Posted on 07/25/2006 3:42:58 PM PDT by Cagey
NEW YORK (AP) - "Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show - and dapper host Alex Trebek.
"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.
"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."
Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.
"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think 'change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."
A call by The Associated Press to "Jeopardy!" spokesman Jeff Ritter was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Jennings, a software engineer from Salt Lake City, snagged 74 wins on "Jeopardy!" in 2004 before he was beaten by challenger Nancy Zerg.
Trebek, 66, has hosted the show since 1984. In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.
"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'"
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"Just call me Turd. Turd Ferguson."
I think the show has become a bit long in the tooth. I like VH1's "Rock-N-Roll" Jeopardy.
Why? If he feels that way, he should give the money back.
Hahahahahaha!
Who is Scooby Doo?
Classic. Thanks for the post.
"You, Sir, are a moron..."
Another memorable game show contestant: Michael Larson, who pretty much broke the bank at Press Your Luck. Later it was found out he had taped the show, slowed it down, then memorized the computerized "patterns" of the board. They let him keep the money.
http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm
for awhile there were plans to make a movie about this
starring Bill Murray as Larson. Ultimately it wound up
being a Game Show Network special.
He should have criticized the show for spreading the idea that rewards in life come merely from knowing facts rather than from being able to use them.
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LOL.......How about a category like : You know when you're from West Virginia when ..........
What is Tungsten or Wolfram?
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