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His bet wouldn’t have made any difference at all. His only hope is if they both whiffed and bet large - which was fairly likely because of their tied scores. His betting anything was just a stupidly bad idea

I like the new super champ chick dominating tonight again. France surrenders again (I know but her Twitter story was painful so idc)

I hate having to endure blossom. I thought she was only doing the specials but maybe since Ken is (rightly) doing the masters next week they threw her this bone

Double up with the regular Jeopardy game and another round of the syndicated show with Hannah and 2 new competitors. And first ever Masters tournament. They earn points (3 for first place, 1 for second place finish and nothing for coming in third place) and have a round robin format. They also are revealing for the first time ever the location of the Double Jeopardy clues before the game (for the audience only of course) if you want to look and know where they are hidden.

Jeopardy Masters first show tonight.. I wonder why Brad Rutter wasn't invited?.. anyway , I think it will be very enjoyable to watch

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Jeopardy Masters first show tonight.. I wonder why Brad Rutter wasn't invited?.. anyway , I think it will be very enjoyable to watch

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There are a few discussions on this (of course all speculation):
https://theblast.com/475117/jeopardy...pardy-masters/

And a discussion from a few months ago about Brad falling out of favor and not just the Masters but happened some time previously:
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainmen...-podcast-host/

Funny read:

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/...stery-champion

So Hannah had no glasses on tonight- Contacts or went without them maybe? Another interesting match.

The round robin Masters Tournament had a few high points and was a really interesting final Jeopardy as part of the fourth match (second show on in the hour).

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Funny read:

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/...stery-champion

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Oh, wow. It’s hard to know what to believe, but if that article is accurate, she really got screwed over. Who knew jeopardy, and Alex, had a dark side?

Just catching up on the masters tourney after being out of town and I am loving this. So many characters I am so MF psyched to see again- I had almost forgotten about Sam Buttery
I dig the new starry black background but how about the slightly different riff than usual? It throws me off like it’s the Upside Down

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Funny read:

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/...stery-champion

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Makes you want to back and watch the shows. Was of course before the internet became widely available in the 90's. And of course no social media yet to have others discuss.

Family time catching up on DVRd Masters episodes. This series is great.

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Oh, wow. It’s hard to know what to believe, but if that article is accurate, she really got screwed over. Who knew jeopardy, and Alex, had a dark side?

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I find it hard to believe. The fact that in close to 40 years she's more or less been the only contestant to get black balled makes me suspicious. I think she's full of shit.

Her episodes missing makes think there was prob a lot more aliases and appearances to make jeopardy want to forget her than she acknowledged

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Her episodes missing makes think there was prob a lot more aliases and appearances to make jeopardy want to forget her than she acknowledged

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Totally. I don't think Jeopardy just decided they didn't like her.

Ya there’s no chance she was banished due to “personality” or some arbitrary decision about some gray area appearances

Article about the Jeopardy tapings for the final week of season 39. The Television Show Screen Writers Union went on strike on May 2nd. There is 1 more week of filming to complete the season that Mayim was scheduled to do the hosting. But she is not going to cross the picket lines as she is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. So Ken Jennings is going to do the last week of taping to complete the season.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...y/70210937007/

I was glad to see we'll get more Ken, but I'm a bit surprised he'd do it. I've been watching the Masters games, but don't watch the regular show when Mayim is hosting.

I’m with AD. I don’t watch when Blossom is hosting. She is horrible. They need to make Ken full time host


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I’m with AD. I don’t watch when Blossom is hosting. She is horrible. They need to make Ken full time host


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You would see more of Ken if Mayim got more acting gigs I'd suspect. Not sure if she was making more money doing Sitcoms like Big Bang or doing a few days at a time of Jeopardy tapings. Maybe less time preparing and all for Jeopardy compared to memorizing lines and rehearsals for Sitcoms. She was doing another TV Show- Call me Kat and hence could not fully commit to Jeopardy when it came to filming shows earlier this season.

Those Big Bang stars made massive coin. Mayim made less than the main cast, but she was still pulling in $500,000 PER EPISODE the last few seasons!!

Plus she probably already had made enough big bank from her run as Blossom to buy whatever she would ever want

I like her acting in general. But man, can’t stand her personality hosting.

I’m surprised Ken would cross pickets lines and surprised they can/would do the show during the strike. They have writers too and plenty of other unions involved that wouldn’t cross the lines

Tuned in tonight after the weekend, wtf did I just watch?

Cat is a hairball next to my bed that I step in upon getting up in the morning. Can't/won't watch any show she is host of. Send more complaints to the show to release her to another retched sitcom.

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Tuned in tonight after the weekend, wtf did I just watch?

