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Title: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: weaklink75 on September 10, 2014, 10:31:26 AM
Only major one is that Alex grew his mustache back...

http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2014/09/09/alex-trebek-mustache-photos-jeopardy/

Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: MikeK on September 10, 2014, 10:48:15 AM
There's something wrong with that new look. He looks like that creepy grandparent you talk about at family reunions and only see when someone hits the lottery.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Kevin Prather on September 10, 2014, 03:08:25 PM
Maybe I'm imagining, but I thought Alex said in a recent interview that he'd never bring he mustache back because he couldn't get it to come in right.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: clemon79 on September 10, 2014, 04:14:54 PM
Maybe I'm imagining, but I thought Alex said in a recent interview that he'd never bring he mustache back because he couldn't get it to come in right.

I wanna say this came up when he was talking to Chris Hardwick on Nerdist, so I don't think you are imagining, unless we both are. :)
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Kevin Prather on September 10, 2014, 11:04:57 PM
I wanna say this came up when he was talking to Chris Hardwick on Nerdist, so I don't think you are imagining, unless we both are. :)
That's the interview I'm thinking of, but couldn't remember the venue. I should go back and listen to that interview again, because it was really a good one.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 14, 2014, 12:55:42 AM
Glad we cleared that up, there.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: clemon79 on September 14, 2014, 01:03:37 AM
I don't like it.

Your opinion (indeed, about anything) was not solicited. (And most of the time isn't wanted.)
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: PYLdude on September 14, 2014, 01:12:00 AM
I don't like it.

Your opinion (indeed, about anything) was not solicited. (And most of the time isn't wanted.)

See, I would've taken the more diplomatic approach.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3acvz5LfI
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Fedya on September 14, 2014, 08:10:52 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk16glWoMCk
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 07:07:34 PM
Love the stache! This is the Trebek most of us grew up with.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 07:09:55 PM
Love the stache! This is the Trebek most of us grew up with.
Er, the Alex you grew up with is almost certainly not the Alex that many, many of our group grew up with: the host of High Rollers, Double Dare, Battlestars and $128,000 Question.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 07:17:56 PM
How old do you think I AM, Travis? I'm 34...
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 07:20:22 PM
How old do you think I AM, Travis? I'm 34...
Mentally or chronologically?

(I just turned 34 in August; we would have been infants the last time you could have seen Alex in something pre-Jeopardy.)
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 07:23:13 PM
He had a mustache on J! until what? 02?

/unless you're referring to the hairdo?
//saw Pitfall reruns for a while in the 80's, CBN, maybe?
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Strikerz04 on September 15, 2014, 07:38:29 PM
He had a mustache on J! until what? 02?

/unless you're referring to the hairdo?
//saw Pitfall reruns for a while in the 80's, CBN, maybe?

01.

/but who's counting?
//I honestly want the 'fro to come back.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 07:58:48 PM
Johnny: My quibble is with your phrasing (which seems appropriate given that the subject is Alex Trebek) and saying that "most of us" grew up with that particular iteration of his facial hair.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 08:26:54 PM
What is, I'm sorry?
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: parliboy on September 15, 2014, 08:52:51 PM
"It's what you say when you apologize for something.  But that's not important right now."
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Matt Ottinger on September 15, 2014, 09:40:26 PM
"It's what you say when you apologize for something.  But that's not important right now."
Surely you know he was apologizing.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 09:51:41 PM
I think he knows, Matt, he was just playing off me.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Fedya on September 15, 2014, 09:55:26 PM
I prefer Leslie Nielsen as the captain in The Poseidon Adventure.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Matt Ottinger on September 15, 2014, 10:01:40 PM
I prefer Leslie Nielsen as the captain in The Poseidon Adventure.

I once wrote a bonus category for a TRASH tournament (quiz bowl game with pop culture questions) that had this set-up:  "Roger Ebert called him 'The Olivier of spoofs.'  Just don't call him Shirley.  Answer these questions about the career of Leslie Nielsen before he became such a friggin' clown."

The questions were about Poseidon, Forbidden Planet and Tammy and the Bachelor.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Thunder on September 15, 2014, 10:20:45 PM
Johnny: My quibble is with your phrasing (which seems appropriate given that the subject is Alex Trebek) and saying that "most of us" grew up with that particular iteration of his facial hair.

Your "quibble" became much less amusing once you pulled the "Mentally or chronologically?" line.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 10:27:40 PM
Thunder, don't worry about it. I know he was ribbing, and even if he wasn't, I can take it.

/never thought anyone would be sticking up for ME on here...
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 10:42:05 PM
Your "quibble" became much less amusing once you pulled the "Mentally or chronologically?" line.
Then it's a good thing it wasn't meant to be amusing. Since I'm still here and haven't been booked for a yellow card it would appear that I'm within the bounds.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 10:49:57 PM
Travis, if I had a problem with you, I wouldn't air it here...
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 11:03:21 PM
Boo mustache, yay to the new Daily Double graphic.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 11:05:03 PM
Ah, to each his own.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: TLEberle on September 15, 2014, 11:06:25 PM
It's not bushy enough because he hasn't grown it out, and the salt-and-pepper look just makes it look less substantial. I'm sure in time it'll grow on him.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: cyclone45 on September 15, 2014, 11:09:43 PM
In more ways than one.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Matt Ottinger on September 17, 2014, 11:10:53 AM
Let me just say that I am seriously disappointed with the membership for not picking up on my straight line.

"It's what you say when you apologize for something.  But that's not important right now."
Surely you know he was apologizing.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: BrandonFG on September 17, 2014, 12:35:11 PM
Let me just say that I am seriously disappointed with the membership for not picking up on my straight line.

"It's what you say when you apologize for something.  But that's not important right now."
Surely you know he was apologizing.
Both of those went over my head at first. Gold stars to both of you.
Title: Re: J! Season 31 changes..
Post by: Neumms on September 17, 2014, 02:03:35 PM
Did anybody else get the survey from Sony Pictures Entertainment seeking reaction to small things they could do to spur interest in Jeopardy? They mostly involved Twitter and the Clue Crew. The return of the mustache was not among them.