Metapost: JOSH … ON … JEOPARDY! (and two other things)
Three items of interest for you in this early hour metapost! First up is the most exciting (to me, anyway): Next Tuesday, July 22, your humble blogger will be appearing on the game show Jeopardy! Will it be the first installment in an epic Ken Jennings-style saga of money-winning, or will I flame out ignominiously on the first try? Does Alex Trebek secretly share my love of Rex Morgan, M.D.? Do I at least wear a nice tie? Tune in to find out! The show is syndicated, so check your local listings for time and channel. And, if you happen to live in Baltimore or not too terribly far from it, feel free to join me and my friends as we watch the show. We’ll be at P.J.’s Pub at 3333 N. Charles St. in Charles Village — right across the street from Hopkins Homewood campus and next door to Barnes and Noble. In Baltimore the show starts at 7 p.m., but we’ll be gathering starting at 6 p.m. for pizza and booze!
Item two! You may have noticed this comment from Sally Forth scribe Ces Marciuliano in the previous thread, but I’m highlighting it here for those who haven’t:
Just wanted to let you know that for one week, July 28-August 2 (with a Sunday strip on August 24), I will be taking over art and writing duties for Bizarro thanks to the kindness of the strip’s creator Dan Piraro, who took time off to fight crime or whatever it is he does when he dons a cape and cowl, jumps out his apartment window and says, “Don’t wait up.”
The strip will still appear under the name Bizarro but will feature my own comics and the URL for my webcomic Medium Large (medium-large.com, which is still in what we web designers like to call the “unmitigated disaster” phase of construction). Those familiar with the Medium Large archives will no doubt recognize some of the strips. Those familiar with Dan’s sheer mastery of the comic strip art form and his unique brand of hilarity will no doubt be disappointed (as you can clearly see, I have yet to get a firm grasp on self-promotion despite years as a copywriter and a therapy patient).
Dan will also be reviewing each strip the day of publication on his blog, where he will surely pepper his critiques of my comics with such bon mots as “mere dilettante,” “a national disgrace,” and “this bastard has ruined me.”
This is the first time Dan has used a guest cartoonist in the history of his strip. By the end of my run we’ll see if it will be his last.
I’d just like to add that anything that will prompt Ces to actually put the brilliant archives of Medium Large back online (and maybe even start making new ones!), and distract him from constantly, feverishly thinking about Ted and Sally “practic[ing] making a baby,” is very much a good thing.
Finally, here’s a note I received that will hopefully be of interest to one of you:
Throughout Comic-Con in San Diego next week, Andrew Feinstein (who writes/draws the comic strip Girls & Sports) in conjunction with Dogmatic Films is filming a documentary about the experience from the perspective of several attendees. In addition to showcasing the cultural phenomenon that Comic-Con has become through interviews with celebrities, industry executives, comic book store owners, costumed veterans, first timers, and so on, we will be following several attendees throughout the convention. Like many Comic-Con attendees, our main subjects are either looking to be discovered or are hoping to discover something new for themselves.
We have lined up most of our participants, but are actively looking for a young artist who is bringing his/her portfolio to be reviewed by DC Comics, Marvel, etc, in hopes of getting a job as an artist. Secondly, we are also looking for someone with an independent comic book hoping to get it picked up by a bigger publisher or attract a wider audience.
In addition, if you’re an industry executive, comic book store owner, professional artist, and so on, we’d love to interview you. One of our cameras will be dedicated for these interviews, so we can accommodate your schedule at the convention.
If you or someone you know would be interested in this exciting project, please email us at: dogmaticfilms@gmail.com and we will arrange to meet at the convention. Thank you!
This could be your big break, people! Or at least your chance to be in a movie.
ChattyGenes
July 18th, 2008 at 7:23 am
That’s neat, Josh! My mom is a BIG Jeopardy fan, I’ll tell her to watch! (Don’t know if I can see it here; maybe I’ll have her tape it for me!)
ChattyGenes
July 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am
PS to my #1 You have no idea how tempting it was to write F****! …well, you know. (I don’t want to get deleted, here!)
John C Fremont
July 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Ken Jennings? I was thinking more like Bob Harris. Sure he lost on Jeopardy, but has a cool website. And pudu.
monsieurjohn
July 18th, 2008 at 7:26 am
crap! i’m moving to baltimore next month or i’d totally be there. and i have a day job so i can’t watch, either. i hope someone puts it on youtube!
Josh
July 18th, 2008 at 7:29 am
#4 monsieurjohn–
While Jeopardy’s broadcast time varies from place to place, it’s almost always on in the coveted between-the-news-and-primetime slot, between 6:30 and 8. No excuses!
Josh
Chennuxfangrl
July 18th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I have class that night, but I will be TIVOing it!
Islamorada Girl
July 18th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I will even give up my beloved Simpsons reruns to tune in to our Josh on Jeopardy. What is Vanna really like? Oh, I can’t wait!
Islamorada Girl
July 18th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Crapster. I meant Alex. It’s too early in the morning and I’m on deadline. Go Josh!
Shoshi
July 18th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I hope no one freaks out that I’m going to repost this from yesterthread:
136 Cranky — HA, you called it for Gil Thorp!
Frank Parsnip
July 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Fresh back from a long and very relaxing vacation weekend, I can still say that I do envy Josh the experience of being on Jeopardy fresh from his Italian capers. The only thing that could have been better would have been a stint on Wheel … of …. Fortune. Hopefully we’ll get a gem that beats this one: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K70OmtBsTf4&feature=related
Chatty Genes: Was down in Ishigaki and had a blast with Mrs. Parsnip and myself taking the babies to the beach for their first time!
Blynneda
July 18th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Jeopardy? Wow! Congrats, Josh! (That must be what all those vacations were all about…)
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Oh, great, Josh. Someone with pop-culture knowledge. I used to love watching the brainiacs that have extensive knowledge of 14th century Italian art, but fail miserably at the audio daily double which was a recent #1 smash.
I’d name specifics, like an actual contestant, Italian artist or hit song, but I’m fresh off reading
Herb & Jamaala comic featuring two African American men who own a diner.smacky
July 18th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I’ll be rooting for you (though what effect does rooting for someone who did something in the past have? It’s like rewatching the 1985 Super Bowl, right? I’ll just pretend it’s live!)
