Steal My Ideas, Please

Uh, I kind of forget to finish a puzzler I posed a while back: What’s the most a contestant could find during a normal game of Jeopardy!?
Here are the parameters: During each of the first two rounds there are six categories. In the first round, each category has these amounts up for grabs: $200, $400, […]

If you missed the question, and want to try to solve it, go to: “Puzzle: On ‘Jeopardy!’ What’s the Max Anyone Could Win?
To win the max, a player would have to question every answer correctly, and always bet the maximum on the Daily Doubles and in Final Jeopardy. The wrinkle is that each of the Daily Doubles would have […]

You know why pilot Frank didn’t see a wedding ring on the hand of the waterlogged pilot’s corpse? Because the body will turn out to be Frank’s. 
On Thursday’s show, the freighter captain shows Sayid and Desmond the black box flight recorder from the bottom-of-the-sea wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 and says someone went to a lot of trouble to fill a […]

I totally missed this during the show, but people online here, there and also here are saying that the man Hurley saw in the chair in Jacob’s cabin sure looked a lot like Jack’s dad, Christian Shepard (played by John Terry). Makes sense, since it sure seemed Jack thought his dad was still alive in the season-finale flash-forward. […]

Lots of people have speculated about ABC’s Lost being about time travel. Especially since the “Flash Before Your Eyes” episode in which Desmond’s flashback has him back in his past but remembering the island; then he’s talking with some Creepy Old Lady (an actor from the film The Others) who talks of fate; then as soon as […]

Remember the classic sci-fi flick The Fly with Vincent Price where a man turns into a giant fly because of an experiment gone buggy? At the end, they see a tiny fly with a human head in a spider web saying “Help me! Help me!” Well, in ABC’s Lost, it sure seemed weird when an […]

Wrapping every question up in one neat theory is probably a sign it’s bogus. But here goes. The island in ABC’s Lost is intelligent. How isn’t clear. Either the island has somehow captured spirits (the whisperers), become inhabited by one powerful and/or trapped soul (the Jacob who Ben and Locke talked to), developed into some […]

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m in support of writers getting what’s fair, and I hope the strike is settled soon. But, sorry, I can’t help myself, when I think of an idea.
If TV shows have no NEW material, how about using OLD material? Seriously. Jay Leno could recycle old jokes. It’s not like we […]

What’s the most money one set of contestants could win on a single show of Jeopardy? This is using the rules from the regular nighttime show. No bonuses for tournament wins. I’ll post the answer later in the week. (After I double-check my calculations by watching again.) Hint: It’s way more than anyone has won in a single show.  

This probably exists. (Or doesn’t for reasons of rights or costs.) You dress up as your favorite classic TV character — Kramer, Ralph Cramden, Kojak, Lucy, Herman Munster, Marge Simpson, Erica Kane, whoever – and while a famous clip plays without that character on a background screen, you recite those famous lines, become the TV character. Call […]

Gees, what a loser of a show. Hello. The producers never found the humor of the premise (if there is one) and they totally forgot you cannot be funny (at least not in a popular, commercially viable way) with being obnoxious, offensive, politically correct and/or ridiculous. Sure, you can have “smart” Cavemen, but they also have to […]

“The use of the useless,” a Taoist philosopher once said. Ah, but there’s also the use of the stupid, and I don’t mean guys like dumb blondes and dumb friends they feel superior to. No, instead of looking for that logical finishing touch, how about adding something that makes no sense? (a) It’ll keep ‘em guessing, and maybe they’ll […]

Or maybe it’s Big Brother: The Detox Edition. You corral a bunch of strung-out celebrities and resurrect their fading fame by helping them break their worst addictions. Or maybe it’s called Cold Turkey With the Stars. Could even serve as reminder to our youth: In America, you always get a second chance … as long as […]

Actually, that sounds like fantasy. But that’s not what I mean. No, flip the premise and see what you get:
The Biggest Gainer  Anorexics compete to put on the most weight.
Wife Keep Producers scout for the most horrible wives and the men who want to leave them — then force the men to stay.
No Survivors 16 […]

There’s something not funny about having comedy awards. Seriously. It’s old “hey, here’s a funny joke” problem: If you say something’s funny, well, the audience gets all, “Well, we’ll be the judge of that,” and the performers get all jokey and phoney. Or at least they seem to. So instead, have an awards that’s disguised […]