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Jeopardy! Season 31 (2014-2015)

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GreekGeek
GreekGeek

I'm quite enjoying Mike as champ, New England accent and all, despite my dislike of runaway games. I felt bad for Ashley on the very first question today, though. After accepting "Roosevelt," "Adams,"

Bazinga
Bazinga

"Guthrie" is not enough of an answer!  There are two Guthries in the same field - Woody and son, Arlo - and both are well known.  "Guthrie" alone is simply unacceptable.  Alex following up with the fi

jeff6286
jeff6286

I'm really sorry if it's inappropriate to point this out, but the comments speculating about the looks of Alex's girlfriend seem insanely out of line. Is this a high school locker room?

saber5055

saber5055

HelenBaby, as long as you didn't jump the board, did jump the board, smiled, didn't smile, moved your head, didn't move your head, wore a color we like, wore a color we don't like, had a hairdo, needed a new hairdo, had ears we could see, ears we could not see, or won/lost your game, you would have been safe from snarking. Just follow those simple rules!

 

I'm glad I tanked the online test for oh, so many reasons!

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HelenBaby

HelenBaby

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My mom told me I looked pretty, the only time in my life that I remember her saying that (and I was 46 when I was on the show) so I must have looked all right. No weird movements from me and we picked the clues from top to bottom of the categories. I did mess up on one question because I forgot the category for a second, and I missed final Jeopardy, but what the heck. It was a fun experience.

ETA: my bra fit just fine. Thanks for asking.

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ABay

ABay

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If you give us a shout out in your interview segment, I think most of us would agree that you're the best contestant ever and, if you lose, were robbed! Robbed, I say, by some dancing, gesticulating, board-hopping, oddly-accented freak.

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Red Bridey

Red Bridey

Eliza's account was too true!  I also couldn't watch my piled-up Jeopardy! episodes for months when I got back from my taping.  Are we the only two?  I spent a half-hour in the makeup chair because I warned the lovely makeup artist that I am prone to rosacea redness when I am under stress, so she really did a fantastic job making sure I didn't look like I was having a heart attack!  I would have loved to mingle with the other contestants afterwards, but there were hordes of middle school students on a field trip and I could barely locate my best friend in the throngs.  Couldn't get within a mile of the awards cabinets in the hallway.  I also had reams of unanswerable questions on my questionnaire, and I am considerably older than Eliza.  Yes, Alex, I am a boring boring person.

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ABay

ABay

It would be funnier if you wore a hideous sweater, ratty wig, and flailed your arms, and vowed you were going to board jump and do horrible voices just for us.

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Athena

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It would be funnier if you wore a hideous sweater, ratty wig, and flailed your arms, and vowed you were going to board jump and do horrible voices just for us.

 

Ahh Jeopardy trollin' just for us.

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HelenBaby

HelenBaby

I didn't watch the show for 10 years after I appeared. For one thing it came on at 12:30 in the afternoon and my lunch break was earlier than that. Then, once I retired in 2003 I was doing other stuff. I only started watching again about 2008.

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alias1

alias1

I know it's kids week but I hope someone was watching tonight.  I missed the end of Jeopardy.  I know Cerulean won, but can anyone tell me what the FJ question was and what were the wagers.  Thanks.

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Ailianna

Ailianna

TV Characters
This 8'2" character who made his debut in 1969 is still going strong.

 

 

Who is Big Bird?

Victoria said Hercules; Will said Goofy; Cerulean said Barney.

 

Cerulean Ozarow: $25,200-$42=$25,158
Will Harter: $11,800-$11,000=$800
Victoria Agrinya: $11,000-$11,000=$0

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alias1

alias1

How adorable was little Cerulean? Kids Week makes me feel smart, but I still missed FJ.

Oh my gosh! Cerulean was amazing.  What a kid! And when he wagered everything for his first DD I bet his parents almost had a heart attack.