In other news, has Mary Worth had another ministroke? “You’re just making that up?” How is that a comprehensible response? He might be exaggerating, or just talking complete shit, but a favorable comparison to something else isn’t “making something up,” Mary. It’s a lie to get into your granny panties.
Whippersnapper
July 18th, 2008 at 8:31 am
I can’t wait for Josh on Jeopardy!
‘Shaft: I will forgive Batiuk everything if tomorrow’s strip shows the cops bringing the old lady out of the house in cuffs, which will catapult us into a storyline ending with her getting a gang tattoo in prison while Crankshaft weepily fills his pockets with rocks and walks into Lake Erie after realizing that his school bus hijinks relegate him to minor league evil, and he just doesn’t have what it takes to make it in the big leagues.
Harry Worth
July 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Who is Kelrast?
The answer to “Name the anagram of stalker in a Mary Worth arc.”
There, now you know the answer to next weeks final Jeopardy.
In regards to Mary Worth, Dr. Jeff is going to be looking over her book shelf and find a book called “To Serve Man”
After looking at it for a minute he goes running out the door screaming
“It’s a SEX MANUAL!!!!!!!”
Run for your life.
GotFuzzy
July 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Here’s hoping our Josh does better than the last Internet star to be on Jeopardy. One of the guys who came up with International Talk Like a Pirate Day was on a few weeks ago. He finished third, did not let fly with even one “arrrgghhhhhhh” outside of the stilted banter with Alex, and certainly did not stage a swashbuckling raid on the winner’s podium. Kind of sad, really.
FOOB: And the dysfunction comes full circle. Liz just needs to unhinge her jaw and go all Muppet-mouth on Francie–as I like to call it, The Full Elly.
MT: Why do they tell Kelly Welly things like this? You know she’s going to be laying out the steaks and bacon in a big arrow pointing right to the campsite, and rubbing Roger down with the leftovers to try to get some good pictures of the “old cat” as she claws him up one side and down the other.
MW: Mmmmmm…beige scampi. At least Mary has the good sense to serve white wine with it instead of the usual blood, ketchup or pink Kool-Aid that comprise the Bum Boat’s wine list.
Perky Bird
July 18th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Wow, Josh, that is so cool! It will give me an excuse to learn how to use our new digital recorder thingy. I do hope you’ll be wearing that stunning Family Circus. And if you don’t know the answer to the final Jeopardy question, I hope you at least write “What is Margo!Boxcar!Saturn!”
yellojkt
July 18th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Josh,
That is gret news! Cue Weird Al parody music. I’m rooting for you.
Sequitur
July 18th, 2008 at 8:59 am
What #18 says.
Muffaroo of the Outdated Meme Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Yesterthread:
(All my problems were remote and dead,
Now I think I should have stayed in bed.
Oh, yesterthread, why have you fled?)
(Oh, yeah. The comments.)
Frank Parsnip @224 – Good call on Mark Trade. It only remains to find that web site. We can be a force for good, in a limited way.
Mr. O’Malley @231 – Not “Elmero,” but “El Mero,” meaning the mere or the simple. Nothing complex about ol’ Elmer! He’s hunting wabbits, uh huh huh huh.
Tweeks_Coffee
July 18th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Awesome, Josh! I expect you to do your best Connery on SNL impression. (Yes! I conquered HTML!)
A3G: Melts into the crowd my ass, I can see him standing right there!
BB: Who’s Blondy McRandom there and why is her glass so much smaller than anyone else’s?
‘Shaft: Nothing like a corpse to set the tone of the day. Thanks, Batiuk!
Curtis: This is getting downright irritating. Obviously this guy is a pretty worthless animator if he couldn’t get a job at one of the many animation studios. With all the cartoons out, he couldn’t get a job on a single one of them? I think this guy’s just an attention whore and I hate him.
FC: Bitch-slap him, Bil, it really wouldn’t be that hard and no jury would you convict you.
FW: I see Les is strongly opposed to the whole “moving on with your life” thing.
GT: Oh for… A BASEBALL TEAM WOULDN’T WASTE A VISA ON A HIGH SCHOOL KID!
Heathcliff: Jesus Christ, I never want to see this image again.
H&J: A senior citizen crossing guard that’s not at a school? has anyone ever heard of this before?
Momma: Is this a standard question? Most people ask me what the dog’s name is before they interrogate me as to what I’m feeding her.
6C: Surely not the terrorist fist jab!
Zits: I have a feeling more than one person’s day was made by this.
Poppinjay
July 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Islamorada Girl, I thought your Vanna post was hilarious. Don’t take it back.
mir777
July 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hooray!
And FWIW I can’t believe PJs is still there! I was a Hopkins grad a Loooong time ago and remember it drunkenly/fondly.
Weaselboy
July 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Good job, Josh! I will SO be watching Jeopardy on 7/22. My 30 minutes of fame came in 1998, when I came in second to a guy who went on to win the Tournament of Champions that year. My second place prize was a trip to Catalina Island, or as Mrs. Weaselboy called it, “Cata-f*cking-lina” (She had seen some cruises given away earlier in the taping day).
Chupper
July 18th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Rock out with your Josh out! Given the esoteric correlations Josh draws between comics and all manner of historical and cultural items, I’m sure we’re in for a rollicking good Jeopardation.
The Divine O’F
July 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hot damn, Josh! Woo hoo! I’m so excited! I can’t wait to see if you won! AND I am totally impressed. I took the test for Jeopardy once and didn’t make the final cut. it was HARD. It required knowledge of things like who Vanna White is.
anon anon
July 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I’ll be watching Jeopardy! Good luck!
moving on….
Marmaduke: Let me be the very first to say that this is the most disgusting Marmaduke EVER, and that’s really saying something. I assume those ,,,uh….mounds around the doghouse are just dug-up dirt from burying bones. Sure looks like something else. The owner better get out there with a shovel and a wheelbarrow.
Ken Jennings
July 18th, 2008 at 9:38 am
C’mon Josh. Tell us how you did.
Please…..
At least give us the final Jeopardy question for 7/22 so that we can impress the people we watch the show with.
Muffaroo of the Outdated Meme Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Crank – Ah, bait and switch. Looks like Mom’s been getting stabby again.
DT – Just when you think it can’t get uglier, Hench Mann has to try and tip Mr. B. a wink. (Every time I see those words, I think of Shirley Booth as Hazel, talking about “Missy and Mr. B.) Only his eyes are always closed anyway, so in order to wink, he has to let one of his bleary optics protrude about an inch. On the plus side, the cross hatching in panel 3 is sort of Gould-y.
