Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

Kramer hosted?

today's champion told a heartwarming story of flying across the country to meet his wife on a blind date, who turns out irl to be a Federalist contributor and the author of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters"

when you know, you know.

friend: i've got a girl for you.
jeopardy champ: awesome. when can i meet her?
f: well, you're gonna have to fly 3,000 miles.
jc: for a blind date? f*** that.
f: she will never, ever let your daughters be seduced by a transgender craze.
jc: booking a plane now.

i wouldn’t be mad if Ken were host but i wasn’t loving it either, tbh i did welcome the current guy’s injection of suave confidence. the rest of that list of guest hosts is depressingly ghoulish. rip alex

lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

Couric sounds weirdly robotic

lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

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lolz at Jeopardy having a legit "Potent Potables" category tonight

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― armoured van, Holden (sic)

Reference to St Paddy's day, I'm guessing..

my guess is that the lolz are because "Potent Potables" is such a staple of Jeopardy parodies - am i right that it's always one of the categories in the SNL sketches, and never actually chosen by the contestants? but i'm pretty sure that stems from it actually being a classic, frequently-used Jeopardy category!

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Today's ep has a post-credits scene.

post-credits scene

best song he's written in years.

i dont think he was wearing a wetsuit, but it reeeally looked like he was wearing a wetsuit

kt lowe, a librarian from st. clair shores, michigan, today's second place finisher, used to run a warren zevon fan site, which is my new all-time favorite contestant interview story.

warren called her one day to correct some errors on the site, thus beginning a long correspondence. that was the story :)

fuck if i'm gonna watch doctor oz in any capacity

yeah that was great. she even had kind of a zevon look going with her big round glasses.

much better than the guy from the jennings run whose fun fact was that he listened to podcasts.

New favorite Jeopardy contestant pic.twitter.com/q0NBsj5yT5

— Scoops (@ejmaroun) March 30, 2021

her final jeopardy callback-answer made me LOL

fuck if i'm gonna watch doctor oz in any capacity

― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, April 2, 2021 12:40 AM (fourteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep. It's been a weird Jeopardy-free two weeks for me, but no fucking way am I watching Dr. Oz. I hope the show's ratings cratered during his hosting run.

watched some oz jeop, he’s about as terrible as you’d imagine

http://i.imgur.com/hFh8uab.png

Vague Spoiler: One of the contestants gets off a sick burn on Rodgers in Final Jeopardy.

Couric was bad, Rodgers is frankly unwatchable. Just the wrong guy to do this, no nuance and no rhythm. Everything delivered in husky, slow monotone.

i hated him at first but by the end of the ep i think i kind of love it - just a slow, soothing, HAL-type voice, like an AI hostbot.

exactly the opposite of what i want from a jeopardy host!

He was awkward, and seemed lost during the q&a with the contestants, but I didn't hate him.

they should let the cash me outside girl host Jeopardy

This is so funny to me. All three contestants heard the question as "who does America owe money to for its crimes?" And they all gave correct answers, but actually it was supposed to be about an official "bad guy" country for something absurdly tame in comparison. pic.twitter.com/SqjtGkUTiw

— Robert Kuschell (@RobinghamKusch) April 6, 2021

Funnier than all of the SNL Jeopardy skits.

omg

lmao that's amazing

I only watch Jeopardy via the arbitrary collections they put on Netflix in Canada, but watching episodes across the decades, I've been mildly surprised to notice how consistently and obsequiously devoted to celebrating the American military-intelligence complex the show is. So many categories—usually video at that—where they're showing off bases and planes and ships; watched one the other day with a whole video category devoted to the honorable men and women of the CIA. It's pretty depressing

core audience has always been conservative and old

oh for sure. And the show is almost inherently conservative since it has to draw on "common knowledge," inevitably culturally eurocentric and historically inclined toward Great Men. tbh I wouldn't even have remarked on it if they weren't so often site visit / video categories, which makes them feel like overt propaganda

Trebek donated to Republican Senator Chuck Hagel in three different elections. Those are his only recorded political donations. Hagel has a Purple Heart and served as Secretary of Defense for Obama.

worth noting that (at least) the past decade of contestants skews much younger and more clearly culturally liberal than the viewing base

yeah that's an interesting dynamic I hadn't really thought about before

grist for a larger essay about how the young culturally liberal population in america is holding up the conservative entertainment/economic pipeline imo

I saw Jeopardy was trending on twitter earlier because Levar Burton said he'd like to host. I haven't seen any of the guest hosts yet, but I have to say that seems like a brilliant way to thread this particular demographic needle

Jennings: Good enough to go permanent
Slick Producer Guy: This felt more like a "Make a Wish" scenario
Katie Couric: Alexa as host
Dr Oz: Fuck that guy
Aaron Rodgers: Husky monotone voice asking you what the capital of Wisconsin is for a half hour

my suspicion about burton would be that the powers that be don't really want to dive in with a guy in his mid-60's shortly after the other guy died

I don't think the host should be as good at the game as Jennings is. It's just a weird dynamic.

need to see him as guest host but I suspect I’d prefer Burton to Jennings. Jennings has the right overall trivia keener vibe compared to the other daytime tv freakshow guest hosts but Trebek’s suaveness & mellifluousness is key (it would crack me up how dynamically he would read answers, pure genius at word/syllable emphasis) and i feel like Jennings was kinda stiff

right, I think Jennings was pretty good & would be a fine full-time host but I think the voice is key. Alex Trebek had THE game show voice. I'd be in favor of someone like, I dunno, Matt Berry

Would love to see Levar in the guest lineup. I feel like whoever gets the gig, if it's not Ken, it'd make sense to have Jennings (already on the payroll) as fill-in host for holidays and such, and ready in case of death or milkshake ducking.

feel like levar burton would be my preference. very dulcet tones, bet he could read the hell out of a question

just listened to a few seconds of Levar Burton’s podcast to check on his voice, happy to report his instrument has aged like a fine wine. stoked to hear him host J!

he's not in the lineup to the best of my knowledge, there was just a public petition

Currently scheduled upcoming guest hosts are:

Anderson Cooper, 4/19 - 4/30
Bill Whitaker, 5/3 - 5/14
Mayim Bialik, 5/31 - 6/11

Savannah Guthrie and Dr. Sanjay Gupta are also on the list, but no dates yet.

I already hated Dr. Oz going in, so I expected to be, at best, extremely annoyed by him, but he somehow managed to be even more awful than I could have ever imagined.

I'm okay with Anderson and Mayim, at least in theory.

Whitaker seems like a good choice. Maybe too serious?