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Ripclawe · Sep 9, 2004

'Jeopardy!' Champ Finally Loses
Utah software engineer Ken Jennings has finally ended his record-breaking run on long-running syndicated quiz show "Jeopardy!" sources said. During a taping Tuesday, the 30-year-old Mr. Jennings lost his 75th game, but walked away with around $2.5 million in cash and prizes, the sources said.

Guzim · Sep 9, 2004

A sad day in America.

SteveMeister · Sep 9, 2004

The topic of this thread gives away what the spoiler is, for what other news about Jeopardy could there be?

Ninja Scooter · Sep 9, 2004

SteveMeister said:
The topic of this thread gives away what the spoiler is, for what other news about Jeopardy could there be?

alex trebek is pregnant

belgurdo · Sep 9, 2004

They finally put the muscle on him. We all must weep

All Hail C-Webb · Sep 9, 2004

I thought he had stopped filming a long time ago, and they were just airing it now

Socreges · Sep 9, 2004

When is Jeopardy on?

MetatronM · Sep 9, 2004

Check your local listings.

Dice · Sep 9, 2004

More specifically, when will this paticular episode air?

yoshifumi · Sep 9, 2004

haha made you look

Ripclawe · Sep 9, 2004

Dice said:
More specifically, when will this paticular episode air?

7-8 weeks

aparisi2274 · Sep 9, 2004

Well since most of his eps were filmed back in March, most everyone knew he was gonna lose. It was just a question of when, and with how much. Also, they tape 5 episodes a day, 5 days a week. So they can get 25 shows in the can in one week. Thats about 100 shows a month.

Fifty · Sep 9, 2004

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck

If a woodchuck could chuck wood

Dilbert · Sep 9, 2004

What is "I have six wives?"

shoplifter · Sep 9, 2004

There are

four

lights.

AirBrian · Sep 9, 2004

Sean Connery: "Oh, it's my lucky day. I'll take, 'The rapists' for $200."

Alex: "That's therapists."

All Hail C-Webb · Sep 9, 2004

aparisi2274 said:
Well since most of his eps were filmed back in March, most everyone knew he was gonna lose. It was just a question of when, and with how much. Also, they tape 5 episodes a day, 5 days a week. So they can get 25 shows in the can in one week. Thats about 100 shows a month.

I don't remember seeing him wearing the same shit every episode. He changed his outfit 5 times a day?

Kon Tiki · Sep 9, 2004

SteveMeister said:
The topic of this thread gives away what the spoiler is, for what other news about Jeopardy could there be?

A New set!

JoshuaJSlone · Sep 9, 2004

Sactown said:
I don't remember seeing him wearing the same shit every episode. He changed his outfit 5 times a day?

You'd show off your new duds, too, if you were making $30,000 an hour.

aparisi2274 · Sep 9, 2004

Sactown said:
I don't remember seeing him wearing the same shit every episode. He changed his outfit 5 times a day?

It has already been said on the show by trebek, and by Jennings when he was on the talk shows a few months back. They do change their clothes after every ep.

samus4ever · Sep 9, 2004

i just bought a new cd. wait this has nothing to do with the topic

ghostface · Sep 9, 2004

Sactown said:
I don't remember seeing him wearing the same shit every episode. He changed his outfit 5 times a day?

I have no clue, but I don't see how that would be very difficult.

teiresias · Sep 9, 2004

Well, they had to have him lose at some point. When it was going to finally come out about this whole "Quiz Show" setup it would be extremely embarrasing. But, it did what they wanted, increased their ratings a bit, something they've been bitter about ever since the plethora of "primetime" game shows a few years back.

Semjaza Azazel · Sep 9, 2004

AirBrian said:
Sean Connery: "Oh, it's my lucky day. I'll take, 'The rapists' for $200."

Alex: "That's therapists."

Burt Reynolds: I'll take, whatayacallit, "Ape Tit."

Alex: "It's not "Ape Tit".

Diablos · Sep 9, 2004

He really only gets half of the 2.5 mil thanks to taxes. That's still a lot of money.

AirBrian · Sep 9, 2004

Semjaza Azazel said:
Burt Reynolds: I'll take, whatayacallit, "Ape Tit."

Alex: "It's not "Ape Tit".

:lol

Most of the SNL Celebrity Jeopardy clips can be found here:

http://mrt300.ods.org/snl/view.php?jeopardy

MIMIC · Sep 9, 2004

:lol The thread title itself gives the story away.

Spiritreaver · Sep 9, 2004

A real man wins the Price is Right.

Shinobi · Sep 9, 2004

Sactown said:
I don't remember seeing him wearing the same shit every episode. He changed his outfit 5 times a day?

It isn't like he couldn't afford to. :lol

Alcibiades · Sep 9, 2004

I just saw 1/2 an episode on Tue and a whole episode yesterday, all because I wanted to see this guy but hadn't had the chance.

I hope I see more episodes where he keeps on winning, it's just so much fun.

I wish I had seen it since last spring, but I didn't really have a chance, and even now I don't really have a chance, but I made it a point just in case he were to lose...

AWESOME, and VERY, VERY, entertaining in the two episodes I caught.

commish · Sep 9, 2004

That girl in White Men Can't Jump would have owned him.

Memles · Sep 9, 2004

They revealed it on Regis and Kelly this morning anyways, so I would have known. But still...there's like 6-7 weeks of Ken left.

Escape Goat · Sep 9, 2004

made you look

Saint Cornelius · Sep 9, 2004

DarthWufei said:
A real man wins the Price is Right.

Hey I just played that at Harrah's Rincon! Well, minus the Bob Barker and "fun" aspect of the show. But they did have amazing reproductions of various sets, like Cliffhanger, Match Game, Hole in One & that fucking wheel thingy!

Alex Anderson · Sep 9, 2004

Teh Hamburglar said:
made you look

This joke was already done.

Made you look.

carpal · Sep 9, 2004

Here's the Final Jeopardy question that he missed. See if you can get it:

Subject: Companies and Corporations. The Answer: This company has a workforce of 17000 people, whose average working year is only 4 months long.

Still waiting on kottke.org to supply the answer.

Mister Zimbu · Sep 9, 2004

carpal said:
Here's the Final Jeopardy question that he missed. See if you can get it:

Subject: Companies and Corporations. The Answer: This company has a workforce of 17000 people, whose average working year is only 4 months long.

Still waiting on kottke.org to supply the answer.

Who is Santa Claus?

Edit:

Come to think about it, the answer could very well be NYRA, but I doubt too many people outside of NY know what that is

alejob · Sep 9, 2004

yoshifumi said:
haha made you look

Yes you did

I find this funny, how stupid am I?

MrPing1000 · Sep 9, 2004

I think im a genius....

My finger smells like poo

Escape Goat · Sep 9, 2004

hah, fooled you again. this is why evil will triumph because good...is dumb.

Matlock · Sep 9, 2004

Teh Hamburglar said:
hah, fooled you again. this is why evil will triumph because good...is dumb.

Ah, but your Schwartz is small.

Guzim · Sep 9, 2004

I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

MIMIC · Sep 9, 2004

*Edit>Select All*

Spike Spiegel · Sep 9, 2004

Go ahead, beat that dead horse some more.

Dilbert · Sep 10, 2004

Without doing any research, my guess on that final Jeopardy! question would be this:

H&R Block. You get your W-2 form in January, and you have until April 15th to file your return. I imagine that 17,000 employees sounds about right for the size of the job, and the fact that not every American pays a professional to file their taxes.

Poody · Sep 10, 2004

that guy is truely a jeopardy master. He new everything and owned rest of the field.

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