FC – I’d have sworn that jellyfish don’t frolic in the water like that.
FW – “Hi, Cindy! Good to see you. Anyway, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, Lisa…”
FW (alternate) – Now Les’s life’s an empty stage, where Lisa lived and Lisa played, and Love threw up.
GA – Cartoon logic. “Ze Kee-tee, she does not eat ze cat food! I mus’ reason wiss her!”
Horrid the Hun – Helga’s got a good idea, but if she really wanted to make her point, she should be stabbing the doll in the finger where Hagar would be wearing a wedding ring if the artist put that much detail into the strip.
MT – When they do those longshots with an animal looming in the foreground, they should make the letters in the word balloon really tiny. It would add to the verisimilitude, and if they become unreadable, nobody would really mind.
Marvin – I’ve consulted a lawyer myself. He says that since they’ve been doing this stupid gag for so long, the pacifier is entitled to have the strip retitled “Marvin and the Goddamn Pacifier.”
MW – “Seriously, Mary, I love this stuff so much… hey, let’s run out to the Bum Boat and compare it to their seafood scampi! Right now!”
Momma – What?? I’m with Tweeks_Coffee on this. Is this something that would sort of work if it was better drawn? Maybe he could put one of those coolie hats on the dog — anything to make that question seem to make sense.
Pluggers – This plugger doesn’t know it yet, but he has died and gone to Plugger Heaven, where medicine bottles can be opened easily and gas costs 39 cents a gallon for Ethyl.
PC – Nothing like a comic where you have to carefully work out what you’re supposed to be seeing. His face is grotesquely malformed! No, wait, those must be his hands. So that’s not his hand sticking out in front! It must be his dick. No, his navel. No, it’s his tail, and he must have just turned completely around.
S-M – Good speller? He got “man meat” wrong in two ways! (I know Josh already pre-empted the Dorothy jokes, but I still keep hearing that witch music as I picture the Vulture laboriously spelling out all those letters.)
ZZZZits – Say what you will, at least the “sleeping Jeremy” story arc ended in about a third of the time the “pacifier split” thing has been going on in Marvin. So far.
ChattyGenes
July 18th, 2008 at 9:54 am
#10 Frank Parsnip. That must have been such fun! Years ago, when Daughter #1 was four, and Daughter #2 was (hugely) on the way, we went to the ocean here with another young couple, who had a 10-month old baby. I’ve never seen such a delighted kid–he laughed and chortled at the sand, the waves, the sounds, the smells. He was in seventh heaven, really!
Hawkeye
July 18th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Hey, that’s so cool. Best of luck to you.
Dean Booth
July 18th, 2008 at 10:00 am
That’s exciting news, Josh. Watching Jeopardy was a tradition in my family for years and years.
Best of Luck! It’s all in the categories!
Anon
July 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I hope that you remember that shrimp scampi is an oxymoron and did not use that as a question.
Mariko
July 18th, 2008 at 10:02 am
MT–
I’m pretty sure they’re describing typical behavior of a bear. I live in an area with both bears and mountain lions, and the latter are a whole lot nastier; they will stalk you, whether they have young or not. Not just “keep an eye” on you.
Cranked Shaft
July 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Another Red Herring.
That would be a good question for Jeopardy.
I would say good luck but you know how you did. In that light I say
a) Congratulations
b) Better luck next time
c) all of the above
d) none of the above
gh
July 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Too cool, Josh! Did you master the secret handshake? Alex didn’t tell you about the secret handshake? Well, never mind then.
JB
July 18th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Woohoo! Congrats, Josh.
This will make at least 2 folks here that have been on Jeopardy. ;-)
Zits: after a week of lame get-him-out-of-bed strips, today has a nice payoff.
GF: Swiss Alsatian. Very funny. I have a brother-in-law that lives just NE of Basel, Switzerland, in Alsace (France), across the Rhine from Germany. He’s getting a link to this one in his inbox this morning.
MW: Does Mary have a single chopstick stuck in her hand? Please tell me that’s not supposed to look like a real hand holding a fork? And how can anyone say “Bum Boat” and think “high quality food” at the same time?
UnknownEric
July 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Please tell me “Potent Potables” was a category!
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Zits – The Water “cannon” came true! Wow, I’m almost as prophetic as Mary Worth or Margo’s Mom Gabriella.
Almost.
MW – “Test it out”? Sounds like a government pork project doomed to failure. Or maybe he’s referring to a yet-untried sex position.
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Mary and Jeff, back together eating indistinct, gelatinous masses of food product labeled Soylent Shrimp Scampi. But, let’s take a quick stroll down memory lane to a time when things didn’t look quite so peachy for the happy couple. In fact, I’d even go so far as to stroll back to a simpler time before Dr. Jeff had black hair with blue tint, and prior to that before he discovered the joys of Grecian Formula.
The air is stultifying. The streets sizzle. The sun pours heat down in torrents. Argyle Sweater figures it’s time for a Christmas themed toon. Great, and what is that quote about timing being the essence of comedy?
Funky: Too bad you can’t get mugged in the same alleyway as the last time. It’s become a tourist mugging area and you need a reservation two weeks in advance at least – unless you know someone on the inside, of course.
Hey, Les, didn’t you go to NYC to expand your pizza business? WTF?
It’s 2-for-1 day in Cathyland. Guisewite could have cut the strip at 4 panels, making the only joke the fact that they have no where to hang any of the pictures that will never make it to frame-status anyway. But she went for the additional play on “get a hammer – - and build an extension to the house.” I have to admit it was not badly played. Now if we could just take this recurring theme of “Cathy’s vacation photos are a mess” and bury it in the deepest mine shaft available, detonate all available entrances to the mine and put up warnings with the symbol for biohazard waste and instructions not to reopen for ten millennia.
Mark Trail:
Moss says: “She may come into camp looking for food.”
Kelly hears: “Throw raw meat around the camp as a welcome mat.”
Moss says: “We don’t want to ask for trouble.”
Kelly hears: “Bring ‘em on!”
Cherrie and Moss ought to come to the conclusion that Kelly is a danger to herself and others. The law of the outback is to just up and blow her away. Make Roger do it so he can’t go squealing to the cops.
