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It's a fair assumption. He's known for his directing, and his name is plastered across the poster because he wrote it. It's like assuming From Dusk Till Dawn is a canonical Tarantino movie.
In case you aren't just being ironic, the next bat-Man movie is a stop-motion film done by a studio that does an impressive job of mixing stop motion with CGI and composite facial animation. You can find stuff on the studio and movie around the internet. It's just called "The Dynamic Duo".
My first thought was she said the category in the captions, which was movies. But the more I think about it quite often contestants won’t say the whole category when they pick.
Nah they don’t accept alternate answers even when they fit, like the classic “this long handled gardening tool can also be used to refer to a promiscuous person” question not accepting hoe as an answer.
That question still irritates me on two sides. The answer was “rake” and the contestant was embarrassed by the host for saying “hoe”. Why would you not want a risqué answer after asking a risqué question?
I remember several times back in the 90’s when they’d come back from a commercial break and Alex would explain that actually, an answer the contestant gave wasn’t wrong, even if it wasn’t what they were looking for, and the scores adjusted for it. So they do (or used to) “accept” alternate answers.
You must not watch the show very much. They do adjust players scores after the fact when a response is initially ruled incorrect but then later their judges determine that a response should have been allowed. It didn't happen in that one example you gave, but it does happen quite often. It happened last Friday.
Given these parameters alone, the answer could be Sweeney Todd, The Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (though I don’t know if that one’s primarily ‘dark’).
At least in the old movie, it's pretty clear that Wonka created a tour with a series of temptations with gruesome punishments for the children who didn't follow the rules. He said Charlie "cheated", which implies he thought it was a game. Sick, evil, murderous miser.
You know, looking back on it, i dont know if i ever considered wilders willy wonka as "good" if anything i feel like he was kind of terrifying, like... a biblically accruate celtic fairy.
Which is surprising because they changed the damn title to take the focus off Willy and back on Charlie as in the book and then cast Depp and made it entirely about him.
It’s definitely dark, but if I was on Jeopardy and had to guess between those five movies, Charlie would probably be the last I’d guess. Sweeney Todd or Corpse Bride are much “darker” films.
I mean, based on how Jeopardy writes clues, wouldn’t it be pointing to Dark Shadows considering the word “dark” is used? Typically they try to carry over exact verbiage when a question is otherwise ambiguous.
Definitely if dark was in quotes, otherwise not necessarily. Also, if we’re nitpicking jeopardy rules, the last time clues were worth $500 was before they doubled the values in 2001. In 2001, there were no valid answers to this question since they hadn’t all worked together on a single film directed by Burton yet.
They once had Charlie Sheen do a whole promotional tour with interviews on talk shows and press conferences for Scary Movie 4. He was in it for like one or two scenes max.
Sometimes if the actor is a big name, they'll get the spotlight no matter how minor their role is.
Hi, Chris here. Dad's currently out trying to save Mom from destroying Christmas again cuz we're outta paper towels. So the joke here is that Tim Burton's like, a really weird guy who directs all these dark-theme movies with a bunch of wacky and out of the way visuals. He almost always hires Johnny Depp and Helena Carter when they do these movies, to a point that they pretty much are an inseparable trio. Oh, it's Mr. Swanson! He's gonna let me shoot a tranquilizer into Mom! Awesome! Later!
The font is close but ever so slightly off, and Jeopardy! hasn't had $500 clues since November 26, 2001. The first Burton/Bonham Carter/Depp film was in 2005.
It looks like a fairly modern picture. "I'll take (blank) for 500, Alex" has become somewhat of a meme. Almost everyone says 500. Almost everyone says Alex. Alex Trebek has been dead for 5 years. $500 hasn't been a value on the Jeopardy board for 25 years.
Note: Just now, when I Googled "Alex Trebek" to verify his death date, Google asked me "do you mean who is Alex Trebek?"
"dark tales" are basically Tim Burton's whole thing and Depp and Carter have appeared in a bunch of his movies. off the top of my head it could be Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, or Dark Shadows & probably more besides
Real question, if an answer like this is giving in Jeopardy, and you say an answer that could be the correct one, but not the one they have as the correct answer, is their any mechanism by which you can like... argue that it fits the clue well enough to get the points, or is it a strict, "there is only one correct answer, period." kind of system?
