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KilGrey posted:Someone posted this in the GBS YouTube thread and I thought I'd cross post it here since someone brought it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEBCve-3Cw Oh my god I've seen that like two or three times already but I'm still tempted to watch it again. It's a seriously captivating story and depressing as heck he just went through life going from one get rich quick scheme to another. I'm almost surprised he was the first (only?) person to figure that out but then I remember how much work it must have taken to do it on a VCR. I'm glad they filmed it before Peter Tomarken's plane crash in 2006, RIP e: in looking for the original post I also learned via GBS that Huell Howser died today, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 
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KilGrey posted:I was surprised he was the only one to figure it out as well, but yeah, this was 1984 and I don't think VCRs were even that common then. But once you learn the pattern he's looking for, I couldn't unsee it. Yeah, that was a crazy one. You'd think he'd be satisfied with the money he won on PYL, but I got the idea he was the kind of guy who never had enough. I can't believe he just left all those bills out for them to be stolen one night. It's crazy to me that he had ran off to some other place with some other woman and one day the wife heard he was dead from cancer. Just kind of came and went.
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Jan 8, 2013 13:14
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So what you're saying is if we want to make the show we'd have to dumb ourselves down a bit.
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Jan 8, 2013 23:43
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In reading those questions, I couldn't think of the name of the Dragon Tattoo series but I'm just gonna start calling it Swedish Rape Saga anyway
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Jan 10, 2013 05:21
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I routinely solve Wheel of Fortune like 5 minutes before the contestants. Like, I was watching last month when someone landed on the jackpot or whatever with a full board of letters and only like 5 or so revealed. Pat asked if (s)he wanted to solve, and I said, "heh, not this early!" Then I thought about it for a few seconds and got it. It was a holiday theme with a bunch of short words, so I don't know if their puzzles are too easy or contestants are too dumb or some combination of the two. But it's not me.
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Jan 15, 2013 02:52
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Glenn_Beckett posted:THE GUTENBERG loving BIBLE HOW DO TWO OF YOU MISS THAT As much as I enjoyed Jeopardy before this thread I enjoy it so much more with your rantings to no one. Also what I love about the Teen Tournament is that they could still kick my rear end in basically anything on the board. I love to be made to feel like a dumbfuck by a handful of teenagers who are scientifically programmed to do dumb things inherently.
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Jan 24, 2013 02:54
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ElwoodCuse posted:Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I remember hating the Teen Tournament because the questions are easy as hell. This is possible. It's also possible that I'm an idiot.
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Jan 24, 2013 13:15
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I miss Celebrity Jeopardy, too. The only sketch I love every time I see it. I have no idea why they didn't have one for Ferrell's hosting appearance last year. Oh, you were talking about the real--never mind me then...
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Feb 2, 2013 03:50
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Undeclared Eggplant posted:So this happened oh so THIS is why I don't watch the teen tournament
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Feb 7, 2013 18:35
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Green Crayons posted:I didn't realize he was the lucky one to make it in. That makes his win ten times more awesome. GOD  that owns so hard.If Nilai had gotten it right his $21400+$19000 would've given him $40400 so it's even ballsier that Leonard got it. For the record I DVR'ed Monday's but was out late last night and like a dumbass forgot to DVR it ahead of time. But after part 1 I was thinking what kind of comeback it would take for Leonard to win and wow, did he get lucky as heck on that DJ. When I heard the name "Leonard Cooper" I first imagined some even weirder mutation of Leonard and Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, but he's actually like the inverse of that. drat, everything about him winning is so awesome
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Feb 13, 2013 19:16
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How the gently caress did no one get Owl Creek Bridge?
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Feb 21, 2013 01:39
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Huh? 
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Feb 21, 2013 05:01
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I actually really liked the Stephen Merritt story. These dudes are bad at gadgets though
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Feb 23, 2013 01:48
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Dammit Sara how could you lose to the five best rappers of all time! smh  Also that guy got both DD's in DJ and bet $400 and $1000, that's loving dumb as hell.