And in Rex Moron, an unsuspecting young police officer has stumbled upon the solution to THE GREAT WRESTLING MAT HEIST OF 2008. No doubt that Max will have to shoot the unwitting CHiP because he knows too much.
Opus' Mom
July 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Does anyone else feel like today’s Hagar is particularly poorly drawn? I thought at first they had switched artists again.
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Hagar: During the heat of battle, Helga stabs the Hagar doll in the arms causing the flesh and blood Hagar to drop his sword and shield at a critical time and he loses his life. Ha ha ha!
MW: “It’s even better than the Bum Boat!” Maybe because the cooks at the Bum Boat see you coming and crap in the food.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Heh. I may have to start watching Jeopardy again.
7/18
JP: Hey look! They are plugging willethompson’s book. But I hope Vince Lombardi doesn’t hear what Steve said about being a good loser.
Garfield: What exactly is the joke here? I know a lot of cats that sleep during the daytime that aren’t particularly lazy. I mean, cats don’t have 9to5 jobs.
BC: Works pretty well on a meta level, even if frogs way predate mammals.
FC: “Jesus Christ, Billy! If I wanted to hear that kind of moronic drivel, I’d have brought Jeffy.”
HtH: Aren’t those maidens just two stenographers on their lunch break? If Hagar and Eddie lived their entire lives inside a sprawling Renaissance Faire, that would account for a lot.
MC: Whatever Norm does, he must be pretty damn good at it if he can get away with talking to his boss like this.
S-M: Which one of these two clowns will actually get a clue and charge admission to watch the fight?
DT: So is it okay to use full names now, or does Ernst Stavro Blofeld get a free pass?
Luann: If all goes well, we may soon see TJ fetal position on the floor, cradling his nuts.
MT: You can’t tell her that. She’s Kelly Welly, and if she wants to, she’ll ask for second helpings of trouble.
FW: If this is flirting, I’m pretty sure Les is doing it wrong.
C-Shaft: In a plot twist, Mama Ukraine didn’t die. She just flipped and stabbed her nurse. Good times, good times.
H&J: “And titties. Yeah, titties are nice too.”
RMMD: If I’m not mistaken, that trooper is actually Tom Cruise. Sure, he’ll get rid of the MRSA mats for you. Just be prepared to hear the two hour pitch on Scientology.
Lake Eerie
July 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
GT – That Bugs sure is a multi-tasker! Six-pack of beer? Check. Unlit cigar? Check. Late-90s model cell phone? Check. Fishing pole? Check. Old dock in high tide about to be three feet underwater? Uhhh….
Big news for Jimmy Hughes, though. Hopefully he spends some time with Detroit’s farm team, the Erie Sea-Wolves – I’d love to see some incomprehensible Gil Thorp-style baseball action where I live.
FBOFW – Sugar cereal? Candy? Toy? Let’s not be too specific, Francie. We don’t want to burst the bubble of magic realism. (Skipping the obvious Herb & Jamaal reference for you far more witty types)
Curtis – I see this has been getting a lot of negative feedback, though at least the comic is being specific about real-world items, unlike some comics I could mention. All the name-dropping suggests to me that Ray Billingsley is not really following an anti-Pixar stance, but is indulging in his love for the quotation mark.
DAS
July 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am
A3G: Alan & Haley may be the users in this strip, but it seems Eric is the one who is having all the drug effects (and from half-way ’round the world) — he sure seems drug addled. Then again, as a soon-to-be absent-minded professor, I figure I’ll never need to take illicit drugs: I can experience the pleasures of being in a drug-soaked daze without any chemical help simply due to my luftmenschig nature.
MT: I never knew mountain lions go into camps looking for food. In my experience: if you’re bigger than mountain lion prey / mountain lions keep well away. I only know one person who’s even caught more than a fleeting glimpse of a mountain lion in the wild — my dad … who is a relatively careful tracker (he lived in Altadena, CA as a pre-teen and his parents raised him in an atmosphere of benign neglect — the whole of the San Gabriel mountains was his back yard, so to speak, and he was free to roam).
Bears OTOH, that’s another story. Bears even realize that humans fear them: one time (I was asleep at the time, suffering a wee bit from altitude sickness), some bears came into the campsite at Whitney portal trying to drive everyone from their food, acting all menacing and such. Except they were outnumbered by humans and eventually they realized that they weren’t frightening anyone and that, should it come to fisticuffs, they would loose in spite of having sharper claws than we … they eventually abandoned their “scare the humans away and eat their food” plan. These were black-bears, I wouldn’t recommend trying quite this strategy with brown-bears though.
FOOB: “sugar cerial”? next thing you know, the kid is going to be asking for “that sugary cerial all the kids want” and she’ll run away to Herb&Jamaal-land where she’ll fit in better.
DAS
July 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Lake Erie … I guess I made the reference so it’s not a problem that you skipped it.
man behind the curtain
July 18th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Josh, I just hope you didn’t bring up anything about you and Alex Trebek’s mother.
RNND — I think it’s about time for Rex to call in the HazMat squad.
LuAnn — Considering her other love interests, I don’t understand why LuAnn is rejecting TJ.
FBOW — In light of recent events, maybe the wedding should be moved to Afghanistan where a US airstrike could solve all of the problems and bring the strip to a grand conclusion.
Scott
July 18th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Congrats on Jeopardy, Josh. That’s awesome. As someone who has had the good fortune to be on two game shows (”Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and “The Price Is Right”), I can tell you it’s something you’ll remember in vivid detail the rest of your life, win or lose. Can’t wait to see it!
Non-Shannon
July 18th, 2008 at 10:31 am
OH MY GOD! Josh, you are living the dream. Well, my dream at least. Wowee!!!
Lake Eerie
July 18th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m looking forward to your appearance on Jeopardy, Josh! I’ll compare my score to yours fter yelling my responses at the television. As my parents-in-law should be over for dinner that night, I can watch their puzzled faces as I explain how important the night’s episode is.
And a happy belated birthday to you, young man. Just wait until you hit your, erm, LATE 30s
Lake Eerie
July 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am
46 DAS:
Of course! I said I was waiting for someone wittier, and you delivered!
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 18th, 2008 at 10:44 am
#32 Dean Booth,
Ooh, Carly Cat. That’s a pretty challenging category. The easy questions are all in the Cassandra category.
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 10:48 am
#42 – I’ll bet that Jeff is a really shitty tipper, hence the altered food.
