Great Moments In Game Show History

[HOOKS]

Let's start it off with a recent moment guaranteed to be a classic. (http://www.break.com/index/name-something-you-pass-around.html)

[Adam Witt]

Let's start it off with a recent moment guaranteed to be a classic. (http://www.break.com/index/name-something-you-pass-around.html)

Steve Harvey's teeth are horrifying.

Go to 6:08 on this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOr3KfPc3A)

[noble]

I can't believe it was actually on the board! :lol:

[Ryudo]

Let's start it off with a recent moment guaranteed to be a classic. (http://www.break.com/index/name-something-you-pass-around.html)

That is amazing.

[HOOKS]

Steve Harvey's teeth are horrifying.

Go to 6:08 on this one. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOr3KfPc3A)

At least Steve Harvey no longer has that horrifying hair, but he needs to let that mustache go.

That Price Is Right clip is classic.

[Kevin T Brown]

The Gong Show. (http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/53464/detail/)

Slightly NSFW.

[Adam Witt]

At least Steve Harvey no longer has that horrifying hair, but he needs to let that mustache go.

That Price Is Right clip is classic.

Non-Mr. Ed teeth is what America needs from Steve Harvey right now. He could give those things to kids in Oregon that need teeth and ain't got none.

You've all seen this, but it's still great. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKcRa13Fwpk)

[Brother Power the Gong]

At least Steve Harvey no longer has that horrifying hair, but he needs to let that mustache go.

That guy refuses to step out of the early-90s.

[capntightpants]

At least Steve Harvey no longer has that horrifying hair, but he needs to let that mustache go.

That Price Is Right clip is classic.

No, I want the flat top back.

[HOOKS]

No, I want the flat top back.

Steve Harvey's worst nightmare:

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/clippers.jpg

[Dan-C]

I can't believe it was actually on the board! :lol:

I'm actually surprised it wasn't higher. No pun intended

[dasNdanger]

Let's start it off with a recent moment guaranteed to be a classic. (http://www.break.com/index/name-something-you-pass-around.html)

Hilarious!!

This has always been my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM4xSIdVDNA


:lol:


das

[Ben Rosen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDGK_UjfFI

[capntightpants]

Steve Harvey's worst nightmare:

http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/clippers.jpg

Oh. I thought it was Bullethead and Romeo.

[HOOKS]

Oh. I thought it was Bullethead and Romeo.

RIP Romeo

[dougmac]

the lady should have answered "herpes" to beat him

[Sy-Klone]

MacLean Stevenson Goes Shirtless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbaIsMjJzvw)

[TIP]

:lol:

[The Clone Ranger]

From the Newleywed Game, best answer ever. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU)

[CapnChaos]

From the Newleywed Game, best answer ever. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU)

I was wondering how long it would take to show up.

[JJ Fresh]

Racist contestants at their youngest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3WZXMJaH0

:shock:

[HOOKS]

Racist contestants at their youngest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li3WZXMJaH0

:shock:

:lol:

[LordKinbote]

Jeopardy Three-Way Tie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zn2KODSsY)

Here's a blog post about it from Francis Heaney, a friend of Scott Weiss (the guy who was ahead going into Final Jeopardy). I guess that makes me connected in a six-degrees-of-Kevin Bacon way, because I'm working on a project right now with Heaney. Also, Weiss is a fellow member of the National Puzzler's League.


So a friend of mine, Scott Weiss, has been on Jeopardy! this week, winning Wednesday and Thursday's shows pretty handily. He was mathematically assured a win on Wednesday, having more than twice his closest competitor's score, and on Thursday he SHOULD have been mathematically assured of a win, but the judges retroactively (and dubiously, I thought) decided one of his answers was incorrect (pronouncing the middle name "Kinnen" as "KEE-nin" instead of "kuh-NIN" -- as if anyone would know how to pronounce that name by looking at it) -- but he won anyway.

The promos for tonight's show promised something special, although Alex was being coy and not saying what it was. But it was apparently something that had never happened before in Jeopardy! history. And if you taped the show and haven't watched it yet and don't want to know what happens look I'm putting my fingers in my ears right now LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA, then surely you have already stopped reading this entry, and so I can reveal that what happened was...

...at the end of Double Jeopardy, Scott was in first with $13,400 and the other two contestants were tied at $8,000. Everyone got Final Jeopardy correct, and both the contestants with $8,000 bet it all. Scott also got the answer right, but instead of bidding the expected $2,601 (which would have assured himself the win), he bid $2,600. Wahoo! Three-way tie!

Our first thought was "Why did he do that?" but it didn't take us very long at all to figure out, well, he must have just thought, "Hey! Wouldn't it be nice if we all won $16,000?" At a cost to himself of one dollar, he got to give two other people an extra $14,000. (I'm assuming the other guys would have both received $2,000 if they'd tied for the second-place prize.) Yay for altruism! Everybody wins! Now all of America knows what everyone who's met Scott knows: he is one of the nicest people alive.

Or you would think everyone would realize that! Apparently some people are too cynical to think that anyone would do such a thing except as a mistake. Case in point: this reporter's asinine article:

Being too careful probably cost returning champ Scott Weiss, who didn't up his wager much for the "Final Jeopardy!" round. The other contestants essentially doubled their earnings up to that point.
*headpalm*

Also silly:

CBS Television Distribution, which syndicates the show for Sony Pictures claims a statistician they hired calculated the odds of a three-way tie on the show as one in 25 million.
One in 25 million? How do you determine the odds of something that's not random? The final scores aren't determined by flipping a coin, they're determined by bets. And today's end result may have been partly due to luck (the contestants being in scoring position for a tie, everyone knowing the correct answer), but mostly it happened because Scott made it possible for it to happen.

[Foolish Mortal]

You've all seen this, but it's still great. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKcRa13Fwpk)
I still say Ken's answer was 100% right.

[Jamie Coville]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqb-j1cNPhQ This is one of mine.

[Gryphon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnoEq6WKSXA