| Total | Hours (except #6) | Supers | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Dare they Challenge us with their Primitive Skills | 272 | 45 | 26 | 27 |
| There'll Be No Blaming Mother Tonight! | 239 | 40 | 17 | 18 |
| Sinusoidal Tupperware with Gumption (freshmen) | 239 | 33 | 21 | 27 |
| The Manhattan Skyliners | 219 | 25 | 23 | 5 |
| My BOOMStick! | 207 | 28 | 16 | 18 |
| There's Nothing Worse Than Half Dead Racht | 195 | 28 | 18 | 12 |
| I Can Live Forever in Formaldehyde (all-female) | 193 | 25 | 7 | 16 |
| All Jacked Up and Nowhere to Go | 188 | 25 | 7 | 16 |
| Barney the Hungry Purple Dinosaur | 187 | |||
| A Fine Jejeune Hailstorm (freshmen) | 114 | 12 | 8 | 10 |
| Tasmanian Tree Biters of the North | 24 | |||
| We've Thrown More Contests Than You'll Ever Win | 12 | |||
| The Brain of Cobain is Mainly Just a Stain | 9 | |||
| Francisco Franco is Still Alive | 9 | |||
| People Sitting as Far as is Humanly Possible from Jon Young | 5 | |||
| Mr. Asparagus | 4 | |||
| The Bride of Roosenraad | 4 | |||
| Columbus, City of Love | 4 | |||
| Mr. Cauliflower | 2 | |||
| Goodies in the Cookie Jar | 2 | |||
| Toe Cheese Evangelists | 2 | |||
| Embalmed, Rested and Ready: Nixon in '96 | 2 | |||
| My Name is Shane, Dammit | 2 | |||
| Ted Benson and Friends in Durham, NC | 1 | |||
| Marc Whinston is God | 1 | |||
| Satan's Monkey Boner | 1 |
As befits a 33-point margin of victory, the 5/94 contest was a fairly systematic cakewalk for How DARE They Challenge Us With Their Primitive Skills? First in Hour Bonus points, first in Super Bonus points, first in on-air points, but probably not first in the hearts of their countrymen, each score update announced an incremental increased for the Mike Tyson-named team's lead. The same squad had won the contest two years earlier as "Phasers on Stun: The Next Generation," in similarly non-dramatic fashion.
No, for the REAL action, you must look at the fitful nightlong battle for second place. Ranked as low as tied for 6th very early on, Sinusoidal Tupperware with Gumption were quickly in 3rd place behind There'll Be No Blaming Mother, 40-37. Fifteen questions later, it was Tupperware taking 2nd by three points over Mother, 82-79. By 4 AM, Tupperware had boosted its lead to 4 points over 3rd-place Mother, but with the 4th Hour Bonus unscored, neither team knew that Mother had just wiped out all four points. And so, in the first half of the contest, both teams had played at exactly the same pace. Mother held a 5-point advantage in Boni; Tupperware (best team of the night, with two of the three "5" scores awarded) outdid Mother by the same 5 points on Actions. Both teams would notch a 10 on the first Super.
Mother took an swift early lead with the 5th Hour Bonus (6-3), and with about two hours to go, had bumped its lead up to 158-152. The six-point margin was about the largest of the night. (For comparison's sake, Primitive Skills was up to 180.)
Tupperware rallied, though. They got the top score on both the sixth and seventh Action Trivia, and outscored Mother by 2 points on the 6 AM Silver Screen Hour Bonus. Even so, it took a 4-point bulge in the second Super Bonus, 11-7, to elevate Tupperware into a hard-earned tie with No Blaming Mother.
Tupperware was competing in its second contest and thrilled with the result; they would finish second again the following semester to the Bette Midler team itself (as "Can't... Do... Plaid") before enjoying a huge 45-point win in its upper-sophomore semester as Elvis Needs Boats. The Tupperwareans have won twice more to date.
There'll Be No Blaming Mother Tonight! had quite a credible showing, especially considering their single-digit players status. Oddly, a combination of talent from Mother, Primitive Skills, and the host Bette Midlers would unite as the champion "We Make Holes in Teeth!" two years later.