When Mary bites into her next Bum Boat shrimp, she’ll realize, after it goes down the hatch, that it wasn’t really a shrimp after all.
The chef, now nicknamed “Jerry G” because of his recent accidental loss of a manual digit, will come to the table to ask how the Meddling Matron of Santa Royale is enjoying her “scampi.”
Bunnë, Official Comic Execrator
July 18th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Excellent! And way to go, not telling us how it worked out. a friend of mine was on Jeopardy, and she won two days in a row. I taped it and watched the first two days eagerly, but had a hard time bringing myself to watch the third day, knowing she was just going to be crushed by some smug bastard in a button-down shirt.
She said Trebek was kinda weird in person. Was this your experience?
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am
And Congrats Josh on being on Jeopardy!
Hope you got some nice tips ($) for playing the game. And meeting Alex must have been interesting (he’s Canadian, as you prolly know).
T. Chicana
July 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Go Joshie! Can’t wait to see you on Jeopardy! I’ll be traveling to Philly on business, but what better way to cure my homesickness than order up a bunch of room service and watch this spectacle!
I hope your little chat with Alex wasn’t too awkward. I usually have to change the channel during that part because it can be painful to watch! It seems like Alex just doesn’t get it sometimes and just sort of acts like a dick. I’m sure you dazzled him, though.
lesles
July 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am
the antipodes
where won’t you be able to watch josh on jeopardy
:(
commodorejohn
July 18th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Jeopardy, huh? Cripes, I’m going to have to try to pick up KARE 11 from down in Minneapolis if I’m going to watch it, unless some kind soul puts it on YouTube.
A3G – “This must be a note from Tenzin! He says that ‘DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE!’”
Crankshaft – Why is she quivering? Did the prospect of not taking care of a cranky old woman anymore trigger a seizure?
Curtis – That’s right, there were no animation studios anywhere that were hiring, and he had no other skills (like, say, drawing,) so he was forced into making sandwiches for a living. Bullshit.
FOOB – “Sugar cereal?” What is this, Herb & Jamaal!? Couldn’t Lynn at least fake a brand name? You know, like Charles I CALL HIM SPARKY DID I MENTION YET THAT I WAS PROTEGE PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEE did? And remember, folks, making peace with a stepchild is just as easy as that! When you’re a Wonderful Majestic Patterson, that is. But, of course, you still have to suffer through the awful burden that is being nagged by a [three|five|eight]-year-old, because how else would you feed your martyr complex?
FW – Trying to pretend his wife never died, ten years after the fact? Yep, that’s our Les! I can’t wait until he buys a mannequin and starts making it into a simulacrum of Lisa. The “family bonding time” he forces on Summer should be hilarious.
GT – oh God the perspective it WAS NOT MEANT TO BE EEYARGH
HTH – Man, every time I think Chris Browne has slipped completely into zombie-strip lameness, he goes and springs something actually surprising and unexpected on me.
Luann – Yep, the pitchforks-and-torches mob should be forming right…about…nnnnnnow.
MT – Dude, have you not learned yet? If you tell Kelly Welly what not to do, she’s going to do it.
NS – Gee, Wiley, tell us what you really think.
Pluggers – Finally, a Pluggers strip that just makes the blanket statement.
SM – Oh man is this hilariously lame.
Bootsy
July 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I’ve been convinced for quite some time that a ‘Mudge writes some of the questions for Jeopardy. There was a question (answer?) for which the answer (question?) was the owners of Marmaduke, and you had to give their actual names. Phil and Dot something, I think. Though Phil and Dot sounds like some kind of child’s game. Anyway, I watch it to trash talk the players I don’t think bet enough on the Daily Doubles, or give dumb answers. “Really, you wuss? Othello? Come on!”
Anyway, I’ll be watching, Josh. I promise no trash talking too.
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 10:57 am
#56 – Yes, the chit-chat is awkward sometimes.
Sometimes it’s really funny too, when the contestants don’t take themselves too seriously.
Well, I’m telling my Mom and my partner about July 22, as I tell them about this blog (my Mom and Dad used to be huge Peanuts fans), and my partner usually shows me the recent comix offering in the local paper by André Coté, a brilliant Quebec political cartoonist. Party on Josh and mudges!
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
#58 – FOOB – Liz could have at least sprung for a small box of Frosted Fruitbats, or Molasses Frosted Spelt Flakes. Jeez, what a cheapo.
Buy local!
bats :[
July 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
THIS IS GREAT, JOSH! I hope you do well! While I don’t watch it often (it’s not in the coveted time slot here in Tucson), Jeopardy is my favorite game show (even before the Weird Al song — I hope you’re not up again plumber and an architect, both with a PhD!).
And on the Friends of the Library front: the pizza was good, and some donor had evidently come to their senses and done some serious housecleaning: I swear we got EVERY Family Circus small paperback collection ever printed (there are some oldies!), and the first three LJ collections.
(I showed the LJ ones to mr. bats :[ and then had to explain that they were the FOOB predessors. “But those people don’t look anything like they do now!” was his comment. “Yes, because they’ve all turned into fat-assed, potato-nosed harridans and/or jellyfish,” I replied.)
Again, Good Luck!
CanuckDownSouth
July 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Y174-Poteet re: FOOB: Francoise is not quite 3-and-a-half years old. Therese was hugely pregnant in January 2005, and April went to the baby shower post-birth in March 2005. Yes, I checked. This strip is turning me into a masochist. Or I just wanted to be able to contribute something before heading off on a vacation.
Uncle Lumpy
July 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
#59 Bootsy –
Phil ‘n’ Dot sounds like a Puccini opera. And I have to say, an opera based on Marmaduke would be pretty awesome. Well, except for the squicky squicky love scene.
T. Chicana
July 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Foob: Well, for being a mom, Liz has already got the “mom jeans” part down! Technically, they are “mom khakis” I guess. You know, with the waistband hiked up somewhere wayyyy north of the belly button with the camel toe wedged in at an uncomfortable-just-to-look-at angle. With the top tucked in, of course!
Windier E. Megatons
July 18th, 2008 at 11:17 am
#59 – Are you kidding me? The names of Marmaduke’s owners was a Jeopardy response? I doubt even Brad Anderson knows what they are.
kippetje2000
July 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am
“I’ll take Newspaper Comics for a gazillion samolies, Alex.” Josh, I wouldn’t mention the snark about FBOW; Alex is from up that way you know. Don’t forget the next post must be in the form of a question!
