Jeopardy! #44

Tonight’s show was lame

I felt it sparkled and shone like gold lame! I am growing a bit tired of only the losers(including myself) answering final Jeopardy! correctly.

Thank you for the new thread, Opie 🤗

Ram was so handsome but lacking in styling. He seemed nervous throughout (all that jittery swaying!) but performed better than I thought at first.

This new champ and her puffed sleeves is annoying.

Good game. I liked all three.

Douglas Adams was all I could think of for Final. Was stunned it was correct.

Thanks for starting new thread!

I want the Menswear Guy from Twitter to make fun of Colin Jost’s skinny pants.

I was not a fan of Ram's low talking.

No one knew Sondheim?

Good game.

All three players were good tonight. I would have been happy with an of them winning.

It took a few seconds to figure out, but I got to Blanche Dubois for Final. .

R9: I was outraged.

I couldn't handle the spectrum-issue lady challenger. No one knew about the Brazilian Real currency?

We're getting a bunch of low-value winners lately.

I like the new winner. He’s cute

Agree. And he seems like a good guy. Knows his wine.

Go Eric! Good game. I had a feeling he was going to win from the start. Of course, I had no idea how bad Ashley would stumble. But congrats to the new winner.

The Falklands was the only thing I could think of for Final. I was surprised it was right.

Did the ex-champ win 5 games?

I believe this was her 5th game (as a loss), though Ken made a pointed hint that she's a likely wild card slot in that case.

Falklands seemed obvious to me.

Wait, so that annoying former champ girl (Ashley?) didn't officially win 5 games to qualify to return? Let's hope not.

I also like the new cute champ. Hoping we learn more about him tonight.

I thought Eric looked like a valet parker in his vest. I also didn't care for his fidgeting.

LOVED Neal the lineman. What a hunky daddy! He really came alive in DJ only to flame out on his god and goddesses.

His Salvador Dali mustache was interesting.

Evenly played game tonight though there were certainly a few misses someone should have known.

I thought douchebro Sean in the center spot tonight was kinda hot until my husband pointed out his MAGA flag pin. Our 3-time champ is a sweet lady but really benefitting from weak competition.

I missed Friday's show. I can't beleive they didn't recognize Catherine Denueve on today;s show.

And thought that Fiddler on the Roof was based on The Matchmaker.

Just checking

Wow! So many unanswered clues!

Definitely weak competition tonight.

Shaking my head in disbelief at The iFiddler guess for the musical of The Matchmaker.

Well, being that a matchmaker figures in FIDDLER, it's not a totally stupid wild guess.

R25 I saw the pin but couldn't figure out what made it MAGA.

Third contestant should have won.

Smokey the Bear seemed obvious to me.

It wasn't to me. Who writes to Smokey the Bear?

I thought of Rosie, Uncle Sam and Smokey for Final. Decided Smokey was the best choice as the other two would have been a few years earlier.

I figured Jenna would win. She had such a good game. Amazed at Laura’s luck.

R22 I watched the entire episode just staring at him. He's SO my type. Weird 'stache and all.

Neil the Lineman seemed rather kinky and sexually aggressive to me ... not that there's anything wrong with that - ha ha!

My mom and I both guessed Smokey the Bear right away.

Rosie the Riveter was clearly a wrong answer just because her heyday was long before the establishment of zip codes. Smokey came to me first, then Uncle Sam, but I would have gone with Smokey. I could easily imagine children writing letters to Smokey.

It’s “Smokey Bear”

It's SMOKEY BEAR now. There is no article.

It’s always been Smokey Bear.

No, it was Smokey the Bear with the message "Only you can prevent forest fires."

Now it's Smokey Bear with "Only you can prevent wildfires."

No, it wasn’t.

The quickest way to make me root for three opposition is to buzz first, choose the $1000 answer and get it wrong. Once is an accident. Twice is unforgivable.

Who won last night? I imagine with Christmas there are many others like me who didn't watch.

I don’t think it was on.

Laura got lucky (AGAIN) with correct answer on final and won her ticket to the TOC. Memphis.

Here it is for those who want to watch.

Gee, what a coincidence that Memphis just happens to be Laura's hometown!

I was rooting for Matthieu!!

A “stroke of luck” indeed. It was a tough one.

Laura is proving to be a slow but very steady champ.

Laura strikes me as similar to Datalounge fave Margaret Shelton a few years back?

Very weak competition tonight and not Laura's best game, in spite of her win. So many easy missed responses.

She's so boring.

From tvinsider.com:

"Reigning Jeopardy! champion Laura Faddah etched her name in the history books on Friday (December 27) by becoming the first contestant ever to win at least seven games with less than $100,000 total."

It's not something I would be proud of...

Pfft!

Final was a give-away.

Here's to bearded codger nerds!

Good game. Super easy Final.

Ugh! Dislike the winner.

Got Final easily, as well as Castor & Pollux.

I got final as well, none of the three did.

Ken didn't seem to like any of tonight's contestants.

Ken is in a bad mood sometimes.

I got final right away because Grant suffered from jaw cancer at the end, although Ken did not mention that. Also knew they were going for Banzai! regarding the Japanese war cry.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! it's GRETA GARBO!! there's even a PHOTO!!

I got Greta Garbo based on Ken's accent reading the question.

R64 I was shocked as well.

Does anybody else think Will Yancey probably has a bangin’ body under all that ginger bread?

Is Will the bearded fellow now playing? If so, his beard is pure grey on my screen. I think you must be joking, r67, about his body which looks like it just keeps getting wider with no end in sight the lower it goes, but under that beard and weird demeanor, he actually looks like someone who was extremely handsome in his youth. If he got a decent haircut and trimmed his beard, he'd be mighty handsome now.

Yeah all the guy needs is a haircut and a trimmed beard - and to go on a long term diet (because, you know, he's FAT) - and he'll be a real catch.

Yancey is YUGE. His blubber has blubber, and he'd be the type of guy who, even if he lost a lot of weight, the excess skin would still hang around.

Pretty much in his favor after the first Day's totals.

I knew, they didn't: the skirt-shorts apparel was culottes, Gaudi was the Barcelona architect, Reims Cathedral for Joan of Arc.

Drew wins!

Chewy McNip approves of today's winner.

Drew’s a big homo!

Drew was so funny about the Taylor Swift thing

Drew: "Tindr (sic), that thing they do."

Is Drew a homosexualist?

Like, duh.

What do you get for $200?

Could Drew be any cuter? Any sweeter?? It'll be interesting to see how the DL bitches here attack him for....something.

Does the competition make his nipples hard?

R81 Observe:

R74... I believe it's more accurate to say he's a Big 'Mo.

His brother was even cuter.

R84 Much.

there's a hot guy on jeapordy right now

I’ll suck and swallow Drew.

Photo of Drew on vacation

Drew's nipples scare me.

Team Drew. Even though I know he’s too good to be true.

Great game! Wish every game was this exciting!

Go Drew! He won my heart instantly. Hope he wins the tournament!

Final was super easy.

^ Shut up, annoying Johnny.

For some weird reason, last night the ABC affiliate in Miami that airs Jeopardy! showed a random repeat from last May....

R93 New law in MAGA Florida outlaws showing boys as gay as Drew on TV.

Anti-Flaunt Act of 2024. Complements the Don’t’ Say Gay law with “don’t show gay.”

Drew's brother may have been cuter than he is, but he also looked equally gay.

Plus he is a Swiftie. That's certainly pinged my gaydar. Are there any straight men who are big enough Taylor Swift fans to come up with a Jeopardy board with 30 Taylor-related questions?