This contest represented the high water mark for Manhattan Skyliners, who finished in fourth place. The Skyliners were in their twenty-second YEAR of competition; late bloomers indeed. They managed it with a combination of typically excellent phone work, plus very ATYPICAL (for Skyliners) participation in the Hour Boni and Action Trivia. With the tight, tight cluster of teams beneath them, the additional points Skyliners normally doesn't bother trying for probably vaulted them two or three slots.
Unusually, two teams out of the Top Three had the highest scores on the two Super Boni-- Skyliners, and My BOOMstick. No Blaming Mother was able to claim top score on 4 of the 8 Hour Boni. I Can Live Forever in Formaldehyde had the distinction of being an all-female team. The score of "Barney the Hungry Purple Dinosaur" is highly questionable; despite handing in no bonuses and appearing in no Actions, they were credited with 111 points through Question #45. You do the math.)
BONUS-BY-BONUS SCORES:
SUPERS
12 AM Beer Super:
Live in Formaldehyde-- 4; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 6; Manhattan Skyliners-- 6;
Half-Dead Racht-- 6; All Jacked Up-- 8; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 10; No
Blaming Mother-- 10; Primitive Skills-- 12; My BOOMstick--14
4:00 1970s Super:
My BOOmstick-- 2; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 2; Live in Formaldehyde-- 3;
All Jacked Up-- 3; No Blaming Mother-- 7; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 11;
Half-Dead Racht-- 12; Primitive Skills-- 14; Manhattan Skyliners-- 17
HOURS
12:00 Harrison Ford:
Jejeune Hailstorm-- 2; Manhattan Skyliners--2; All Jacked Up-- 3;
Half-Dead Racht-- 4; Live in Formaldehyde--4; My BOOMstick--5;
Sinusoidal Tupperware--6; Primitive Skills-- 7; No Blaming Mother-- 8
1 AM Referential Song Lyrics:
No Blaming Mother-- 3; Live in Formaldehyde-- 4; Manhattan Skyliners--4;
Half-Dead Racht--4; All Jacked Up-- 4; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 4;
My BOOMstick--5; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 5; Primitive Skills-- 9
2 AM Movie Music:
Live in Formaldehyde-- 3; All Jacked Up-- 3; My BOOMstick-- 3;
Jejeune Hailstorm-- 3; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 3; No Blaming Mother-- 4;
Half-Dead Racht-- 4; Manhattan Skyliners-- 5; Primitive Skills-- 7
3 AM Jim Henson:
Jejeune Hailstorm-- 1, All Jacked Up-- 1, My BOOMstick-- 1, Primitive Skills-- 2,
Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 2, Half-Dead Racht-- 3, Live in Formaldehyde-- 4,
No Blaming Mother-- 6
4 AM Grillo/Potpourri:
All Jacked Up-- 1; My BOOMstick-- 2; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 2;
Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 3; Live in Formaldehyde-- 3; Half-Dead Racht-- 3;
Manhattan Skyliners-- 4; Primitive Skills-- 5; No Blaming Mother-- 6
5 AM "Things That Blow" audio:
No scores announced.
6 AM The Silver Screen:
Live in Formaldehyde-- 2; Half-Dead Racht-- 3; No Blaming Mother-- 5;
All Jacked Up-- 6; Manhattan Skyliners-- 6; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 7;
My BOOMstick-- 8; Primitive Skills-- 9
7 AM Cartoons:
My BOOMstick-- 4; All Jacked Up-- 4; Live in Formaldehyde-- 5;
Primitive Skills-- 6; Half-Dead Racht-- 7; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 7;
No Blaming Mother-- 8
(NOTE: One other team, likely Manhattan Skyliners, earned a 4.)
ACTIONS
12:30 Tonya Harding Action:
Jejeune Hailstorm--2; All Jacked Up--2; Live in Formaldehyde--2;
Half-Dead Racht--3; Primitive Skills-- 3; Sinusoidal Tupperware--3;
My BOOMstick--4; No Blaming Mother--4
1:30 Beer Ad Action:
No Blaming Mother-- 2; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 2; Live in Formaldehyde-- 2;
My BOOMstick-- 3; Primitive Skills-- 4; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 5;
All Jacked Up-- 5
2:30 Klingon Opera Action:
All Jacked Up-- 2; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 2; Half-Dead Racht-- 2;
No Blaming Mother-- 3; Live in Formaldehyde-- 3; Primitive Skills-- 4;
Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 4; My BOOMstick-- 4
3:30 "Waiting for Seinfeld" Action:
Jejeune Hailstorm-- 1; My BOOMstick-- 2; Half-Dead Racht-- 2;
Primitive Skills-- 2; Manhattan Skyliners-- 3; All Jacked Up-- 3;
Live in Formaldehyde-- 3; No Blaming Mother-- 4; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 5
(NOTE: Apparently the latter score is the only time a Dom Grillo-judged
Action was ever awarded a 5.)
