Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
They should have used a game that actually aired on February 2nd.
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2/2 in the 1991-92 season was on a Sunday.
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I thought Bill Murray's character just got the Spanish pronunciation from Alex.Magna wrote:There's a scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray is watching J! and astonishes everyone else in the room by not only getting everything right, but pronouncing the response "What is Mexico?" with a native accent (roughly, "What is Me-hi-co?"), which the contestant then also astonishingly does.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Then it's pretty obvious that the movie was not set during that season.legendneverdies wrote:2/2 in the 1991-92 season was on a Sunday.
Agreed.Bamaman wrote:They should have used a game that actually aired on February 2nd.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
But really who, of all the people who watched the movie, would have that enecylopedia, almost Rain-Man-like knowledge of all the J! episodes, and what date they aired? True, there are some on the board like that whom I'm convinced know the dates of any show without checking the Archive, but they're few and far between.bpmod wrote:Then it's pretty obvious that the movie was not set during that season.legendneverdies wrote:2/2 in the 1991-92 season was on a Sunday.
Agreed.Bamaman wrote:They should have used a game that actually aired on February 2nd.
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Every movie has minor goofs in it (just ask IMdB), but, unless you're really anal-retentive and pedantic about it, it shoudln't take away from the main plot point (that he used his situation to impress family and friends by knowing all the Jeopardy! answers) or the enjoyment of the movie.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
But I am, so I must point out that it's IMDb.dhkendall wrote:...(just ask IMdB), but, unless you're really anal-retentive and pedantic about it...
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
The Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania affiliate that airs Jeopardy had a Penguins hockey game so that J! episode was time-shifted. That must be it.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Or...dhkendall wrote: Every movie has minor goofs in it (just ask IMdB), but, unless you're really anal-retentive and pedantic about it, it shoudln't take away from the main plot point (that he used his situation to impress family and friends by knowing all the Jeopardy! answers) or the enjoyment of the movie.
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just random people in a diner/bar... (No family was there and part of the plot was that he *had* no friends. Did...did you even SEE the movie?! )
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Volante wrote:Or...dhkendall wrote: Every movie has minor goofs in it (just ask IMdB), but, unless you're really anal-retentive and pedantic about it, it shoudln't take away from the main plot point (that he used his situation to impress family and friends by knowing all the Jeopardy! answers) or the enjoyment of the movie.Spoiler
just random people in a diner/bar... (No family was there and part of the plot was that he *had* no friends. Did...did you even SEE the movie?! )
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Apparently, it's been a while. I remember him sitting in an armchair in a living room watching it and giving out the answers. Yours makes sense, as he did travel to Punxatawney at the start of the movie, so there wouldn't be family there, but I honestly remember it set in a living room, not a diner (what diner airs J! instead of sports anyways?))
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
I've probably mixed up two scenes...apparently it's in a...dhkendall wrote:Volante wrote:Or...dhkendall wrote: Every movie has minor goofs in it (just ask IMdB), but, unless you're really anal-retentive and pedantic about it, it shoudln't take away from the main plot point (that he used his situation to impress family and friends by knowing all the Jeopardy! answers) or the enjoyment of the movie.Spoiler
just random people in a diner/bar... (No family was there and part of the plot was that he *had* no friends. Did...did you even SEE the movie?! )Spoiler
Apparently, it's been a while. I remember him sitting in an armchair in a living room watching it and giving out the answers. Yours makes sense, as he did travel to Punxatawney at the start of the movie, so there wouldn't be family there, but I honestly remember it set in a living room, not a diner (what diner airs J! instead of sports anyways?))
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Retirement home...or at least it looks like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lXmvunn7XI And he sounds none too pleased to be there (I think I based it off the old people, eating and drinking. Hence why I thought diner. Did not remember the pajamas.)
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Or it could be because his last name sounds like "cap lock key" (without the "l") said really fast.Paucle wrote:I literally LOLed at CAPS LOCK's contestant story and said, "Hey, that must be CAPS LOCK!"
And yes, I just noticed that.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
I thought he was in the lobby of the B&B he was staying at.
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That's the way I remember it...Bamaman wrote:I thought he was in the lobby of the B&B he was staying at.
"Cliffhanger" is a cliche because it's not just a word, it's an image, a metaphor, that's overused...
That said, I'm another who flubbed it because I found "sea-bord" baffling...I figured it could be a poetic spelling of "seaboard," but of course we usually use that word to refer to an enormous area, and I also thought it might mean shipboard. That's where my response (and Roseanne's) of plank comes from. I wish I had put as much thought into the word "serial"...
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
It's very fitting, but I never noticed the connection until a friend of mine Facebooked during the show that that was my new name.dhkendall wrote:Or it could be because his last name sounds like "cap lock key" (without the "l") said really fast.Paucle wrote:I literally LOLed at CAPS LOCK's contestant story and said, "Hey, that must be CAPS LOCK!"
And yes, I just noticed that.
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I also expected Carlton or Mrs. Wolowitz. Another one I thought would be there was Norm Peterson's wife from Cheers.Bamaman wrote:I easily ran the TV category as well. My precall of Carlton the doorman didn't show up, however. Nor did Mrs. Wolowitz.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
http://youtu.be/9lXmvunn7XI
Here is the scene from the movie. Hard to tell exactly where they are, could be someone's house.
Here is the scene from the movie. Hard to tell exactly where they are, could be someone's house.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Could also have been a rerun. It would make his feat a little less astonishing to the others in the room (if they knew it was a rerun), but still impressive.Paucle wrote:The Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania affiliate that airs Jeopardy had a Penguins hockey game so that J! episode was time-shifted. That must be it.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Yep.Bamaman wrote:I thought he was in the lobby of the B&B he was staying at.
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Re: Friday, June 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger.
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Oh, you beat me to it, cinemaniax7! (Serves me right for being so behind on my Jeopardy! viewing!)cinemaniax7 wrote:And that's why he's called Cliff Hanger.
And if only he had been called Sea-Bord Cliff Hanger, maybe I would have had a chance on this FJ!
(although, admittedly, it would have been a less punny name ).
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