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Mar 5, 2013 03:25
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escape artist posted:If I hit the DD's in a subject I don't know, you best believe I'm going to wager like $5. It'll still be worth it for eliminating the chance of another player to have a big payday. For a guy who's actually on Jeopardy, there shouldn't really be two separate categories he doesn't know well. But he won so gently caress it I guess? 
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Mar 5, 2013 03:44
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Frot Lesnar posted:Reports are coming out that have Matt Lauer as the lead candidate to replace Alex Trebek when he decides to retire. Dear god no.  that is a terrible loving idea. I want to find that person who suggested that and hide him in my oubliette until Trebek retires to make sure it doesn't happen.
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Mar 15, 2013 16:46
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thrakkorzog posted:I don't really see Anderson Cooper taking over. He's slightly below Charlie Sheen on the crazy level, he has burned way too many bridges. That, plus just hiring him politicizes a non-political show.  In what way is Anderson Cooper near the Charlie Sheen level of crazy??I think Cooper and Williams are both cool as news dudes, I'm just not sold on a news dude as a Jeopardy! host. (Though Hoda/Kathie Lee would be PHENOMENAL.) I am still Team Ken first and foremost, but Pat Kiernan is (a) waaaay underrated and (b) also Canadian, if they wanted to keep that theme. Actually just reunite Jennings and Kiernan from their time on Grand Slam, with Kiernan in some other cool non-hosting role. Not really, I just wanted to shoehorn Grand Slam into the discussion, please tell me someone else remembers that? Dennis Miller hosted it and I don't even remember him going off on any memorable crazy political rants! That alone should count for something! uublog fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Mar 16, 2013 |
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CarbonCpy posted:I just had the craziest thought pop into my head: Pat and Ken hosting an American version of Pointless. I feel like I need to write that down somewhere. Yes!!!!! I also loved Russian Roulette, I don't know why but watching people fall through trap doors in the floor is awesome as hell to me. It's one of the first things I put in my imaginary mansion. On the topic of GSN originals: I had dreams of being on Lingo, cuz I can spell werds gud, but for some reason, replacing Weird Conservative host with Weird Midwestern Part-time Actor host has erased them. Weird.
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Mar 18, 2013 08:34
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BaronVonVaderham posted:In other news, if Alex really is retiring and does so before I can get on the show, I will cut a bitch. From what I read, his contract is still through 2016. So you've got time.
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Mar 21, 2013 01:41
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I love sports questions as it gives *one* category to sweep pretty reliably, so obviously that seemed way too easy to me as well. It specifically mentioned the Tigers right? Yeah sports categories are the only ones I can think of off-hand where Jeopardy! totally plays down to people who don't know much, if anything, about them.
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Mar 28, 2013 04:49
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escape artist posted:Well, there are probably other ones, you're just not aware of them. Like Opera categories. Most people who know Opera seem to clean up in those categories, but if I get one out of the five questions correct, I feel accomplished. Fair point, anything opera goes so far over my head I just assume they're of a high difficulty. BTW, you have no idea how sad that that Bynum question makes me. I think his knees have literally deteriorated into a mush of rubber held together by glue and scotch taped to the rest of his legs.
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Mar 28, 2013 06:05
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escape artist posted:Philly is one of my tertiary teams, and I also hate Dwight Howard, so I agree... Bynum's recent misfortunes are tragic. If only his knees could be like his hair. Beautiful and majestic and designed differently every day? I agree! For the record, I honestly did not know he became the youngest, either.
