(I'm just going to keep going in a single thread rather than make a fresh one for each night.)
I cannot get over just how badly Brad is getting crushed in this. In Game 1 Jeopardy, he only buzzed in *four* times, the latest after clue 10. Then he can't find either Daily Double in Double Jeopardy, which led to this scoreline after clue 13: James 27,200; Ken 16,800; Brad 4,400. Ken deserves no style points for either his Dustin Hoffman impersonation or his hammer and sickle. I encourage more cryptic category names as we saw in Game 2 Jeopardy. Then came The Round That Will Give Brad Nightmares For The Rest Of His Life: getting whitewashed (again!) on the opening-clue Daily Double, then getting tongue tied and probably losing count of the number of letters for "uncharacteristically" (though even if Alex hadn't cut him off, it sounded to me like he failed to pronounce the "al"). He went two-for-six! My wife, the Packers shareholder, did not appreciate James's editorializing on the Green Bay response. This was not the night when I would've thought we'd find out how they compute a two-game score when a contestant fails to qualify for Final Jeopardy! Interestingly, the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune both pushed tweets on the results during the window between the east and west airings. The Trib actually spoiled the result in the tweet. And the viewership numbers were higher than Tuesday: 14.8 million. Personal sidebar: I signed up for YouTube TV so I could watch the episodes night-of, but after they aired, since my six-year-old has a 7:15 CT bedtime. But on both nights, Matthew has scammed his way into watching the recording when I did and became totally gripped by this, telling my wife last night the best part of the day was "watching Jeopardy with dad". I have to go pick him up so we can get dinner and watch tonight live so he doesn't scam me into yet another 9:30 bedtime on a school night. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:37 AM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > I found out over the weekend that they the episodes were hour-long, and > feared to myself that they were going to try to stretch out a single game. > I was very relieved Monday afternoon when I discovered they were going to > the two-game format. > > They were about 20 clues into Game 1's Jeopardy round when I thought to > myself "I don't think they've missed yet." And that's exactly what > happened: the three of them ran that board like nobody's business. > > Ken's True Daily Double call on the second Daily Double of Game 1(and the > look on his face as he was trying to suss out the response) was absolutely > nerve-wracking.. > > James's Nelson Muntz taunt of Brad when he buzzed in on the Dick Clark > clue was great. > > A question for anyone: when Ken answered the Game 2 Jeopardy round Daily > Double, he originally just gave the first name, then there was a pause, > then he gave the full name, to which Alex said "Thank you!", the > implication was that Alex would've ruled Ken wrong had he not given the > full name. I thought a contestant would've been given a "more specific" > request. Was there a rule change at some point, or am I just flat wrong? > > Poor Brad just got whammied (wrong game show, but still) by the two DDs in > Game 2 Double Jeopardy round. He looked like he was just trying to get back > into the swing of things. But there you go: the unbeatable man didn't just > get beaten: he got his rear handed to him. > > And the overnight ratings are in: 14.37 million, which puts it behind only > Sunday's Golden Globes for the highest-rated entertainment show of all > year: > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jeopardy-zoeys-extraordinary-playlist-tv-ratings-jan-7-2020-1268031 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BfTHFc6A3CoowHKFjUc0SMHxBiadT6PQqOjUntkDZDcpg%40mail.gmail.com.
