Uncle Milty wrote:How did they all miss that layup tonight

Yeah was easy!

I blanked and couldn't think of anything for it. Was crushing the regular questions too. Sad.

My step-dad was on Jeopardy. He always crushes it at home and has been a zealot of the show since its first incarnation. He blew everyone away in the practice rounds to make it on the show and then got a set of categories that seemed handpicked to give him his worst possible categories for his strengths. He got anxious because the button wasn't working for him as it had in the preliminaries. I think he was anxious and pressing the button too fast. Once you press it, it locks you out for a few seconds. Anyway, his timing was off. He ended up losing in his first match. Trabek came up to him afterwards and was really nice. He told him that the crew thought he was going to be a 5 time winner, but sometimes things just don't work out how you think they will.

He never watches jeopardy anymore, after watching every show for years and years. My mom said he was pretty devastated after the taping. I finally watched the episode and you can see him getting frustrated with the button.

When was he on? I remember a guy getting frustrated with the buzzer in a recent episode, maybe 6 months to a year ago, but the guy seemed pretty smart when he did get a few right.

slugsrbad wrote:I hope this guy loses. I don’t remember the last time I had a visceral reaction to a champ.

Feel like he might be mildly autistic so

Monkeyboy wrote:My step-dad was on Jeopardy. He always crushes it at home and has been a zealot of the show since its first incarnation. He blew everyone away in the practice rounds to make it on the show and then got a set of categories that seemed handpicked to give him his worst possible categories for his strengths. He got anxious because the button wasn't working for him as it had in the preliminaries. I think he was anxious and pressing the button too fast. Once you press it, it locks you out for a few seconds. Anyway, his timing was off. He ended up losing in his first match. Trabek came up to him afterwards and was really nice. He told him that the crew thought he was going to be a 5 time winner, but sometimes things just don't work out how you think they will.

He never watches jeopardy anymore, after watching every show for years and years. My mom said he was pretty devastated after the taping. I finally watched the episode and you can see him getting frustrated with the button.

This would cause me to go to therapy for life.

CFP wrote:When was he on? I remember a guy getting frustrated with the buzzer in a recent episode, maybe 6 months to a year ago, but the guy seemed pretty smart when he did get a few right.

Nah, this was 10+ years ago.

"Who is Gritty?"

What a game.

Uncle Milty wrote:Glad that dude lost

What was wrong with him? He kind of looks like Fred Willard.

I thought he was great all week.

Uncle Milty wrote:Team jeopardy tourney starts tonight

And features Brad a die hard Birds fan

Missed the start. How does this work?

sick burns on buzzy

Real glad I watched this on DVR given they showed one goddamn round.

JUburton wrote:Real glad I watched this on DVR given they showed one goddamn round.

yeah thats why i was so confused. ended with we will have double jeopardy tomorrow! sounds great, alex.

Do not dig the format

Yeah it's awful. These contestants rule and they're neutering them.

Also wtf with this composers category

4 years of model un prepared me for that final, but fuck that composers category.