Talk:Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)

message: Moncrief writes: "Why is "[the children]" in there in brackets? Is that in the final credits? Are there other members of the class besides children? Be CLEAR."
Brackets are commonly used to indicate material that is not in the original. The bracketed words were inserted so that it was clear that the children were the ones to get the advance study guide material from the producers. This is because on the show Jeff Foxworthy, in talking to the contestant, sometimes refers to the children as "your classmates" which would then make the contestant a member of the class.
The Wikipedia article's audience may include people who have not seen the show. They may not understand exactly who "the class" is. So, in order to BE CLEAR, I added that in the context of the credits, "the class" refers to the children and not anyone else on the show. (I think it is obvious that in the credits, "the class" refers to only the children getting advance study guide material. If the children's "classmate" the contestant also got the advance study guide material, then he or she would do better at answering the questions.)
Since my additional material is misunderstood, in order to NOT CAUSE TROUBLE I have removed the brackets. The quote is now limited to the exact words which appear on the credits. I should also note that anyone with a videotape or Tivo copy of the show can view and verify that this is the wording (taken from the third show aired, Thursday March 1, 2007). Citation junkies are welcome to add this exact date, just in case the wording varies with the airdate. --Pmurph5 23:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credits at the end of the show 

message: Two of the children have imdb pages: Alana Ethridge and Laura Marano. The other three (Kyle Collier, Jacob Hays, and Spencer Martin) don't, but are named in full in this TWOP post -- not sure where they got that information from, maybe the credits? In any case, I'd like to put the full names on the page, but haven't yet because I'm not sure what to do about the three without a distinct source, and it'd look bad to have two with full names and three without. –Dvandersluis 16:57, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Children's Full Names

message: I have a sister young enough to watch barney. While we agree that he plays sunny on disneys short report, (not the super short show) but i believe he is a barney kid but my brother doesn't. can anybody confirm this info?  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.118.112.119 (talk • contribs).
:Try IMDb.  Powers T 13:58, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jacob a barney kid?

message: The trivia section for this article should only be trivia specific to this show. What this means is information about the children, or similar concepts, etc. does not belong in this article, as it does not pertain to the show itself. I have deleted such info from the Trivia section, as well as adding a note. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 19:39, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia section 

message: I don't know how to revert, but I suggest someone reverts to 21:02, 15 March 2007 Dvandersluis. 142.167.47.9 00:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Please, if you are making edits on this article after something you just watched on the east coast, please post spoiler tags for west-coast viewers -- RoninBK  T C   00:14, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler tag 

message: I have reviewed this article and in my opinion, passes the GA criteria. It is well-written, well-referenced, stable, and broad in its coverage. A side note, I've never seen this show before, but after reading this article, I think I just might. :) MahangaTalk 20:25, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the review! —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 06:08, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article

message: I thought the show title was "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader," which leads to the "this article doesn't exist blah blah blah" page. Maybe someone can make a redirect for that erroneous title? I'd do it myself, but my skill in big words far outstrips my skill in technical matters (and I find Wikipedia to be quite confusing.)--70.77.37.70 09:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, I'll make a redirect for Fifth spelled out. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 14:45, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually, it appears already to be. What specific spelling were you using? There are currently 16 pages that redirect to this article, using pretty much every combination of capitalization, spelling and use of a question mark (even AYSTAFG and AYSTA5G redirect here). If you tell me what article name you expected to redirect here, we can add it. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 14:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As stated, I used exactly "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader." If there was already a redirect, then it was either put in after I posted my comment, or something strange happened. I wouldn't rule either out. --70.77.37.70 19:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably the latter, since that particular redirect page has existed since 14 February 2007. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 19:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fifth Grader? 

message: When referring to the children on the show, I have been using the "classmates" (including the quotation marks), to indicate that the term classmate is a show-given title, and not the traditional sense of the word (in my opinion). It has been suggested that we either not use quotes at all, as it obvious that the children and adults are not in school together, or we use quotation marks once, but not every time. Thoughts? —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 13:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classmates vs. "classmates" 

message: I've read the classmates' Wikipedia biographies, and I don't think they're notable enough to be a seperate article. I could add onto this article with their information, if needed. So, yes? No? Any other thoughts? 24.183.40.221 23:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No; the classmates' biographies are not related to the show. Also, I think it's better to have stub articles than to have no articles at all. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 12:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographies 

message: okay, now, I was watching 5/3 episode of are you smarter and I could've sworn I heard Jeff Foxworthy whisper "xylophone" the the first student! (please reply)Michael Houang 02:25, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New students cheating? 

