opusthepenguin wrote:How hard would that be? Heck, I'll be happy to prepare a short post to this board next October 21, congratulating the winner by name. I'll release that post on November 7, 2012.
At this point, I'd say the election is too far off to say how hard that will be. It could end up being easy, or it could end up being a close race. A lot can happen between now and then. And wouldn't the November 7 game be taped a bit earlier than October 21?
dhkendall wrote:(That is, if Jeopardy! ever wanted to be that overtly political - they were in enough hot water from fans merely by having the sitting president (regardless of party) open the teachers' tournament with a tale about his favourite teacher.)
I appreciate the fact that Jeopardy mostly avoids being political, and I hope Alex doesn't take my dare. Instead, Alex, if you're still reading this, perhaps you could congratulate, by name, the Super Bowl champions on the Feb. 6, 2012, program. That would actually be more impressive than predicting the election results because Alex won't even know which teams will be in the Super Bowl when they record that show, whereas the election will most likely be down to two major candidates by the corresponding taping.
Ryan wrote:The midweek ToC start threw Alex after Sunny's second win on Friday, when he announced that Sunny would have two weeks until her next game. His correction was a little more complicated than his usual clue reading corrections because the audience was applauding at the time.
Did they have to retape part of the FJ reveal? Or did they splice in the correction at the point just afterwards where the camera switches from Sunny to Alex? If so, it's pretty seamless.