Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

lol yes and like a three minute buildup for every clue

Several minutes of noisy throat clearing between each answer

— Matthew Olken (@MattOlken) November 24, 2020

Faint crowd noise.

— Clearing (@herrongeo) November 24, 2020

This performer, known for "Tears in Heaven", ABSOLUTELY REFUSES to switch from Mac to PC

This movie extraterrestrial LOVED Reeses pieces so much because they have the same taste as cum on his own planet

Every category is Potpourri

— Clearing (@herrongeo) November 24, 2020

this should 100% happen for April Fool's Day next year

"...and your answer for Final Jeopardy is... ah, I see... Folks, it seems CHERYL here has chosen to WASTE ALL OUR TIME by scrawling 'Hi Randy!' rather than attempting an actual answer. I suppose Randy is your idiot husband or some such nonsense?"

lol all the clues would be like "Britney Spears' children" and the answer would be "What are the creatures who are growing in the pile of potato chip wrappers and discarded g-strings behind her house?"

I've been on the verge of cry-laughing about this for about fifteen minutes now.

"Daily Double Jack, what's it gonna be?"

I'll wager $200, Neil.

"You're betting $200? 200. Jack here says $200. On the last Daily Double.
Jack, you're down about 4k and we're in the home stretch here. You're supposed to be the fellow with the big brains; why not use that CASIO CALCULATORRRRR WATCH I'm sure mommy got you for Christmas and DO THE MATH you HAVE to do to MAKE A MAN'S WAGER. Now WHAT'S IT GONNA BE."

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Very impressed that he listens/listened to Heavenly.

Saw it on the Throwing Muses fb group, where they were all "One of us, one of us!"

I had to: Ken Jennings' garage

His last Thanksgiving message

High on our list of things to be thankful for this year: Alex's Thanksgiving message from today's show. We hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! pic.twitter.com/8OlpkSGi9r

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) November 26, 2020

he's a good player but i have an irrational hate for Brayden. part of it is that i don't want him to be trebek's last champion.

Intern for a libertarian think tank, go ahead and feel justified. Right there with you on the final champion thing.

Trebek's final week was meant to be starting today, with repeats to follow for two weeks before the (first) Ken Jennings fill-in run starts, but they've pulled the Best Of Trebek run up to start today.

brayden looks like a beaker filled with egg shell dutch boy paint

aw i like how excited alex is about his streak, hitting every daily double, etc

libertarian think tank ugh, but there've been so many underwhelming winners lately, which i assume is partly because they had to restrict the contestant pool to people within close driving range, so if alex gets to make with his exit with some legit jeop-worthy talent in the house, i'm happy for him.

the right way for alex to leave is with a one day champion imo

So, uh, took longer than most but apparently old Ken Jennings tweets were dug up? Haven’t seen the tweets in question, but I read his... apology that seems to not be great.

those tweets get dug up every time he's on TV

I honestly hadn’t heard about them before, this time they seem be getting a ton of traction and looks like it’ll cost him the full time hosting gig.

actually it looks like this is the one trending?

Ken Jennings is getting dragged for this? Really? Lol he’s 100% correct though. pic.twitter.com/oT9zrQpBPQ

— Justin (@imjustinsanders) December 31, 2020

If that’s truly it, I’m baffled by some of the tweets I’m seeing calling him out for his shitty apology. Hint: it’s not just Republicans.

that's the one that's been trending lately, it looks like a lot of conservative sites are piling on him for that

obviously there are a few pretty distasteful tweets in his past but idk if they're much worse than say anything on a random episode of Curb

the one that pops up here: https://ew.com/tv/ken-jennings-apologizes-insensitive-tweets-jokes/
is:

Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) September 22, 2014

dumb joke, his reason for leaving them up makes sense, he should delete everything older than a month now just in case

they’ll still get found. that was a tasteless tweet but I doubt his job is in jeopardy

you see that sentence works even if he ends up not keeping the gig

pretty highly doubt ABC or whoever runs jeopardy feels like lighting money on fire over that joke tho, insensitive as it was

if nothing else i cant imagine that the core jeopardy audience is online enough to care about bad tweets

fuck, i dunno about watching this final week.

So glad that Brayden lost the other night. He was acting like a dick, too. Alex was reading off the Double Jeopardy categories, and one category was the setup to the next category's punchline. Brayden read the punchline before Alex did, and Alex said, "But it's not your turn to choose on Double Jeopardy, Brayden, it's Molly's turn." He sounded like he was explaining to a toddler why he couldn't have infinite cookies. It was pretty great.

lol i kinda liked brayden but yeah he was getting really mouthy. i swear i heard him start to say an answer when someone else buzzed in

haha I heard that too!

Austin Rogers streak is on netflix right now. so good

i would normally be pissed about you "spoiling" a loss but i was deeply worried that brayden would be the final champion with alex and tied to him forever so that's such a fucking blessing i don't care.

Iirc the woman who beat Austin swept the very 1st category. Right after she did I figured this must be the game he loses. He also blew at least one true daily double. There was a dolly Parton category and she was from TN. RIGGED! She was really good tho!

i am previously on the record in this thread as rooting for brayden to keep winning so alex could go out with a legit champion, but i just watched this...

Alex was reading off the Double Jeopardy categories, and one category was the setup to the next category's punchline. Brayden read the punchline before Alex did

...and jfc the dude should've been impeached on the spot and carried out in handcuffs.

#onethread

Nice episode to go out on today.

If anyone knows it's online somewhere, link it up - I'm in an antenna-less house today.

the day-of episode is usually on youtube (near the top of a search for jeopardy) for a few hours before it gets taken down

That was a nice way to go, just a solid matter-of-fact episode all around.

i cried :(

Me too.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that Jeopardy's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!