JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

Before the jacuzzi.

I'd like to take that back.

I'm kind of a Stevens nut (favorite American poet, etc), so it's really a trivial piece of trivia.

Alison can suck it.

― tehresa, Monday, July 26, 2010 8:20 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

allison: wns
pamela: wns
jaymc: ws, ergo, WINNER IS U

I had so much fun watching, John! I am likely in Chicago at the end of August, and would like to buy you all the cuts of meats, sir!

yeah, if the question had been flipped, I wouldn't have know Stevens. But as it was, with the answer being Hemingway, "Key West" "1936" and the presence of violence was nothing short of a gimme.

Now that I know what this Clue Crew thing is I R revolted.

even though I'll probably never see this episode <3 jaymc.

Aw!

Quincie, the hilarious thing about both my "Hometown Howdy" and my two correct responses in the What's Your Beef category is that I haven't eaten meat since 1998.

hahaha totally forgot you are veg! Pls revise to "I would like to buy you all the cuts of tofus, sir!"

"Waiter! Extra firm, chop chop."

I inadvertently said "what is the meatpacking district" to the tenderloin one, lol @ me

I had no idea that Chicago was "hog butcher to the world" until your Hometown Howdy, jay.

ahhh, i missed this! i wanted to watch. there should have been e-mail reminders! well, i hope you had fun anyway!

jaymc eats fish

.xls

fish butcher to the world

unite and take over

I watched a bit of this. Those ladies were tough.

I inadvertently said "what is the meatpacking district" to the tenderloin one, lol @ me

So did I...

Final Jeopardy was so ridiculously easy. Even before the question was revealed I was like "oh it'll probably be Hemingway". I mean he's kinda the go to guy for literary dust ups.

Sorry you didn't win jaymc. It was a good game though!

cute chick was playing well; i thought you had a good game jaymc. At no point did I scream the answer at the screen, which is a definite sign of a good game.
Just getting on the goddamn show is accomplishment enough and you didn't do what I would've done, which is buzz in and say utterly foolish shit.

jaymc was cooler than i've ever seen him
real question: how did you maintain that frosty demeanor? did you practice not getting too excited?

did you slip allison the ilx business card as you left

FINE. I admit it. I didn't know the Final Jeopardy question.

Oh god damn I'm so mad I had to miss it.

cute chick was playing well; i thought you had a good game jaymc. At no point did I scream the answer at the screen, which is a definite sign of a good game.

― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu)

I was like Gideon. Gideon! Gideon!!!!!

Congrats, nice job. You didn't get kicked off before Final Jeopardy which would be my biggest fear and disgrace.

How was the whole taping experience? How long were you in the studio? Did they edit anything out? What happens if someone was to curse by accident, do they start over? Does the winner change clothes and play another game right away, or had she played one right before yours? How different did it feel from the in-person audition?

Maybe someday I'll actually get on...

i watched this w/ my wife and was getting all heated like "i've watched this guy display incredible feats of memory and general knowledge for years! if he can't win this show THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN! there's too much emphasis on buzzer timing, clearly!"

"the ilx business card" - is this some kind of new euphemism

i watched this w/ my wife and was getting all heated like "i've watched this guy display incredible feats of memory and general knowledge for years! if he can't win this show THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN! there's too much emphasis on buzzer timing, clearly!"

― max fachine (some dude), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:48 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i felt something like this. i swear i saw john hitting the buzzer fruitlessly a lot. at one point my viewing companion had to be like, "it's just a game." to which i was like, "you don't know John!"

so if they do several tapings a day, does the previous winner just stay on the set and play on? does s/he change clothes in between games to give the illusion that a day has passed in between the games? magnets, how do they work?

it's not just a game! large sums of money are involved!

jaymc, congrats on a great showing. i really admire you for being so poised throughout the whole thing! i had fun watching. wish more ilx ppl would turn up on tv (in a good way; not in the eleven o'clock news way)

argh, that younger woman seemed so smug and annoying!

Thanks again, all.

How was the whole taping experience? How long were you in the studio? Did they edit anything out? What happens if someone was to curse by accident, do they start over? Does the winner change clothes and play another game right away, or had she played one right before yours? How different did it feel from the in-person audition?

I believe we got to the studio at 8 AM. Spent the first two hours in the green room, mostly filling out forms and going over rules and regulations. Also got makeup done. Then there was about 45 minutes of on-stage practice for all 13 contestants that appeared that day. (There were six episodes taped that day, so that meant returning champion Alison plus two new contestants for each episodes.)

Of the three episodes I was there to see (including my own), they didn't edit anything out on the contestant end. Nobody swore. However, Alex flubbed a couple of card readings and mispronounced the surname of actor Josh Duhamel, so at the end of the episode they had him go back and rerecord those.

The champion indeed returns to the green room and changes clothes for the next episode right away. (There's, I dunno, 15 minutes between each episode.) Our taping day was for last Friday's episode plus all of this week's episodes, so Alison was already a returning champion when we started and then she won another game before facing me. We were told to bring three outfits total -- I guess if you win more than three episodes in a row, they figure no one will notice that you're wearing the same outfit as on your first episode.

Definitely felt different from the in-person audition. The fact that you're in an actual TV studio can be kind of overwhelming. But the contestant coordinators were pretty great and made everyone feel at ease.

Almost forgot about Sarah's prof! She's doing pretty well so far.

That voice, though...

My opponent Pamela on her Jeopardy! experience

"I am just as amazed as anyone that I got answers in the Bible category. I reckon Sunday school paid off."

Haha, I knew all of these! You say Alison was Mormon, though? I am kind of surprised she didn't know them.

omg, she's leading against Alison going to Final Jeopardy!

That voice, though...

― jaymc, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:14 AM (8 minutes ago)

I know, that weird faux-Irish accent! Sarah swears she's American. Maybe there's a support group for Americans who spontaneously develop foreign accents, and she'll meet Ian R-M.

You say Alison was Mormon, though?

Yeah, her anecdote in today's episode is that she's one of Brigham Young's progeny.

I know, that weird faux-Irish accent

we have these over here to, usually on the national broadcaster

She knocked out Alison and really went for it on FJ, nearly doubling up to $27,001.

Go Sarah's prof! (At least she didn't take down jaymc, then there would have been a FITE [copyright ILX 2002])

thought it was funny when alex asked pamela how her newspaper was doing, and she said they were struggling a little bit, and then there was the unasked question hanging in the air: but they still employ someone to just write headlines?

Yeah, her anecdote in today's episode is that she's one of Brigham Young's progeny.

Oh man, ppl who brag on being related to prophets are the worst! (imo) But OTOH maybe she's just running out of banter anecdotes & has not done many things in life.

Is this taped at the culver studios or sony?

"John and the others were careful to provide me a helping hand when I had to step up or down. I was pleased and a little amused by their solicitous attention."

Awww, John, you're a gentleman and scholar.

xp Sony.

Right next door to Wheel of Fortune, in fact. Someone asked if he and Sajak ever hung out, but I guess they tape on different days of the week.