Jeopardy! Season 34 (2017-2018)

[DrSpaceman]

1 hour ago, dcalley said:

Single Female Lawyer (I mean, Ally McBeal) was my precall for that category.

I always think of it as Single Female Lawyer rather than Ally McBeal. 

The board jumping used to not bother me.  But it bugged me she kept leaving the $200/400 clues up there. 

[biakbiak]

2 hours ago, Bazinga said:

Rebecca's Prior Final Jeopardy Question Explained

I am confused by how that was confusing.

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, mojoween said:

What is faster than an instaget?  Because FJ was that.

I know!  I tuned it just in time for FJ, and wondered if the whole game had been that easy.  If you know anything about film composers, barring a brain fart, you know it instantly.  If you know a little bit about film, barring a brain fart, you know it instantly.  If you just keep half an ear open to pop culture, you can probably guess it.  You should have picked a harder clue indeed, Alex.

12 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

I am confused by how that was confusing.

So am I.

[CarpeDiem54]

14 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

I am confused by how that was confusing.

Yeah, that was a lame excuse to bring Rebecca back, but she beat Lisa, so all's good I guess.

[biakbiak]

1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

barely remember being in kindergarten yet she tells a story about it on national tv.

I am pretty certain the party happened when she was an adult, her friend had a WW themed party cancelled when she was in kindegarten, so Lisa threw her a WW themed party for her birthday as an adult.

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, Fex said:

Turns out I know nothing about Pizarro! I guessed Panama because of the isthmus part of the clue, but otherwise felt like an idiot for that whole category.

Since they stayed in that category for a while, I took a little break, looked at my phone, filed my nails.... Pizarro facts apparently are not included in this brain.

1 minute ago, biakbiak said:

I am pretty certain the party happened when she was an adult, her friend had a WW themed party cancelled when she was in kindegarten, so Lisa threw her a WW themed party for her birthday as an adult.

It was garbled, but that was my take as well.

Edited March 22, 2018 by Clanstarling

[Etta Place]

6 hours ago, Driad said:

How much time do contestants have to choose their FJ wagers?  Also how: pencil and paper?

Yes, all the time you need within reason. And paper and sharpie, not the best for any detailed math. 

[peeayebee]

I got Saturn and Ally McBeal as well as Psycho. I wasn't really into this game for some reason. 

[catrice2]

I am so glad the champ was beaten....and I'm glad that I skip the talking part.  Apparently I was spared Lisa's strange stories. 

[YoureSoUrban]

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Yay Rebecca!  Bu-bye pouty, hanging on the podium, Lisa, you weirdo. 

THIS. Maybe I didn't notice it yesterday but the faces and movements were downright distracting to me today. Ugh.

I got the NY Post and Ishiguro TS and the Saturn missed DD. FJ was super easy.

Hopefully Rebecca won't be a one-and-done so bringing her back was worth it.

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, Clanstarling said:

It was garbled, but that was my take as well.

Yeah, it was garbled but because two days in a row Lisa talked about letters she wrote as a child, my money is on this party happening when she was around seven years old. I'm not cutting her any slack on that since she obviously still dwells in her childhood.

[Mondrianyone]

4 hours ago, mojoween said:

What is faster than an instaget?

A nanoget?  Maybe that's when you know the answer just from the category.  Psycho was a nanoget for me today.

I hated Chris from the moment she told her horrible story.  Who boos live actors from the audience, no matter how bad the play is?  That is such disgusting behavior.  I would give her something of a pass if she was very young when it happened (like under twelve, but I don't think she was).  Regardless, if you did that and you're very well into adulthood now, why on earth would you make that a J! anecdote about your life that you're willing to tell on TV as if it were something cute?  That's one of those stories to be ashamed of and never tell anyone.  My fiercest wish was that there'd be some snot (like me) in the studio audience who'd boo her on every wrong answer, or every time she couldn't get her words out.  That'd bring her to Empathyland pretty fast.  So glad she didn't win.

This hat is starting to pinch.  ;o)

Edited March 22, 2018 by Mondrianyone

[biakbiak]

18 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Yeah, it was garbled but because two days in a row Lisa talked about letters she wrote as a child, my money is on this party happening when she was around seven years old. I'm not cutting her any slack on that since she obviously still dwells in her childhood.

Alex said she threw the party, kindergartners don't throw parties their parents do.

[CarpeDiem54]

4 minutes ago, Mondrianyone said:

My fiercest wish was that there'd be some snot (like me) in the studio audience who'd boo her on every wrong answer, or every time she couldn't get her words out. 

This is why I come here.  ?  Here's a new hat.  ?