Damn, I’m so out-of-the-loop on this show.

I’m visiting relatives and they don’t have a single, god-damned television that can get local channels. They live in the ass-end of nowhere and don’t have cable and a tv antenna is out of the question as well because there are too many fucking trees.

🤬🤬

Have the contestants been good at least?

My eyes were fixed on Drew's nipples. I wanted to play with them during the entire episode. I'd explore southward if given the opportunity. Predicting a big ginger bush.

Yes, they have r97.

Most days, the show is posted to YouTube. You can almost always catch it there. No TV or TV antenna needed.

Found online....

I honestly never thought to do that, R99.

At least I’ll be back home Sunday so I can start the new week.

It's Tuesday now. I can't stand Enzo, gay or not.

Even more sexy second chancers this evening! I required my vapors and my fan! Such intelligent contestants! I crumple inert, legs akimbo.

Enzo is creepy.

Was Zoe . . . different?

Yep.

I was rooting for Josh. Of the three, I liked him best.

Yes, Enzo came across as odd. Very odd. Maybe even creepy.

Zoe was wearing a progress flag pin on her lapel. I take that to mean she is trans.

I don't care for the second chance stuff. Do the season and then the championship.

I very much like the Second Chances game and the Champions Wildcards. It gives some deserving contestants another chance to redeem themselves.

Without Second Chances, we wouldn't have gotten to see Drew Goins again on Monday night.

Without Champions Wildcard last winter, we wouldn't have gotten to see Yungsheng Wang and Junuvia Zaheer, both of whom did amazingly well.

So far this week it's the fabulously gay Drew and his polar opposite - the eerily nebbish Enzo.

I didn't check Jeopardy's website, but I'm presuming there won't be a third night in a row with a gay contestant.

Like R109 I'm also really enjoying these Wildcard and Second Chance games.

I was rooting for Ferdinand, but congrats to Sam.

I knew what Final was referring to, but blanked on the correct name for.

Tuesday was spectrum day on Jeopardy.

I'm tired of this second chance tournament crap. All these people are proving is that they deserved to lose the first time they were on because they suck and the game suffers for it because except for one or two exceptions they're all so stupid.

A girl is allowed to change her mind (as the saying goes), Enzo seemed more relatable to me vs. Drew's gym references. Got Kolkata, Michael Landon, and Family Ties they missed.

Was this an all LGBT night?

R114 wheel of Fortune definitely was with the winning lesbian couple who pretended their gay bff was their one of their boyfriends and even if it wasn't obvious the first time they showed him it definitely was when he went out to hug them after they won and clearly was very uncomfortable touching women.

Definitely seemed to be gay night at Jeopardy! tonight.

Not happy that creepy Enzo pulled such a strong win. Was rooting for Drew, but he seemed to be having an off day. Maybe Enzo hit on him and he get grossed out.

Drew's gym story seemed a bit ageist, and I'm sure the producers didn't appreciate the suggestion that Drew's peers don't watch Jeopardy.

They were all wearing suits. Gay costume coordination?

You just want to hug well-educated Enzo in all his teary vulnerability. Sexy Sam reminds me of Art Nouveau cologne. I’ve seldom been more indignant than when Drew mocked elder Jeopardy viewers. Someone needs to whip his buttocks raw with a switch.

Sorry for not keeping up, I've been unable to watch this week, but is Drew out of there for good, or does he have another chance tonight?

DREW!

2-day total, r120.

3 homos. All annoying!!!

Drew would be a good George (Wham! era) Michael if he’d agree to a more blown out hairdo. I’m so relieved Enzo faced defeat without sobbing.

I knew FJ immediately, I thought all three would know that.

Enzo is definitely a virgin. He has a weird energy to him.

He reminds me of Smithers from “The Simpsons”.

Another outing for so many easy answers were left because everybody is so stupid. At least the cute guy wasn't not the other two creepy looking dudes.

I thought FJ was super easy. Surprised that they do such easy ones in a tournament like this.

Also shocked that Drew didn't know The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee weeps.....

Yeah! Drew won!

He saved us from having to endure Enzo for another episode.

But he should turn in his gay card for not knowing Glass Menagerie

Doesn't know Glass Menagerie, but likely knows all about Creatine and other supplements to get ripped. Such is the poverty of our times...

It’s not as though he knows nothing about The Glass Menagerie. He didn’t recognize it from a character’s name. Not an unforgivable sin, though not recognizing the name Blanche DuBois might have been

Enzo was shocked every time Ken told him his answer was wrong. It took him a couple of seconds to recover each time. He must have been told since childhood he was right all of the time.

Given Drew's age, I'd be more concerned if he didn't know "Dawson's 20-Load Weekend."

The Crass Ménage A Trois.

Missed the entire week because of the LA fires.

Oh well. i'll start up again tomorrow if I can.

[quote]Missed the entire week because of the LA fires.

While KABC-Channel 7 was airing fire coverage every night at 7 p.m., they aired the Jeopardy episodes at 2:05 a.m.

They also aired the episode at 7 p.m. on subchannel 7.2, which is on Spectrum cable at channel 1246.

As the fires continue, expect Channel 7 to repeat that airing schedule in the coming few days.

Finally, the Youtube episodes have been up ever afternoon.

R136 Also in LA. I ended up watching the YouTube episodes. Friday's episode was at the regular time I believe. Happy to see Drew come through. I'm curious how he'll do in the TOC Wildcard tournament.

If Johnny Gilbert could just burn up…….We’d be happier.

Nipples to the day!

Titty titty bang bang... and his gleaming veneers.

Is it truly nipples to the day if you’re clothed and indoors?

No Jeopardy for me tonight. Monday Night Football pre-show.

I hope both teams lose!

Go Rams! (LA needs good news.)

I'm so annoyed they brought back this stupid vegetarian b****. I hated her the first time I was so grateful she didn't win. I didn't believe her the first time when she claimed her students were in shock that she was a vegetarian because there's no way that she didn't tell them that the very first time they met her.

And of course in her intro tonight she had to mention that again that she's a vegetarian and that she chastise them for judging her. I'm betting this also never happened because they probably just don't care that much.

Imagining her students dressing like her boggles the mind. I didn't have a single teacher in my youth who would have thought that was funny.

R145. Actually, all the first year students in the honors program went on a weekend retreat each fall and each of the four sections had to do a skit (related to the topic of their seminar). Inevitably, one of my students would dress like me (jeans, button down Oxford shirt, bottle of Diet Pepsi in my hand) and would imitate me. It initially made me feel a bit uncomfortable, but over the years, it began to feel like a ritual and a gesture of affection. And they were never mean about it.

I’m back, bitches!!!

I can finally comment on the daily shows. My long-running inconvenient vacation time is at an end.

I wanted the dour woman to win, I remember her and liked her from before. The winners accent was unfortunate.

Am I the only one who wants their face in Will Yancy’s fit-fat fanny?

I seriously hope you are.

I suspect you are.

R148 Yancey is not fit-fat. As the photo at R70 shows he's OBESE.

I knew yesterday's final had to be Israel or Egypt, and I'm surprised none of them knew that.

Yes. I deduced Egypt since I’ve never heard of the anthem.

Was surprised they all blew it, too, R152.

Yesterday for some reason they played Ken Jennings’ second game as a contestant in the afternoon and my TiVo picked it up thinking it was a new episode. He was like a machine, but then missed FJ. (Word Origins: “This somewhat negative term arose because twisting fibers into thread was mainly a woman’s job”) One of the other contestants got it, but Ken was uncatchable. .

