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

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.

Pamela's story had a really sad ending!

Yeah, I had no idea!

Trebek certainly must've asked you how you liked his performance in Short Cuts.

You missed the chance to do a Floyd Mayweather by sizing up your opponent's clothes and saying, "Thats off the rack."

omg, i totally watched substantial chunks of this episode without realizing it was jaymc day! (I watch the show at work so the amount of it that I see is inversely proportional to the number of customers we have at any given time.) Great fun and well done. I loved the "alternate titles to classic books" category..

if you google alison, you'll find she took second place in a fiction contest sponsored by the association for mormon letters.

...I was pleased and a little amused by their solicitous attention."

yikes. i originally read this as "a little AROUSED"

if you google alison

name of "college rock" song if the web had existed in '89

Oh man, ppl who brag on being related to prophets are the worst! (imo)

u just jealous :D

I managed to see this ON TV and yeah, what a smug bitch!

@LipsmackedB: I dont think John thought the really hot chick to his right was going to beat him on Jeopardy by $22,000. Feel silly, dont you John.

@karizmatic_1: I could do w/o the meet/greet portion of jeopardy cuz these are some boring ppl who have nothing exciting 2 say ESP when they're on4sev days

@gdabull: @Renee_Olstead LOVE a Ginger at $85,102 on JEOPARDY - go ALLISON

FEEL SILLY, DONT YOU JOHN

Actually, knowing that she was already a two-day champ may have made me a little resigned to my fate, tbh.

@Saraguilar: loves listening to Dude watch Jeopardy. "WHO IS P DIDDY??"

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!"

Yeah, I got really excited watching this -- television seems so much more REAL and VITAL when a person you know is on it! -- and then at some point I was pumping my fist in the air and I was like: oh, hey, I guess this is how people feel about watching sports.

That was my most fun television-watching experience in a while. Congratulations, John!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT-XFRFxG5A

Lots of people on Twitter commented on the Doctor Who and Buffy questions.

weird

Also someone tweeted at Keri Hilson to inform her that she was a correct response on the show, I guess not realizing that it was Keri RUSSELL.

(Or maybe not realizing that @misskeribaby was Hilson.)

@LipsmackedB: I dont think John thought the really hot chick to his right was going to beat him on Jeopardy by $22,00021,201. Feel silly, dont you John.

I DONT THINK @LIPSMACKEDB THOUGHT THE REALLY ANNOYING INTERNET DUDE WAS GOING TO CORRECT HIS MATH. FEEL SILLY, DONT YOU @LIPSMACKEDB.

P.S. Wow, the end of Pamela's story is a real tear-jerker! I'm not sure how anyone got annoyed by her speech -- it didn't exactly sound a personal choice. (To be honest I thought maybe she'd had a hearing impairment.)

Pamela seemed really, really nervous.

what was the end of her story

and also

what was the beginning

Link is upthread -- she talks about how her son died recently at 21, and he'd always loved Jeopardy, and they played together, and he tried out once, etc. So there might have been some emotion around that as well as nerves.

aw

'main man' and 'mainframe' were the only ones i got right. you did great jaymc.

If Jaymc had kept this look, he may have scared off Allison and become King of the Board:

http://i34.tinypic.com/o0t5c0.jpg

need serious jheri curl in order to unseat alison(sp?) see: wikipedia entry for "pamela's folly"

P.S. Wow, the end of Pamela's story is a real tear-jerker! I'm not sure how anyone got annoyed by her speech -- it didn't exactly sound a personal choice. (To be honest I thought maybe she'd had a hearing impairment.)

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i was only annoyed by her because she's not John tbh. now i feel bad. found Alison genuinely annoying, tho.