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The return of Ben and basically co-champions going head to head. Not sure what the reason he stopped after 3 wins- just stated for some reason he could not travel in April- Covid positive and had to quarantine??

Yeah, he had covid.

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The return of Ben and basically co-champions going head to head. Not sure what the reason he stopped after 3 wins- just stated for some reason he could not travel in April- Covid positive and had to quarantine??

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That’s unfortunate for that lady, she was doing great. And she was interesting to watch. That guy absolutely crushed her.

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That’s unfortunate for that lady, she was doing great. And she was interesting to watch. That guy absolutely crushed her.

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Hannah will be back for the Tournament of Champions, maybe even again against Ben if he continues to win and continues to do better and dominates, only a few of his 4 wins so far have been for large paydays. His 3 day winnings was $69,001 in April.

Yesterday's Masters with Mattea was a case of her seeming to know a good number of questions, just a bit slow compared to Matt on the buzzer.

James and Andrew have certainly shown themselves to be the class of the field in the Masters tourney. I think Andrew has a chance to beat James, but it's slim. I just can't see anyone else winning it.

I think tonight may have been the first night I got both Final Jeopardys right.

It would have been my ruling that "Chitty Chitty Bang Bnag" was NOT answered in the form of a question.. No spoilers but listen and see if I missed something there west coasters..

So Masters is down to 4 that move on. Mattea made it and is one of the ones with enough points to move on. Don't think she has the buzzer skills to beat James or Andrew maybe also, but as the youngest of the group will be rooting for her.

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It would have been my ruling that "Chitty Chitty Bang Bnag" was NOT answered in the form of a question.. No spoilers but listen and see if I missed something there west coasters..

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You're right. Mayim is struggling--hence the delays in her rulings. OTOH if I'm watching a movie with CC on (my wife's pretty deaf) I see dialogue that I'm sure I didn't hear, so maybe you and I need to see the audiologist.

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You're right. Mayim is struggling--hence the delays in her rulings. OTOH if I'm watching a movie with CC on (my wife's pretty deaf) I see dialogue that I'm sure I didn't hear, so maybe you and I need to see the audiologist.

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Not sure of the rules if the Host declares the answer as correct, yet they did not respond to it in the form of a question. In the first round they are supposed to be allowed to correct it, but in the double Jeopardy they can't correct it unless they start to do the question format before the Host rules them wrong.

The show also have the capability of the judges reviewing the response even on replay and making a correction right up until the end of the round or before the final jeopardy category is revealed and they make their bets. You could of course do the same if you are recording it and can go back, show probably has much more technology than you would even doing a rewind and playing again.

He struggled so long and to the last second on that question that I figured must have dropped a “what is” earlier and I had forgotten about it lol.

The judges often go back and rule answers correct or incorrect and make point adjustments based on that. Kind of surprised it didn’t happen here if he really didn’t lead w any form of question

Blossom as the host is terrible

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He struggled so long to the last second on that question I figured he had dropped a what is earlier and I had forgotten about it lol.

The judges often go back and rule answers correct and incorrect and make point adjustments based on that. Kind of surprised it didn’t happen here if he really didn’t lead w any form of question

Blossom as the host is terrible

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I don’t know why, but this was bugging me so I had to do some sleuthing… sounds like you are correct
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I’m glad it was confirmed that he did meet the form of a question requirement before he paused to search for the answer. It would have really bugged me if they had let that slide for no reason

Totally forgot about abole bernie goetz. Weird that Billy writes his music first then composes lyrics. Makes sense why fire is so unmelodic compared to all his other hits

I’m amazed that Ian Fleming actually wrote “ chitty bang bang”.

But then it also surprises me every time I see William Faulkner listed as screenwriter for so many movies.

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I’m amazed that Ian Fleming actually wrote “ chitty bang bang”.

But then it also surprises me every time I see William Faulkner listed as screenwriter for so many movies.

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Fau;lkner was undoubtedly a great writer but he was not going to make a good living from the novels he wrote.

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Fau;lkner was undoubtedly a great writer but he was not going to make a good living from the novels he wrote.

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Yeah, I know it was all about money, but it’s still a little startling to see his screenwriting credits pop up on movies like “Air Force” and “Submarine Patrol”.

Speaking of writers how about Ken honoring the picket line and Mayim scabbing it?

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Speaking of writers how about Ken honoring the picket line and Mayim scabbing it?

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It's the exact opposite. Mayim won't cross the picket line, thus Ken will be hosting the last week or two of the season. I get it, though. Mayim is a member of SAG and I'm pretty Ken is not. Also Ken is a Jeopardy producer, so he is management in addition to being host.

Exactly that. Im kinda surprised tho that they are able to run the show without the writers. Obviously stuff is written far in advance but seems like there would still be issues during production. Overall a bad look not to shut down though