If the answer doesn't match the official correct answer, the response will immediately be marked incorrect, that player loses $500, and the 2nd player to buzz in gets a chance to answer. Let's say the next player's answer is marked correct, they win $500. Players are not given a chance to argue during the broadcast. If a player has an answer that's very close, sometimes they'll let them restate it. For example, "what is Corpse Bride?" and they might say we need the full official title, "Oh, what is Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
When they break for commercial, the player may get a chance to argue or the judges may simply realize their mistake. If this happens, when the game returns, the host will announce the correction and Player 1 will get +$1000 added to their total. Judges almost never deduct winnings due to a correction.
If the error is big enough that it changes the outcome of the show, they may invite the player back on the show for a second chance. Winners on Jeopardy get to play again the next week, so unfairly losing is a big deal.
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The joke is quite a few of Tim Burton's movies have these two in the cast.
and theyre all dark tales too
The category might have an indicator though, like "musical movies" could be Sweeney Todd
Or Corpse Bride. So, coin toss.
Deadass (pun very intended) forgot Corpse Bride is a musical.
Is TNBC a musical too?
Yeah but Tim didn't direct that one.
neither Depp nor Bonham are in that
What about Hook?
What about the shawshank redemption? Was that a musical with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham carter?
Teenage Newton Binja Curdles
The tawdry tale of how one young man discovered both gravity, yogurt, and the pain if first loves.
I have got to stop going around the internet making low effort "hell yeah" comments on things I like. But also
hell yeah
Lack of effort proves you aren't AI.
hell yeah
figgies in a half-shell!
None of the 3 people in the question were involved in directing or acting in TNCB
They are also three people who have not been in my kitchen. Damn I’m old
Shit I’m dumb lol Henry selick , right?
You got it
I reckon Charlie and the Chocolate factory is fair game too, although perhaps not by Jeopardy standards
Helena Bonham Carter was in Charlie and the Chocolate factory?
Charlie’s Mom
Has got it going on.
She's all I want, and I've waited for so long
Charlie can't you see you just not the boy for me
Charlie's mother.
She played Charlie's mother, I believe
I was going to make a joke here, but I felt a strange urge to check... Turns out yep, she was.
That story is pretty dark. They turned her into a blueberry bro.
Or nightmare before chrsitmas wich he didnt really directed but everyone thinks he did
Also had neither of the stated actors
true 😅 its jack but not Sparrow
It's a fair assumption. He's known for his directing, and his name is plastered across the poster because he wrote it. It's like assuming From Dusk Till Dawn is a canonical Tarantino movie.
Corpse Bride and Charlie & the chocolate factory also fit
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Burton certainly stretched that one, and more than a little bit.
That movie was terrible
I'll take a mediocre retelling that strives to do something different over a shot-for-shot remake any day
Sweeney Todd fits too
Corpse Bride maybe?
Or Charlie and the Chocolate factory!
Or it's not real
Yeah the font is slightly off.
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In case you aren't just being ironic, the next bat-Man movie is a stop-motion film done by a studio that does an impressive job of mixing stop motion with CGI and composite facial animation. You can find stuff on the studio and movie around the internet. It's just called "The Dynamic Duo".
Sweeney Todd is pretty dark lol
Dark Shadows had Alice Fucking Cooper
Ugliest woman I've ever seen.
My first thought was she said the category in the captions, which was movies. But the more I think about it quite often contestants won’t say the whole category when they pick.
What does "dark tale" even mean? Someone dies? Everyone wears all black? The lighting?
Needs a better adjective like macabre, sinister, or bleak.
Dark is a common descriptor of genres. See dark fantasy, for instance.
Fella must have grew up in a remote cabin in the woods with no TV or Internet, with only a thesaurus to keep them entertained.
What about duck tales?
Woo ooo!
My immediate response to seeing this was thinking what’s the problem, that’s easy…. Oh wait…
Batman, right?