TheDiva
July 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Woot Josh! You’re living the dream!–well, my dream, anyway.
Curtis: You know, I find it hard to believe that Ray Billingsley, normally the champion of all things African-American, has not even heard of The Princess and the Frog. You’d think he’d use this discussion as an opportunity to praise Disney for jumping on the progressive bandwagon, or chide them for daring to name the heroine “Maddy” in the first draft of the script…
Honeypot
July 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Another Jeopardy alumni here, from back in 1986. No existing copy remains of my loss, for which I am grateful. Those were the years of the unfortunate perm.
Hope you did well, Josh! But no matter what, it is an experience you remember…
Shoshi
July 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Once again, Hagar had to be censored. She wasn’t originally putting the pin in his LEG.
But my immediate thought was–why the heck would she CARE what (or who) Hagar does when he’s away?
Bootsy
July 18th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Windier, I kid not. I believe there was also a Heathcliff question/answer recently too. I tell you, one of the writers is a Mudge.
Shoshi
July 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Please, someone put Josh’s Jeopardy appearance on YouTube. Thanks.
T. Chicana
July 18th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hagar: So by giving her husband crippling voodoo leg pain, that’s how she keeps him faithful. I always thought they had a borderline-abusive relationship, but this is too much. It’s just such an ugly and not even funny portrayal of marriage! (sort of like Everybody Loves Raymond)
Mr. Chicana and I were watching some Honeymooners episodes, and we realized, in horror, that the whole “schtick” is that the husband beats the wife! Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This is the show beloved by generations and sold in box set DVDs? It’s a sad commentary (and I hate to say it, but there are some funny moments! Alice gets the best one-liners).
Little A. of The Bronx Jungle Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 11:54 am
FOOB: The category is: Comic Strips!
A: Her ass is as big as a cow’s.
Q. Why must Elly Patterson buy two air line tickets every time she flies some place?
A: Mtgitakokoawie.
Q. Where did Elizabeth Patterson learn to speak some Mtgitakokoawish?
Q. The tip of his nose.
A: What does Drick Trcy use to open letters?
Little A. of The Bronx Jungle Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Sorry, I got carried away there. Dick Tracy ain’t in FOOB.
Josh, are you wearing a suit and tie?
T. Chicana
July 18th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
A: A pasty, gelatanous substance.
Q: What is Anthony Caine made of?
Muffaroo of the Outdated Meme Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
ChattyGenes @30 – Rick from work came over to take away the woodpile we’d inherited. His son Joshua, a few months old, watched from nearby as Rick tossed the logs to a heap by his truck. Each time a log hit the new pile, Joshua laughed and laughed. “He never laughs this way at home,” Rick said, slightly bemused.
I was tickled. The funny, funny woodpile was probably this kid’s first good laugh, and I got to see it.
Renee J
July 18th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
FW: Maybe Cindy and Les should get together. I think after 10 years, he needs a date. Badly.
Poteet
July 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
# 63 Canuck — Thank you very much, and I hope you’ll have a great vacation! Francie looks older than that to me, but then what do I expect? It’s Foob.
And speaking of Foob, for the other Foob masochists among us, check out the link below. The reference to the “extremely popular character biographies” gave me pause. Warren’s bio was so long and painful that I thought it should maybe be read though a loudspeaker to prisoners who have been very, very bad.
http://www.fborfw.com/news/003260.php
Dingo
July 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Great. Now we all get to practice saying, “I’ll take Josh for a $1,000.” in our dreams.
Deena in OR
July 18th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
61 Calico-
But if she bought the Frosted Fruitbats, they might be propelled into an alternate comics universe where they met the Farkas-McLaughlins. And then the convergence of so many self-righteous Elizabeths would cause a rift in the time-space continuum…
Dano
July 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“I lost on Jeopardy, baby!”
Enjoy :)
Muffaroo of the Outdated Meme Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
commodorejohn @58 – re MT: “Kelly, these mountain lions are dangerous! For heaven’s sake, whatever you do, don’t anger it by taking off your top and tongue kissing Cherry!”
Poteet
July 18th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Josh, congrats on your JEOPARDY gig!
A friend of mine was on JEOPARDY years ago, and she knew so much about so many things that I figured she’d win a bundle. It turned out her fatal problem was not being able to be fast enough in hitting that buzzer. But she still had a great time, and I hope that regardless of the results, you did too.
Dano
July 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Oops, missed the link: Enjoy!
I lost on Jeopardy, baby!
PeteMoss
July 18th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Wow, Josh on Jeopardy! How cool is that? It would have been so cool if Josh had said EVERYTHING in the form of a question:
Alex: And what do you do in Baltimore, Joshua?
Josh: “What is freelance editor and writer who blogs about Mary Worth, Alex? For $100.”
Poteet
July 18th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
MT — Thanks to several previous commentors for confirming my “whuh???” in regard to the campsite. Are we now going to see mountain lions behaving like bears? If so, I recommend the lions take legal action.
commodorejohn
July 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Something’s mighty fishy about panel four of today’s FOOB…like the Lynnions doctored the original strip to make it more palatable…
McBangle
July 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Awwright GT Detroit Tigers shout-out!
cubiclemonkey
July 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
What’s your little personal tidbit gonna be? I want insider information. You’ve got to use the appearance to plug your blog!
Niall
July 18th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
75. Actually, the proper grammar should be “Josh, did you be wearing a suit and tie?” or “Josh, will you wore a suit and tie?” to convey the awkward phase of his past and our future melding, melding!
Wally Winkerbean
July 18th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
@ #78 Renee J said
Maybe even a car date.
woo woo.
PeteMoss
July 18th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
FOOB – I believe Cavlin from Calvin & Hobbs was a quite the consumer of Frosted Sugar Bombs. I don’t know why little Francie couldn’t aske for those.
TeamCorndog
July 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Please oh please someone record Joshy Jeopardy and post it on here, or somewhere! I have no TV and thus will miss out on the fun :/
Niall
July 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hmm. We should be on our best behaviour starting Tuesday evening and Wednesday as scores of new people seek out the blog. Snark as usual, but be polite to Anonymouses! :)
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
#75 – Well, your comments are funny nonetheless.
#76 – OMG, Mary and Jeff just ate Anthony for dinner!