I tried to think of countries that had been at war in 1979 signing a peace treaty and came up blank. Did't think of two nations that were hostile toward each other, but not at war.

I knew that Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David peace accords in Sept 1978. I remember that distinctly because I was watching the 2-hour premier of the new ABC sci-fi series Battlestar Gallactica on a Sunday night. Just at the climatic moment, they interrupt the movie to announce the signing of the peace accord. They spent 20 minutes talking about it and finally returned to the Battlestar Gallactica premier. Unfortunately, the climax was ruined by the interuption.

So, I always think of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty as happening in 1978, although I guess it took a few months to get the each nation's parliament to approve it.

I think the clue only said that the anthem was changed in 1979, not that the peace treaty occurred in that year.

^ I was wrong. It did say the treaty was 1979.

I was wrong on FJ, I also guessed Lolita.

Drew comes through!

A lot of easy misses today.

How can Drew know cerise is French for cherry but not recognize Petit Roche in a state capital category?

Maybe he's a Louis Vuitton fan. Their merch which has cherries on it is called cerise. Just guessing.

Thought FJ was difficult, although Silent Spring is a frequent topic on the show.

Ken’s third appearance was on the Game Show Network today. He only bet $1000 on his first DD because he didn’t like the category: Businessmen. “Hate ‘em all. Come the revolution we’re going to string ‘em up.” Who knew?

FJ was cinchy! And not just because my Mother was born in Rachel Carson’s house. 🏡

Final seemed a give-away to me. I knew most of the ones they didn't.

Didn’t get the show due to the Presidents speech.

Beautifully stated. We done him wrong.

So many missed unanswered clues tonight! But there were really only two contestants in this game as Aiden was barely there. Perhaps Aiden should have been wearing his "I Won on Jeopardy!" pin rather than having it in his pocket.

Drew continues to be impressive. And cute. Would love to see him in board shorts and a tie.

Jay was also good. He'll definitely be back for a wildcard slot in semi finals since he's had the highest non-winning score so far.

Final seemed incredibly obvious to me.

Is Ken Jennings gay?

No. Just Mormon.

Great game tonight, but I am stunned the judges accepted the "lesser of two evils" response for Joey's DJ answer. The pope said voters should chose the "lesser evil." There was certainly a time when the Jeopardy! judges would not have accepted that response since it wasn't exact.

I had no idea on Final.

Yes. Final was a bad question.

My criteria for a bad FJ is if I have no clue, none of contestants get it, and I feel no moment of “aha” or “of course” when the correct response is revealed.

Really cute guys tonight. Looks like all the finalists, for whatever tournament they'll be playing now, are men, except for one. Be prepared for a lot of cats, knitting, and Taylor Swift questions.

I want Adam inside me.

I took a wild guess at Hamilton and was right! I really couldn't think of another name.

The guy on the right was really short! I thought all three were very agreeable chaps.

I only tuned in 1/2 way through and the guy on the right didn't seem to budge from holding his arms crossed like he'd given up and wasn't even attempting to buzz in.

Agree about Adam with those soulful eyes. Wish he'd won, though Marko is sweet.

I can picture Marko in his Vanna White gown pretending to be her.

I think there was more than one homosexualist on that panel.

The "tear jerker" category the other day should've been called "gay movies". No wonder Drew did so well.

I wanted Eamonn to win, and inside me. He has John Krasinski big dick face.

I liked the angry one on the end.

Eamonn seemed oddly spectrum-ish to me. No wife/gf it seems ...

R183 No wife/gf probably because Eamonn isn't straight. .. More than one Jeopardy fansite mentions his LGBT activities. One says: "Campbell has publicly identified as part of the LGBT community, indicated by his leadership in an event titled “LGBT Lawyers for Kamala.”

Glad to see Jen woke up and rolled out of her Subaru in time to make the show.

Terrifying that only one of them could ID the Nautilus! Outrageous, I must say!

Is Drew a homosexualist?

yes and I want to Hawaiin punch his ass.

The show was pre-empted tonight. Will it be available to watch online?

someone always posts it on YouTube the next day.

Good game. That Drew is a cutie.

He ran away with the game.

R189, just watched it at You Tube.

Didn't know Final. Drew was seriously rocking that shirt!

That Drew is so smart!

Great game! Go Drew.

Was especially delighted to see them all being so cordial and friendly, rooting for each other.

I had no idea on Final.

[quote] Terrifying that only one of them could ID the Nautilus! Outrageous, I must say!

This is undoubtedly the result of Disneyland closing down its old Nautilus submarine ride in 1998! It was created in1959, inspired by what the Nautilus had accomplished in 1958. They eventually replaced it with a Finding Nemo submarine!

watch more women sports. oh god what a bull

Can someone find yesterday’s ep online? I tried, but I just get recaps.

I believe that photo that was identified as a Trilby was actually a pork pie hat. A Trilby had a very wide brim, just the opposite of a pork pie.

You can be sure Drew would have been able to identify palazzo pants.

I hate the old man who won. He’s fat and that accent continues to annoy.

He sure knew his Bible.

Great game! Will was impressive tonight. Interesting that the two Second Chance winners have been the two winners so far.

I hadn't the slightest idea on Final.

Chris Pannullo alert.

His first appearance is on Game Show Network (GSN) right now!

For FJ I made a wild stab with Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Boy, was I off.

I find tonight's winner oddly sexy. Mehal? Is that his name?

I knew Fleming but not the other guy. And by “knowing” Fleming, I mean to say I said the James Bond author, his name escaped me at that moment.

🤭

R204 - he pings to me, having trouble seeing him as straight.

Definitely in for a behind the scenes Will/Mehal sex scandal!

I guessed Fleming but was on shaky ground with my Le Carre guess. for r205, John Le Carre was one of the best-selling authors of the past 50-60 years: TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL, HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY, NIGHT MANAGER.... If you haven't read him you may have seen one of the many movie versions out there.

No, no, I’ve definitely heard about LeCarré, and am familiar with his work, it’s just that it didn’t come to me.

It didn’t come to any of the contestants either. 😛

Thanks, R208.

Didn't Marko get the 2 correct responses? He just didn't have as much money as Mehal.

Yay Mehal!

Such soulful eyes.

Drew, we hardly knew ye.

Yay! The fat ugly texan is in third place.

Drew is a real cutie. I hope he comes out ahead tomorrow.

WAPO boasts about Drew

^spoiler? Suggests run is over.

I’m so touched that Wil Yancy is saved and received the most applause for witnessing before the Jeopardy! audience. It troubled me that Drew and Mehal had to be coaxed into a post-game bro hug with the openly Christian Yancy.

I wanted Drew to win but I suppose Mehal will do.

I have a feeling that Will was unable to get off his stool to shake hands or (God forbid!) hug anybody.

I'm thrilled that Mehal won. Drew is cute but he was beginning to wear me down with his cuteness.

It was rather funny when Drew walked off the stage when he missed that Celine Dion question!!!

Haha. 🤭

Noe Drew is free to run around in Fiji and flirt with daddy Jeff Probst.

⬆️

Now, not Noe

The winner is very bright.

R222 And bright in strategic ways, not just a broad knowledge base to answer diverse categories. He saw he went ahead in the game, and calculated given yesterday nothing Sweet Tits could do to catch him at his current level. So he stopped trying to answer questions and wagered zero on FJ.

^even I knew that.

I knew FJ and it wasn't that hard. Surprised they all missed it.

R219, I found the spontaneous hug with Mehal on the way back to his seat very gay.

