When she was listing the categories at the beginning of the round, she did say “name the artist”.
Yes, she did, but the category was “SPOKEN WORDS IN CLASSIC SONGS,” and if you didn’t happen to remember Mayim’s instruction, providing the title would seem to be the right thing.
I think it was a badly constructed category. The category name or the clues should make it clear what they are asking for. It shouldn’t rely on a brief host explanation that the players might not recall in the heat of play.
I’m sure they’ve done this before, but IMHO the writers should learn from this to avoid the need for such instructions.
I could have sworn she had said “name the speaker,” so on the “I Lost on Jeopardy” clue, I blurted out" who is Don Pardo?"
Phil Rizzuto did that part of the song. She didn’t sound like him, either. (I still knew that one). But the category was confusing.
They brought that back on FOX earlier this year (Name That Tune with Jane Krakowski and Randy from American Idol). In the revival, they also give clues so the tunes are often superfluous (as in, “it’s obvious that you’re describing “My Heart Will Go On,” but I guess I have to have you play a note for the sake of the game.”)
Well, that was part of the clue:
Phil Rizzuto’s call: “Squeeze play, it’s gonna be close… here’s the play at the plate, holy cow, I think he’s gonna make it!”
I immediately thought of Harry Caray.
I was thinking, “What’s Who is Johnny Gilbert?”. I did get to Weird Al, but probably a fraction of a second after the contestant gave the wrong answer of the right song.
“Johnny Gilbert” did flash through my mind, but then I recognized that the phrasing of the announcement was not what I’d ever heard Johnny Gilbert use, and thought I was being smart when I recalled Weird Al’s lyrics: “Don Pardo, just tell me now what I didn’t win.”
I didn’t even know that there were Bill Gates cosplayers.
Well, Jonathan lost. I am impressed they all got FJ, I sure as hell wouldn’t have.
Fisher’s 11-game winning streak ties for the tenth longest in show history, that immediately following the second longest streak.
Frost was easy (Boston, poetry, mid-20th century) but I impressed the hell out of myself by guessing O’Neil correctly. I had no clue who it was.
I got Frost, but I thought of Thornton Wilder, not O’Neill.
Looking it up, Wilder won three Pulitzers, not four (one for a novel, the other two for plays), died in Connecticut, not Boston, and in 1975, perhaps a little late for “mid-20th century.”
I was so close. 
I got Frost ok, but not O’Neil. When they revealed the answers, I immediately thought . . . that Tip O’Neil didn’t write plays.
I said Tennessee Williams, but I associate him with the South, so unlikely he died in Boston. As it turns out, he died in New York City in 1983, and only won two Pulitzers. So, not a terrible guess.
Just as the music was running out, I turned to my wife, shrugged, and said, “I dunno… Robert Frost and… Eugene O’Neill.”
Imagine my surprise. 
Kudos to Jonathan. He had a nice run.
I got both Frost and O’Neill.
Looking forward to seeing Jonathan and Matt in next year’s TOC.
Nothing against Jonathan (he seems like a very nice guy), but I didn’t find him particularly inspiring. His bets after the first couple of days were quite modest, and he missed a lot of what I thought were very easy Daily Doubles (and other answers as well).
I think he was capable of winning much higher sums than he did, which would have made the game a lot more interesting.
For some reason, I could have sworn Frost was from Chicago. I missed FJ completely.
I immediately thought of Frost and O’Neill - and then could think of nobody else. I was so not-confident that I didn’t bother verbalizing it to my wife.
Even afterwards I kept it to myself.
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I thought of Frost but not O’Neill, who I associated with New London, Connecticut.