This meme is kind of adjacent to the one from the Brooklyn 99 x New Girl crossover one:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-on-me-i-set-the-bar-too-low
So, not really a wrong answer! Ima gonna get my 500 bucks Alex.
Nah they don’t accept alternate answers even when they fit, like the classic “this long handled gardening tool can also be used to refer to a promiscuous person” question not accepting hoe as an answer.
That question still irritates me on two sides. The answer was “rake” and the contestant was embarrassed by the host for saying “hoe”. Why would you not want a risqué answer after asking a risqué question?
That contestant is the host now, so, I think he probably got over it.
It was Ken Jennings on episode one million and twelve of his streak, I'm sure he managed to overcome his embarrassment
I remember several times back in the 90’s when they’d come back from a commercial break and Alex would explain that actually, an answer the contestant gave wasn’t wrong, even if it wasn’t what they were looking for, and the scores adjusted for it. So they do (or used to) “accept” alternate answers.
or one time when someone gave the original name of something and not the newer one.
When a guy answered the tallest mountain in Alaska as Denali and not McKinley
Yeah I don't know if there was a rule change but I have seen them do this many times as long as it is correct.
They adjust scores for "acceptable" answers that were first deemed incorrect after the break all the time
You must not watch the show very much. They do adjust players scores after the fact when a response is initially ruled incorrect but then later their judges determine that a response should have been allowed. It didn't happen in that one example you gave, but it does happen quite often. It happened last Friday.
It wasn't "promiscuous person" it was "pleasure seeking man".
There's a difference between someone having 'rakish good looks' and describing them as a hoe.
"Hoe" 100% works for both, and Ken was totally robbed (even if he did eventually come to accept it while hosting).
A hoe isn't traditionally doing it for pleasure. Rake was absolutely the correct answer.
No one* uses the word rake that way. Everyone uses the word hoe that way. The Dictionary is out of date.
*Except RPG writers looking for yet another synonym for a sub class
It wasn't, though.
Whats the answer? Spade? Rake?
Rake
It's fewer than I thought according to IMDB. Only 7 movies have all three in.
Burton was a producer on
And they were all interviewed as themselves in
Depp and Carter worked together (without Burton) in
Dep and Burton worked together (without Carter)
Carter and Burton worked together (without Depp)
You listed 6
Yeah, I was trying to work out what the deal with the 7th was. They were interviewed in a biography.
Johnny Depp famously doesn't watch his own movies, which means he's only seen maybe 1 or 2 Tim Burton movies in his life.
Batman and Beetlejuice! Now, what have I won?
Nightmare before Christmas
I once, while very high, asked people I was sitting with what the name of the movie was in which Eddie Murphy plays multiple characters….
Yes
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I had to double check that she did not have a slight part in Sleepy Hallow. She did not.
Burton was still dating Lisa Marie at that time, so she got what would have been Helena's role if they had started dating earlier.
Given these parameters alone, the answer could be Sweeney Todd, The Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (though I don’t know if that one’s primarily ‘dark’).
It's dark chocolate.
This is funnier than it should be, thanks for the laugh lol
THIS was funnier than it should be, thank you for making me chuckle at both you and the original comment
This was exactly as funny as it should be, and I appreciate the chortle.
This could’ve been slightly funnier, but I don’t mind the snicker.
This was slightly lesser than my usual preference in level of humour, but I enjoyed it enough to exhale through my nose.
This wasn’t very funny, I tittered to be polite.
Comedy is dead
More than half as dead as you should like, but less than twice as dead as you deserve.
Now THIS good sir has won the internet for the day! I had a nice chuckle after that!
Tastes like a fat kid.
hard to kidnap then.
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Oompa Loompa you’re right!
Charlie and The Dark Chocolate Factory?
Angry upvote
No more upvotes so you stay at the number of the beast.
Nice
Given that several children are permanently disfigured in that movie, I'd say it's pretty dark
At least in the old movie, it's pretty clear that Wonka created a tour with a series of temptations with gruesome punishments for the children who didn't follow the rules. He said Charlie "cheated", which implies he thought it was a game. Sick, evil, murderous miser.