 

Ailianna, thank you so much for the total recap!

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Jesse

Jesse

I didn't want to like Cerulean, but I couldn't help it!

 

Eliza's account was too true!  I also couldn't watch my piled-up Jeopardy! episodes for months when I got back from my taping.  Are we the only two? 

 

 

I didn't watch the show for 10 years after I appeared. For one thing it came on at 12:30 in the afternoon and my lunch break was earlier than that. Then, once I retired in 2003 I was doing other stuff. I only started watching again about 2008.

Same -- I couldn't watch for years and years after I was on. And then I just didn't for a while longer. 

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saber5055

saber5055

And when he wagered everything for his first DD I bet his parents almost had a heart attack.

 

 

I know Alex did.

 

Jesse and HelenBaby: Now that you are watching again, is it like bad deja vú? Or is everything in the past now, like it happened to another person? I would hate watching if my categories on the show had been Opera, Bible, Chemistry. Then, after losing BADLY,  I watch the next taping and categories are Dogs, Horses, Farm Life.

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HelenBaby

HelenBaby

I know Alex did.

 

Jesse and HelenBaby: Now that you are watching again, is it like bad deja vú? Or is everything in the past now, like it happened to another person? I would hate watching if my categories on the show had been Opera, Bible, Chemistry. Then, after losing BADLY,  I watch the next taping and categories are Dogs, Horses, Farm Life.

I was on almost twenty years ago, so I don't have any bad feelings about it. The final Jeopardy that I missed did pop up as a question in the regular Jeopardy round a couple of years ago, although it was rephrased so the answer wasn't exactly the same. I don't remember exactly how but it was Shakespeare and involved the same quote. And you better bet I knew it this time. LOL. I just feel lucky that I made it to the show and didn't embarrass myself. It was a lifelong dream that came true. That doesn't happen too frequently, especially to me.

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Red Bridey

Red Bridey

I have the deepest sympathy for the contestants, (while still being a sarcastic, mean Previously TV board watcher type), and always wish I was in a game with different categories.   I came in second when the champ was a runaway winner, and I still blame the categories.  I was in the WRONG GAME!

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CarpeDiem54

CarpeDiem54

Tonight's game had many of the elements that make me usually dislike Kid's Week, besides the fact that I generally don't like kids. Yes, I'm a mean old biddy. To be fair, I didn't particularly like kids and kid-like behavior when I *was* a kid myself.

I liked the kid who won, Ryan. He was on the ball and paid attention.

Sports Writer kid acted like he either didn't know how the game was played or had the attention span of a gnat. Don't just stand there! Select the next question, kid!

Methinks Chrissy gets by too much on her looks and what she perceives as her cuteness. Not that she wasn't smart (they all were), but her attitude was unattractive.

Now, get off my lawn!

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Jesse

Jesse

I was on almost twenty years ago, so I don't have any bad feelings about it. The final Jeopardy that I missed did pop up as a question in the regular Jeopardy round a couple of years ago, although it was rephrased so the answer wasn't exactly the same. I don't remember exactly how but it was Shakespeare and involved the same quote. And you better bet I knew it this time. LOL. I just feel lucky that I made it to the show and didn't embarrass myself. It was a lifelong dream that came true. That doesn't happen too frequently, especially to me.

Same -- I was on about 20 years ago, and it's like a whole different world. Although the one question I got wrong, I still don't know! (I mostly just didn't buzz in because I didn't know stuff.)

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ClareWalks

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Tonight's game had many of the elements that make me usually dislike Kid's Week, besides the fact that I generally don't like kids. Yes, I'm a mean old biddy. To be fair, I didn't particularly like kids and kid-like behavior when I *was* a kid myself.

 

I totally agree! I was definitely one of those kids who didn't "get" kid behavior. I almost lost it several times today while watching. Could not believe some of the answers...the kids couldn't spell PLAYSTATION? I mean, seriously. Even if they've never played video games, which I doubt, it's two simple words stuck together. And little Miss Precocious putting in unnecessary (and incorrect) "space." Lord have mercy. 