[Tabasco Cat]

4 hours ago, Bazinga said:

Rebecca's Prior Final Jeopardy Question Explained

Thanks for this. That was the only question I had after the show tonight. I'm glad Rebecca won but, for whatever reasons, I didn't mind Lisa at all and was rooting for her to win again.

[Cotypubby]

I was rooting against Chris after her idiotic story of booing during a Broadway show and then getting into a screaming match with the writer. F* you and your complete lack of class. That’s how you want a national audience to see you?

[mojoween]

It wasn’t enough that she said she booed during the preview, but then doubled down and said it was a terrible play.  I mean, how crass.

Whether it was a bad play or not, civil people don’t crow about that.

[Prevailing Wind]

Most of the time, she looked like she was ready to burst into tears. I think booing her would have sent her, well-deservedly, over the edge.

[Clanstarling]

8 hours ago, forumfish said:

Sorry, Rebecca, I don't remember you from January, but good on ya for making the most of your second chance!

I wasn't a fan of Lisa's stories, but I try not to judge less-than-exciting stories because I am the most boring person I know and therefore wouldn't have exciting stories, either. That said, I do kind of judge Chris for her story. I said, "Mamas and Papas John Phillips?" and then of course I had to look it up.

Man on the Moon

While I agree with all the comments regarding the booing (and sympathize with the poor cast of the show) I find John Phillips eminently boo-able. So, I'm kind of glad he had a bad day. But again, the cast and everyone else didn't deserve it.

[mookster]

Chris reminded me of Shelly Long (from Modern Family, not Cheers), so I couldn't get that out of my head. But she did seem like a pill. I never noticed Lisa was such a Debby Downer, but last night her selection of clues and answers were all so tentative and timid, she drove me nuts. And not finishing the categories irks me. Yay for Rebecca making the most of her return.

[saber5055]

12 hours ago, biakbiak said:

Alex said she threw the party, kindergartners don't throw parties their parents do.

Precocious children (*coughLisacough*) can do whatever they want, and Lisa made clear with her stories that she is/was one and did as she pleased. She didn't say who PAID for the party (cough*parents*cough). Of course, she could have kept her friend's slight alive in her memory bank for 20 years and did the party then. You know, after everyone grew up and moved away from their pre-school location. Neither scenario makes me like her.

Thank the Jeopardy gods that she's gone.

I wish I could HEART your post one thousand times Mondrianyone. You look good in that hat.

Edited March 22, 2018 by saber5055

[Prevailing Wind]

14 hours ago, forumfish said:

Man on the Moon

"Phillips would later maintain that Lucas got the idea to make Star Wars from Space" - that gave me the biggest laugh of the week.

[saber5055]

I didn't tune in until second half of the first round, so missed the interviews, thank goodness, because my mom raised me with manners. Which means if I didn't like a play, I would either sit there and not clap or, if I could do so unobtrusively, just leave. Booing someone, anyone, especially a performer, is the worst behavior. If I hated Man in the Moon, I would have just let this do my talking for me (from Forumfish's link):

Newsday critic Allan Wallack said "Man on the Moon is the kind of show that ought to be reviewed on the obit page."

That's one big OUCH! of a sentence.

I'm glad the second-chance player got the win.

Edited March 22, 2018 by saber5055

[Toothbrush]

Yay for Rebecca! I remembered that Jeopardy was going to have a contestant from a few months ago return, but I did not remember her at all. Add me to thyroid brain..lol

I am with those who wouldn't boo a play. Even Lisa would have just written John Phillips a letter. 

TS I got were Glory Days, Italians (Chris' missed DD), Saturn (Lisa's missed DD), Ally McBeal. FJ was an instaget as soon as my brain processed b+w and strings, which was before Alex finished reading the clue.

I got the impression that Lisa threw the make-up party for her friend recently. My daughters had a Willy Wonka themed party at Dylan's Candy Bar for their 5th birthday, and really, all of the parents felt 5 again, so I think it would be a cute idea for a young adult too. But, yeah, said friend had probably moved on decades years before. Although my older brother still (jokingly) gives my sister shit because 40 years ago he missed seeing Darth Vader at the mall due to her emergency appendectomy, so who knows.

On 3/21/2018 at 4:12 PM, YoureSoUrban said:

I might have to pay to go to LA and be in the studio audience to witness this! LOL

I will join you!

21 hours ago, Browncoat said:

So Alex will talk about Willy Wonka with Lisa but won't talk about it with someone who was actually in the movie?  That makes sense, as Alex always does. [/sarcasm]

Yay, Rebecca!  What was up with Lisa leaning all over the place when the FJ category was revealed?  Did she do that for her other games and I just didn't notice?  Not sorry to see her go.

