Back in October, Alex Trebek suffered a fall and he injured his head. Turns out it was more serious than even he knew. On December 15th, he was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and underwent surgery the next day to remove the blood clots from his brain. After two days in the hospital, he was sent home to recuperate and the prognosis for the 77-year-old game show host is excellent.
In fact, he is doing so much better, he is expected to resume production of Jeopardy in mid-January. Since they tape so far in advance, Jeopardy says, “the only change made to the show’s schedule concerns the upcoming College Championship, which will now air in April.”
We know Trebek is such a gangsta or is it gangster, he will be back better than ever in a few weeks.
It has been a wild week on Jeopardy this week and it is not just because it is the College Championships. It started off with Alex Trebek rapping the questions, and now there was a kid who obviously was flipping the bird? Is that what Viraj Mehta was doing? His response on Twitter is what is “damn right I did.”
If he didn’t confirm the action we might not have known that is what he was really doing. That’s because it was not really obvious due to the fact that he was talking about why the tip stands up. Not that tip, but the tip of a pizza slice when you fold it.
I know I am getting old because I don’t think this was cool. But then again, I might’ve done the same when I was his age. Ah, youth!
Do you want to give him half the peace sign or the full one for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mv-9cz5t4o
It is College Championship Week on Jeopardy, so they have questions that are more for their generation. One of those questions was Let’s Rap, Kids, and Alex Trebek had to Rap out the lyrics aka the answers or the questions depending on your take of it. How did it go? Let’s just say there is a reason there is only one White Rapper from Canada because they are not the best at it.
But the game show host gave it is best effort, so I adored him when he said, “I was just getting in to this Rap thing. I’m not that good at it, but I was getting into it.” Let’s hope they give him more categories like this in the future because it makes the smart show goofy and they need that every now and again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIZPmzSIeA
We know that both Drake and Alex Trebek are Canadians and have curly hair, and that is pretty much all the two men have in common. This is something we found out on Jeopardy when the game show read this question, “This Canadian rapped, ‘Jumpman, Jumpman, Jumpman, them boys up to somethin’, Uh uh uh, I think I need some Robitussin.'”
That is the Whitest thing we have seen on television since a Donald Trump rally a few hours ago. Seriously, that is so vanilla, maple syrup was spouting of trees to give it some flavor. What else can you come up with?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bHb8fc6yk
During Final Jeopardy, Alex Trebeck asked the three contestants, “A 1957 event led to the creation of a national historic site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too.” Even though all of them were in the positive at the start of the round, they all ended it with a nothing because none of them guessed the correct answer “Little Rock, Ak” and bet all of their earnings.
So what happens on Jeopardy when none of them have any money left? They all go home and three new contestants will be on the next show. Is this the first time this happened? No, but it still fun to watch during the rare occasion when it does happen.
