You Don't Know Jack

Episode 46, Round 6 of the online game

You Don't Know Jack game show

You Don't Know Jack is a popular trivia video game produced originally by Jellyvision and later by Jackbox Games. The game describes itself as "where high culture and pop culture collide", using pop culture references to ask trivia questions. The series also led to a short-lived TV game show hosted by Troy Stevens (played by Paul Reubens). The Muppets are mentioned in many editions of the game.

Mentions

Vol. 1

• For "The Muppet Show & Legendary Figures," host Nate Shapiro mentions that the Swedish Chef has real hands, then asks which legendary figure is not real.

• "Answered Now, the Question Will Be, Yes?" describes Yoda as "actually a Muppet and sounds a lot like Fozzie."

• "Puppet Revolution" asks what kind of government Sesame Street would be if Big Bird and Grover form their own church, Our Muppet of Perpetual Felt. Host Buzz does a Count von Count impression of "aristocracy" is incorrectly chosen.

• "The Play Is Trash" asks which Sesame Street character would the setting of Our Town be named after, describing Oscar the Grouch (other answers name Bert and Grover).

• "Am I Blue?" asks which Sesame Street would be painted by Pablo Picasso during his "blue period" (Big Bird, Grover, Ernie, or Snuffleupagus).

• "A Very Muppet Christmas" asks which Sesame Street characters share their names with characters from It's a Wonderful Life. Incorrect answers include "Mr. Hooper & Mr. Potter," "Oscar & Clarence," and "Zuzu & Snuffy."

• One question is titled "One of These Things is Not Like the Others."

• One question is titled "Who Are The People in Your Neighborhood?"

• "Films & Fanatics" vaguely describes the plot of a film for the player to guess (Casablanca). The Muppets Take Manhattan is one of the incorrect answers.

• "Paparazzi & Fozzie" presents four parody names and asks to identify which is a real Muppet character; Meryl Sheep is the correct answer.

• The question "Fashion Statement or Medical Necessity?" is written in the format of the lyrics to "One of These Things."

• "Bogus Beasts & Big Bird Bar Bets" asks which mythical bird would Big Bird be if he were able to pick up Mr. Snuffleupagus.

• The "People With Magical Abilities" Jack Attack matches magical beings with the fictional narratives they're associated with. The Amazing Mumford is matched with Sesame Street. Grover and Mr. Hooper's names appear as incorrect answers.

• The UK version of the game includes the question "This Episode Brought to You by Ennui," asking which Sesame Street character (Grover, the Count, Oscar the Grouch, and Miss Piggy) could play Hamm's father in the Samuel Beckett play Endgame.

Vol. 2

• "PBS is Greek To Me" has "Big Bird from 'Sesame Street'" as an answer.

• One question is titled "Who Are The People in Your Neighborhood?"

• One question is titled "Fjords and Fraggle Rock."

• "Time to Water the Frog" asks what "Bein' Green" would instead be about if Kermit the Frog were renamed "Kermit the Fern."

• "I Wonder If You Can Recycle That," a fill in the blank question, asks what street you can find "a guy named Gordon, some yellow bird feathers, and a furry matted green thing with a human arm inside of it."

• "Brought To You By the Letters F & U" asks what a Sesame Street segment about political anarchy would teach.

• One question is titled "A Healthy Ernie, An Ill Bert," but does not feature the two in the question or answers.

Movies

• One question, titled "PBS Boosts Its Ratings," merges Sesame Street with the movie M.

• "Ah, the "Muppet Babies" of the Night!" poses the following analogy: "Vampires: in a mirror :: Nanny on 'Muppet Babies'." The Count appears as a wrong answer.

• "Depressing Cool Beverages" asks what slogan would work for a drink called "The Dark Crystal" based on what the main characters look for in the film.

• "PBS: The Pre-Bigshot System" asks what children's show Michael Keaton was a part of before achieving stardom. "Johnny Dangerously teaching Grover adverbs" is a wrong answer.

• "The King & Burger King" has Tickle Me Elvis as an answer.

Television

• "Make-Believe Dogs Wish to Thank the Academy" includes Rolf the Dog [sic] as an answer.

• "Kids Are Born Naked--Let 'Em See Nudity" lists four TV programs with inappropriate titles and asks which one is real. The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence is used as the correct answer.

• "Brought to You by the Letters CK" asks what designer Calvin Kline would produce to make one dress like Bert.