The Gene Wilder movie has legit funny, dark moments. The Tim Burton movie has moments of.... well, just typical Tim Burton shit
Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun.
I'm going to pistol whip the next person who says Shenanigans again!
Hey, Farva! What's the name of that restaurant you like, with all the goofy shit on the walls...and the mozzarella sticks?
Guys talkin bout Shenanigans?!
OooOoOOOoOo!!
The best part was the bit with the melting dolls with the sort of Small World vibe.
The Tim Burton film was truer to the original Roald Dahl story.
You know, looking back on it, i dont know if i ever considered wilders willy wonka as "good" if anything i feel like he was kind of terrifying, like... a biblically accruate celtic fairy.
He's completely demented. Charlie is the only good person in the whole movie
Tbh i think thats kind of the point of the story. And i think thats why the johnny depp one never hit with me.
It ends up being a story about Willy explaining why he's weird instead of being about Charlie and the factory. It's okay, but completely unnecessary
Which is surprising because they changed the damn title to take the focus off Willy and back on Charlie as in the book and then cast Depp and made it entirely about him.
Grandpa was the worst though. Motherfucker hopped out of that bed after years
r/grandpajoehate
Charlie isn’t good, though. He falls to temptation just like the other kids. He just finds a way to get out of it
True, though I'd say the intentions are a bit different
They all deserved it. /s
wow i was way off, my guess was Edward Scissorhands- BONHAM CARTER WAS IN BURTON'S WONKA???
She play charlies mother
What the fuck
Did you not watch the movie?
I also thought it was gona be Edward Scissor Hands but that was Winnona Ryder apparently
Yeah. She was Charlie's mom
Carter wasn't in Edward scissorhands
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How is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory not dark?
Mr. Wonka looks on as each of his young guests is summarily dispatched by their own vices.
Roald Dahl is super dark.
It’s definitely dark, but if I was on Jeopardy and had to guess between those five movies, Charlie would probably be the last I’d guess. Sweeney Todd or Corpse Bride are much “darker” films.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp, is dark fantasy.
Willy Wonka, with Gene Wilder, is horror hiding under a thin layer of whimsy.
Always feels like Sleepy Hollow should also be part of that, you know?
Christina Ricci, Winona Ryder, and Helena Bonham Carter were like 3 goth musketeers.
I was going to be a smart ass and point out that you missed one until it dawned on me HBC ISN'T in Sleepy Hollow...
Really seems like she would have shown up somewhere in that one.
They didn’t start dating until a couple years later during Planet of the Apes.
I mean, based on how Jeopardy writes clues, wouldn’t it be pointing to Dark Shadows considering the word “dark” is used? Typically they try to carry over exact verbiage when a question is otherwise ambiguous.
Definitely if dark was in quotes, otherwise not necessarily. Also, if we’re nitpicking jeopardy rules, the last time clues were worth $500 was before they doubled the values in 2001. In 2001, there were no valid answers to this question since they hadn’t all worked together on a single film directed by Burton yet.
Yeah, and the category likely also narrows the field.
It would definitely be sweeny todd
Brain here, It’s funny because the clue is vague. They both have been casted in a bunch of Tim Burton movies. Brian out!
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Take over the world!
"Try to," that's a kind of important line to forget, otherwise the series would end at episode 1.
Maybe they only failed because they weren't thinking positively enough. By saying they would "try" instead of "do" they doomed themselves to failure.
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?
I think so, but where will we find an open tattoo parlor at this time of night?
Umm, I think so, Brain, but what if the chicken won't wear the nylons?
I think so Brain, but where are we going to find rubber pants in our size?
I think so, Brain, but if I clone myself, how will I know which one to shoot when I turn evil?
The genius part of this show is who is actually the genius and who is insane. If you didn't know it before watching it, it adds a lot to a rewatch.
It's just cast btw. Casted sounds so wrong to me. Like I ated an apple.
Didn't even proofread, Brian? And you call yourself a writer? /s
What does Brian have to do with this brain?
NARF!
NARF!
This clue accurately describes:
Maybe a few more.
