This (pause) iiiis (pause) JEOPARDY! (+ other TV topics)

March 20, 2006 at 11:17 am (TV)

I’m a bit pressed for time, but I keep meaning to post about some of the TV programs I’ve been watching lately, so I’ll just slap some names on here and I’ll go into more detail later:

  • The Sopranos
  • The Dog Whisperer
  • The Office
  • The Amazing Race
  • Real World/Road Rules Gauntlet II
  • Jeopardy!

Regarding Jeopardy! (love that exclamation point, by the way) – I did want to mention that I will be auditioning/trying out for Jeopardy! on Wednesday.  I passed the preliminary 50-question quiz and will be undergoing a mock round of Jeopardy!, and an interview to determine my suitability for TV.  Exciting, eh?  I’m wracking my brain trying to come up with interesting, TV-friendly anecdotes, but either I’m a lot more boring than I thought, or the most interesting moments in my life have come while drunk, naked, or both – moments I’m rather reluctant to share with a national TV audience.  Maybe I’ll post some potential anecdotes when I follow up on this later…

7 Comments

  1. marianne said,

    March 20, 2006 at 1:04 pm

    YOU.ARE.AWESOME. Good luck on the Jeopardy! interview

  2. Girlfriendliest said,

    March 20, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    You need to be more neurotic or have the inability to do common things like me. I couldn’t answer all the questions on Jeopardy! but I sure could fill a break with anecdotes. Here are some ideas/suggestions:

    -Monopoly is banned in our household
    -You assisted in a lame research study and were fired as a volunteer. (I think, is that right?)
    -Favorite pasttimes (very pasttime) include making fake band t-shirts.
    -Had a fake band shirt…no…denim vest autographed by the one and only George Wendt.

  3. tim said,

    March 20, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    tell them you dressed up as alex trebeck one year for halloween

  4. the baker's wife said,

    March 21, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Am I the only one who thinks the anecdotes are really going downhill lately? I liked the one recently where the contestant’s family collected bedpans and every room of her childhood house was filled with them.
    Good luck on the interview!

  5. Miketastic said,

    March 21, 2006 at 1:18 pm

    Ooh I missed that one. Do you think they’d catch on if I used that same anecdote? Except replace “bed pans” with “hospital gowns” or “gall stones.”

  6. the baker's wife said,

    March 21, 2006 at 2:12 pm

    Maybe I should’ve mentioned that they were ANTIQUE bedpans. But yes, “my family had a humiliating hobby when I was growing up but I still made it onto Jeopardy!” is always a good one.

  7. tim said,

    March 22, 2006 at 7:00 am

    “So, one time, I drove my mom’s car through wet cement! And then I moved to California and didn’t tell her! She found out a year later! HAW HAW HAW!”

    seriously, the anecdotes lately are just plain lame.

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