Picking up from yesterday
– and feeling that I was messing up a bunch of the questions –
There were some questions that I would’ve gotten wrong even if I’d had all the time in the world.
Specifically, the biggest shocker to me was who had more followers worldwide Jesus or Buddha. I was SO sure it was going to be Buddha.
I’d thought Lisa had said on The Simpsons once that there were more Buddhists than Christians. And obviously if it was on The Simpsons, it has to be true.
However, it’s possible that there actually are more Buddhists than Christians, but when you add in Catholics and other stuff you get more followers of Jesus.
Or perhaps I just misunderstood The Simpsons. (I certainly couldn’t entertain the fact that Lisa would ever be wrong.)
Anyway, I was SO sure it it was Buddha, I was beyond shocked when the answer was Jesus. (And I was with the majority of the mob!)
In case you’re wondering what happened next, they guy got out on Obama’s Secret Service code name (which I knew from The Daily Show.) Blergh. (p.s. He guessed “sweetness,” by the way, but it was Renegade.)
Anyway, getting to the taping part of it all, and the parts I can share in a public forum –
(Aren’t we special with our secrets. Oh-la-la.)
Carrie (the host) would say we were all coming in on webcams – which was true. However, if you were under the impression that we were chilling out at home or something (which probably no one was, since our backgrounds matched and most people don’t have green screens) – we were not skyping in from our own locations.
We were totally under the watchful eye of those lawyers/standards and practices/whoever else those special stealth people were all the time.
There was a monitor next to my webcam backstage so that I could see the whole mob and I could see myself. And I was always so proud of myself whenever I looked to be looking up at the question or over toward another mob member. ‘Cause I was seeing like a mirror image – or some kind of image that made thought go into it.
I think when people are watching, they don’t think about the fact that to look over at someone, you didn’t just look, you had to think about where they were sitting in the web cam puzzle and which direction you had to look (not the way you think you did) to make it look like you were in fact looking that way.
So, let me just pat myself on the back a little for that. *Bows, accepts roses* Thanks very much.
They definitely took great care of us with snacks, water, even people who touched up our hair and make-up for us.
We got lunch vouchers good for a certain amount of money to be used in the commissary, and we’d play games to see who could get their lunch to come closest to the value of the voucher. (Get game show lovers in one place and apparently we make games out of our downtime between the parts of the actual game we’re playing.)
Just like all game shows, we weren’t allowed to have cell phones (or anything with internet capability) anywhere near us at any time. (I just left mine at home that day.)
Just as it was at TPiR, it was very freeing to not be tethered, and just 100% enjoy the company you’re with.
I met a bunch of really fun people on the show – some of whom I’m friends with to this day. (One of whom went on to be on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? Another person recently tapes a Wheel of Fortune, which will be airing later this year.
So, we’re keeping up with game shows. And we’re keeping up with each other.
I’m incredibly happy I got to play on 1 vs 100.