I immediately thought of Edward Scissorhands, but in hindsight I only remember Depp being in it, nobody else.
I was thinking Sleepy Hollow, but that was Christina Ricci, not Hellena Bonham Carter.
At the time, Burton was married to Lisa Marie, so she's the one in the movie.
edwards scissorhands had wynona ryder in it
Still does.
damn you got me there
Can you really say Helena stars in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? It's a very minor role.
They once had Charlie Sheen do a whole promotional tour with interviews on talk shows and press conferences for Scary Movie 4. He was in it for like one or two scenes max.
Sometimes if the actor is a big name, they'll get the spotlight no matter how minor their role is.
At least the Alice sequel was not directed by Tim Burton, so we can cross that one out!
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Hi, Chris here. Dad's currently out trying to save Mom from destroying Christmas again cuz we're outta paper towels. So the joke here is that Tim Burton's like, a really weird guy who directs all these dark-theme movies with a bunch of wacky and out of the way visuals. He almost always hires Johnny Depp and Helena Carter when they do these movies, to a point that they pretty much are an inseparable trio. Oh, it's Mr. Swanson! He's gonna let me shoot a tranquilizer into Mom! Awesome! Later!
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Im sad it took so much scrolling to see this.
What was the movie btw? Or was this photoshopped?
Given the ambiguity, I would be flabergasted if this was real.
The font is close but ever so slightly off, and Jeopardy! hasn't had $500 clues since November 26, 2001. The first Burton/Bonham Carter/Depp film was in 2005.
This is VERY insightful and the fact you know both of those tidbits WOW 👌
they should go on jeopardy
Please tell Ken this! I've been trying to get on for years.
It could be a SNL sketch as well
Or the category was something like "animated movies" or "movie musicals" that would narrow it down to one correct answer.
Photoshopped
It looks like a fairly modern picture. "I'll take (blank) for 500, Alex" has become somewhat of a meme. Almost everyone says 500. Almost everyone says Alex. Alex Trebek has been dead for 5 years. $500 hasn't been a value on the Jeopardy board for 25 years.
Note: Just now, when I Googled "Alex Trebek" to verify his death date, Google asked me "do you mean who is Alex Trebek?"
Fine, we’ll give you another clue. Danny Elfman did the music
…son of a..
The question to ask is: What’s the category?
That might help narrow it down from like 4,724 answers to one or two.
What is Sweeney Todd. Easy!
And like 5 other Tim Burton movies. Including Corpse Bride, Dark Shadows, and Alice In Wonderland.
Its like telling someone to guess a fruit and the only thing they know is that its sweet
"dark tales" are basically Tim Burton's whole thing and Depp and Carter have appeared in a bunch of his movies. off the top of my head it could be Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland, or Dark Shadows & probably more besides
Real question, if an answer like this is giving in Jeopardy, and you say an answer that could be the correct one, but not the one they have as the correct answer, is their any mechanism by which you can like... argue that it fits the clue well enough to get the points, or is it a strict, "there is only one correct answer, period." kind of system?
If the answer doesn't match the official correct answer, the response will immediately be marked incorrect, that player loses $500, and the 2nd player to buzz in gets a chance to answer. Let's say the next player's answer is marked correct, they win $500. Players are not given a chance to argue during the broadcast. If a player has an answer that's very close, sometimes they'll let them restate it. For example, "what is Corpse Bride?" and they might say we need the full official title, "Oh, what is Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
When they break for commercial, the player may get a chance to argue or the judges may simply realize their mistake. If this happens, when the game returns, the host will announce the correction and Player 1 will get +$1000 added to their total. Judges almost never deduct winnings due to a correction.
If the error is big enough that it changes the outcome of the show, they may invite the player back on the show for a second chance. Winners on Jeopardy get to play again the next week, so unfairly losing is a big deal.
Not sure how often it happens anymore, but I remembered seeing judges adjust scores sometimes when i watched as a kid.
joke is thats practically every tim burton film
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The joke is that Jeopardy doesn’t have a $500 hint
What was the answer?
She didn't answer it as a question.
The answer is, " Are you actually kidding me? "
Ooo let me help! The score was by Danny Elfman