Jimmy Owen
Jan 9 2004, 12:35 PM
Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."?
Modor
Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Jan 9 2004, 12:35 PM) |
| Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? |
In the one episode that I have taped, he did.
Matt Ottinger
Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM) |
| Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? |
Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time. And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version.
fostergray82
Jan 9 2004, 01:12 PM
| QUOTE (Matt Ottinger @ Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM) |
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM) | | Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? |
Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time. And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version.
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Did he do impersonations as frequently as Alex does his?
DrBear
Jan 9 2004, 01:27 PM
Art usually said something, but remember, the answers were usually shorter on Art's board than on Alex's.
uncamark
Jan 9 2004, 02:27 PM
| QUOTE (fostergray82 @ Jan 9 2004, 01:12 PM) |
| QUOTE (Matt Ottinger @ Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM) | | QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Jan 9 2004, 01:35 PM) | | Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? |
Enough to make it a redundant catch phrase, though not 100% of the time. And he almost always said SOMETHING before the clue was revealed, unlike today's version.
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Did he do impersonations as frequently as Alex does his?
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No impersonations--but the occasional jokes about Don Pardo's liquor capacity (especially during Potent Potables) and producer Bob Rubin's cheapness. Of course, Art was too nice a guy for the wisecracks to really sting. On the other hand, when Trebek's wise-cracking to the crowd during breaks in taping, you aren't really sure...
byrd62
Jan 9 2004, 05:43 PM
| QUOTE (Dsmith @ Jan 9 2004, 01:00 PM) |
| QUOTE (Jimmy Owen @ Jan 9 2004, 12:35 PM) | | Did Art preface answer reveals with "The answer is....."? |
In the one episode that I have taped, he did.
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In the old cardboard days of J!, Art's saying, "The answer is..." was basically a cue for the stagehands to lift the dollar-value [or other] card to reveal the answer.
Legend has it that on one of those episodes, after Art would say, "The answer is..", a blank card was revealed instead, prompting Art to make a crack about the stagehands having "a keg of beer and a good time."
gameshowguy2000
Jan 9 2004, 05:47 PM
So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up?
calliaume
Jan 9 2004, 06:05 PM
| QUOTE (gameshowguy2000 @ Jan 9 2004, 05:47 PM) |
| So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up? |
Yes, which was no doubt a help to both the contestants and the stagehands.
And Matt's right -- "The answer is..." was far more of a catch phrase on the original version, and obviously used to cue the stagehands (who likely had to work darn fast).
Another original Jeopardy! fact: contestants followed their scores by looking at an off-camera chalk board. Bob Rubin wouldn't let them see a monitor showing what was on camera; he felt it would distract them from the game.
(I read this somewhere when the original show was still airing and it stuck.)
Matt Ottinger
Jan 9 2004, 07:06 PM
| QUOTE (calliaume @ Jan 9 2004, 07:05 PM) |
| QUOTE (gameshowguy2000 @ Jan 9 2004, 05:47 PM) | | So, once the correct question was said, did they cover up that clue with a blank card to show that that particular clue was used up? |
Yes, which was no doubt a help to both the contestants and the stagehands.
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I believe it would be more accurate to say that they simply removed the clue card, exposing the blank background underneath.
Ian Wallis
Jan 12 2004, 09:28 AM
I wonder how many times they exposed the wrong card on the original version? I know it happened once on "Jeopardy" 1978's premiere, and I vaguely remember it happening a few times on the original, but since so few episodes are around it didn't happen on any of those ones.
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