 

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but Kid's Week is just awful awful awful. It's like they picked randos off a playground instead of choosing kids with trivia knowledge who know how the game of Jeopardy works. 

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alias1

alias1

Considering how delightful Monday's game was, this one was incredibly bad.  No wonder people hate Kids Week.  I wanted to smack Crissy  a couple of times, and, yeah, little Mr Sports Writer was on another planet most of the time.  I'm glad Ryan won.

 

I will say one thing for them, though.  With one exception, every one of them gave the first and last name when the answer was a person (or persons). 

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ABay

ABay

Mean old biddies unite! I didn't like children when I was a child and I've seen nothing in the decades since to change my mind. I have that on a pillow somewhere.

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saber5055

saber5055

Contestant: "Yes, Alex, I want to say hi to everyone at previously.tv.com, and ask them to PLEASE not tear me to shreds when this episode airs. There's no board jumping going on, I got a haircut, I wore a nice sweater, I'm standing still, I'm smiling-but not too much, I'm not saying please or whole dollar amounts. I hope I pass muster!"

Alex: ........

 

 

 

Alex: "HELL-looow!"

I'm a little sad that none of the kids got Big Bird.

 

 

 

I said "Big Bird" before Alex was done reading the answer (or is it called the question?). Although I think "Barney" was a good guess. Of course, Big Bird was just on Fallon the night before so perhaps he was in my mind.

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Bastet

Bastet

It was never clear everything that happened. 

 

When all those Sony emails were leaked, among them was an email from the mother complaining (including "I'll never forgive him") that Alex didn't come console her daughter after the game.  (The girl was in the red at the end of DJ, so she wasn't allowed to participate in FJ.  She didn't come back out after the game was over as contestants normally do -- had she done so, she'd likely have been consoled/encouraged by Alex then, but the mother apparently expected him to take the time when he should be changing and otherwise prepping for shooting the next game to go seek out the kid who's hiding away in a dressing room somewhere.)

 

There was also an email from Alex to producers, objecting (quite strenuously, even threatening to quit) to their request that he reshoot an opening in capitulation to the mother's complaints.  (In the opening of the next game, Alex delivered a benign, perhaps even sympathetic statement about this being an emotional experience for kids.)  We don't know whether that opening that aired was what they'd wanted him to reshoot, but he didn't, or if he'd originally said something else (if so, what it was is unknown), they did make him reshoot, and what aired is that second version.

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saber5055

saber5055

What? Is something exciting going to happen today? Tomorrow? I'm way out of the loop on this "scandal." Maybe it already happened. I thought I heard Alex say something about the "stress" on the kids, but I only listen with half of one ear when Alex speaks.

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M. Darcy

M. Darcy

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When all those Sony emails were leaked, among them was an email from the mother complaining (including "I'll never forgive him") that Alex didn't come console her daughter after the game.  (The girl was in the red at the end of DJ, so she wasn't allowed to participate in FJ.

I know she's just a kid but.....I ended my game the same way and I will say that while Alex didn't console me (and really, why would he - he was busy), the Jeopardy staff did.  While I was filing out my paperwork, they were all very nice and sympathetic. And really, the only interaction Alex has and should have with the contestants is during the show. 

 

What? Is something exciting going to happen today? Tomorrow? I'm way out of the loop on this "scandal." Maybe it already happened.

So far this week, all the kids have made it to FJ.

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alias1

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I know she's just a kid but.....I ended my game the same way and I will say that while Alex didn't console me (and really, why would he - he was busy), the Jeopardy staff did.  While I was filing out my paperwork, they were all very nice and sympathetic. And really, the only interaction Alex has and should have with the contestants is during the show. 

So far this week, all the kids have made it to FJ.