I know! In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg was something I learned in junior high! I knew the answer immediately.

Same here, R227, we had "music" period one hour a week.

Winner or not, I'm sure the producers will find ways to bring back fan favorite Drew.

Bye for now Drew. We love you.

Drew annoyed me. Storming off stage because he missed the Celine Dion question was... so...dramatic? Self centered?

I was also thinking that his storming off stunt might have cost time and left answers unanswered on the board. I think Mehal was already clearly coasting to a runaway victory as it was anyway, but it seemed a little self-indulgent on Drew’s part.

Drew is really fun and wicked smart. I was rooting for him but I’m almost sure we’ll see him again.

Will Yancy really goofed during the finals. I had predicted him as the winner.

Great news!

R233 "the beloved star".... jeez

In other words, Drew sucked off somebody on the production team.

Wow. Looks like Yancy’s Lord and Savior has a thing for the little gay boy from the Fake News.

Who’d Drew blow to get this to happen?

I'd like to inspect Drew's loopHOLE.

Why not advance the Celebrity Jeopardy runner up?

^Good question.

Read the article linked above.

It’s the Celebrity Jeopardy! winner who has a work conflict and can’t make the tournament. So show offered her slot in the tournament to Drew.

I was in the right area, but guessed Canberra (population 466).

Had no idea about FJ.

Good game, though.

Wrong with Reykjavik myself

I’m semi-embarrassed to say I guessed Auckland.

I know absolutely nothing about latitudes, but like the others, guessed Reykjavík.

I missed it and I’ve been to New Zealand.

Sporting congrats from the losers to the winner. I like that.

I did know Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.

I’m pleased a woman won this evening, but what was soooo difficult about the FJ palindrome? 🤷‍♂️

Glad the doctor won. Was kinda rooting for the middle guy. Why was he seated?

Kinda wanted the older guy to win as well. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No friggin idea on FJ.

The winner's brilliance: "The island just north of Queensland".... Her answer: "What is Australia?"

Sometimes I am aghast.

Final Jeopardy was ridiculous.

Wow! So many wrong answers and unanswered clues. And these people were previous champs! Just shows what a really bad pool of contestants they had in the past year.

Even more disturbing, this tournament has a lot of 4 and 3 game winners in it. 12 of them to be exact versus 7 who officially qualified by winning 5 or more games. Plus the champions wildcard winner (Mehal) and runner up (Drew).

A note on the page linked below says that starting in Dec. 2024, the number of wins needed to officially qualify for the next TOC has been lowered to four:

[quote] All 4-time and over winning players starting from 12/9/24 will be eligible for a future Tournament of Champions.

I disliked Grant, so wanted him to lose. Can't stand any "YES!" gestures like that getting right answer. Didn't remember the good-looking brain-damaged guy at all. Agreed, Australia was an answer she should be ashamed of.

I'm fine with Drew and Mehal in TOC.

Do they make the questions harder for TOC? They appear to make the FJs tougher.

Also—are DJ questions supposed to be harder than the first board?

I do remember the brain-damaged guy because I remember my mentioning how creepy he came across during his original run. (I think I said he gave off serial killer vibes.)

Clearly I was unnecessarily harsh at the time because I'm sure his demeanor is related to his injury.

I agree with R253 in that it seems there are less stellar champs completing this time around - though unlike him I have no problem with Mehal and Drew being in the TOC.

The winner looks very young.

He just ran away with it today.

R257 ... constantly rocking back and forth. Jeopardy has a higher percentage of autistic folk than any media place in the American Public Sphere.

My soulful eyed, square eared, swarthy competitor will wipe the floor with the two gingers tonight!

Someone's ANNUS just got whipped.

Nobody knew Joan Collins was on DYNASTY????????????

We're witnessing a sort of generational shift in knowledge on Jeopardy R261.

And none of them knew about Truman Capote's Swans.

Shocking!

R262 so true

It's the Exorcist steps NOT the stairs. Jeopardy writers got it wrong.

They should have allowed #1"s FJ answer. It was more a misspelling than anything else.

Mehal wuz robbed.

I didn't know about Capote's swans.

Considering all the ignored misspellings on FJ over the decades, the lack of a letter in the foreign word Horribilis was a very unfair and merciless judgment.

Spelling doesn’t count in FJ—pronunciation does. It was just one letter, but leaving it out meant the word was pronounced differently, and that is the determining factor for FJ misspelling.

Basically, if you watched The Crown you knew FJ.

Yeah, I knew FJ and knew he had left out a letter. Sucks for him

Mark Fitzpatrick is back!

One of my favorite contestants. I find him so sexy.

That Fj was fucking impossible!!

It really was the hardest FJ ever. There was nothing in the clue that could help you even make an intelligent guess.

I thought it might have been “New” something, but, holy hell.

I almost got FJ. Since it was a Russian name, I knew it had to be Alaska, and I’d heard of the Sitka Spruce, but It came to me after the music stopped.

I knew it was Alaskan too. But had ZERO idea that Sitka was a tree.

That was super hard.

I got it. Russian name and 1867 obviously Alaska.

I live in D.C. and if you asked for directions to the “Exorcist STAIRS” you would be quickly corrected (and provided directions - they are very easy to find).

Drew the cutie is back!!

Wow! He ran away with it!!

Love it. No clue about FJ

Another cinchy FJ. I wanna see more of Drew’s cuter brother. I was stunned that Drew came out of the closet during his interview portion. He’s such a goofball. He effortlessly plastered the competition. It worries me that he is so casually gay during these precarious political times. Take great care, the police are everywhere. May the blessings of the Son be upon him.

FJ very easy for this fan of the B-52s.

Three gay men playing against each other!

Drew was great! So glad he won and moves on to the semi- finals.

I had no idea on Final.

Drew the Cutie - I keep thinking y’all are talking about Drew Basile (shudder).

Hard game tonight. Waiting on FJ.

I felt bad for the Weimaraner dog guy.

I did, too, R287.

Glad the lady won.

No idea on FJ, I said Finland! 🤭

I thought FJ was one of those obscure Asian countries that begins with a K and ends in stan.

Tonight's episode was difficult. Too hard.

Finland is not 80 miles from Vladivostok.

If you know where Vladivostok there was really no other answer.

The only thing that surprised me was the 11-miles.

Good game! Glad Adrianna won.

I eventually figured out Final, but don’t know if I would have had enough time to write it down.

I love Adriana. She’s so hardcore and unflappable. I had forgotten about her because she was seeded directly into the semifinals.

Adrianna and Lauren Ambrose from 6 Feet Under could be doppelgangers.

FJ was pretty obvious I thought.

I think the weimaraner call was unfair. They should allow for certain variations in pronunciation and his wasn't that far off. Have there been other examples like this one?

Some pronunciations are simply wrong. That matters in oral answers. If you are going to tolerate a mistake on this basis of idiosyncratic pronunciation, anyone who gets close to the right answer, but is off by a vowel, simply has to claim “that’s how I pronounce the correct answer.” I’d rather they be strict.

Austin the bartender was robbed a few years ago for a completely correct answer (had it been written) because of his accent.

We've discussed the "pronunciation disqualifications" before. Seems like there is no consistency.

Damn, that dork beat out the cute guy. The lady couldn’t even get into the game.

Had no idea about FJ, again. 😑

I wouldn't have gotten final because even though I knew it was Leeuwenhoek, I had no idea it meant lion in Dutch.

I've never seen such a sore loser on Jeopardy! before. Guy in the middle pouted big time at the end of the show.

