S03.E03: Quarterfinal #3: Rachel Brosnahan, Seth Green and Margaret Cho

[chitowngirl]

Celebrity contestants Rachel Brosnahan, Seth Green and Margaret Cho.
 

Airs January 22, 2025 on ABC, next day Hulu

[Browncoat]

I've actually heard of all three of these people!  

[chitowngirl]

I didn’t think Comedienne Margaret Cho would be so wooden a player….a good player, but wooden.

Edited Thursday at 02:49 AM by chitowngirl

[SoMuchTV]

18 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

I didn’t think Comedienne Margaret Cho would be so wooden a player….a good player, but wooden.

Maybe wooden but definitely not overly cautious!

(disclaimer: both of us are posting before the end of the game. “Anything can happen” I suppose)

[sugarbaker design]

Margaret Cho came TO PLAY!

[Browncoat]

She did!  But they all needed to relax when picking clues.

And instaget FJ for me.  Makes me feel better about missing FJ in regular Jeopardy earlier tonight!

[chitowngirl]

3 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

Maybe wooden but definitely not overly cautious!

(disclaimer: both of us are posting before the end of the game. “Anything can happen” I suppose)

I was hoping Margaret wasn’t going to pull a “Claven”.

[SoMuchTV]

Don’t turn it off before the end. They had a cute little chat during the credits. 

[kathyk2]

Margaret Cho was great. That was a game worthy of Amy or James.

[Bastet]

I'm not familiar with Rachel, know who Seth is, and have loved Margaret's comedy for decades, so I was rooting for her, but, goddamn, what a dominant victory!

When she screwed up on the Ma Rainey clue, the editors immediately cut to Ken explaining why she was ruled incorrect, rather than first showing that the others were given a shot but didn't ring in, right?  Or did I miss something?  (I'm off tomorrow, so had an extra couple of drinks.)

Seth's Dustin Hoffman response to the Jennifer Coolidge clue made me laugh, but he also had a seriously dumb response I'm not sure I remember correctly (see, again, the drinks) -- maybe Colorado for the Arizona clue in the states without vowels category?

FJ was an instaget, and I thought it would be for all three.  I enjoyed Rachel's "I was trying not to Seth Green it" ribbing about her wager.

[sugarbaker design]

11 hours ago, Browncoat said:

She did!  But they all needed to relax when picking clues.

No they didn't!

[shapeshifter]

8 hours ago, Bastet said:

When she [Margaret Cho] screwed up on the Ma Rainey clue, the editors immediately cut to Ken explaining why she was ruled incorrect, rather than first showing that the others were given a shot but didn't ring in, right?  Or did I miss something?  (I'm off tomorrow, so had an extra couple of drinks.)

I watched sober but sleepy and became fully awake when that happened. 
I guess when it's celebs playing for charity they can let stuff slide a bit?

 

11 hours ago, Browncoat said:

And instaget FJ for me.  Makes me feel better about missing FJ in regular Jeopardy earlier tonight!

Same, except for me it's been almost 2 weeks since I've known a FJ.
I was also happy to get a lot of of the clues that they missed or took a while to suss out. 

[ams1001]

On 1/22/2025 at 9:12 PM, Browncoat said:

I've actually heard of all three of these people!  

Me, too, but I didn't recognize Rachel. I have heard the name and seen clips but I didn't watch Mrs. Maisel.

I googled Seth and his mohawk; it was purple!

 

[proserpina65]

Damn, Margaret Cho was a beast!

[sugarbaker design]

On 1/23/2025 at 9:52 AM, shapeshifter said:

I watched sober but sleepy and became fully awake when that happened. 
I guess when it's celebs playing for charity they can let stuff slide a bit?

They didn't let anything slide, MC didn't get it correct.

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, sugarbaker design said:

They didn't let anything slide, MC didn't get it correct.

The thing we saw being let slide was the other contestants not being given a chance to buzz in after MC got it wrong.
But maybe they did have that time, and it was just "dead air," so it was cut for time?

[Bastet]

3 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

But maybe they did have that time, and it was just "dead air," so it was cut for time?

Oh yeah, I didn't say the other contestants weren't given a chance to answer after she got it wrong, I said the editors cut immediately to Ken's explanation of why she was wrong rather than showing the part where no one else rang in after she was ruled incorrect.  (And only mentioned it because it was possible there was no cut, my tipsy mind just took a little power nap.)