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DrBear:
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Jul 24 2003, 04:38 PM\']Compton's in early years.
One time at a taping I asked Don if he did the encyclopedia plug in one breath. He said that he never thought about it, but would during the mid-break on that episode. Later while they rolled 60 seconds of blank film, Don said \"OK, let's find out\".
fade up from black
music up
Anncr: \"The new major Encyclopedia International from Grolier Incorporated is the source authority for the preparation of questions and answers used on Jeopardy. We'll return to play Double Jeopardy with Art Fleming in just a moment\".
fade to black
Don smiled and said \"One breath!\"
He was clearly referring to the plug, as he sucked enough hot air to float the Hindenburg before the tease.   ;-)
Randy
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I shoulda figgered TVRW would know if we couldn't get Mr. Pardo....


--- Quote ---Pardo me, I couldn't help but overhear.
--- End quote ---

Is that the type of material you use in your warmup? (groans)

trainman:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jul 24 2003, 03:37 PM\'] One afternoon I was sent without explanation to an address in Beverly Hills and returned with a brand new set of World Book encyclopediae to be used on P+. How that deal was arranged I never found out. [/quote]
 Those encyclopedias \"fell off a truck,\" perhaps?

\"That's right, Al, you lost!  And let me tell you what you didn't win:  a 20-volume set of the Encyclopedia International...\" -- Don Pardo, from Weird Al's \"I Lost on Jeopardy\"

calliaume:

--- Quote ---(chris319 @ Jul 24 2003, 03:37 PM)
One afternoon I was sent without explanation to an address in Beverly Hills and returned with a brand new set of World Book encyclopediae to be used on P+. How that deal was arranged I never found out.

Those encyclopedias \"fell off a truck,\" perhaps?
--- End quote ---

The 22-volume (or thereabouts) World Book Encyclopedia cost about $200 in 1971 (which is when our family bought one; I'd still have it today if my parents hadn't decided to store it in their mildewy basement upon moving to Massachusetts).I'd say one set of encyclopedias for a bunch of fee plugs was a good deal for World Book.

(In fact, I wouldn't be shocked if I had insisted we get World Book, rather than the Encyclopedia Americana (which could be purchased volume by volume in supermarkets at that time) because of the Jeopardy! plugs.)

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