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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: toetyper on December 19, 2012, 08:01:58 PM
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how many are there> how do they signal their decision?/'''
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A positive integer, thumbs up or down.
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I actually asked this question when attending a taping in 2000 and this is roughly what Johnny Gilbert told us:
At the table you occasionally catch a glimpse of on air are sitting the producers. If there is a question about whether a response is accurate or not, they make the decision most of the time.
If there is a further question as to whether a response is valid or not, all of the writers of that days material are sitting off site and watching the proceedings on monitors. Taping is stopped and the writer responsible for the "answer" in question will provide the producers with the source for his or her material. They will also check to see if the players response was valid or not which is why you will once in a great while see them come back from a break and say "upon further reflection it was determined your answer was acceptable..."
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(bold text mine. --C-O)
If there is a further question as to whether a response is valid or not, all of the writers of that days material are sitting off site and watching the proceedings on monitors. Taping is stopped and the writer responsible for the "answer" in question will provide the producers with the source for his or her material. They will also check to see if the players response was valid or not which is why you will once in a great while see them come back from a break and say "upon further reflection it was determined your answer was acceptable..."
I remembered reading---probably in the Harry Eisenberg book [ETA: Page 67, if anyone's got a copy Page 199 better explains this]---that Alex does not like stopping tape. Wouldn't they usually wait to do this until they actually "go to commercial" in the studio? [ETA: the book says yes, but this was as of the mid-90s. Would this still be the case today?]
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Don't they want to have the scores be correct when the contestants hit the Daily Doubles?
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Don't they want to have the scores be correct when the contestants hit the Daily Doubles?
Yes, after an unexpected response requiring more research, if a contestant picks a Daily Double before there's a commercial break, they'll stop tape at that point.
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Here's something I've been wondering since the Kanye West/Kelly Clarkson thing a few weeks back: Do the writers double-check every answer that's ruled incorrect or just the ones where a contestant appeals or someone on staff has a feeling that the response as given might turn out to be correct after all?
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Here's something I've been wondering since the Kanye West/Kelly Clarkson thing a few weeks back: Do the writers double-check every answer that's ruled incorrect or just the ones where a contestant appeals or someone on staff has a feeling that the response as given might turn out to be correct after all?
No insider knowledge, but it seems like a huge waste of time to go back and examine every single wrong answer.
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Isn't it kinda distracting to have to both play the game and remember to throw your challenge flag?
"Remember to challenge that one clue get ready to buzz threetwoone clickclickclick."
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Isn't it kinda distracting to have to both play the game and remember to throw your challenge flag?
I'm guessing when real money is on the line, you remember when you feel you've been screwed out of $800.
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I attended a taping a few years back and there was a stopdown for an issue with a response in a French language category. Johnny Gilbert got on the mic and said that the show had something of a little black book of experts in various fields and that they were contacting their French language expert for an opinion.
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Johnny Gilbert got on the mic and said that the show had something of a little black book of experts in various fields and that they were contacting their French language expert for an opinion.
I thought that was Trebek's department :-p
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Johnny Gilbert got on the mic and said that the show had something of a little black book of experts in various fields and that they were contacting their French language expert for an opinion.
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Johnny Gilbert got on the mic and said that the show had something of a little black book of experts in various fields and that they were contacting their French language expert for an opinion.
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"What is menage-a-trois?"
"You know, it might be...lemme get a friend of mine down here. We'll see what he thinks, and maybe we can get you some money! Alright? Be right back."
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"You know, it might be...lemme get a friend of mine down here. We'll see what he thinks, and maybe we can get you some money! Alright? Be right back."
"So this guy comes into the shop today looking to sell his dignity. I don't know a thing about that, so I had to call in an expert."
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Here's something I've been wondering since the Kanye West/Kelly Clarkson thing a few weeks back: Do the writers double-check every answer that's ruled incorrect or just the ones where a contestant appeals or someone on staff has a feeling that the response as given might turn out to be correct after all?
I'm not sure what you mean by "double check". They research all of the answers before they tape. They would not re-research a question unless an answer were controverted. If a question is called incorrect and nobody disputes it then there is no point in revisiting it.
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"What is menage-a-trois?"
"You know, it might be...lemme get two hot friends of mine down here and...I'll be in my bunk."
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Here's something I've been wondering since the Kanye West/Kelly Clarkson thing a few weeks back: Do the writers double-check every answer that's ruled incorrect or just the ones where a contestant appeals or someone on staff has a feeling that the response as given might turn out to be correct after all?
I'm not sure what you mean by "double check". They research all of the answers before they tape. They would not re-research a question unless an answer were controverted. If a question is called incorrect and nobody disputes it then there is no point in revisiting it.
What I mean by double-check is confirm that the response does or does not fit the clue/category. I think some of this is just me looking at the situation from a post-Google world when the procedures are still around from long before it was a matter of seconds to search a reasonable first approximation of the entirety of human knowledge. I wasn't thinking of a full researching of every wrong answer, but it seems like there should be something about any incorrect response which could be found to contradict the information given. (e.g., if a clue is asked about the title woman in a Beatles song comes back with "Eleanor Roosevelt" instead of "Eleanor Rigby," all it would take to prove that it couldn't be Eleanor Roosevelt is a list of Beatles song titles.)
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. (e.g., if a clue is asked about the title woman in a Beatles song comes back with "Eleanor Roosevelt" instead of "Eleanor Rigby," all it would take to prove that it couldn't be Eleanor Roosevelt is a list of Beatles song titles.)
I know this is just an example, but let's roll with it. If you're asking whether a player answering "Eleanor Roosevelt" would make the judges go and search a list of Beatles songs to make sure there wasn't one called "Eleanor Roosevelt", no, they don't do that. If on a commercial break, the player says "I'm pretty sure there was a Beatles song called 'Eleanor Roosevelt', could you check and make sure?" then they'll check and make sure. Also, if one of the writers or judges or producers or whatever says "You know, I seem to remember that Ringo might have recorded an album about first ladies, maybe we should stop and look that up," then that will happen too. But it does not happen for every single wrong answer that's supplied by a player.
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(e.g., if a clue is asked about the title woman in a Beatles song comes back with "Eleanor Roosevelt" instead of "Eleanor Rigby," all it would take to prove that it couldn't be Eleanor Roosevelt is a list of Beatles song titles.)
But why would you bother wasting time on that? The answer isn't Roosevelt, it is Rigby. And now you've opened up an issue of "what constitutes valid search material?" If something legitimately sets off a beacon in somebody's head, sure, go do that check, but to check up to 117 wrong responses in that fashion would be silly because 116 or 117 of them are flat wrong.
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They can't afford to do that kind of research in the studio with the crew on the clock while they do Google searches or thumb through the encyclopedia (unless you're doing Password Plus without a word authority and the producer has to thumb through the dictionary).