See, I would have gotten that wrong too because I don’t watch the NHL and the only hockey player I’ve heard of is Tony Gwin
I’m sorry Mr. McEnroe, but I think we’ll go a different direction for this week’s guest host.
Perfect! I’m trying not to break out laughing like an idiot here.
Both. He really is that smart, and he’s a pretentious douche.
A couple of my most hated Trebekisms:
None of the players buzz in, so Alex gives them the answer:
- …“the famous” whatever. Subtext being “I thought everybody knows that.”
- …“the answer we were going for is Irktusk. Beautiful city.” Yes, Ajax, by now we all know you’ve been everywhere.
I’ve heard Sean Connery can’t stand the guy.
True. Or close, anyway. I might even go with something like “bear-they” to add some extra Spanishness. Sadly, Lusophones have an annoying habit of pronouncing some of their words differently.
I listened to a bunch of people pronounce this online. The Brazilians say “Cabo Ver-jay” and a Portuguese woman said “Cabo Verd.” I propose an all-expenses-paid-by-Trebek research mission to get to the bottom of this controversy that is tearing us apart.
First, we don’t know that such a take hasn’t been edited. Second, Alex is probably the performer least rattled by the situation, and can recognize wildly incorrect responses better than the nervous contestants.
How can anyone only know the name of ONE hockey player? I don’t much care for association football (soccer) or basketball, but I can name many pro players in each of them. In sports I don’t know or watch I cannot name ANY pro players. (Cricket, Rugby, etc)
But in all seriousness…
I sometimes wonder if his smugness is more because of the sort of crispness of his unaccented English. Sometimes he seems to have to work a bit on a standard USA broadcast pronunciation of a word, vs his French Canadian roots.