the time she left because I just got tired of no one getting even close to knocking her off. I guess quirky is okay for some but it’s just not my bag. Julia was really the only long running contestant that I was sad to see leave. I quit watching for about ten years so I missed Ken’s run but I love him as host. Plus, I found out that he’s good friends with Andy Richter which amuses me for some reason.

Okay I’m officially wanting Mattea to eff off ASAP.

Well, like I said it’s been 25 years since I was on the show so lots of changes. And there weren’t as many quiz shows as there have been since. There was one show on Game Show Network where the host stayed in the shadows. There were 3 contestants and three rounds where they would be eliminated after the first & second round with one person at the end doing some kind of timed quick quiz for a specified prize (it’s been a while—I’m thinking the host was called the Inquisitor or something like that.) Anywho the point of that story is that I saw a multi day champion as a contestant on there once. It had to be after I was on Jeopardy because I remembered the guy from being on Jeopardy and how was he able to be on the second show when it probably had been less than 10 years since he’d been on Jeopardy.

When I was on the show in 1997, we were told we could never be on Jeopardy again nor another game show for something like 10 years or something like that. It’s been a while (and didn’t include when you might make the TofC.)

I kinda like her look but I told my SO that she’s a young woman trying to look like an older lady.

We got weather updates this entire hour. Still going on. Damn it.

I feel like this has been a weak pool of contestants because I’m normally very impressed with the college students in the tournaments.

I just checked her IMDb page and it appears that while she did some voice acting she wasn’t on camera from 1995-2003. I know she had a couple of kids in that time but I think she was in graduate school during some of her pregnancies.

For some reason I thought Kelly was on the bubble. Oh well there’s still time.

At least if Emma wins one more, she’ll eliminate the guy who definitely didn’t flash a white power sign from eligibility for the TofC.

I get 2 episodes a day, one from a few months ago & the current one (Amy’s first game will be on today.) One of the categories on the rerun was comedians catch phrases. The highest value clue was “Can we talk” which was a triple stumper. Ken just said “I feel old—Joan Rivers.” Didn’t blame them & made himself the butt of the joke, not the contestants.

Both are extremely remarkable. I don’t know how your brain doesn’t turn to mush even playing ten games over two days. Even though Ken was off for a couple of months doesn’t take away the fact that once he jumped back into it that was his reality.

I thought it was way too heavy on the SNL connection. I get that it was NBC and all that entails, but still. And they couldn’t get Carol Burnett? I’m glad Vicki Lawrence was included but Carol should be there. I guess since she is more associated with CBS that might be the reason. I suppose a lot of her contemporaries are dead so they went with what they had.

It’s funny what you say about Jay’s hair. I commented that he had a great head of hair and my SO said “that’s a wig” but it looks like his real hair to me? Lol

I didn’t come up with it either but it made sense when Ken said it. I’m interested in the different European monarchies & grand duchies and in the Netherlands some people have an honorific of Jonkheer, which is basically the equivalent of Sir or Dame in the UK. So it’s not surprising that a suburb of NYC has a name like that.

I have no idea why I called him Jim. Lol

Yes. I didn’t watch either Jim or Matt when they were on their streaks. I have watched most of Amy’s because she’s more likable but I’m still tired of her being on the show. I wasn’t watching when Ken went on his streak because I quit watching the show for about ten years.

He had been working on Adlon’s for five years? I guess to find her mom’s sister? I looked at her Wikipedia page. And she is mostly a voice actor. Pam Segall. She was so excited that her mom found a sibling. Being on the receiving end of a similar situation, it’s not “cool”. I’ve been contacted by two people who were my father’s children in the last 15 years and my dad has been dead for 30 years. It is not cool. It’s upsetting.

Alex also mentioned that Faust guy and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz and neither of them were given a chance so that tells me Alex had no say in the matter.