At the end Alex said, "We'll say Merry Christmas to you tomorrow."

Correctamundo.

Larry did have a pretty big lead on Monday, mainly because his opponents were unusually weak, but it wasn't the kind of crushing that champs such as Jennings used to hand out on a regular basis.

Jeopardy! thread for Tue., Dec. 24 - Champ Larry raced away to a big lead in the first round, but Bonita did very well in the Nobel Lit Winners category early in DJ to make a game of it. Larry then pulled away again after hitting a $5,000 bet on a DD and edged off from there to a runaway lead going into this Final:

And at another point when he was far behind, he bailed out of a category when the $2,000 clue was remaining and jumped over to a $400 clue. He just didn't grasp how to properly play to try and close a large gap.

I'm sure that's what he was thinking, but it's still a flawed strategy not to bet everything. With time starting to run out and down by over $13,000, he just has to take a shot and hope for the best even if he hates the category, because a small bet there is practically surrendering the game.

And the Spinal Tap quote was, "What's wrong with being sexy?"

What got me wasn't just how they didn't know the responses, but their utterly blank faces after Alex read the Taxi clue, as if they didn't have the slightest idea what was being referenced (Alex seemed pretty annoyed that they didn't get Christopher Lloyd, too).

And ATPM was most logical because it was about Watergate, which set off the chain of events that helped lead to Carter's presidency (Nixon resigning, Ford becoming president and pardoning Nixon, Carter running on his image of honesty).

If we go back a bit further to the 50s and 60s, celebrity panel shows such as What's My Line, To Tell The Truth and I've Got A Secret were very popular in prime time. By the late 60s, panel shows were dead in prime time and their daytime/syndicated counterparts ran out of stream a decade later.

DONT YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL LIBRUL WHAT ARE YOU A MORAN

You are clearly in the proper holiday spirit of charity and forgiveness. Maybe I'm holding Jeopardy! contestants to far too high a standard.

So I guess she thinks Jimmy Carter was president in the 90s, or The American President was made in the 70s. I'm so very, very confused.

And Happy Holidays to the friendly friends over at Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy, the black-haired guy who's not Steve Doocy, and the blond-haired one who replaced the other blond-haired one, who in turn was replaced by another blond-haired one on The View.

Jeopardy! thread for Mon., Dec. 23 - Larry opened up a large lead early in DJ after winning $5,000 on a DD and was never threatened thereafter, cruising to a runaway leading total of $20,200 as the players faced this Final:

Some commenters might get turned off by having a show pushed on them too hard, but I generally appreciate it.

Enlightened was a very deserving choice for top show of the year. But the honor surprised me a bit because when the show was airing, it felt like it was only getting a fraction of the push on this site that Girls did, which was on in the same hour as Enlightened.

Yes, while we can be grateful for more outstanding TV than ever before, the wasteland is far more vast then ever as well, a glance at your cable listings on any given day will prove that.

"Amazing and hilarious"…are you sure she wasn't talking about Match Game '73?

Well, that's great that they can do it in a game that's virtually meaningless to them, let's hope they have something left for the Cowboys.