• "You're a Big Fat What?" posits a scenario where a teacher tells his students they're "a bit frazzled," and a student mishears this as "a big Fraggle."

• "Would He Still Swing an Imaginary Golf Club?" asks who was the guest host for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on April 2, 1979; the answer being Kermit the Frog.

• "You're a Puppet for the Man" asks what kind of being Marjory from Fraggle Rock is.

• "Ah, The Muppet Babies of the Night!" uses an analogy comparing vampires to Nanny from Muppet Babies. The Count appears as a wrong answer.

• "Trap On, Trap Off: The Trapper" has Gonzo, referred to as "a long-nosed purple Muppet," as the correct answer.

• "Grin & Bear It" asks which fictional ursine character is a real, life bear. Fozzie Bear is one of the incorrect answers.

• One question is titled "It's Time to Put On Make Up."

Sports

• "Important Lessons from a Furry Blue Guy" asks which school would Grover go to to demonstrate "inside" and "outside" with football players "Mr. Inside" and "Mr. Outside."

• "Stalling Tactics" asks which sports-related threat could Kermit the Frog make to the cows on The Muppet Show that would not scare them.

• "Jock Sraps & Hand Puppets" asks which puppet-centric show would hockey player Larry Robinson (nicknamed "Big Bird") fit in on, with Sesame Street being the correct answer.

Vol. 4: The Ride

• "'Muppet Babies'? Who Are The Muppet Parents?" asks which pair of Muppets could be Kermit's parents based on their colors. Choices include "Gonzo and Elmo," "Big Bird and Cookie Monster," "Bert and Animal," and "Snuffleupagus and Miss Piggy."

• The Jack Attack "I Hate Jim!" pairs clues with people named Jim. Jim Henson appears as an answer, paired with "Muppets Creator."

• An episode about journalism includes the question "We All Live in a Yellow Magazine," which asks which of the featured headlines about fictional yellow characters are considered yellow journalism. One of the incorrect answers is "Does Bert Ever Not Wear A Turtleneck?"

PlayStation game

Jack Attacks

• Puppet Colors: For the game's final round, the Jack Attack, the player must identify the colors of several Muppet and Sesame Street characters.

Questions

• The Occidental Muppet: The question asks if Fozzie Bear performed his act in Japan, what would his "wocka, wocka, wocka" translate to.

Headrush

• "Muppets With Imaginary Friends & Organs" asks for the name of Big Bird's imaginary "esophagus."

• In the question "You Can Use Your Fingers For This One," host Bob mentions Dinosaurs among various TV shows with three children.

• One question is titled "Boy, Does Snuffy Have Egg on His Face."

• The question "Forget Mother's Milk! What About Cartoon's Milk!" asks which fictional female animal character cannot produce milk; Miss Piggy is one of the incorrect answers.

• The HeadButt puzzle "Yellow Makes Me Mellow" uses "Kermit's color" as a clue.

• The final HeadRush round, "Does Your Dog Bite?," requires players to match TV shows with a dog on them. Sesame Street is one option, needed to be matched with Barkley. Ernie appears as a wrong answer.

The Lost Gold

• "Lovable Children's TV Character? Think Again!" asks which character could not be one's true blue friend, with "the Cookie Monster" as an option.

TV game show

• Episode 4's Jack Attack, "What? What?," lists words usually uttered twice. Fozzie and his catchphrase appear as answers (spelled incorrectly as "Wakka Wakka!").

2006-2008 online game

Episodes

• Episode 37: The Dis-Or-Dat asks whether or not the names mentioned are a famous, professional golfer or a Sesame Street character. (The Sesame names mentioned include Telly, Guy Smiley and Snuffy.)
• Episode 46: The Round #6 question asks which Sesame Street character (Bert, Big Bird, Ernie and The Count) is an "ophyron". ("Bert" being the correct answer, as he is the only one who has a uni brow.)
• Episode 55: The "Jack Attack" asks the player to match a character with their proper instrument. Animal is matched up with the drums.
• Episode 63: The Dis-Or-Dat makes the player choose if the TV show mentioned takes play in New York City or Chicago. Sesame Street is listed as being in New York.
• Episode 78: Captain Vegetable is listed as a wrong answer during the Jack Attack.
• Episode 79: The opening gag-phrase claims "There is a monster at the end of this YOU DON'T KNOW JACK episode."
• Episode 85: The Dis-Or-Dat ("Kermit the Fjorg") has the player choose what given word is a city in Iceland or one of The Swedish Chef's mock-Swedish words. (This question was later re-used in a 2013 episode of the Facebook game).

