For years and years I knew what time and what channel Jeopardy was on. During the gang-bang series of new hosts I rarely watched each do more than one episode and watched only a few minutes of some of them.
I hadn’t thought about it lately but just realized I haven’t even thought about watching Jeopardy for several months. IMHO they should have simply hired a new host with some cred as a game show professional.
The best thing I can say about Bialik is that she is somewhat less annoying than Couric but still equally smarmy. I change the channel when her commercial comes on.
ken and mayim are both good, i’m fine with either or both. ken seems to have hit a good comfort level. ken has a serious vibe, and mayim a fun vibe.
on a totally personal level, i do enjoy seeing what glasses mayim will be wearing. i would love to be able to afford many pairs of glasses to coordinate with my wardrobe.
Alas, I think Buzzy is a no go. He was my pick, I loved the way he hosted. He brought a lively spark to the hosting duty, a nice contrast with Alex.
Mayim is on the level of Dr. Oz to me. If she has a personality or charisma, it’s hidden to me. Besides all the baggage, is the woman color blind? She obviously has no friends or they would have gave her a rundown on complementary colors.
While I liked Ken as a player, I think he comes across as too, I don’t really know how to describe it, maybe meek? Soft spoken? With him speaking so much more in the host role, it really emphasizes his “marbles in his mouth” speaking voice. He definitely lacks charisma.
For me, Ken and Mayim have got me to stop watching altogether. I don’t think I missed a show since it returned with Alex 30? years ago. Back then, I used to tape the weeks episodes and a bunch of us would get together over the weekend for a few beers and watch the whole week at once.(Binging before binging was a word.) Great times.
Maybe if I recorded it and put a cat face over the host like that Zoom lawyer it would be watchable, but I’d have to figure out a way to change the voices also. Seems like a lot of work.
I’ve never been clear on how things like game shows work. Do we think Mayim is choosing her own clothes, or is there a wardrobe person who would do that?
Someone posted a link upthread that says she mostly chooses her own clothes. I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised as she apparently dresses similar in real life. I’m not saying anything bad about the style she chooses, just that she has absolutely no color sense.
I honestly think Jeopardy is tripping over their own feet here. Whoever they pick, people will eventually get used to it. Oh, there might be a few people turned off by Ken or Buzzy or Mayim or the Dalai Lama or whoever, but that will be the case no matter who you choose, and most people will eventually adjust. Just stop goofing around, pick someone, and stick with them; once you’re through the first year, it’ll be fine.
Someone behind the scenes would truly have to hate her for that.
How do those colors get picked? Poll Staples stores to see what’s the slowest selling shade of magic marker?
She comes on right between JJ Walker begging for your ZIP Code…
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“Please people! I haven’t had a job in television in more than 40 years. Don’t make be go back to Pizza Hut! Please? Dynomite…!”
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And Joe Namath begging for ZIP codes.
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“People, won’t you please call? The last pass I threw got me kicked out of the NFL…”
Her “Brain Pills” go over like a lead balloon.
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“Hi! I’m a neuro-scientist… but you know me better as the Scrappy-Doo ships anchor that sank
“The Big Bang Theory” ( Ted McGinley wasn’t available).
Look, I get residuals and you don’t, so I must be smarter than you. Just look at my Smirk!
Buy my snake-oil and You can smirk Too!”
That’s a terrible thing to do to a perfectly good flock of flying monkeys.
You’re right, that’s probably what will happen. I’m one of the ones that already bailed because I don’t like the host/hosts. I watched for 37 years with Alex and I never really liked him, but it’s way worse now. It was surprisingly easy to quit.
I wish!
As I said, I have no problem with what she wears. It’s her horrendous color coordination that’s bad. She can wear whatever style of clothing she likes, but she should accept help from the people on the payroll specifically so she doesn’t look like she just got out of clown college. All she has to do is explain what she needs to fit her idea of modest clothing and wardrobe will work within that boundary.
And don’t even get me started about what I thought when Alex wore a brown suit!
For a while there I was wondering if her parents were buying her clothes & then guilting her into wearing them! But, to be fair, if someone… ok a Full Team of Someones… addressed her clothes with some fashion sense ( and if she was civil and open to the suggestions of people in the makeup trailer ) she could present a better foot forward. But that smirk? Trademark or not, that has got to go.
And the snap-back answers like “That’s Right!” which come out of her mouth with an angry force… like a child pounding on piano keys… that has to change. It’s not only cringe-worthy
but it might actually peel paint. Does she even know that her facial expressions drip condescension like Sheldon discussing an Engineering Degree? Nothing about that is fun.
Nothing.
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Yes, but Alex had that ‘energy’. He could have said “I’m the captain of a Canadian Corsair and you are now all my prisoners! Vive Quebec…!” and everyone would have laughed.
He made it fun.
Don’t get me wrong, Mayim is having fun. What she doesn’t get is that… nobody else in the room is.
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As for the brown suit, did I ever tell you about the time that a famous American President once wore a brown suit? Oh how the Social Registry had The Vapors!
It took dozens of drums of Fabreeze just to cover up the stink…
I noticed that she calls the first round “single Jeopardy” and the second round “double Jeopardy” but I can’t remember if Alex Trebek referred to the first round as single Jeopardy though calling the second round double jeopardy seems more natural.
Those still watching might. Those of us who don’t shrug off egregiously unethical stances blaming sexual assault victims and spreading vaccine misinformation won’t. Jeopardy! is a show about facts, about authority. The face of the show shouldn’t be someone who blatantly disregards the former and misrepresents herself as the latter.
