Does Brad ever dish it out too?
I mean it’d be pretty dickish if James kept unloading on Brad and Brad never fought back.
if you caught the show today, know that Kelly is my jeopardy spirit animal
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Forgot we had a jeopardy thread here. I got really annoyed a few nights ago at the dumbest wager I’ve seen in a while.
Scores going into FJ (roughly):
A - 18,600
B - 2,200
C - 7,400
A wagered small enough to lock up the win. Be wagered 2,100. C for some reason bet it all, got it wrong, and came in 3rd. Literally just lit $1,000 on fire with 0 potential upside. Although I guess if C was dumb enough to do that maybe they thought A was dumb enough to bet more than 3,800.
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Something I don’t get from Monday’s episode (I think it was Monday). I’ll spoiler things in case someone hasn’t watched.
The FJ answer was Berry Gordy.
The one person who knew it spelled his name “Barry,” which was considered incorrect. I don’t watch religiously enough to know, but are they usually THAT strict on spelling? I understand if it fundamentally changes a person’s last name or changes it to some other known person’s name, but in this case, the pronunciation was exactly the same. Plus, it was his first name.
If it wasn’t FJ, she would have gotten it right, because she would have said the correct name out loud.
Would she have gotten it right if she just wrote his last name?
spelling does not count on final jeopardy, BUT in this case because barry and berry are two distinctly different names, they marked her wrong. just giving the last name would have won it for her
Guess I didn’t see it as two fundamentally different names, just a spelling variation/misspelling. She wasn’t going to win, anyway, but I felt bad for her.
i agree and me too. fuckin judges, bro
She was cute and fun. Just glad to see Jeopardy back.
Yeah is a crazy tradition amongst 2nd and 3rd place runaway victims where they think wagers doesn’t matter. So yeah you aren’t winning, but there is still $1000 on the line
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Factor in taxes and expenses and you’re maybe breaking even on $1,000.
Might as well hope 1st place is a moron and go for broke. Not only would you win if he/she is but you’d have another go at winning more money.
I’m with Jeopardy on this one.
Berry and Barry are definitely different and are not pronounced the same.
That’s not true of the other examples given (Wile E Coyote, Madeline)
Please don’t turn this thread into a Merry, Mary, Marry pronunciation detail. Three distinctly different words and anyone who says otherwise is weird.
Berry
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So Ken is going to be the next host, right? Bringing him in as a “consulting producer” or whatever they called him and having him present clues occasionally is just to get him warmed up, yes?
Obviously. This has been known for some time.
imo: Barry/berry/bury is super clearly one of those situations where many reasonable people pronounce those words differently and many other reasonable people don’t, it’s almost 100% a regional thing. Insane ruling by Jeopardy, the kind of ruling that makes you lose faith in all institutions and the world in general. That their twitter is still defending it is massive wtf and makes it way worse.
(Contestant should have just answered with the last name, but still.)
PS true jawdropper for me in all this was that some % of americans pronounce bury to rhyme with furry??? Can’t say I’ve ever heard that, like if I ever heard someone say “I’m burrried in paperwork” or “go burrry it in the backyard” there would be a tenth of a second where I’d consciously make a poker face. Lol me appurrently
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I feel like I’m pretty neutral-accented, and I pronounce merry/Mary and berry/bury exactly the same (marry and Barry are distinctly different though). Definitely heard the “burry” pronunciation before for bury, but I’m still trying to figure out how people pronounce Mary that it’s distinct from merry.
(Also I now have total semantic satiation and all of these words now sound weird and meaningless lol.)
the moral of the Berry/Barry thing is that you deserve to lose if you ever give a first name in a situation where it’s not clearly required
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Need some audio of people pronouncing merry, Mary and marry differently
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For me, merry and Mary both rhyme with airy. The A sound in marry is like the one in apple.