Daily Dis-Or-Dats

• Putting the "Doo" in Purdue: Pepe the King Prawn is one of the characters listed for whether or not the person has a nose.
• Mmmmm...Grease: The player must choose if the names listen are a character from Grease or a Muppet.
• The King is Dead. Long Live the King!: The player must choose if the things listed are an Elvis Presley film or an Elmo product.

2011 console game

• Episode 2: Features the question "Muppet Rabies," asking which Muppet baby technically should not have arms during their adolencent stage of life (Baby Kermit being the correct answer).
• Episode 9: "Look What That Muppet Did To The Rug!" asks what command Rowlf would be performing if he was ROLF-ing.
• Episode 12: The DisOrDat, "Bond, Elmo Bond," has the player separate James Bond females and Sesame Street characters (Prairie Dawn, Sherry Netherland and Abby Cadabby).
• Episode 16: In the Jack Attack, "The Cow Goes..."Moo!"," Beaker is matched up with the sound he makes ("Meep!").
• Episode 30: The Jack Attack, "I've Got Total Street Cred," matches characters and people asociated with streets. Bert and Ernie appear as clues, being matched up with Sesame Street.
• Episode 33: "Englebear Humperdink" asks what fictional character would not change the pronunciation of their name to match Stephen Colbert's. Bert appears as an answer; his answer reading "The lead singer of the song "Doin' the Pigeon"."
• Episode 70: The Jack Attack, "I'll Say It Three Times," matches characters or performers with a phrase or title associated with them that features the same word repeated three times. Fozzie Bear is matched with "Wakka wakka wakka!" [sic]
• Episode 72: The Jack Attack, "Say Hello to My Imaginary Friend," features Snuffleupagus as an incorrect answer.

