Posted on 11/15/2022 8:57:41 AM PST by Red Badger
“Celebrity Jeopardy!” was harshly criticized for including a clue that referenced Brian Laundrie, the man who allegedly murdered Gabby Petito in the fall of 2021.
Laundrie committed suicide weeks after Petito’s body was found, with her strangled in a campground near the Grand Teton mountains. He left a note in which he confessed to killing his longtime girlfriend.
“In 2021, fugitive Brian Laundrie ended his days in Fla’s Myakkahatchee Creek area, home to these long & toothy critters,” the “Celebrity Jeopardy!” clue stated, referring to alligators, as actors John Michael Higgins, Wil Wheaton and Joel Kim Booster competed on the show.
Social media abounded with outraged fans offering their condemnation:
“Jeopardy! just had the most absurd question I have ever seen in my life,” one user said.
Another added, “‘This is the most tasteless and insensitive answer I’ve ever seen on any Jeopardy! What the hell were they thinking? Making light of that tragic situation is repugnant. Damn.”
“What the f***, Jeopardy! A Brian Laundrie question? Tasteless,” one added.
People were confused by the composition of the question as well.
“That Jeopardy! question mentioning Brian Laundrie and the answer was alligators?? What the actual hell, that was so…out of line. Not necessary! There was no reason to mention him at all,” one social media user said.
“Have you no soul? I can’t believe this question got past your lawyers,” one person asked.
In the note he left in a notebook, Laundrie claimed that Petito had slipped and fallen, “begging for an end to her pain.”
“I ended her life,” he wrote. “I thought it was merciful, that it is what she wanted, but I see now all the mistake that I made. I panicked. I was in shock. But from the moment I decided, took away her pain.”
Petito’s mother Nichole Schmidt ripped Laundrie’s explanation, writing on Twitter, “Fed up. Narcissists rewrite history to escape accountability.”
“That was his character, even in his last moments he wanted to make sure he looked like the good guy,” Schmidt told NBC’s Today Show. “That’s ridiculous. We know how she died.”
Patrick Riley, an attorney for the Petito family, reacted to Laundrie’s claim that the killing was “merciful,” calling it “nonsense,” adding. “He is writing a letter as though he wants people to feel sorry for him.”
In late September 2021, as hundreds of mourners attended a service at a funeral home for Petito, her father told the audience, “If there is a relationship that you’re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it. Now.”
I haven’t watched since before Alex died, and even then it was getting to be all about pop culture.
Would they accept “What is a crocodile?”
You could do that for anything if you wanted. Let me find a few random people on Twitter commenting about a low amount of raisins in Raisin Bran and write an article about 'Anger at Kellogg's Over Two Scoops Claim.'
He was a murderer.
He got eaten by the gators.
That is Jeopardy worthy.
Same here. I’ve watched enough beloved family members as they fought cancer, to no avail. Didn’t want to watch Alex either as he suffered.
I thought they said ”Celebrity” Jeopardy.
I never watch television, but that’s classic...hope there’s a clip on YouTube.
I suppose so, since there are Florida Crocodiles...............
3rd tier....................
Shut up, Wesley!
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Don’t get me started about the singular peanut in most boxes of Crackerjacks.
Celebrity Pickleball is on this Thursday with Steven Colbert hosting.
Lots of diversity as well.
They actually got Ray Romano, but he showed up looking like a homeless guy.
They can't decide on a permanent host so they have to switch between Ken Jennings and the diversity hire Mayim Bialik. I think they want to kick her off, but the woke audience would get their woke corporate friends to stop buying ads.
The three main champs this season are a tranny, a lesbo, and someone on the autism spectrum.
Fortunately most of the freaks have been weeded out, but the tranny is still in it to win it. I'm rooting for the older guy who is a naval post-graduate instructor.
I actually like Mayim Bialik as host. She is a natural................
I’ve tried watching Jeopardy once or twice post-Trebek. It’s not the increasing pop-culture content so much as the style of the questions. Answering them used to depend on a contestant’s actual knowledge, but now depends on how well a contestant can interpret hints and clues contained in the questions.
Oh, well. I enjoyed the show for a long time, but everything ends.
I did watch this episode, because I like Iliza Shlesinger.
I never bought the suicide story.
He’s probably going to have Thanksgiving dinner with Ken Lay.
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