#69 – “The unfortunate perm”
Check out this Marrilion vid from the mid-80’s – that’s some damn Big Hair on those gals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50FoorIc_c
Eaquae Legit
July 18th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
They don’t have Jeopardy in England. It’s been 7 months since I’ve had my fix. Curse you all.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
HOTC: In the last panel, I keep seeing Heart say, “I’m so baked.”
Deena in OR
July 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Niall:
Agreed. Also tolerant, and willing to teach newbies the ways of the ‘mudge.
DAS
July 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Are we now going to see mountain lions behaving like bears? If so, I recommend the lions take legal action.
Or would the bears sue the mountain lions for infringement of behavior?
Which gives me an idea — “have Pastis complete the story arc”. Take a story arc from MT, MW or one of those cartoons and, right before the climax (or in the case of some of those strips, the denoument, as there is no climax, ever, if ya get what I mean), pass the strip over to Pastis and have him take over the story line.
E.g. in MT, the mountain lions enter into the campsite, start acting like bears — bam! the strip gets sent to Pastis who has the situation resolve with the bears suing the mountain lions for copyright infringment, the mountain lions countersuing. And the lawyers are, of course, cat and rat.
But then, MT, MW, et al., might actually be funny … which would defeat the point?
Anonymous
July 18th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Like Mary Worth’s scepticism regarding her scampi possibly passing “Bum Boat” muster, “I can’t believe it!”
Well yes I can . Josh is obviously a smart cookie. I just hope he will do something snarky to disrupt the forced nature of the ‘introduction session’ – but it would be difficult to undermine that staid tradition.
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Crap-I mean Marillion. Can’t spell today.
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
#81 – In that case, we need Stuart (with Utilikilt, of course) to officiate the FOOBMeld.
Pass the rhubarb wine! I’ll need it for this wedding.
JB
July 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Make that Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
There was also a strip of Calvin sitting in front of a bowl of cereal, with Hobbes asking him what he was doing. Calvin’s response was that he was waiting, as he “won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple”.
Porky
July 18th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
MW
Wasn’t Mary hauling the fixings for her “seafood Scampi” out of her freezer a couple weeks ago — after she got dumped by Big Shot Town Councilman Ron, her first choice, and decided to magnanimously settle for second-best Dr Jeff?
The Bum Boat’s cuisine will have to be really, really awful to not taste better than what Mary’s forcing the poor doctor to eat…
ar_d
July 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Congratulations!!! May the force be with you :)
Porky
July 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
P.S.
Please… everyone… have a look at Sherman’s Lagoon today! You may never again think about (cod) fish & chips the same way…
In my humble opinion, brilliant!
SL is one of the very best comic strips around: consistently funny gags; great art — simple but professional-quality !
D.A. Pennington
July 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Today’s FOOB: Come on, at least depict kids are real human beings.
That that child behaved like a real child she’d at least had one maybe two bat-shit raving tantrums where she throws herself on the floor, screaming at the top of her lungs, perhaps at one point picking up some items from the self, or cart and throwing them on the floor. If the child is especially talented, perhaps soil ones self in a token of spite.
Now if Liz behaved like an impending parent, she’d escourt the little tyke to the Grand Caravan or Canadian decimal equivalent (Crevasse Limited with cargo seating) and beat the child’s ass till it bleeds.
Of course some dimwitted Cannuck will be walking out of the store after purchasing some back bacon or Molsen and report the incident to the Mounties.
Trouser Tent
July 18th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Pick “The Pen Is Mightier” for $500. Or “The Penis Mightier” for $500.
And then tell Trebek he’s sitting on a goldmine!
Anonymous
July 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I love Jeopardy! and I can’t wait to watch it.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Congratulations Josh!
Did you know July 22nd is also Alex Trebek’s birthday?
Mars
July 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Daaaang. How’d you swing this? Is it “Mildly Successful Web Bloggers Week” on Jeopardy? It couldn’t be, because theme weeks that lame only happen on Wheel…..
Sorako-chan
July 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Josh on Jeopardy? Man, I’m missing all the fun. Well, I’ll see if I can tivo it.
Justafoob
July 18th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
If Francoise is smart, she will learn to have full blown tantrums in the store, look at Liz, and scream
“You’re not my mommy!!!”
I am sure some kindly soul will come over to find out if she is being kidnapped. And if she is really smart she will say
“Yes, get me the hell away from my playpen in the basement!”
Liz and Granthony, soon to be Mr 1298423 and Mrs 93432 at the Ontario Corrections facility.
Tweeks_Coffee
July 18th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
D.A. Pennington “she’d escourt the little tyke to the Grand Caravan or Canadian decimal equivalent (Crevasse Limited with cargo seating)”
Luckily my keyboard was spared, but soda up my nose is quite unpleasant. LOL indeed.
Anonymous
July 18th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Yes we, have to be nice to the newbies that show up on wednesday.
Especially, the mother fuckers who have a problem with the comment of the week.
Good luck Josh. Just remember that we are counting on you to do well. Our pitiful hopes and dreams are riding on your success.
Shermy Glamrocker
July 18th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
And here are the categories in Double Jeopardy:
“People You Would Meet at a Charterstone Pool Party.”
‘Herb and Jamaal Generic Descriptions.”
“Spiderman’s Favorite TV Shows.”
“Rex Morgan M.D.’s Pedophilic Tedencies.”
” ‘Cleaning out the Garage’ ”
“Death in Funky Winkerbean”
“Things in Elly Patterson’s Buttocks.”
Answers in that last category will refer to items large enough to fit in Elly’s ass, not necessarily things that are in it.
OK, Josh, you’re in the lead. You select.
Calico
July 18th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
#114 – I didn’t know Foob took place in Austria.
Uncle Lumpy
July 18th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
#107 Porky –
I couldn’t agree more — Sherman’s Lagoon is a very traditional joke-a-day strip with its cute animals, stock characters, and whatnot. But it’s beautifully drawn, chuckleworthy more often than not, and every so often pulls off a stunner, like this Zambezi River strip. Also, Megan’s a gem.
Pirahna Club also delivers pro-quality work year after year, albeit with old-timey TDIET-style characters, artwork, and jokes.
And both strips have squid!
Gabacho
July 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Josh on Jeopardy – I’ll be watching. In fact, I just cancelled my appointment my Dr. Kevorkian for Monday morning now that I know that dreams can be realized. Of course, if all you walk away with are lovely parting gifts, I will reschedule for Wednesday.