I'm pretty sure it's going to happen this week.  I felt sorry for the girl when it happened (she looked like she was going to cry when Alex told her she couldn't participate in FJ) but then I read about all the backstage stuff with her mom.  I agree it wasn't up to Alex to console the kid.

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Mondrianyone

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 And really, the only interaction Alex has and should have with the contestants is during the show. 

 

I don't know what the procedures are these days (as opposed to "those days" when I still had teeth), but I was on two different game shows when I was in my very early twenties, and I guess they were still operating under the strictures of the 1950s quiz scandals even though it was a couple of decades later.  We were isolated from everyone who had anything to do with the show except for the contestant coordinator.  We had name badges identifying ourselves as contestants.  Those badges might as well have said "UNCLEAN--STAY BACK!"  We went everywhere together in a little clump, or single file, practically holding hands like kindergartners.  The last thing that ever would have happened was any interaction with the host backstage.  One person in our group did or said something questionable--I think he went to the bathroom without an escort--and the next thing we knew, he was out the door.  So they weren't messing around.  And we were no cream puffs.  ;o)

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M. Darcy

M. Darcy

 

To be fair, it was the mother complaining--we don't know that the kid wanted that extra attention.

Oh, I'm 100% sure that Gabby didn't care what Alex did.  And, that's the upsetting thing.  All the mother should have done is gone over and tell her what an awesome job she did and  how proud of her she is and thank J! for including her child in such a great experience.  Because now all this mess is part of Gabby's memory. 

 

And, here's the thing.  Yeah, I'm still a little upset that I ended the first two rounds with $0 and didn't make FJ but I'm still very proud that I was on Jeopardy.  And hopefully Gabby is too.  Because honestly, it is something she can say the rest of her life that she was on Jeopardy and people will be impressed.  Even after they ask how you did and you say you lost, they are still really impressed. (Heh, I don't go around telling strangers I was on but sometimes when I'm in a group, someone will mention that I was).

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Jesse

Jesse

Yep -- I've worked at my current job 1.5 years and never told anyone, because it didn't come up -- until last week when we were asked for "fun facts" for a team building thing. "How'd you do?" "I came in third :(" "But you were on JEOPARDY!!!!!"

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saber5055

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That episode was today, with Gabby in the red and not permitted to do Final Jeopardy.

 

 

I thought this was going to be the "controversial mother" episode when I saw the one girl ended up in the red, after going red/black through the entire game. Then the commercial before FJ came on and I started doing something ... and completely forgot about Jeopardy and so missed the ending. Yeah, brains don't multi-task well after a certain age.

 

Stage moms can ruin everything for a kid, especially ones who project themselves into a situation. Just passing the Jeopardy test is an achievement, but being on the show? Movie stars and rock stars, all of you!

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dcalley

dcalley

If you're on the kids (or teen or college) tournaments, are you eligible to be on later in life as a regular contestant?

Anyone on the show with Alex as host can't appear again with Alex as host (except for special tournaments like the TOC, Watson, Decades, etc.). Unless they change the rules upon Alex's retirement, the kids on now will get another chance, since Alex isn't going to be the host in 20 years.

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Trey

Trey

What nice kids on last night's game!

 

I didn't think Alex's comments at the beginning were anything for the little girl's mother to object to.  She was probably just super sensitive.

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CarpeDiem54

CarpeDiem54

Next week is Celebrity Jeopardy.

Boo hiss. I remember several epic fails and that total asshat Mr. Wonderful Only in His Own Mind from that week. But I'll watch anyway because I have to get my daily Jeopardy! fix.

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Trey

Trey

Another great group of kids last night.  I hadn't seen that episode the first time around. 

 

Alex's comments at the beginning of the game made me laugh.  I guess he was really feeling the pressure of being pushed to re-tape his opening comments of the night before because he said, rather ruefully (paraphrased) "The way things have been going today, I'm really glad to be back with the kids."

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