Time for all the overpaid celebrities to get the smack down on questions too easy for the Teen Tournament.
Did anybody else enjoy seeing Nancy Grace get her hind parts handed to her after crossing out the right answer last night? This is always a period of dire schadenfrude for me.
Anybody else enjoying this guilty pleasure?
Then the day is MINE! I’ll take the rapists for $200.
Thats “therapists,” not “the rapists.”
I frequently watch Jeopardy, and so Yes, I have watched a couple of nights this week. I don’t consider it a gulty pleasure–especially when I don’t really recognize the celebrities.
I haven’t seen the line-up, but I’m hoping that one of their guests will be the actual Sean Connery – it’s just too good to resist. Of course, those SNL skits are several years old – maybe the real Trebek and the real Connery have already battled it out on a previous season’s Celebrity Jeopardy?
I watched last night, and was confused by the bet the guy on the far right (the guy from Queer Eye?) – he was in the lead, and I think he meant to wager so that he would get one dollar more than Regis Philbin, but instead he screwed it up and ended up with a dollar less. 
Tonight’s were pretty obscure, except for Mr. Schilling.
Math skillz rule, lol!
I was rooting for Jane Kazmerik (sp?) - she’s from Wisconsin.
And she did quite well except for final Jeopardy!
Brian
(guessed the right question)
so did I.
More people watched Jane Kaczmarek’s show in the average week than watch Red Sox games in an entire season; she’s quite famous, the best actor on a very successful TV show.
That said, I find these celebrity week depressing. My Christ, these people are just appallingly dumb. I’m half expecting tomorrow night’s episode will include the category “Months That Begin With `Feb.’”
Aww, come on. In fairness, they probably do better than your average person pulled off the street, and there’s no pretense that they’re on the show because they smart – or even that they’ve achieved their celebrity status because they’re smart.
Now *that * is depressing.
The late Green Bay quarterback Reggie White, who was a lay minister at his church, did terribly in the category Biblical quotations.
Another time the clue was about which NBA player held a certain record. Charles Barkley didn’t know, but Martha Stewart did!
Why does Jeopardy do this? Does it somehow boost their ratings? What benefit is it to Jeopardy to have obscure ‘celebrities’ answer questions that would bore a middle-schooler?
And, yes, Nancy Grace is a dimwit of the first order. Yet, somehow, she became a lawyer.
Can diplomas be recalled if you publicy prove yourself to be an idiot?
nitpick: Defensive end, not quarterback.
:smack: :smack: And I’m from Wisconsin.
Usually my husband and I call out the answers as the show progresses. We agreed that for Celebrity Jeopardy, it’s easier to just say when we don’t know the answer.
His final tally: 1 in the first round, 2 in the second
My final tally: 1 in the first round, 3 in the second
The questions are easier than most of what they have in kids’ week, for heaven’s sake. How dumb are people, really? It’s a depressing thought.
List of players on Celebrity Jeopardy, going back to the early '90s.
After tonight’s show was over, I said to my wife, “The best thing about Celebrity Jeopardy is it makes you feel so good about yourself.”
I was really hoping the Final Jeopardy category would be something like “Constitutional Law” or “Differential Equations.” Alas.
“I’ll take colors that end in -urple for $200… What is light urple?”
I suppose some people may enjoy seeing celebrities make idiots of themselves, but I find it more fun to see some celebrity I never suspected had a functioning brain cell turn out to be very smart.
One of the earliest celebrity games I ever saw was the one where Cheech Marin ended up the big winner. I always like to be pleasantly surprised that way.