Ces on Bizarro – Remember – in Bizarro world, like here in the reality based community, nobody cares if Sally’s tubes fallope and I can’t wait to see what you do with that strip. I bet it will be great.
Comment of the Week and Strong Language – I’ve been forced to work for money this week so I didn’t have much time to read the comments but I am very surprised to hear the complaining about the salty language.
I found this week’s comment particularly funny. When I tried different words for the offensive one, it was no longer funny. It was merely dull. I seldom use profanity but a well placed “f” bomb can kill.
Anecdote about the word in question. A priest I know started the Mother’s Day sermon by saying, “Mother – it’s sad that in a rap song, it’s only half a word.” Laughter followed about 30 seconds later as the congregation got it.
PeteMoss
July 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
119 UC, I’m a fan of Sherman and Pirahna. I also like Pickles and Jump Start.
Adjuster
July 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Jeopardy: is anyone guessing what’s going to happen to this site when millions of the trivia-obsessed hear about it on network TV?
Professor Fate
July 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Josh – good luck on Jepordy – I’ll take Lame soap Opera strips where nothing happens for a Hundred Alex.
FOOB: Elly’s dream is now true – Liz is the same put upon mother that she was at that age – without all that nasty sex to boot.
FW: “Just in case you had even the slightest interest in me I’ll talk about my wife dead these ten years – did I mention I sometimes sleep in her clothes?”
“Oh and lately I’ve taken up stalking my teenage daughter”
Vakar
July 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Jeopardy!? This is so awesome! I auditioned for it last year, and did not make the cut, so color me jealous. But I sincerely and retroactively wish you well, Josh! However you did (or are still doing), you have (and will have) made us a proud group of blogger-hangers-on.
Mariko
July 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Josh, is it a coincidence that the one Tuesday night I have had off in quite a long time just happens to be the same night you’re on Jeopardy? I think not.
Muffaroo of the Outdated Meme Patrol
July 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Shermy Glamrocker @117 – I take it that last one is the Final Jeopardy question, in which case the answer would be “What are the other six categories?”
Baka Gaijin
July 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
#107 Porky: Damn you! I wanted to point that out. Not knowing what a shark’s dinky looks like, I don’t know if a cod would be an acceptable codpiece.
Mountain Mama
July 18th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Holy crap!!! I passed the test and did the faux game and everything, but that happened to be the season where Ken Jennings held forth for what seemed like forever, so I never got the call.
So I blame him for my never appearing. If there’d been more regular turnover of contestants, I’m sure I would have gotten on!
(Ken, dude, you rule, really. You totally lived my dream. Loads of cash from useless knowledge.)
Jeopardy! in Phoenix is on at 4:30 in the afternoon, so I’ll have to tape it. Woo hoo for our Josh!!!
Jometro
July 18th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I was on “Jeopardy!” way back in the Summer of 1974 — after freshman year of college. Back when they didn’t have special shows for different age groups, etc. and when the money per question was one-tenth what it is know. Back when Art Fleming was the host and Don Pardo was the announcer. Boy, do I feel old. I won twice and lost on the third show. I’ll be watching, Josh.
JonboyDC
July 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Actually, Ken’s streak didn’t decrease the number of contestants needed at all. They always need two new contestants for each match, unless there was a tie in the previous match. (In the old days, they occasionally needed three new contestants, but with no forced retirements, that doesn’t happen any more.)
I hope you did well, Josh. I was on in ‘97, and the hardest part was not being able to tell people how I did.
Nimrod Gently
July 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
HOLY CRAP! Bizarro regenerating into Medium Large!
ChattyGenes
July 18th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
#88 commodorejohn. That’s magnificent! Thanks for the laugh!
kostia
July 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I’m trying out for Jeopardy! on August 1st in DC. I could not be more terrified.
Mountain Mama
July 18th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Jonboy: Shhhh…….let me have my fantasies.
*I know it’s really because I’m unattractive and horribly unphotogenic, but I like the world I’ve created for myself.*
Vakar
July 18th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
133 kostia: I can give you no tips on actually getting on the show, but as long as you can relax, the try-out is a lot of fun. The Jeopardy staff do their best to make you feel at ease, so unless you’re in a room full of humorless cutthroats, there will be laughter.
Andy Panderer
July 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Congrats on snagging “Jeopardy!” I will be sure to Tivo. I live in the LA area and have passed the test at least 4 times, but have yet to be called. Maybe it was the giant carbuncle in the middle of my forehead on taping day. I was on “Win Ben Stein’s Money” a few years back. Those buzzers will kill you.
Nice to hear the love for “Sherman’s Lagoon.” It is the only strip in my dead-tree version that more often than not laugh out loud.
Sheila Sternwell
July 18th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Wow, Josh, I can’t wait to see you on “Jeopardy!” You’re the 2nd person I’ve known online to get on the show. The first was Jennings, who I knew on Usenet before he went on the show. Good luck! Hope you find Trebek’s mustache, it’s been missing for YEARS.
GoBobbyGo
July 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I’m never really around anymore since the kid was born, but much retroactive J! luck from someone who’s been there.
Chris
July 18th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Congrats on getting on Jeopardy!, Josh! As a long-time reader and 5-time champion, I hope you do just as well as I did! (FWIW, I had a “Classic Cartoon Characters” category in one of my games, so it is possible to get something in your milieu.)
Poteet
July 18th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
# 88 commodorejohn — GAAAAH! Too real! Too real!
Carly
July 20th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Well I for one think the Jeopardy news is very exciting and will hopefully not be forgetting to watch!
Jim
July 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Best of luck on Jeopardy, Josh.
C.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
120: Consolation prizes aren’t given out anymore– the 2nd placer gets $2,000, and the 3rd placer gets $1,000.
P
July 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
His “Hometown Howdy” (Where the player goes, “Hi, I’m __________ _________ and watch me on Jeopardy Tuesday at ____ P.M on _____ _____ (Insert name of player’s station) ) is now up.
Harold
July 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Let’s see if this link works…
http://www.jeopardy.com/videoplayer_howdies07.php?path=http://www.jeopardy.com/howdies/s24_5511/5511_Fruhlinger
Yes, it looks like it does!
Kansas Bob
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
I am watching you as I write this.. you’ve got $3,000 so far..
Galatasaray
July 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Very good site,thanks.