4:30 Michael Crichton Action:
No Blaming Mother-- 2; All Jacked Up-- 2; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 3;
Live in Formaldehyde-- 3; Jejeune Hailstorm-- 3; Primitive Skills-- 4
5:30 "Laverne" or Letterman/Simmons Action:
Manhattan Skyliners-- 2; My BOOMstick-- 2; Primitive Skills-- 2;
Half-Dead Racht-- 3; Sinusoidal Tupperware-- 4
(NOTE: Presumably No Blaming Mother and Live in Formaldehyde had scores that
was not read on-air. No word on which teams did Laverne & Shirley, and which
did the faux TV series.)
6:30 "Fox Trek" Action:
No Blaming Mother ("Herman's Head: The Next Generation")-- 3;
Half-Dead Racht ("COPS in the 24th Century")-- 2;
Primitive Skills ("Bart Trek")-- 3;
My BOOMstick ("Monday Night Football: Trek Classic vs. Trek Lite")-- 3;
Sinusoidal Tupperware ("Studs: The Next Generation")-- 3;
Live in Formaldehyde ("Melrose Place: The Next Generation")-- 3
BONUS-BY-BONUS BREAKDOWNS:
HOW DARE THEY CHALLENGE US WITH THEIR PRIMITIVE SKILLS?
SUPERS: 12, 14
HOURS: 7, 9, 7, 2, 5, ?, 9, 6
ACTIONS: 3, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 3
(SUPERS 26; HOURS 45+; ACTIONS 22)
SINUSOIDAL TUPPERWARE WITH GUMPTION
SUPERS: 10, 11
HOURS: 6, 5, 3, 2, 3, ?, 7, 7
ACTIONS: 3, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 3
(SUPERS 21; HOURS 33+; ACTIONS 27)
THERE'LL BE NO BLAMING MOTHER TONIGHT!
SUPERS: 10, 7
HOURS: 8, 3, 4, 6, 6, ?, 5, 8
ACTIONS: 4, 2, 3, 4, 2, ?, 3
(SUPERS 17; HOURS 40+; ACTIONS 18+)
I CAN LIVE FOREVER IN FORMALDEHYDE
SUPERS: 4, 3
HOURS: 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, ?, 2, 5
ACTIONS: 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, ?, 3
(SUPERS 7; HOURS 25+; ACTIONS 16+)
THE MANHATTAN SKYLINERS
SUPERS: 6, 17
HOURS: 2, 4, 5, -, 4, ?, 6, 4
ACTIONS: -, -, 3, -, -, 2, -
(SUPERS 23; HOURS 25+; ACTIONS 5)
THERE'S NOTHING WORSE THAN HALF-DEAD RACHT
SUPERS: 6, 12
HOURS: 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, ?, 3, 7
ACTIONS: 3, ?, 2, 2, -, 3, 2
(SUPERS 18; HOURS 28+; ACTIONS 12+)
A FINE JEJEUNE HAILSTORM
SUPERS: 6, 2
HOURS: 2, 4, 3, 1, 2, ?, -, -
ACTIONS: 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, -, -
(SUPERS 8; HOURS 12+; ACTIONS 10)
THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!
SUPERS: 14, 2
HOURS: 5, 5, 3, 1, 2, ?, 8, 4
ACTIONS: 4, 3, 4, 2, -, 2, 3
(SUPERS 16; HOURS 28+; ACTIONS 18)
ALL JACKED UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO
SUPERS: 8, 3
HOURS: 3, 4, 3, 1, 1, ?, 6, 4
ACTIONS: 2, 5, 2, 3, 2, -, -
(SUPERS 11; HOURS 22+; ACTIONS 14)