Glory Days was a guess, based on the "they'll pass you by" part of the clue.

I thought about Alex not talking Willy Wonka with Paris too. 

On Tuesday's game, Lisa put her elbows on the podium and put her face in her hands after she won, and an expressionless stare on her face. It wasn't until Alex walked over to shake her hand and smiled that she straightened up and looked happy. It was weird to me. 

I got Glory Days the same way.  

[teebax]

I enjoyed all three contestants today. As a fellow butch woman, I laughed when FJ was about Lesbos and hoped Lynn would get it right. I sure did. 

Natasha's interview about living with 13 birds sounds like a nightmare to me. I precalled Alfred E. Neumann and David E. Kelly. I thought there might be an EE Cummings clue but there wasn't. 

My gets were Lloyd's of London, Lebanon, Lewis, and Texas. 

[CarpeDiem54]

Congrats to Lynn!  I had a feeling she'd win because they did a little story about her being on Jeopardy! on the local news.  Lafayette is part of the Denver Metro area and they haven't done any stories about any of the other recent contestants from here.  Her biggest fear about being on the show was that she'd embarrass herself.  I can relate.  

I got high C, Van Morrison, Lloyd's of London, Natasha's two missed DD's of pressure and Lebanon, and Meriwether Lewis.

For FJ I guessed Syria.

[Mondrianyone]

Lynn made me laugh when she left room for speculation that her mother "was pregnant with Art Fleming."

I thought cedars always = Lebanon, so that was a surprising miss.  My grouchy comment for the day is noting that I always snarl at contestants to stop giggling and concentrate on the game.  The gigglers never seem to do well, and I feel personally embarrassed by them as a WOG (Woman of Grouch).

[GenerationX]

I ran the board game category, correctly guessed FJ, and like teebax, precalled Alfred E. Neuman.  One of the many things my father was proud of in his life was having had a letter he'd written to Mad Magazine published.  Needless to say, I grew up reading Mad.

[Spunkygal]

1 minute ago, GenerationX said:

I ran the board game category, correctly guessed FJ, and like teebax, precalled Alfred E. Neuman.  One of the many things my father was proud of in his life was having had a letter he'd written to Mad Magazine published.  Needless to say, I grew up reading Mad.

"Having had a letter he'd written to Mad Magazine"

Please, don't give former champ Lisa any additional letter ideas! 

[Mindthinkr]

1 minute ago, Spunkygal said:

"Having had a letter he'd written to Mad Magazine"

Please, don't give former champ Lisa any additional letter ideas! 

Literally laughing 

[YoureSoUrban]

Bravo Lynne, for perfect FJ betting strategy! I'm kind of glad to see Rebecca go. She seemed kind of snotty. I can't even with giggles in the middle, blowing both DDs.

I only got 2 TS -- high C and Bernadette -- and blew FJ because I knew it wasn't Italy but couldn't think of anything else.

[secnarf]

I was surprised only one of them got FJ, given how much the island of Lesbos has been in the news lately as it relates to refugees coming from Syria via Turkey.

[clubsauce]

My brain insisted that Lynn was male. I thought, “Oh, like Lynn Swann.” I think it’s because she looks a lot like my college boyfriend. 

[Bastet]

41 minutes ago, secnarf said:

I was surprised only one of them got FJ, given how much the island of Lesbos has been in the news lately as it relates to refugees coming from Syria via Turkey.

That and the fact Turkey is a large country across the Aegean from Greece, so even if you don't specifically know where those islands are located, it's a pretty good country to guess.

[Brookside]

I think we should be less judgmental.

Edited March 23, 2018 by Brookside

[Mindthinkr]

How do y’all explain how the boyfriend from Italy had to tell me I was wrong when I said Turkey because he was positive it something off of the North African coast? WTF? 

Edited March 23, 2018 by Mindthinkr
I was angry but did have the correct answer.

[Moose135]

9 minutes ago, Bastet said:

That and the fact Turkey is a large country across the Aegean from Greece, so even if you don't specifically know where those islands are located, it's a pretty good country to guess.

I wasn't certain, but I know Greeks and Turks have been at each other for hundreds of years, so I assumed it would be a thing that a Greek island would be close to Turkey.

3 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

How do y’all explain how the boyfriend from Italy had to tell me I was wrong when I said Italy, because he was positive it something off of the North African coast? WTF? 

Isn't he the guy you were telling us was a bit of an ass?  That would explain it...

[BuckeyeLou]

1 hour ago, secnarf said:

I was surprised only one of them got FJ, given how much the island of Lesbos has been in the news lately as it relates to refugees coming from Syria via Turkey.