message: I was cleaning up the article, and was going to create a section for international broadcasters (in fact, I started it, but it is currently commented out in the article), but I was unsure if all the different channels that had been mentioned were rebroadcasts of the American version (as it is in Canada), or unique local versions unto themselves. Until this can be sorted out (and if you have any information, please help), I'm leaving it out of the article. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 19:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  International broadcasters 

message: Uh...tonight's episode was a season premier. AND, they showed a preview of the next show. So how is this getting canceled? Plus, there's no proof. --Color Printer 01:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancel what now? 

message: on the same episode with the kilowatt hour question they asked how many adjectives are in the sentence "spencer takes good care of his hairy dog" they said the answer was 2 (good and hairy) care is a verb therefore good would be an adverb. right? 
"An adverb is a word that adds information to a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. An adverb is often a form of an adjective in English. Very, quickly, and beautifully are all adverbs."  -www.barabbi.org/nihongo/term.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Facelessbob (talk • contribs) 20:11, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Spencer takes good care of his hairy dog" - his and hairy are both adjectives since they both modify dog. They only said that there were two, the show never specified what they were (only the player did). - DJHeini (talk) 04:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question Wrong? 

message: I have commented out the Records and statistics section of this article, because, as present, there is no way of reliably sourcing this information. Aside from the fact that there is no guarantee that the information is even accurate, as each update of the stats depends on the accuracy of the previous updates, without a source the section is original research. If anyone can find a source for each statistic, by all means re-add it, but for now it needs to be removed from the article. Please note that this change is in regards to the currently ongoing good article reassessment of this article. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 15:30, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologise that this talk page was not adequately notified about the GAR: this was a procedural error by the nominator, but it should have been caught by one of the other reviewers. In any case, there is no consensus to delist, and so the article retains is GA status. Geometry guy 20:33, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  R&S section 

message: I really enjoyed seeing that chart at the bottom.  Can it be brought back or was it too hard/annoying to maintain when season 2 started?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.213.185.7 (talk) 17:19, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see the section directly above this one. The short answer: it is currently unsourceable, and therefore, in an effort for this article to retain good article status, removed for now. —Daniel Vandersluis(talk) 20:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was "Records and statistics" removed? 

message: The one with Tony Hawk and all the others, when is it on? (on FOX) I'm DYING to see it! I saw a commercial of it, but it just said "Next week" and its just baseball like all week! XTHkun 23:13, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Celebrity episode 

message: This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. For future improvement, the article contains a number of short (one- or two-sentence paragraphs); these could be merged into the surrounding paragraphs. Regards, EyeSereneTALK 13:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Sweeps (Pass) 

message: has anyone?--98.223.254.77 (talk) 20:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  has anyone won the 1,000,000 yet? 

message: Notably, upon getting an answer incorrect or deciding to prematurely end the game, the contestant must state that they are, in fact, not smarter than a 5th grader.
Why Notably?--nblschool (talk) 23:58, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notably? 

message: This text appears in the section about cast members:
Contestants who make it through the auditioning process are required to sign a one-year contract stating that they will not tell anybody how much money they make, and that they will not release any information about the actual auditioning process, such as the number of screenings, the questions asked by the auditioners, and the actual criteria for being accepted onto the show. However, most of the children are already well established actors.
Is the first sentence referring to the young cast members or to the contestants?  If it is referring to the cast members, it should be changed to say that.  If it is in fact referring to the contestants, it should be moved to a different part of the article.  JBFrenchhorn (talk) 09:00, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casting 

message: In the section about "Hoot", the astronaut, someone mentioned that the number one is not a factor. I believe that statement is incorrect. One is a factor 75.6.232.115 (talk) 04:26, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. However, since 1 is one of the two obvious factors, they are usually ignored. Still, you're right. --80.134.28.101 (talk) 21:49, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 not a factor? 

message: Any source about 5th Grader's hiatus and Ken Jennings' "controversial" $500,000 win?--70.240.215.204 (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: News to me. I've tagged as . - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 23:30, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiatus? 

message: How much do the 5th graders make on the show?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.128.240.37 (talk) 21:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much do the  

message: I got the idea that when the show went into syndication, they were making new (shorter) episodes and not reruns (similar to the shortened version of Deal or No Deal). But when I went to the show's website and read the beginning of this article, it looked like the show was canceled. Could someone please clarify this for me? 207.179.115.232 (talk) 04:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Episodes? 

message: I just watched the episode with Kathy Ireland, and she dropped out with $175 000, not $25 000 as the article suggests. I couldn't for the life of me find a source containing the amount she won, but I definitely just watched, and it was $175 000. 174.5.41.140 (talk) 04:56, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kathy Ireland wrong amount? 

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