I’m 59. Why wait?
Regards,
Shodan
In interviews he’s said he usually knows about 2/3 of the answers. But he would never have the necessary recall speed or reflexes to be competitive as a player.
You would have to go back to 1980 to meet him.
And that’s only because he’s been doing the show for 50 years and they recycle questions.
And as usual PSXer is right.
You guys gotta admit this is pretty offensive to SAH parents.
I dunno, what if the contestant was Hitler? Then Trebek’s comments would have been overly mild.
Compare it to the OP’s previous Jeopardy threads:
And Family Feud threads:
Now some are legitimate question, but it’s clear our boy likes him some game shows.
“I’d like ‘Geriatric Opinions’ for $200, Alex”
Has a contestant ever straight-up trolled a game show? Played it straight through all the preliminaries, then trolled away; “who was Hitler, Alex?” for every answer , or the like?
Well then, for his sake, we need to keep him away from Wheel of Fortune.
Don’t get me started on Wheel
That’s a bad show
He’s Canadian.
I imagine if that happened they’d reshoot with someone else and never air that episode
Michael Larson is the best game show troll but he was just a great player
Yes, absolutely. I believe the tapings of Jeopardy! are well in advance of the air dates. They’d never let anything newsworthy (in the negative sense) air.
I was unfamiliar with that story; the Wikipedia article on him is certainly lovingly detailed and comprehensive. (Wow!)
As for Mr. Trebek: my impression has always been that he’s a traditional man of traditional views on the Proper Social Order—and thus has always displayed a bit of discomfort with departures from the conventional. He gets visibly uneasy with violations of the norms such as Women Who Score Well and Stay-At-Home-Dads. He’s a man of his generation (and certainly a well-meaning, non-hateful one).
Personally, I am willing to overlook some of that because of the show’s long history of presenting Knowing Stuff in a positive light. Very little of our popular culture can be said to be supportive of Knowing Stuff. (To the contrary: most of our popular culture presents Knowing Stuff as being a distinctly questionable sort of behavior.)
I am surprised by the blasé attitude from many people here. I wouldn’t have started a thread to complain, but I kind of thought, “ok Alex, get over it already.”
And no, his comments would not have been acceptable if made to a stay at home mom. In fact, had that been the case, we probably would have read it about it on TMZ or Yahoo news and some lame apology would follow.
ETA: On Michael Larson, you gotta see the actual show. Hilarious.
Well, that’s just it. Trebek would NOT have made those comments to a woman, because to him, it’s ‘natural and normal’ that a woman stay home with the kids. By contrast, to Trebek’s generation, it’s freakish and noteworthy if a man stays home with the kids. He doesn’t hold with this newfangled idea that men and women are both people; he sees proper roles for each, and violations deserve comment. (Of course these observations are purely my own opinions based on years of watching Trebek react to contestants; they hold no more significance than do the opinions of any other viewer.)
I mean, my impression is that he’s by no means a hateful guy–but that like many of his generation, on some level he thinks there’s a Natural Order that the stay-at-home dad violated.
I have to admit, it vaguely bugs me when people describe Michael Larson’s actions as trolling or implying he cheated or that there his actions were a scandal. He recognized a flaw in the design of Press Your Luck and he exploited it within the game’s rules. Good for him.
It bugs me when people say he cheated too
“Good Luck To All Of You” is a nonsensical statement but it’s the least of AT’s sins. We’ve watched Jeopardy on and off again since the mid 80’s (mostly on), and Ajax has been a smug, patronizing, sexist ass the entire time. His stealth bragging during the meet & greet interviews also grates.
We love the show in spite of him.
We love Alex Trebek and watch this boring-ass game show solely to revel in his witty quips and zingy one-liners as he engages in his intellectually one-sided fencing match with the contestants. Add in his exquisitely flawless French pronunciation and the blonde clue-crew woman and you have yourself a stellar half-hour of superb entertainment value.
Kudos also to Telemark for digging up 12 links exposing the OP’s vicious predilections to the light of day. I’d say he’s won the dodeca-fecta!