I thought that was a nice nod to the Red Shirt trope. He had to go as soon as they showed what he was wearing.

I thought it was highly entertaining too. And some seriously great work on the sound design in the last 20 minutes with that pulsating score which really added to the tension.

Plus we got to see the show's thesis succinctly laid out:

Also, El Al was in the news a lot after 9/11 as an example of an airline with a supporting security apparatus which supposedly did things 'right' according to the prevailing wisdom at the time. I recall many news outlets claiming with wonderment that El Al hadn't had a hijacking or security incident in several decades…

I thought that Jeopardy! was the hardest one in a long time. It seemed like an unusually high number of triple stumpers too. Typically I feel like I would have been competitive but this one was just a disaster and I felt… dumb. Poe? Navy ships? I would have Blitzered this hard.

My fault, I overlooked that your first comment wasn't in the most recent What's on Tonight and initially sent you scrolling in the wrong section.

No, not me. Link: https://disqus.com/by/gmuku…

Surprisingly, he actually found us and did seem to read all of this. He commented a few times on his experience (above? below?). Check it out. It's very interesting stuff and provides some context about some of the things that a few commenters here found unusual.

I am actually Indian myself with a 'funny-sounding' name too. It makes me happy to see people in positions of prominence stick to using their real names—not, say, Gary or Gus, as it might be in your case—professionally (and in entertainment). I hope the next Krishna Bhanji or Farrokh Bulsara or Nimrata Randhawa* won't…

Dr. Mukunda, thanks for providing that insight. It's a welcome surprise to see you pop up here.

Seriously. You'd figure he should know Gautama was also the name of the founder of Buddhism (since this is a Jeopardy! comment chain). But LOL ANAGRAM.

Plus, in order to boost the foreign box office, there would be a China-pandering scene set in Shanghai. I'm sure they'd pull it off somehow though.

They fell for the old adage: 'if the feel is similar, damages you must administer'.

'Get Lucky' is somewhat tolerable. But the ubiquity of 'Happy'? Pharrell must consciously be trying to foment discord with that one.

With all of these headlines in the last couple of days, the mere fact of reading the title gets that irritating 'HEY HEY HEY' stuck in my head. Non-stop on loop for hours. I wish there was an audial equivalent to how coffee beans reset olfaction.

Maybe Sajak read a video clue on a different episode and it got mixed up in your head. Or… maybe the Matrix is real.

You mean Russian-ness, you Western capitalist pig.

I just learned this evening that Pat Sajak and Alex Trebek switched hosting duties on April Fool's in 1997. You can Google it and find it on Daily Motion (not sure if linking to that site is allowed).

The highlight of this episode was Alex Trebek saying 'Colombia' straight-up gangsta like Tony Montana.

I absolutely agree that the personal stakes are what matters, but I get the sense that there's not going to be any real life-or-death stuff happening to any of the major players. Not that I'm necessarily watching to see 'who got whacked', but I think that danger sort of needs to be there (LOST, for all its faults, was…