That's how I knew the answer:  I remembered the stories about all the immigrants landing on the island of Lesbos and how well the residents had treated them. 

[SuperCam1]

I Liked Rebecca and sad to see her go was hoping she would go on a run. 

[peeayebee]

I guess I hadn't been paying attention to where refugees were landing. Anyway, I said Italy.

I got Natasha's two missed DDs -- pressure and Lebanon -- Lloyd's of London, and  glider.

[biakbiak]

FJ was an IG because Turkey and Greece have been fighting over various islands since befpe Turkey existed.

[PaulaO]

I said Cyprus for FJ!  I pre called Robert E. Lee.

[DrSpaceman]

I guessed Turkey for FJ but wasn't sure. 

I thought it might my Cyprus or Crete but have trouble recalling which island is which of those, so just went with Turkey

[Clanstarling]

I got Turkey because as a military brat, I lived there, and we drove through Greece to get to our post. So I'm familiar with the layout. I'm only decent at geography if I have experienced the area - otherwise I have general ideas, but specifics only sporadically.

I got cedars in Lebanon solely because of a song lyric going through my head.

Ran the board games - but paused the DVR to discuss how the Game of Life was boring propaganda, fitting all those pegs into those traditional spots.

Edited March 23, 2018 by Clanstarling

[GalvDuck]

11 hours ago, clubsauce said:

My brain insisted that Lynn was male. I thought, “Oh, like Lynn Swann.” I think it’s because she looks a lot like my college boyfriend. 

Not to mention, after the DJ round and before the break, Trebek presented the category for FJ by addressing the contestants as "Ladies,...."

[DrSpaceman]

24 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I got Turkey because as a military brat, I lived there, and we drove through Greece to get to our post. So I'm familiar with the layout. I'm only decent at geography if I have experienced the area - otherwise I have general ideas, but specifics only sporadically.

I got cedars in Lebanon solely because of a song lyric going through my head.

Ran the board games - but paused the DVR to discuss how the Game of Life was boring propaganda, fitting all those pegs into those traditional spots.

I was wondering if you just said "Life" if that would be accepted.  It is officially The Game of Life but most just know it as Life.  Its interesting that the game as well is actually much older than I thought, goes back to the 19th century and has evolved quite a bit over the years.  Obviously the current version did not apply to life in the 19th century. 

The board game category I thought was pretty easy. 

[Kathira]

I like Lynn and I'm glad she won. And yes, I confess I also snickered when the FJ clue was about Lesbos. And then felt guilty for stereotyping. Rocking a butch look doesn't necessarily mean anything about a person's sexuality. I did guess Turkey, then thought maybe it couldn't be that easy, but couldn't think of anything else. Also got cedars of Lebanon. I was surprised when they allowed "Shawshank" as correct rather then insisting on "The Shawshank Redemption" as the full title, but I guess there aren't any other movies with the word "Shawshank" in the title. 

Edited March 23, 2018 by Kathira

[Clanstarling]

25 minutes ago, Kathira said:

I like Lynn and I'm glad she won. And yes, I confess I also snickered when the FJ clue was about Lesbos. And then felt guilty for stereotyping. Rocking a butch look doesn't necessarily mean anything about a person's sexuality. I did guess Turkey, then thought maybe it couldn't be that easy, but couldn't think of anything else. Also got cedars of Lebanon. I was surprised when they allowed "Shawshank" as correct rather then insisting on "The Shawshank Redemption" as the full title, but I guess there aren't any other movies with the word "Shawshank" in the title. 

I thought the clue was asking the name of the prison in the movie, rather than the movie title. But I didn't pay close attention.

[biakbiak]

24 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I thought the clue was asking the name of the prison in the movie, rather than the movie title. But I didn't pay close attention.

It was. It said "this film prison" not "this film's prison."

Edited March 23, 2018 by biakbiak

[proserpina65]

On ‎03‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 10:12 PM, Browncoat said:

Another game where I really couldn't root for any of them, but John was the least objectionable.  He was a bit slow to start.  Second choice was Lisa -- AJ offended me by wearing that jacket (first impressions count!), then by behaving like he needed to KILL that buzzer.  Ugh. 

I only got Star Trek and Elgar, and had absolutely no clue for FJ.  I probably couldn't have even come up with something inane like the Battle of Rome.

I was surprised to get FJ.  Not sure exactly where in my brain I was storing the Battle of Actium, but there it was.

God, I hate the new champ, for reasons which I will not elaborate here.  Obviously since I was "anyone but her", she was fated to win.  Hopefully she's a one-and-done.