Hey! I needed that extra help to get 3 out of 5! And it is true that I am very proud of myself for getting even those three (I really, really, really don't like sports…)

It was up against Gangs of New York, The Pianist, The Hours, and LOTR: The Two Towers. I am perfectly happy with it winning best picture. I like The Two Towers the best of all the LOTR movies, but since everyone knew The Return of the King was going to win for the whole trilogy the following year, no one cared.

That's how I felt about the book worm sketch, which was also obvious and lazy.

She's Trump's new Undersecretary of Education.

That was the laziest bit of the night by far. The moment it started you knew it was going straight to "he will lose when pop culture comes up". I kept hoping they would subvert that somehow, but noooo. Maybe they thought it would be funny enough that the guy who played Tom Haverford would play someone who is…

Watching this episode felt like drowning in syrup, and made me reconsider whether I want to keep watching. I am finding that I am only really interested in the triplets' stories, and that may very well change if they too start having oh so meaningful, ponderous talks with the scenery.

I loved that smarmy wind.

He did, which might make sense for Renard with his royal family connections and all, but this was really Nick talking, and then one of the journalists also used the word, which makes no sense at all.

Sad trombone!

"Signing important documents in bars since 1787"?

But - if you ran Jeopardy!, would we still get recaps? :-/

That category was terrible. It wasn't even really antonyms. It was asking you to solve two separate Jeopardy clues and then put them together in a way that weirdly referenced a third thing that wasn't even mentioned in the clue. Before and after is similar, but much more focused and less complicated. Also: "Army…

He didn't win an Oscar for that one, and that was part of the clue, so it wouldn't have been.

An what? An Eli? An American idol? An Alex Trebek worshipper?

I knew it could be no one but Yeltsin, but the way I remembered those years was that, although everyone pretty much knew he was a drunk, no one ever wanted to acknowledge it officially, and I was kind of shocked to find out in this clue that Bill Clinton has been telling anecdotes about it. I might have hesitated to…

I felt so stupid after Austria was revealed to be the answer, but I figured that it would have un-annexed itself from Germany years before 1955. Unfortunately, I paid a lot more attention to that date than to 1938.

I was very surprised that they actually had to go and research whether Jane the Crazy was acceptable for Juana la Loca, since that is an accurate translation, and that's what they were asking for. If they meant to ask for the name by which Juana is known in English, the clue should have worded differently. And I…

I also arrived at Holy Spirit from "saint air" very late, and probably would have been stuck with what is holy gho

I grew up with my language's version of "Holy Spirit", and yes, when I first heard the words "Holy Ghost" in English, the images that conjured up were of boooooo ghosts. In a far more goofy than unnerving way, to be sure.

I don't know, I think they still hear about Schindler or the movie in high school. As for FJ, I thought the same. Title pairs would be Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra (I love how, when confronted with contestants writing Anthony, Trebek will stick to reading it as Antony*), or the two gentlemen of Verona. I…