Celebrity Jeopardy! Thursday, January 12, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Archivists]

J! Round

[Archivists]

DJ! Round

[Archivists]

TJ! Round

[Archivists]

Box Score

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CORPORATE MASCOTS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records

Patton Oswalt 47200+7200=54400 (Semi-Finalist)
Candace Parker 2200-240=1960
Torrey DeVitto 5200-2000=3200

Correct response:

Spoiler

Cap'n Crunch (Candace - no response) (Torrey - I have no clue?)

Daily Doubles
Patton 3800+800
Patton 14300+4300
Patton 18600+8600
Patton 31800+10000
Torrey 2000+500
Candace 1600+600

Coryats
Patton: 26,300
Candace: 2,800
Torrey: 5,600

Combined: 34,700

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Patton: 4700
Candace: minus 200
Torrey: minus 1000

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round
Patton: 28200
Candace: minus 200
Torrey: minus 400

[Bamaman]

I have watched King of Queens some so I know who Patton is and spending several years in Knoxville made me a fan of Pat Summit and the Lady Vols so I am aware of Candace. Never heard of Torrey to make me 8/24 for the tournament.

Patton steamrolled the competition but had some odd misses so I might not make him a favorite in the next SF.

I don’t know if she even still had a mathematical chance at the time, but Torrey only betting 500/2000 on DD5 was lame.

If you don’t like players bouncing around the board this game was for you.

[ouachiouat]

Caught the tail end of the game. I really liked that FJ! clue.

[MarkBarrett]

Patton ran GLOOMY AUTHORS along the way with running over his opponents. There was a "MIS"INFORMATION category and tonight was a mismatch. In two weeks Patton will have a more difficult draw no matter who wins next week.

Mattea was the guest reader for a TJ! category and I'm enjoying the J! alums even if the celebs sometimes leave them for last.

Did I solve the FJ! clue? I would hope so even though I have not eaten a version of the cereal since last year. You can guess the month:

Spoiler

[Robert K S]

Is that guy even canonically American?

[opusthepenguin]

Patton steamrolled the competition but had some odd misses so I might not make him a favorite in the next SF.

This. The game went pretty much the way I expected because I knew Oswalt was fairly bright. So the only surprise was the number of TS's I would've expected him to pick up and he didn't: Salvation Army, Justin Trudeau, Rhode Island as the two-word state east of Connecticut, lionfish (when catfish and tigerfish have been ruled out), Idaho, the Green Party, MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Los Angeles area university with a bear mascot, "baked earth" pottery = terra cotta. Lot of low hanging fruit there, and that's just the first two rounds. (Third one is awaiting entry by our beloved archivists.)

I knew Patton Oswalt from The United States of Tara as well as the narrator of The Goldbergs, though I forgot that latter one, so I'm glad they brought it up. I vaguely knew he was on King of Queens as a recurring character. And he's always a fun guest when he shows up to talk to Conan or one of the Jimmies.

Tastes vary regarding the banter and clowning around. I enjoyed what we had here and wouldn't have minded a little more. Mayim did a good job. I like the one-hour format for Celebrity J! and moving it to a prime-time slot so it doesn't interrupt the regular show.

[MtlMike]

To the archivist of this game: for TJ!4 the clue has "wiii.I.am" instead of "will.i.am".

When I tried to suggest a correction on the j-archive website, it came back with the strange error: "Your submission tastes like yummy spam. Thanks and happy spamming!"

[Robert K S]

Thank you, fixed.

The OCR doesn't like lowercase text in clues so much because it was trained on uppercase.

Not sure what word may have been triggering the spam filter.

[trainman]

Not sure what word may have been triggering the spam filter.

I bet it was being tripped because the system thought "will.i.am" could be a URL.