Sadly, tonight's episode is not up on youtube.

Loved The Substance clue.

I was rooting for Mark. Quite an impressive comeback in second round.

Didn’t want dorky Isaac to get the win. Now we have to endure him for another game.

No idea on Final.

Sigh. Another Drew day tomorrow.

I want Drew inside me quite deeply.

R309 Sweetheart, Drew is 110% bottom. He'd run away screaming if you presented your special place for his use.

I was just as disappointed that Mark lost as he was.

While I liked the other two contestants, I always root for the good looking guy, especially when he's gay - or gay in my imagination.

It’s Battle of the Drew’s tonight! But all three contestants are hot.

Oh, dear.

Something about "Queens" made me chuckle.

Our beloved Goins is goin goin gone.

Poor cute Drew.

The winner is on some spectrum, right?

The other Drew seemed to be the sorest of losers.

[quote] But all three contestants are hot.

Ladies and gentlemen—Miss Helen Keller!

Drew didn’t get Valley of the Queens?

Mark may be your fantasy boyfriend, but his Insta account would tell you he's anything but gay.

I was rooting for Drew but alas. He was a good sport.

Drew is pretty. But by today's episode he had gone full on boring Generic Gymrat Bottom. Hope he goes OnlyFans and makes some money. I wish him luck.

How did he miss grand mal seizure? That was really easy.

The Battle of the Drews! Who dropped the ball and had the two Drews playing opposite each other? Don't think I've ever seen a Jeopardy game where two players had the same name before.

I certainly enjoyed Drew Goins, both for his beauty and his perky personality that livened things up. Maybe they'll invite him back for some future tournament.

Neilesh definitely comes across as being on the spectrum. He looks like he wouldn't even be brave enough to make eye contact with you if you met him on the street.

So now dorky Isaac, autistic Neilesh and Adrianna are in the finals. I guess I'll be rooting for Adrianna.

Adrianna won 15 games in regular play while Isaac won 9 games. They're the top two in most games won for this tournament qualifying period.

Meanwhile, Neilesh won a total of 3 games in regular play.

Neilesh looks so uncomfortable even when standing still.

I'll take Isaac of tonight's three.

In the ass or mouth, R327?

R328 - neither, simply as a contestant.

I want Isaac inside me quite deeply. I enjoy him.

I would “sit Seder” with him anytime!

I knew Final, but it was, indeed, a tough question. The guys seemed rather pissed off at her win.

Great game, glad the lady just barely got the win 😰

Isn't she the bitch who beat Hot Priest?

Yeah Adrianna. First win in the bag.

Now get two more wins done quickly so we can get Neilesh and Isaac off our screens.

Adrianna's bubble tea anecdote made me really, really like her.

So it’s three wins? Cool. It seems Adrianna knew the assignment. She didn’t blow all her winnings on the first game.

The other 2 not so much.

Did you mean, "Yay, Adrianna", Johnny Gilbert?

Off topic, but did anyone else catch Kunteia on Wheel of Fortune tonight? Yes, that was her name, poor thing. She seemed nice.

I was thinking the same, R339.

Will they bring Amy back?

God, I hope not.

The aggressive intensity of the nerdbros is so offputting to me.

Poor Isaac.

Let spectrum Neilesh win to put us out of our misery.

Isaac surprised me a bit. Adrianna applauding the win. Neilish disgruntled.

Neilish is creepy.

A suited nerd would usually be hot to me. In his case ... go away!

Does anyone have vids of Isaac rubbing one out? That’d be hot to see.

Neilish seems quite decent during the chit chat with Ken, which is usually the most agonizing part of any episode. But the rest of the time… oy.

I find Isaac's dorkiness likeable, thoughbI know I'm in the minority about that.

Of course Adrianna is applauding the win: that means she still has a chance - though I think Neilish will end up being the champ, not to mention one of the most unsettling looking ToC winners ever.

Isaac was probably a virgin until he hooked up with his lady six years ago.

MORE tourmament??? Oy veigh!

I've been wondering about getting new players while L A burns, however?

Oy vey is not spelled liked Vivien Leigh.

Congrats to Neilish. Definitely quite knowledgeable, even if he is nerdish and lacks social skills.

Now he moves on the Masters. Be interesting to see how he fares against James Holzhauer.

And we've got an Exhibition game coming up tomorrow? Not sure what that means. I guess its just a filler episode waiting for the Jeopardy Invitational to start on Monday.

Link below has the full list of all 27 contestants playing in the Jeopardy Invitations, which starts on Monday.

Two former Masters are in the Invitational -- Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider.

And several DL favorites are playing too, including Juveria Zaheer, Margaret Sheldon and Roger Craig.

The Invitational also includes someone DL Jeopardy! fans were not so fond of -- Ray Lalonde.

I prefer Ray to Ben Chan.

Will they ever bring back DL fave Cris Peluso (or whatever his name was?

Will they ever bring back DL fave Cris Peluso (or whatever his name was?

How is Amy's CAA gig doing?

Too many tournaments.

This isn’t even the last one. After the Invitational comes the Masters.

I like ToC and the Masters. All the other ones need to go.

Sick of tournaments, although they could go in a different direction. e.g. Tournament of Bottom Boys, Tournament of Alpha Tops, etc.

If it wasn't for Second Chances Tournament, we wouldn't have gotten Drew back.

If it wasn't for Champions Wildcard last year, we wouldn't have gotten Juveria back. Or Yungshen back.

All three became DL faves.

I do wonder why Cris Pannullo isn't in this Invitational Yungshen as well. Wonder if they were invited and declined or what.

Tournament of Best-Looking Men!

I am so confused...why are Adriana and Isaac back tonight??

r367 It's a filler game. Doesn't count. Neilish won the tournament yesterday, but they needed a episode to fill in before the Invitational Tournament starts on Monday. So, they filmed this "exhibition:" game.

I really liked tonight. Great seeing them having fun without all the competitive pressure.

Final Jeopardy seemed like a leftover question from a Celebrity or Teen Tournament.

I like Ken J.

Right, R370? It was pretty easy, considering all the FJ’s lately have been impossibly hard.

I really hate the anagram and word-combining puzzle categories. They don't belong.

The reformed barista seems nice. What's up with the librarian archivist from Indiana? How on earth did she pass the charisma test?

You think there’s a charisma test?

Yes, R373, I hate those categories with a passion.

Before and after, give me a fucking break. That category they had yesterday was super lame as well, the one about “it sounds like a celebrity” God help us. 🙄

Where did Doug come from? He reminded me, sadly, of Admiral Stockdale.

Hannah put up a good fight!

I agree, R374. She is a good player but dull, unsmiling, rarely interacts with others.

What? Hannah smiles a lot. She's just a bit shy.

Referring to Adriana the archivist, R380.

Happy to see Matt and glad he won.

Did Hannah put on weight? That throat looked sus.

Hannah did very well against Matt. Was rooting for her to come out on top.

Felt sorry for Doug. Would be embarrassing to come back some 35+ years later only to finish up so far in the red.

Love Matt! Although he looks a bit fleshier.

[quote]Did Hannah put on weight?

Matt's the one who's developed fat face.

And that Harpo Marx hair isn't doing him any favors.

Skyler was cute. Great to see Margaret again! Will be interesting to see the winner against the big time winners like Matt and Amy.

I usually don't comment on women's looks, but Margaret's hair is doing her no favors as well.

I liked Matt with the extra chubbiness, but he needs to get a fade and have the mop top mowed down a bit.

