Tuesday TV Touchbase Too: Jeopardy Times Three!

 What? A second Tuesday TV Touchbase in one day?!?!

Well, I do watch a lot of TV.

Which includes perhaps too much Jeopardy?

On with the Touchbase Too!

Last week was a plethora of Jeopardy options for Andrea and I.

On the regular show, contestant Tristan Williams is on a bit of a run with 9 games and  $188,000 in cash won as of  last night. 

Tristan is a nice guy but his appearance seems almost computer generated.  I described his head as early 1990's Pixar.

Well, I'm not the only one to compare him to Pixar animation.

Jeopardy! fans took to social media to put side-by-side photos of the Jeopardy champion and a certain Pixar character. 

“Do you actually see Woody from Toy Story in Tristan??” a Facebook user wrote. Many fans agreed with the poster.

Tristan is aware of the comparison and is cool with it.  "I had heard once or twice before that I kind of looked like Woody from Toy Story, and then the internet caught it, it spread like wildfire, and it’s so fun!" 

Meanwhile, last week was the start of season 2 of Pop Culture Jeopardy.   Colin Jost (SNL star and Andrea's not so secret boyfriend) is still the host but a lot of other things have changed.

The venue has changed from Amazon Prime to Netflix.  There are no scheduled ad breaks. Once an episode starts, it does not stop until the end.

Instead of the admittedly unwieldy teams of 3, the contestants are in pairs.  

The winning contestant can advance to the next game with an old school limit of up to 5 games.  

I spend a lot of time with Pop Culture Jeopardy going "I didn't understand a word of that" for certain clues and contestant responses. I'm just not up on my rap music and social media influencers.  

Colin has a looser vibe than Ken Jennings. Colin is free to mock the contestants who in turn feel free to mock him right back. Colin's ownership of the Staten Island Ferry remains fodder for comedic commentary. 

And if that wasn't enough Jeopardy, ABC ran the last 4 episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars over 4 days in a row.

Congratulations to ESPN sportscaster Mina Kimes on winning the tournament, beating out Ike Barinholtz and Steven Weber.

Kimes won $1 million for the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition in Los Angeles.

In describing their charities to Ken, a lot of the celebrities had a constant refrain: programs designed to provide housing, food, health services and other things to help people were struggling due to government funding cuts and could really use whatever money they could win on Jeopardy to help them out.

Thanks to Kimes' fast work on the buzzer and her knowing a lot of shit, there's $1 million to help the homeless of Los Angeles.

More Ken Jennings?:  Click here for this past weekend's edition of NPR's Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! with Ken Jennings as the celebrity guest and he plays Not My Job with questions about H&R Block.

More Game Show News:  On Wheel of Fortune,  Jason Nieradka won $78,000 PLUS a brand new Corvette. Jason lives in Kernersville NC which is about 10 minutes up the road from our home here at the Fortress of Ineptitude.  

TV Stuff That Is Not A Game Show: Andrea and I recently finished season 2 of Leverage.  We've got 3 more seasons of that series then 3 more of it's reboot Leverage: Redemption.  The series features a team of con artists who pull jobs to help people who have been screwed by big business, the governments and unscrupulous millionaires. It's revenge porn for people who want to see the rich and powerful pay for their transgressions instead of getting tax breaks and pardons. 

We're gonna have to wait until Januay 2027 to find out what happens to Nick Wagner who was last seen bleeding out in Morgan Guillory's arms in the season 2 finale of High Potential. ABC announced the 3rd season is being held back as mid-season entry in their schedule.  

For now, that is that for this Tuesday TV Touchbase Too.

Next week, the series finale for The Boys.  

I do not anticipate the same reaction I had to the series finale for Outlander.  

Unless they kill off Hughie.  Those fuckers better NOT kill off Hughie!

AND there will be another Tuesday TV Touchbase Too as we bid farewell to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.  

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.