Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

arthur chu is my new hero tbh
i am doing dances in the house when he nails the daily double
seriously seriously want this guy to win forever

Yeah I agree with that - I meant that "the only thing that doing well on a standardized test measures is how well you do on standardized tests" is a pretty common thing to hear about standardized tests xp

have to say the guy's twitter is not the most interesting

WHO IS SAM. WATER-STON.

the little tiff between him and alex today was delectable

have to say the guy's twitter is not the most interesting

― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really?

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/443569238372913152
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/443569344438476800

He's the best.

the little tiff between him and alex today was delectable

Totally. I got the sense that Alex felt the need to re-assert his authority over the proceedings. "This is still my show, motherfucker."

The McDormand thing didn't bother me; Chu definitely said "McDarmand." But not allowing "Gerry" with a soft "g," that was total bullshit; if someone had only seen the name in print, how would they know otherwise?

They let that one contestant say "Ham" instead of "Haim" and gave her the points, this is bullshit

TBF she said "Hay-m"

Isn't Trebek supposed to defer to the judges on these things anyway? Why the fuck is he being all "Well, that's not what I heard you say"?

cos he's a punk

Andrew Rose Gregory ‏@arosegregory 49m

@arthur_affect so how long did it take judges to rule on mcdormond/mcdormand? Now that months have passed, do you agree with their ruling?

Arthur Chu ‏@arthur_affect 34m

@arosegregory It took like ten nerve racking minutes. Now that months have passed, I still want the ten grand

OK, good to know. I thought Trebek was going rogue.

ChuTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/ArthurChuJeopardy

i was hella tickled when he straight up gave the wrong answer on the macbeth clue but cloaked it in such a way that it seemed as if alex really was gonna look like a massive dick if he wouldn't accept "what is 'the scottish play'/'macbeth'; it's bad luck to say it"

But not allowing "Gerry" with a soft "g," that was total bullshit

they did allow it! alex got snarky about it but gave him the points.

Chu never does well on the music questions.

he -- and both challengers -- completely whiffed on the album covers category today. i hope there's an album covers category and lots of j.d. souther questions when and if i ever get on jeopardy.

looked a little rattled by the end, as he didn't bet to tie, but safely way above

i don't think he ever bets to tie when he's got the game locked, does he? iirc, he only bets to tie when the game is still on the line.

album covers were the only ones i knew today ha

xp not sure, but then i didn't see games where he was this far ahead of the second place contestant

yeah i was like omg c'mon that's Wish You Were Here mannnnnnnn

they did allow it! alex got snarky about it but gave him the points.

Ah, ok, I missed that. I was too wrapped up in their little spat.

The other day I was in Milwaukee eating breakfast at a place with an early edition of Trivial Pursuit questions on the table. I had my daughter quiz me, and man, by shifting the time frame 30 years or so what might have once been challenging trivia had turned into utterly impossible esoteric shit totally devoid of any contemporary cultural or practical relevance. Made me wonder what a hilarious clusterfuck it would be to host a "1984 Trivial Pursuit" night, with all the questions being about flying cowboys, outmoded facts and random athletes who were past their prime in the '80s.

there's any number of pointless things I know about that era solely because of trivial pursuit

But see, the 1984 edition isn't about 1984. It's just random trivia that was maybe relevant back in 1984, or maybe semi-obscure in 1984, but has since fallen deep, deep, deep into the dustbin. There's not anyone in 2014 who would get questions about Kirby Grant, star of Sky King, the Flying Cowboy, a forgotten radio show from the '40s.

The entertainment questions from early 80's Trivial Pursuit games are insanely hard for people under 40 or so. My dad cleans up on them.

my mom's childhood crush was sky king
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ut6QMIjpw

Trust me, ALL the questions from that edition would be hard for someone under 60, at least. I mean, I'm 39, which is pretty close to 40, and most of the questions were totally bonkers obscure. There's a reason they update the sets.

Oh, I remember bein'
Bucktoothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny

Good match so far today.

http://www.willswift.com/images/king_george_vi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Smtj8Id.jpg

:(

sadness

WHAT

how can this be

this is not the world we were promised

PEPT- WHAT??? AND YOU STEAL MCDORMAND FROM CHU

damn. he missed a lot of questions today, and his opponents used his strategy against him. RIP big man

o man did they really? i just caught final jeopardy and girl was giddy as fuck she won

http://media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/274/207/1207274.gif

V v sad day no lie

That girl was so psyched I thought she was gonna wet herself but tbh I probably would if I won. Arthur grew on me. I'm sad to see him go.

kingslayer

Guess I'll go back to never watching this show again

She was good, he threw out some really bad/lazy answers, and he only got 1 of 3 Daily Doubles (and lost his entire stack on it). Game theory couldn't help him today.

"got" as in found

I think yesterday's show -- which, for Arthur, preceded today's show by a few minutes -- rattled him. Trebek's dickishness threw him off his game.

Couldn't help but notice that he didn't even bother ringing in for today's Eagles question.

ha, i saw that too

well, yeah