I like Hannah, and she’s one of the strongest female Jeopardy! contestants in recent years. I don’t think it was ever in doubt though that Amy Schneider’s position as the show’s winningest woman of all time was ever at risk. In fact, my money is on Amy to win the whole shebang and consolidate her track record as queen of the buzzer.

Margaret let herself go!

Margaret's hair definitely did her no favors. But it was nice to see her again.

Skylar was quite attractive and pinged my gaydar. Was surprised he missed an easy DD of North and South Vietnam. But he's far too young.

But wow Jaskaran was amazing. Fast on the buzzer and knowledgeable too.

Had no idea on Final and was stunned the Plessy decision was reported in railroad news. Clearly no one at the time knew the real implications of that decision.

Jaskaran = very handsome

[quote] Had no idea on Final and was stunned the Plessy decision was reported in railroad news. Clearly no one at the time knew the real implications of that decision.

It was just a decision affirming the status quo. No reason for it to be perceived as a big deal before the civil rights movement.

I got it, but I’m a lawyer.

I loved Jaskaran’s voice as well as his thick beard. Very sexy. I have a major weakness for Arab/Middle Eastern men. They are usually phenomenal in bed and have thick cocks.

When they showed Skylar as a pudgy gayling from 2013, I almost gasped because I totally remembered him and then I also realized how old I am now.

Too much commentary from Margaret Shelton. Just play the game, dear.

Sikhs are not Arabs or Middle Eastern. They are from India.

It was good to see Margaret again. I'm sorry she didn't do better. She looks fine and her hair is fine, you bitches.

I think "fetch" has a better chance of catching on. Ken needs to give the "JIT" crap a rest.

When did Jeopardy stop giving viewers a glimpse of the next night's guest at the end of each program?

Do you miss that feature? I do.

I'm watching now and I hope that sycophant Emily doesn't win.

Shit, we're stuck with her again.

R393: I have a major weakness for South Asians, too, but Jaskaran, no. Too spectrum (cold) for me.

Got Final on a wild guess. Glad Emily won, didn't recognize Rachel at all, guess she's either from the distant past or episodes I didn't see. They should've gotten Yankee from three New England states.

I know she's never been a DL fan favorite, but I like Emily. She's very warm and fun. Glad she won.

R401 Nooooooooooooooooo. She tried to bribe Ken Jennings with a gift. That's disqualifying in my opinion. INAPPROPRIATE. I bet the other players wanted to stomp on her fat feet.

[QUOTE] I know she's never been a DL fan favorite, but I like Emily. She's very warm and fun. Glad she won.

I am too. I was rooting for her the whole game. There’s something very welcoming about her. She even somehow made the super corny friendship bracelet thing work.

I’m not a fan of than smug actor guy and never have enjoyed him so I was happy to root elsewhere. I was interested in Rachel - she was a new contestant to me too. I kept thinking that she could play Joyce Carol Oates in a biopic.

*that

I’ve always liked Emily and was rooting for her to win.

She may claim all the contestants are friends, but Rachel and Jonathan didn’t seem friendly after the loss. Both seemed to be brooding.

Had no idea on Final.

I am SO Glad that I am not the only one who cannot stand Emily. She is a sycophantic, annoying blob of Miss Smartypants mixed with the girl your mother told you to avoid on the bus because she would rope you into selling HER Girl Scout cookies on a commission you would never get paid for. Friendship bracelets my ass! She's probably doused them in Jean Nate or Love's Baby Soft and she insists that she tie it on your wrist herself so she can make sure you don't leave it in a drawer somewhere. I fucking Hate her. And I bet her mother does too.

So she's Tracy Flick?

Do we really think Ken was wearing his bracelet?

^^^ as a cock ring perhaps

Emily is very DL Divisive.

Emily is smarter than you, haters…

[quote] She may claim all the contestants are friends, but Rachel and Jonathan didn’t seem friendly after the loss. Both seemed to be brooding.

She is a liar.

I was watching the other contestants’ reactions when she said they were all friends. They did not indicate in any way that they agreed with her.

Just played the tape. She actually said the contestants are “very close friends” which is what caught my attention in the first place. Seems unlikely. Too bad Ken didn’t establish whether the other contestants were wearing their Emily friendship bracelets.

Explain to me why contestants applaud other contestants win big on a double jeopardy. Also, when someone wins a double jeopardy, why do they not receive DOUBLE what they bid.

….when other contestants applaud…

So FJ the other night was about scarlet fever and mentioned Mary Ingalls.

So not even the Jeopardy people knew it was that other illness the true cause of her blindness.

Someone mentioned on another thread that viral encephalitis was the real cause of her blindness.

I just now remembered about the question whilst seeing a video showing Helen Keller “talking”. I wanted to add that she was a proponent of eugenics at some point in her life but thought not to upset the praise-athon going on in that Insta post. 🫤

I think you should applaud a bold bet, not so much any Daily Double. Certainly not simply finding a DD.

They should increase the amount that a contestant with no money can bet to minimize the disappointment of finding it early. Say up to $2,000 in the first round.

R417 The FJ question was about what was in portrayed in the book(s) and read:

[quote] Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in “Little Women” & the “Little House on the Prairie” books.

Whether scientists today believe that to be the true or not, that's what author Ingalls portrayed in her book, "By the shores of the Silver Lake."

Lovely dress or top that Jackie is wearing.

Final Jeopardy was easy.

I guessed Amarillo and I really thought I might be right. Though perhaps Amarillo isn't quite in the Southwest.

R422 I guessed Amarillo as well, and Texas is part of the Southwest.

I thought of Albuquerque but couldn’t figure out where the extra “R” would go 🤔

It’s my neck of the wood also, so felt a little dumb about the origins of names.

I’ll miss Jonathan’s Roy Clark good looks.

Ah fuck. The man in the dress is on tonight.

But Luigi is on fire!

Avi is a cute nerd who needs to get fucked badly.

I couldn't believe none of them got FJ!

I thought it was quite easy knowing the American author's future wife was from the South.

R429 agree. I thought it was fairly common knowledge.

I guessed Final correctly, though wasn't certain.

Amy's competive male chromosomes shine while she's playing.

Never saw Avi before, but he had a good sense of humor.

Faulkner was a weak guess (especially for genius Amy) because the clue seemed to point out the wife was from the South, not the author. Or was she the one who guessed Hemingway?

Amy’s face is as lovely as ever, but her biceps are turning to cottage cheese.

Believe it or not, after the question was read, that cover of The Great Gatsby came to my mind immediately.

Couldn’t even remember Fitzgeralds name but I thought of him right away. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Forgot to add I was glad to see Amy, it’s too bad she couldn’t finish strong.

I want Avi inside me. Quite deeply.

My husband and I visited the Zelda Fitzgerald house in 2023 when we drove through Montgomery, but even before then I knew Zelda was from the South (with all the crazy that seems to come with it.) Also surprised all three got it wrong.

Luigi has all the charisma of a turd in the punchbowl.

Unlike you, R438?

He did his job in blocking Amy, whom I feel can be a real publicity hound.

Sad to hear that their book flopped. Did they really think it would be a bestseller?

Amy's tattoo is fugly..

I'm surprised I don't remember Avi having been on before because I always remember the ones I find attractive.

I don't know if anyone else picked up on it, but it was obvious Amy's interview was edited because I noticed as she was speaking they cut something out.

Luigi knew his stuff, but he sure does seem like a bore.

I wept when Amy described her tattoo on a previous “Jeopardy!” appearance. Then I saw it. It certainly makes a statement.

R443: Avi was not on regular programs, but ones highlighting youngsters.

