I do not know about you, but I suck at Jeopardy. Because of that, I get excited when they do categories about entertainment. When they do, I think I might have a chance. I don’t.
Case in point, try doing this category “Shot First.” They gave the contestants 3 movies and they had to say which one came first. If it were last, I would have gotten $3,000 dollars. Instead, I don’t want to talk about it. How did it you?
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On Tuesday, Paris Themmen was on Jeopardy and he was the biggest question of the night. While his name might not sound familiar to you, most of us grew up with him. Back when he was several inches shorter and he had a little more hair on his head.
Back then, he was also obsessed about being on television, and a golden ticket was going to make his dream come true. Boy was he thrilled to pieces about it. You get where I am going with this? Themmen was in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and he played Mike Teevee the only American who got the golden ticket in beloved film.
Fast forward to this week and him being on the game show. Unless you are wannabe contestant who knows everything about ’70s movies or you follow Themmen on Twitter, you were never going to know he was on the show. Neither he nor Alex Trebeck mentioned his past. Which seems odd because you think that would be the first thing they would bring up. Unless they did not know?
Either way it is so cool to see Mike Teevee all grown up and on TV. Now that I know he lives in the same city as me, I am going to be on the look out for him because Willy Wonka is one of my all-time favorite movies.
When it comes to how he did? The Oompa Loompas came to get him and sang, “Oompa loompa doompety doo, I’ve got another puzzle for you, Oompa loompa doompeda dee, If you are wise you’ll listen to me, What do you get when you’re on TV, You get a second place finish, and sixty-eight hundred to take home.” And then he turned into a bunch of particles never to be seen again until the movie’s 50th anniversary in 2021.
Let’s be honest with each other, ever since you were a kid you have wanted to talk like Donald Duck. Although, you never knew how.
Thanks to Jeopardy, the show that teaches so much, has taught how to do one of the most iconic voices of our youth. It looks easy, but it is hard. So hard I cannot do it, but I crack up hysterically laughing every time I try.
How did you do? I know you have tried it! How can you not?
Jeopardy contestants seem to know everything about anything, but there is one category they cannot score a touch down on. In fact, none of them were able to even get a first down when they had ask questions on football.
Alex Trebek asked Ryan, Sara and Justin the $200 answer and there was dead silence from the three of them. Even quieter than the locker room of the team who just lost the Super Bowl. Would it get better after that? Not at all. The Jeopardy set was even more silent than it is in the middle of the night when no one is there.
Wonder if the game show will give this category a permanent time out or bring it back to see if another these can do better or worse? Although can any three fumble worse than these guys?
In defense of them, I did not get any of those answers either.
