bunkaroo

Oh missed that one.

Count Dooku

Spoiler:

Mr Flix Sidra/Teri Hatcher -2
cnicholls44 Sidra/Teri Hatcher -2

majorjoe23 Bookman -3
Drexl Bookman -3
Count Dooku Bookman -3

Spoiler:

hasslein The Soup Nazi -6
Cardsfan111 The Soup Nazi -6
T-Bone22 The Soup Nazi -6
Abob Teff The Soup Nazi -6
Decker The Soup Nazi -6
cdollaz The Soup Nazi -6

Spoiler:

OldBoy Babu Bhatt -7
Aaron Hernandez Babu Bhatt -7
Goat3001 Babu Bhatt -7
bunkaroo Babu Bhatt -7
sleepyhead55 Babu Bhatt -7
Shannon Nutt Babu Bhatt {sd} -14
Crocker Jarmen Babu Bhatt {sd} -14

Count Dooku

Standings after Q17:

Cardsfan111 -175
T-Bone22 -168
majorjoe23 -154
Damfino -151
Aaron Hernandez -149
Crocker Jarmen -147
Cellar Door -139
cnicholls44 -139
Shannon Nutt -137
hasslein -135
Goat3001 -128
Mr Flix -125
Count Dooku -124
cdollaz -119
Decker -115
OldBoy -105
Drexl -100
story -100
bunkaroo -98
sleepyhead55 -80
Abob Teff -71

Count Dooku

Cellar Door

Wait, so you accepted "The Soup Nazi" here when the rules clearly said "name"?

hasslein

No wrong answers in sheep

Crocker Jarmen

bunkaroo

Count Dooku

Yes.

If last week I had gotten more response on the name issue, I would have asked people to resubmit with names. As it was, the only person who really answered was Decker, who said that I should demand names, but then was one of the people who submitted Soup Nazi, so I decided there was enough confusion to let this play out as a sheep question where there are no wrong answers.

My thinking was that if people had to come up with names, they would gravitate towards fewer answers, making this a sheepier question near the end.

I figured people would know Marla the virgin/Jane Leeves, Sidra/Teri Hatcher, Bookman/ Philip Baker Hall, Steinbrenner, Mr Pitt, and (of course) Babu Bhatt. I expected that Babu would be sheepiest and maybe some slams would impact the standings here at the end.

story

I was out of town all of next week and not able to log in so I'm looking at it all today. I was sure I'd be much further along but wow, I'm ending up in the bottom of the pack for this one. I wish I'd realized how many non-regular Seinfeld watchers are playing. I don't know if I could've done better with the answers I gave, but I'm a pretty big Seinfeld fan so who knows. Anyway, congrats to all toward the top.

Count Dooku

playing your slams on 7 and 13 really hurt you

you had the sheepiest answers on 4,5 and 11

Damfino

Decker

Sorry, I'm going to challenge Candice Bergen appearing as herself. She never broke character and only appeared onscreen as Murphy Brown. That would be like saying Ted Danson appeared as himself on "Frasier".

Crocker Jarmen

It's not the same as Sam Malone visiting Fraiser. Murphy Brown doesn't appear in the Seinfeld universe as a real person. She appears as a character on a TV show, being played by Candice Bergen.

Count Dooku

On an episode of Mad About You, Michael Richards appeared as Cosmo Kramer. The premise was that Mad About You and Seinfeld were taking place in the same fictional universes. (Which would mean that Seinfeld and Friends also took place in the same fictional universe.)

The premise of these Seinfeld episodes is that Kramer has moved to LA and become an actor who gets a part on the TV show Murphy Brown. It is absolutely clear that Murphy Brown is not a real person, and that Kramer as an actor is interacting with Candice Bergen as an actress on the set of Murphy Brown.

Count Dooku

Damfino

As I've explained, I wanted the characters names.

I would have had no problem with marking "The Soup Nazi" incorrect for the question about the trial, but the established rules are that there are no incorrect sheep answers.

I personally do not understand how people could think that "The Soup Nazi" or "The Bubble Boy" was someone's name, but those were the answers that were sent in.

Early on I floated the idea of asking for re-submission of answers but there was so little interest that I just decided to move forward as was.

If you want to challenge all those Soup Nazi matches on the trial question, provide a basis for the challenge within the rules. I don't know one.

Decker

Hey, it's your game, but checking IMDB, they list the performance as :


1992 Seinfeld (TV Series)
Murphy Brown
- The Keys (1992) ... Murphy Brown

Damfino

I just thought you were making an exception to the "No wrong sheep answers" rule.

hasslein

One of my favorite sheep questions was "name George Harrison's best guitar solo" and of course the sheep answer was While My Guitar Gently Weeps... which Harrison didn't play...

Count Dooku

I don't care what it says on IMDb.

The logic as I have explained it is airtight. Kramer got a job as an actor in LA working on the TV show Murphy Brown. Bergen appeared on Seinfeld as herself, the actress who plays Murphy Brown.

Elaine wrote a spec script for the TV show Murphy Brown. In the Seinfeld universe Murphy Brown and Melrose Place are TV shows that the characters watch.

davidh777

Technically I think it was "guitar solo played by a Beatle," but yeah, that was good. That's probably still my all-time favorite Sheep game.

Count Dooku

The truth is that the fact that Decker was so firmly supportive of the need for players to supply character names, and that Decker was one of the players who sent in Soup Nazi as a name, signaled to me that this was going to be more trouble than it was worth to sort out. I marked the answers incorrect on the Reverse because they are incorrect. I accepted the answers on Sheep because the established rule is that no sheep answers can be incorrect.

I never would have ended up marking the answers wrong on the trial question because I would have insisted that the players provide different answers in replacement.

Decker

Hey, don't be bringing me into this. I'm fine with referring to characters as Soup Nazi or Bubble Boy or Mulva and have never said anything to the contrary.
I just think when it says Name a character, you shouldn't say "girl who sees Jerry pick his nose" or "girl with real breasts" which is why I didn't pick Sidra - I didn't remember that character name. I don't appreciate being singled out like that when it clearly isn't appropriate or accurate.

And you're right that there isn't such a thing as an incorrect Sheep answer.

Count Dooku

I'm bringing you into it because your post #62 perfectly encapsulates the problem.

How is "girl who sees Jerry pick his nose" a description, but "The Bubble Boy" is a name?

majorjoe23

I wouldn't put too much faith in what IMDB says for something like this. It can be edited by users, just like Wikipedia.