Wildly guessed Apia, Samoa for Final. Good to see nice guy Ryan back, don't recall Rachel at all. Ray? Well ... on to the finals to see how he does.

I know he's never been a DL fave but I like Ray and was glad to see him back and winning.

R447,

No one was more happy to see Ray back on Jeopardy and see him win than Ray himself.

His self-congratulatory smirk with every correct response has gotten worse.

If I were one of his opponents, I would have kicked him out of his seat.

It was a good game, but Ray's smirk after being announced the winner was off putting.

Not a fan of Ben Chan

Why was Ray LaLonde sitting? Does he have a hemorrhoid? One of the most smug and annoying players of all time. And remember this, all: he has an identical twin!

I really can’t stand fat, charisma-free Luigi. Such a cunt.

LaLonde has some kind of spine/nervous condition where he "falls" from side to side, and so he gets to sit.

I don't think he is completely smug, just Canadian.

He was doing the swaying thing, even whilst seated.

There was certainly a lot of Luigi.

I don't see the smugness or the smirk. I see an older man smiling with pride that he responded first with the correct response.

Pride? You mean the deadly sin?

I'm just glad we don't have to endure his performance of HMS Pinafore.

Yay Shane! I thought Ben was off his game tonight, but Shane was still on fire for awhile there.

Now, Ben is the one who I find insufferable. Glad Shane won tonight.

I don't recall having seen Shane nor the gal (who seems insufferable also) before.

Got Final

Me neither, R460.

I liked Luigi ok.

Insufferable and sort of an idiot by J! standards

What's with the fruit and his ugly sweater?

Now, now...

Oh my god....I want to see his house, and check his Google search history.

He was ready to fly on out of there.

Go Juveria!! So glad she won.

My god, that was an ugly sweater.

When they gave him the gay genes, they left out the fashion sense gene.

At this level, sick o’ cinchy FJ. As a Ferber & Houdini scholar, the answer was just so obvious.

Not obvious to me. Disgusted about goody-goody Roger.

working to make the internet safer for kids. Yuck

NO ONE DIES IN THEIR OWN VOMIT ANYMORE!

When he said that, R471, he sounded and looked EXACTLY like what people should be protecting kids from.

Major creepy vibes.

I thought Cary Grant for some obviously ignorant reason.😛

I hated the comedienne so much. You can tell she's not funny but never stops thinking she is and probably never shuts up. I'm glad she was a big ZERO! I knew Amy was going to be in this tournament. He gets asked all the time. I cringed so hard when he said he was making his life story into a children's book. Gag. He needs a wig to. The balding look sucks for him.

I loved that Not Today Satin! category.

hysterical.

Was Bianca Del Rio the first person to say this on camera? I loved that line when she said it. Yes, I was watching that show back then.

Ken blessed the effort, so I think he means to protect kids in the best sense of the phrase.

I’d read Amy’s book if it’s illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

One of the reviews on Amy's book

"I guess I expected excellence from this woman who succeeded so amazingly at Jeopardy. I anticipated her sharing her lifelong desire to be excellent. What I read was just about repulsive. Why she thought anyone would like to hear about blow jobs given and received, drug use and promiscuity is beyond me. I had to push myself to finish it because I believed she somehow would redeem herself. That didn’t happen."

Matt now resembles fourth season Robert Reed on “The Brady Bunch”.

The description of Amy’s book reminds me of the Golden Girls scene when everyone in the bookstore falls all over themselves to grab a copy of “Vixen: Story of a Woman” following Blanche’s screed.

What did Matt do to his hair? He looks like Mike Brady now.

I want Matt Immodium inside me quite deeply!

I'm glad Matt got rid of Luigi, but I guessed Jay, too.

I'm glad Luigi didn't win, he annoyed me by constantly clicking his buzzer.

Matt! Happy he won.

Plus, he answered a Supernatural question!! 🤓🤗

Great game!

For someone who claims not to know anything about pop culture, Matt with his Mike Brady hair sure got a lot of pop culture questions.

Matt also seems to have put on a few pounds since the quarter final game.

I also said John Jay for Final, but was fairly confident it was wrong. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of Randolph.

I thought it might have been Eldridge Gerry.

I thought it was Aaron Burr.

I thought for sure Luigi wouls get it. Thought the lawyer would know the first AG.

Had no idea about FJ but glad the lady won. She beat the young’ in

[[quote]She beat the young’ in

I will love her forever for beating the pompous Ray “no one loves me more than myself” La Londe.

Great win for our favorite Canadian doc!

I had NO idea FJ.

YAY Juveria. So glad she came out victorious.

To think that Juveria was defeated in her very first game of Jeopardy (by Hannah Wilson). If it weren't for the Second Chances Tournament, we'd have never gotten to see how good Juveria actually is. And not only did she win the Second Chances contest, she went on to win Champions Wildcard. She was defeated early in last year's Tournament of Champions, but now she in finals of the Invitational.

Very impressive.!

So, now its Roger, Matt and Juveriia in the finals.

These should be some great games!

And after the Invitational we have the Masters which is also invitational?

Can’t regular people get a chance to play?

Juveria will win. Agree, who odd that she lost her first game. She seems unbeatable... even after that half-human Matt.

I hate all this tournament shit. I also mourn the loss of the formality that raised Jeopardy above other game shows.

Either one okay with me to block Roger "Save the Children" Clark.

Why hasn't Cris Panullo been invited back for any of these special tournament games?

Oh god. Today's contestants are putting me to sleep

Kudos to Matt, although black tie on black shirt better left to blonds.

Had no idea of Final. Glad Matt ended this stuff early to get back to his girlfriend.

That was a suck-ass tourny.

Too short!

But I guess I’m glad Matt won.

I would have preferred Roger, who has a great love, or Juveria, but you can’t argue with Matt’s intellect. Henry the 2nd was so obvious to anyone who’d recently watched ‘Beckett’.

Matt's a bright guy.

I worry for Matt’s health. He looks doughy. I pray he breeds before taken down by a heart attack.

Flogging Sondheim for a few missteps strikes me as silly and picayune. However, I must weigh in with what I see as the most questionable lyric in I Feel Pretty: "She's the one who is in an advanced state of shock." Pretty sophisticated assessment for these gals.

R496 I completely disagree about the loss of formality—I find the looser show more enjoyable, and Ken Jennings has often made me laugh out loud. I might as well say it, even if it is Jeopardy heresy—I know Alex Trebek turned it from a game show into an institution and that would not have happened if people hadn’t liked having him in their homes night after night. So did I—but I have come to prefer Ken.

Not much of a tournament. Should have at least been a best 3 out of 7 tournament, rather than a best 2 out 4 tournament.

Would have preferred Juveria or Roger had won, but can’t deny Matt is smart

We had a tournament period before this, so best we get back to regular games faster.

I think it's great that Ken has actually experienced being a contestant himself.

R503, Or to anyone who's studied and taught Chaucer. 😉

I loved that Juveria though an answer was Cocaine Bear when the right answer was Winnie the Pooh.

How very dare she!

Don’t sully my beloved Pooh’s name like that. 😾🤨

I want Omar inside me - quite deeply!

Was Omar gorgeous? I can answer that: Yes!

Sadly, he whiffed question after question.

I thought Quantum Leap.

Amazing Stories was such a non-event.

I thought they were going for Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Poor Omar! Every time he whiffed he touched his head as if to say "IDIOT!"

