Product Placement On "Jeopardy" Getting Ridiculous

[Laurence Glavin]

One subject area on Monday (12/6) night's "Jeopardy" was Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company's watery lager beer, Budweiser. The video segment was from its brewery in the rapidly depopulating city of St. Louis. The first four questions were about the brewing processes utilized by makers of real beer as well as typical undrinkable American lagers; but the last one referred to Budweiser's claim that the presence of beechwood chips made a difference. Duh. The contestant got it wrong because SHE apparently doesn't watch enough spectator sports on TV.

 

[KERCAlum]

Was Anheuser-Busch listed as one of the sponsors at the end of the show ("Promotional Consideration provided by...")? They should have been, if they bought a whole category on "Jeopardy!"

I haven't really watched that show since the Art Fleming days in the early '70s.

 

[Laurence Glavin]

Was Anheuser-Busch listed as one of the sponsors at the end of the show ("Promotional Consideration provided by...")? They should have been, if they bought a whole category on "Jeopardy!"

I haven't really watched that show since the Art Fleming days in the early '70s.

At the exact instant that the winner of "Jeopardy" is declared, I click to "Countdown" on MSNBC. Yes...instant; I have the fastest clicker-finger in the east. Recently, the Large Hadron Collider reported that they had discovered a new particle that came into existence for a mere fraction of a second. I said "slowpoke".

 

[vchimpanzee]

Was Anheuser-Busch listed as one of the sponsors at the end of the show ("Promotional Consideration provided by...")? They should have been, if they bought a whole category on "Jeopardy!"

I haven't really watched that show since the Art Fleming days in the early '70s.

At the exact instant that the winner of "Jeopardy" is declared, I click to "Countdown" on MSNBC. Yes...instant; I have the fastest clicker-finger in the east. Recently, the Large Hadron Collider reported that they had discovered a new particle that came into existence for a mere fraction of a second. I said "slowpoke".

Sometimes I leave when I know the correct question. That's when time is of the essence, such as when I have to go to choir practice. I don't always care about the competition, just the knowledge.

 

[bpatrick]

Was Anheuser-Busch listed as one of the sponsors at the end of the show ("Promotional Consideration provided by...")? They should have been, if they bought a whole category on "Jeopardy!"

I haven't really watched that show since the Art Fleming days in the early '70s.

At the exact instant that the winner of "Jeopardy" is declared, I click to "Countdown" on MSNBC. Yes...instant; I have the fastest clicker-finger in the east. Recently, the Large Hadron Collider reported that they had discovered a new particle that came into existence for a mere fraction of a second. I said "slowpoke".

Maybe you ought to try out for "Jeopardy!". A fast finger is (almost) everything.

 

[DToTheJ]

Just when Laurence thought it was safe to watch "Jeopardy!" again... prepare for the big-time IBM product placement during the February sweeps!
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ar...uting_System_to_Challenge_Jeopardy_Champs.php

 

[Laurence Glavin]

It will be interesting to see how "Watson" does with the letters-in-quotes category. Here's how it works: they display a word with all or some of the letters in quotes and offer a clue that's a word with those letters in it. For example, a clue I dreamed up: sha-"zam". Then the clue might be "It clears the ice in a hockey rink"...What is a zamboni? You need a carbon-based, oe even an arsenic-based brain if your home is a dry lake in the California desert to do that.

 

[bpatrick]

Trebek's already promoting it before Johnny Gilbert says,
"THIS...IS...JEOPARDY!" It's going to match the show's
two biggest winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, against
the computer.

I've got a better idea: let Trebek take on Jennings
and Rutter, and let Regis Philbin or somebody emcee. :

Here's another thought: why don't they get some of the people
who've won a million-plus on other game shows in the last ten
years and see how they'd do on "Jeopardy!"? Cases in point:
John Carpenter ("Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"--I know, he did
it in 1999, but so what?) or Rahim Oberholtzer and David Legler
("Twenty-One")?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Here's another thought: why don't they get some of the people
who've won a million-plus on other game shows in the last ten
years and see how they'd do on "Jeopardy!"? Cases in point:
John Carpenter ("Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"--I know, he did
it in 1999, but so what?) or Rahim Oberholtzer and David Legler
("Twenty-One")?

Or you can go farther back--30 soon to be 31 years, that is--and try to get Thom McKee (Tic Tac Dough champion from 1980) if he's available, and see how he would do on Jeopardy.

 

[bpatrick]

Now that would be interesting!

BTW, did anybody here know that Herb Stempel
once tried out for the Trebek version of "Jeopardy!"?
I'm not sure if it was when he returned to the public
eye in the wake of the movie "Quiz Show," but he passed
all the tests, and then a staff member realized that he'd
"taken a dive" on the original "Twenty-One" and felt it would
be bad publicity for "Jeopardy!", that some viewers might
think he was being given the answers. (IMHO, I think he
would have done just fine; in fact, I think he would have
cleaned Charles Van Doren's clock in a straight, unrigged
game; Stempel was a trivia buff whereas Van Doren had
little use for that sort of thing.)

 

[anotherguyTN]

Here's another thought: why don't they get some of the people
who've won a million-plus on other game shows in the last ten
years and see how they'd do on "Jeopardy!"? Cases in point:
John Carpenter ("Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"--I know, he did
it in 1999, but so what?) or Rahim Oberholtzer and David Legler
("Twenty-One")?

Or you can go farther back--30 soon to be 31 years, that is--and try to get Thom McKee (Tic Tac Dough champion from 1980) if he's available, and see how he would do on Jeopardy.

Several of them did compete against each other on Grand Slam, a one time series on GSN in 2007, and Ken Jennings won. The top prize was $100,000, which would be small change compared to what he had won earlier on Jeopardy, but it did put several of the biggest winners (Including Jennings, Rutter, and McKee) in TV history against each other. I'd definitely like to see Jeopardy do a similar tournament with bigger money, but I'd think that Jennings, Rutter, and other big winners from Jeopardy would have an advantage over the ones who had been on Millionaire, 21, or the other big money shows where it was easier to win big money over a shorter run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(US_game_show)