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JULIA: I want to call it the Dump Truck!
TREBEK (THOUGHT): Stupid idea. Stupid name. Say something like "Riiiiight. We always get some strange contestants on this show." Dump Truck. Heh. Heh. Actually, that is somewhat clever. But don't let that change your deafpan put down—
TREBEK (ALOUD): I like it! I'll

Westworld is actually Half Life 3.

This was exactly how the Nikki and Paolo episode should have gone.

It was a semi-charmed kind of guess.

"Nothing you can do that can't be done" expresses the sort of exploratory pioneering spirit that the space race inspired and I've got nothing here it was an idiotic response and I'm stunned that anyone would even guess it.

Chekhov's Moron: If you don't know who wrote the Cherry Orchard in the first act, you're going to lose in the third.

It was a skeleton crew. Creepy.

Point of parliamentary procedure: When Lani only answered "John Roberts" in a DJ clue that specified two justices, why did Trebek ask for more information? Shouldn't he have left her out to dry?

OBJECTION! Sweet potato fries are not only healthier than normal fries, but also more substantial and textured.

She's the only contestant in recent memory who would crack up mid-game, laughing at the absurdity of it all.

It almost felt like Trebek was aping Abbott and Costello.

H.R. comes from an alternate Earth where everyone has copied Mark Rylance's taste in hats.

What film features Mark Whalberg and Reese Witherspoon?
-Fear

But did you phrase it in the form of a question?

Yoey Yoey Yo. Think I wanna know ya (know ya)

The only things that are certainly losers: Nerdcore and Taxes.

Norm's tax talk may have been as dull as watching paint dry on a W-9, but damn if he didn't adequately respond to a classic "Trebek blindsides you with a political question only so he can seem more up to date on current events than you" and shut Alex up.

And it gave us the painfully easy STARTS WITH "AMERICA" category.

Love that episode as well. Both "White Bear" and "Shut Up and Dance" use similar twists but lead to two different viewing experiences. The reveal's timing impacts how long we continue to root for the protagonist.

Until the final reveal, this was a fine, mid-level episode of Black Mirror. It hit all the requisite beats about fear of technology, privacy, etc. while maintaining a constantly tense yet station-to-station plot. And then the show turned one last time and the episode gelled together beautifully. Unlike "White