Amazing Stories was the go-to magazine for the science fiction reading intelligentsia. I’m devastated that all three bombed on it. However, I barely remember the TV series. Did it come out about the same time as The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles? Poor Spielberg. He’s probably a billionaire, but it’s not for efforts like these.

Omar slamming his forehead with the palm of his hand so many times made me wish I could have just handed the poor guy a V8.

I liked Omar, but sinking to -$6K at one point was pretty bad.

As for the champ: has there ever been someone who's won that many games rack up such a low total in winnings?

At the rate she's going, she'll need to win 10 games total to cross the $100K mark.

She seems to have lucked out on competitors not much better than herself.

I guess I have to root for Harvey or I'm going to hell.

Harvey's wide-eyed stare is unsettling.

I apologize for my dig about Harvey - I posted that before I listened to his intro and learned about his diagnosis of Parkinson's.

My dad had Parkinsons, so Harvey it is. Unfortunately, he seems young to be that disabled. My DL homies here would be thrilled by a guy so into trivia; and, of he's oriented to the gals, you'd be cool with BFF ... I hope!

Harvey was amazing!! Which is interesting that he had such a wrong answer for FJ.

Very happy for him 🥹

The poor micro-crochet lady was treated like chopped liver.

Harvey is going to be with us for a while. I think he's kind of cute.

Harvey kept me thinking about of Michael J. Fox for some time afterwards.

“How in the world am I down by $20,000 right now against Quasimodo over here?”

Me too, R529, but I didn’t want to say it out loud.

Harvey was initially off-putting, but once you adjusted to him and the Parkinsons, he was quite impressive.

I read Fox's memoir [italic]No Time Like the Future[/italic] recently - definitely recommended. Harvey did a great job with showing the person inside his crippled body, without any hint of self-pity. Reminds me of a friend who passed with ALS.

No, your first comments about Harvery (before you realized he was disabled) still stand. That was the real you.

micro-crochet ? wtf

Well, R535.

I guess James' wife is Holly. Doesn't stop him pinging like an air raid siren.

How can James and his matching bow tie and pocket square possibly be married to a woman?

What a jaw line!

DearHarvey’s last song. At least the cereal freak is hot 🥵.

I thought FJ was pretty easy even if a lucky guess.

So much for your prediction, R528.

Sad to see him go. He was really outmatched. Makes you wonder about the two ladies from yesterday.

they gear their questions to who is going to be on and who might hopefully get the answers correct to keep viewers happy. Even to be inclusive. Like if they haven't had a woman champion in a while one day the topics will be Cats, Knitting, Toni Morrison Quotes, Oprah Approved, and Dateless on a Saturday.

R542,

That is absolutely untrue. Stop talking out of your ass.

You’re referring to the quiz show scandals of the 1950s.

Maybe Holly is a pal who helped him train? Or a cat?

Good riddance Harvey J. Fox.

James looked A.I. generated.

If those glasses of James' were sunglasses, he'd look like Max Headroom.

I want to hear Harvey sing!

Sad to see Harvey go. He was so inspirational. ABC World News Tonight even did a segment on him during the evening news.

James certainly came off as gay. Pinged to high heaven. Seemed too excited to have gotten the Keith Haring clue. But apparently he is straight. This article identifies Holly as his wife.

Photo of James and wife Holly at the link below. They've been married since 2010.

I'd love to see a match between James and Drew Goins. I have a feeling Drew could really draw something out of James.

R551 A race to the bottom?

I've lost count of the seemingly gay Jeopardy contestants who turned out to have a wife.

But in the special case of James, he's by far the gayest straight guy I can think of since that contestant from a year or two ago who reminded me a little of Dustin Lance Black.

Is breakfast cereal hoarding a gay trait?

Brian looks like the neighbor who sucks me off when my Boyfriend isn't home.

I'm reminded of writer A J Jacobs' self-awareness in telling the story of when a mutual co-worker told his future wife that Jacobs was interested in her, she replied, "But, he's gay!" (as she'd assumed)

Go James!!!

That was a ridiculously easy FJ.

Yeah, I thought of Shelley right away.

I wanted the nerdy dude to win.

The picture of him and his wife certifies that he’s a case of “MOT” (matter of time).

Matter of time?

Where does James live that he's not hit on by hot gay guys every day??

Brian??

Same, r557 and r558.

Was Brian gay or just on the spectrum?

James once experimented with a man bun.

I really don’t find James that attractive. He is like Max Headroom come to life. And he has an annoying tic of blowing air out of his mouth dramatically after getting an answer right before choosing another clue.

I have to wonder how boring your life must be to come up with cereal-hoarding as the best anecdote.to share. Same as being near the set of Amazing Race.

r563, I don't think they're mutually exclusive

Noticed the cereal hoarding story was "my basement" rather than "our basement."

I didn’t actually entirely believe the cereal hoarding anecdote. It felt cooked up.

RESPECT the porn stache! James' lapel pin was the cherry on gay-ping sundae.

Final was an immediate giveaway!

Three good players but only one got the easy FJ right.

I wondered if Twister was a generational thing. I played it in high school and I'm 75. I knew it immediately.

Though obviously the new young champ got it.

Is it still played?

What exactly was that lapel pin on James? I couldn't make it out.

Twister lives on as a straight porn trope, from what I’ve seen.

Hard to say, R573. In the past, host has brought it up, but not here.

James was thrown by some actual competition tonight.

I guessed Twister right away as well.

Too bad the hot guy couldn’t sustain his wins.

Did anybody else get the wrong sort of feeling when he said the word “woke” when it was an answer on his first day? He said it as if was a bad word. I didn’t like him after that.

I didn't get that at all, more like he was sneering at the detractors of the word.

Go Jack. Great game with three good players. Liz will surely be back for Second Chances.

Yes, Twister was incredibly obvious for Final.

It was obvious, but I could not think of the name of it—and that was at home, no pressure. I would have ended up writing “the game with the big colored dots.”

[QUOTE] Too bad the hot guy couldn’t sustain his wins.

The “hot guy” in last night’s game was the winner—Jack.

Um... is no one gonna mention how shady that FJ tongue-twister from James was?

Wow, I really thought ack would be around for a while, but he just seemed to fold early tonight.

Yay, Jamie for putting up a good fight.

Yes curious... does Jeopardy have higher % of non-binary contestants than the general population? And higher % of neurodivergent? Or is Jeopardy just assertively inclusive?

Like I said. Dateless on a Saturday night.

Seems to R584. I get trivia a magnetic for neurodivergent, but the trans/"they" seems unusually high.

New champ a little bland. Note that former champ shouted out female s/o?

s/o?

shouted out female shout out??

s/o = significant other, r587. Work it out.

Bummed, because Jack was just my kinda snack. Alex reminds me of Zach Woods.

Fat Frau alert.

at least she got pie day right.

Famous farters for $400

Brett pinged louder, but surprised at female partners for both of them.

I just knew none of them would recognize Yves Montand!

My lack of toy and game knowledge limited my only guess to the correct one. I could think of no other possibilities.

Eh, I thought Etch-A-Sketch and then that other circle thingy that you drew with colored pens or pencils, Spirograph? Is that what it was called?

I always wanted one but we probably couldn’t afford it.

I was lost. I guessed “Silly Putty”!

Brett looks like he has a large cock, balls and bush.

HUNCH---------> David was female at birth...

I'm old, but didn't get Final. Decent pornstache if FTM, R599.

Hot for suits, but Alex is lame in that dept, sadly.

God damn, I feel old 🫨😩

How can you miss Cheers?? Even Ken was alarmed that an 80’s show is considered classical tv now. 🤦🏻‍♀️