Facebook game

• A July 2012 episode features a "Jack Attack," "Bearly Clothed," about bear characters and the minimal outfits they wear. Fozzie Bear is one of the answers.
• An August 2012 episode features the question, "Brought to You By the Letter "O"." The question asks how The Count would describe a molecule of ozone (with answers like "One! One oxygen atom! HaHaHaHa!").
• The "Jack Attack" in another August 2012 episode, "TV Roomies," features Bert as a clue and Ernie as answer.
• Another August 2012 Jack Attack, "You Dirty Rat," lists productions featuring rat characters. Rizzo appears, associated with The Muppets.
• In another August 2012 Jack Attack, "Magic Words," characters are paired up with the magical phrase they say. The Amazing Mumford appears, getting matched with "A la peanut butter sandwiches!"
• In an August 2012 edition of "Funky Trash," Cookie goes through Jason Segel's trash. He references the newest movie, believe that's the reason there are puppets in his trash (and mistakenly tries to stick his hand up a raccoon).
• A September 2012 edition of "Cookie's Fortune Cookie Fortunes with Cookie 'Fortune Cookie' Masterson" is called "Fragile Rock."
• A September 2012 Jack Attack, "ZZ Middle," lists things with two Zs in the name. Fozzie Bear appears as an answer (his clue being "Muppet bear").
• In another September 2012 Jack Attack, "The Accent is On the Accent," The Muppets appears as one of the incorrect answers.
• A September 2012 Jack Attack, "Baby, We Were Born to Be Babies," features Muppet Babies as an incorrect answer. Cookie also introduces the title, giving the clue "They're the babies, gotta love 'em."
• A September 2012 Gibberish Question features the answer "There's safety in numbers." Cookie disagrees with the statement, citing that the performer of The Count was surrounded by numbers and still died.
• A September 2012 episode features two Muppet references: In the first question, "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Bullwinkle," Grover appears as an answer among other children's show characters who share names with Presidents. During the Jack Attack, "Rain Blow-me," "Rainbow Connection" appears the correct answer to the clue "Kermit's song."
• An October 2012 Jack Attack, "Spear Me" (all about movies featuring cavemen), Fraggle Rock appears as an incorrect answer.
• An October 2012 Jack Attack lists various characters and the tiny race of characters associated with them. One clue is "The Muppets," the answer being "Fraggles."
• In an October 2012 question, "It's The Time. Period.," the player must figure out what fictional character is associated with the Carboniferous period. Kermit appears as the correct answer, and Big Bird appears as an incorrect answer.
• An October 2012 Dis-Or-Dat has the player sort whether a book is by Dr. Seuss or Charles Dickes. At the end, Cookie mentions they both wrote classic Christmas stories - The Grinch by Seuss, and Dickens' made a "pretty good Muppet movie."
• An October 2012 Jack Attack matches famous drummers to the bands they belong to. Animal is matched up with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
• An October 2012 Dis-Or-Dat has the player chose whether a character's name ends with "Great" or "Horrible". Gonzo the Great appears as an answer.
• An October 2012 Jack Attack, "Humpty Grumpty," matches productions with a grumpy old character from it. Statler and Waldorf are matched with The Muppet Show.
• An October 2012 question, "Sesame Straight," asks how many years had passed between Ernie and Bert's debut to New York's legalization of gay marriage in 2011, referencing the many rumors about their relationship.
• An October 2012 question is called "Tickle Me Friday."
• An October 2012 Jack Attack, "I Did It All for the Cookie," matches types of cookie brands with the companies that make them. Cookie Monster appears as a wrong answer.
• A November 2012 Jack Attack matches inventors with their inventions. Ernő Rubik, maker of the Rubik's Cube, appears as the clue; "Ernie from Sesame Street" appears as one of his incorrect answers.
• A November 2012 Jack Attack, "Rubber The Wrong Way," matches "Ernie's bath toy" with "rubber duckie."
• A December 2012 question, "Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street Without Taking The Tollway?," asks which Sesame Street would be the toughest to spot riding the Staten Island Ferry.
• A December 2012 Jack Attack, "Toss.O," matches people and characters with things they are known for tossing. "Lew Zealand, the Muppet" is matched with his boomerang fish.
• A December 2012 Jack Attack lists things and what they fire or shoot. "The Muppets' cannon" is matched with "Gonzo the Great."
• A January 2013 episode asks the question, "Who seems to NOT need LASIK?" "The Muppets' Scooter" appears as one option.
• A January 2013 Jack Attack, "I've Got a One-Snack Mind," matches characters with their main food obsession. Cookie Monster appears a clue, being matched with his favorite food.
• A January 2013 Jack Attack is named "A Baby Muppet Is Called a 'Muppet Baby'"
• A February 2013 Jack Attack, "My Little Plaything," matches Big Bird with Radar.
• The February 2013 special episode, "Red Carpet & Drapes"'s Jack Attack ("My (Black) Swan Song") matches Academy Award-winning songs with their respective movies. "Man or Muppet" is matched with The Muppets.
• A February 2013 Jack Attack, "Alitter-ACTION!," matches fictional characters with the movies they appear in. The Muppets Take Manhattan appears as a wrong answer for Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy.
• A 2013 Jack Attack has the player chose the right character with "Mister" in their name. "Big Bird's friend" appears as an answer, with "Mr. Snuffleupagus" ("Kermit" and "Mister the Grouch" appear as wrong answers).

You Don't Know Jack 2015

• Episode 1: The question "Brought To You By The Letter U...nibrow" asks the player to sort Bert, Ernie and the Count in order from fewest to most eyebrows.
• Episode 43: "Fear and Puppeteering in Las Vegas"  asks which Muppet shares a name with the kind of writing Hunter S. Thompson is known for (the answer is Gonzo).

You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream

• In the example used for the "Jack Attack" round, Elmo is listed as an incorrect member of the Avengers.

• The question "Muppet Shade" asks which country produces the most tea by referencing the Kermit the Frog tea meme.

• The question "Color WHEEEEEE...L" asks which "cartoon couple" [sic] are made of complimentary colors. "Pikachu and Big Bird" is an incorrect answer, while "Cookie Monster and Chester Cheetah" is the correct answer.

• In the Jack Attack "I'm with the Band," Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem is used as an example.

• In a Jack Attack about character colors, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird are options for their respective colors.

• The Jack Attack "How YOU Are In Danger! (Yes! YOU!)" lists "Jareth the Goblin King" among those who would steal a player's child.

• The Jack Attack "Zoo Talking to Me?" has players pick which works of fiction have a particular talking animal. "The Muppets" is among those for "talking pig."

Connections

• Milton Berle appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
• Nell Carter appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
• Phyllis Diller appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
• Jimmy Fallon appears in You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream
• Florence Henderson appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
• Ed McMahon appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2
• Vanessa Williams appears in You Don't Know Jack: Volume 2

External links

• Official site