Fellow Jeopardy Nerds....
hogginthefogg
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Can we talk about the greatest game show ever for a minute?WHAT IS UP WITH THE CURRENT CHAMP? He is like a mannamatronequinn: a cross between a mannequin and an animatronic automaton. And is it me, or has Alex become a much bigger prick recently? He is unbelievably condescending. And 100% of his "personal banter" is painfully uncomfortable.
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i don't understand.
wow.
have you lived in a hole the last 10 years?
snl sketch where sean connery asks alex "i'll take the rapist for 500"
the category was 'therapist'
edit: you guys are fast
yea, the reception is so bad down here, SNL doesn't come in. (i've never seen the skit.)
Agreed 100%.
That champ kid cracks me up with his thumbs up each time he wins. At first i thought he was acting awkward on purpose. Last night he said he and his buddies are in town finishing up their education on the film industry. That could mean so many things, i don't know that i want more information.
Alex is hilarious these days. I've been hitting it pretty hard the past few months for the first in my life and i am loving it.
On the SNL Best of the 90's show that aired a few weeks back, they talked about the Jeopardy sketches. I think Darell hammond just said it was a voice he was working on, and he has no idea why he came up with the idea that Connery would be a complete moron.
DOH!
I dunno, man, I kinda like the smarmy, condescending Trebek. He's on some, "Oh yeah, well take that, you fuckin' brainiac!" steez. Quality.
I'll tell you which champ was an automaton, that dude David Madden (who kind of looked like David McCallum). I kept expecting him to buzz in and say, "All your base are belong to us." Dude was the most unstoppable juggernaut this side of Ken Jennings, though.
By the way, I'll take the penis mightier. And if it works, I'll take a dozen.
jeopardy was my shit back in the day.
didnt alex trebek also do that daytime show w/ the pictograms? i used to watch that in the summers in my youth.
I believe the term you want is mannamatronequinn.
No shit. "We had never even seen a cracked windshield...in person. Before."
What? At first I was happy that he had a friend with whom he could drive across the country, but then he made it sound like they took separate cars.
Classic Concentration
are we talking about jeopardy or SS?
Price is Right is classic, but come on.
Needed to succeed on Jeopardy: education, experience, creative & cognitive thinking ability.
Needed to succeed on Price is Right: habitual reading of advertising circulars in Sunday newspaper.
I do give you props for trying out, though. I tried
to get my father to tryout for years. He wins a pile of virtual
cash every night. He's too short-fused to handle the click-in
process with proper restraint, though.
I do find it sort of surprising that there has not been a single incident of somebody flipping out about their buzzer, though, "YO MAN, FUCK THIS SHIT! THIS FUCKIN' THING DOESN'T EVEN WORK!"
Or maybe there has been, and they just edit it out and reshoot. But I would find it very funny if it happened and they showed it.
On the recent College Tournament, one of the categories was "Turrets Syndrome" (it was castle related). The middle kid mis-pronounced it as "Tourette's Syndrome" and happened to hit the daily double. He very clearly said, "Shit!" but they edited it out.
I love that he gave himself a mild case of Tourette's just by saying it.
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so what are you saying?
Yeah, "Tigger."
wow.
I always thought his snotty attitude was what
made him entertaining.