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Mar 28, 2013 07:21
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zakharov posted:Molly is not the strongest player in the world, as evidenced by missing tonight's cupcake FJ, but she had some pretty laughable competition tonight. Jason seemed to be buzzing in with complete wild guesses. It's like he'd never watched the show. Did he not realize he was losing money? I love how eager he was to buzz in with Boyz II Men (as anyone would have been)
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Jun 11, 2014 01:20
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In fairness all three did well in the first two rounds, off the top of my head I can't remember any they got wrong
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Jun 12, 2014 02:49
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That kreplach/knish thing was kinda suspicious to me, they're 1000% different, and basically any hungry Jew had to know knish is what they were referring to. If I wasn't so hungry for either one of them myself, I'd be angrier about that reversal.
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Jul 8, 2014 00:48
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Flagrant Abuse posted:That was an embarrassingly easy final. I usually measure difficulty by whether or not I know it (unless it's one of the incredibly obscure things I know, like the Don Drysdale/RFK one from last month) and I thought of Surgeon General almost immediately, so yes, it was far too easy
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Jul 16, 2014 05:20
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How the gently caress did no one get Janet Leigh?? Also where did Dick Tracy come from?
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Jul 18, 2014 00:50
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I audibly booed them all for missing Mu Alpha Theta. Shameful nerds! e: lol they're all too young to know Roots? I watched the tv version in eighth grade history uublog fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jul 23, 2014 |
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Jul 23, 2014 00:45
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It kind of really bothered me how much those kids avoided the $400 clues in Double Jeopardy!
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Jul 23, 2014 01:05
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Kevin gave a couple really bad answers. I'm pretty sure he completely guessed on the White House's address number.
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Jul 25, 2014 00:58
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Dr Zaius posted:I think "metal heads" should have counted. I think skinheads should have counted! 
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Soothing Vapors posted:I love Trebek pointing out to the whole country how short that one kid is for no reason Jerk_Trebek.txt When he came out into the center of the stage after they were both announced as semi-finalists, I was totally amazed that he was really that short. That was the best game of the tournament so far by a wide margin. Glad to see they're all advancing. I wonder who got screwed by that, though. Shimrra Jamaane posted:What was the question? It was something along the lines of "someone who like metal music is known as this." one kid tried metalheads, then another tried skinheads. It was a category where each correct response had "head" in it. (I'd be more precise but last night's J-archive page is very incomplete.) uublog fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jul 26, 2014 |
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Jul 26, 2014 01:00
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I almost fell over in my chair from oxygen being a Triple Stumper
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Jul 29, 2014 00:52
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I like Jeff more now that I know how many other people don't like him.
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Jul 29, 2014 21:47
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dang the entire time Joe and Cooper were going back and forth I was like "I think Joe is better maybe but I'm not really sure at all?" Sam v. Alan is gonna be good tomorrow Relatedly, does anyone happen to know if semi-finalists are grouped in any certain way or if it's randomized?
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Jul 30, 2014 01:16
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smh they don't much about journalism or 2013 George Clooney movies
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Aug 1, 2014 00:42
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Aug 1, 2014 00:51
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I'm watching Sports Jeopardy now and oh my god this is painfully bad. From the terrible announcing that forced dumb sports phrases into anything and everything to only four clues that renders my Normal Jeopardy calculator useless. Also I think Dan Patrick literally gave the middle dude (I never trust a grown man named Pauly) the points on the Buffalo Wild Wings© question when he only answered with Buffalo. Some clues are really weirdly (re: terribly) written and Patrick's casual sexism is totally awesome (and all his jokes were way bad) and somehow way more direct than Trebek has been, as far as I can remember. e2: lmao these guys aren't terribly smart about seemingly obvious things. like "eccentric outfielders who played next to Johnny Damon." Bernie Williams!!?!?? uublog fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Sep 28, 2014 06:09
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I did it, I finally got a Final Jeopardy! that none of the contestants got (I'm honestly stunned no one got that, it wasn't difficult at all) Also lmao at a $5 Daily Double
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Quasipox posted:The weirdest story I've ever seen is still the guy who felt the need to tell everyone about his bed wetting. I mean, hey, there's nothing wrong with that, but your first time on Jeopardy and that's what you go with. hahaha why the gently caress would they put that in the promo???
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