Game Show Hos
Ken Jennings is the ultimate Game Show Ho.
If you're culturally literate enough to be reading a blog you have, no doubt, heard of this guy who has been steamrolling the competition on Jeopardy for the last 3 years or some equally insane amount of time. Alex Trebek must be the guys pimp, because the longer this farce goes on the more of a debacle it becomes.
Here is why KenJen must be stopped:
1. If your a Jeopardy aficionado you know that being able to ring the buzzer at the appropriate time is an inherent challenge in the game. It stands to reason that the longer you play the easier it will be for you to find the "sweet spot" on the buzzer. Putting new contestants up against him now is akin to putting a t-ball player up against Miguel Tejada or Barry Bonds in a Home Run Derby. Statistically it may be possible for the kid to win the game, but you and I both know that ain't happening.
2. The guy is smug as all heck. One night a fellow contestant answered the final question prior to Final Jeopardy correctly, which pushed him into the positive-money zone and allowed him to participate in the final round of the game. At this point of the game KenJen had probably $20,000 to his credit, the second player had a few thousand, and this guy had a few hundred bucks. Ken gave this guy a condescending round of applause, as if to say, "It's not good enough that I trample you into the dirt during the preliminary rounds, and there is no statistical possibility of your coming in anything but third place, but I'm happy that you get to stick around for a few more minutes, because then I can show America how smart I really am."
3. There is more to life than the trivia answers presented to you on a nationally syndicated game show. Apparently KenJen is a tee-totaler, and had his wife prepare flashcards in order to prepare for the "Potent Potables" category that frequently appears on the show. I have this image that he goes back to his hotel room every night and tries to cram more trivia into his little brain. At this point this guy's best friend should be the bartender at the hotel bar, and even if KenJen only indulges in Diet Cokes, the bartender should be the one teaching him about Sex on the Beach and Sloe Comfortable Screws Against the Wall. GET A LIFE! At least you can now participate in a drinking game in his honor. Even if he won't drink, doesn't mean that I can't.
4. The highest amount of money ever won on a single game of Jeopardy is $52,000. KenJen has had multiple opportunities to break this record, but refuses to do so. Is he trying to humble himself? "I won a billion dollars on Jeopardy, and won 5,000 days straight, but I didn't win the most money in a single game." Most likely it's his being smug again. Now there's some other poor sucker out there who can still say, "I won the most money in a single day on Jeopardy, the same as that asshole KenJen."
The saddest part of it all is that we are all the willing or un-willing johns in his ever-present whoredom. Tomorrow is our last hope for a loss this season, or we'll be stuck with KenJen fever all over again next fall.
If you're culturally literate enough to be reading a blog you have, no doubt, heard of this guy who has been steamrolling the competition on Jeopardy for the last 3 years or some equally insane amount of time. Alex Trebek must be the guys pimp, because the longer this farce goes on the more of a debacle it becomes.
Here is why KenJen must be stopped:
1. If your a Jeopardy aficionado you know that being able to ring the buzzer at the appropriate time is an inherent challenge in the game. It stands to reason that the longer you play the easier it will be for you to find the "sweet spot" on the buzzer. Putting new contestants up against him now is akin to putting a t-ball player up against Miguel Tejada or Barry Bonds in a Home Run Derby. Statistically it may be possible for the kid to win the game, but you and I both know that ain't happening.
2. The guy is smug as all heck. One night a fellow contestant answered the final question prior to Final Jeopardy correctly, which pushed him into the positive-money zone and allowed him to participate in the final round of the game. At this point of the game KenJen had probably $20,000 to his credit, the second player had a few thousand, and this guy had a few hundred bucks. Ken gave this guy a condescending round of applause, as if to say, "It's not good enough that I trample you into the dirt during the preliminary rounds, and there is no statistical possibility of your coming in anything but third place, but I'm happy that you get to stick around for a few more minutes, because then I can show America how smart I really am."
3. There is more to life than the trivia answers presented to you on a nationally syndicated game show. Apparently KenJen is a tee-totaler, and had his wife prepare flashcards in order to prepare for the "Potent Potables" category that frequently appears on the show. I have this image that he goes back to his hotel room every night and tries to cram more trivia into his little brain. At this point this guy's best friend should be the bartender at the hotel bar, and even if KenJen only indulges in Diet Cokes, the bartender should be the one teaching him about Sex on the Beach and Sloe Comfortable Screws Against the Wall. GET A LIFE! At least you can now participate in a drinking game in his honor. Even if he won't drink, doesn't mean that I can't.
4. The highest amount of money ever won on a single game of Jeopardy is $52,000. KenJen has had multiple opportunities to break this record, but refuses to do so. Is he trying to humble himself? "I won a billion dollars on Jeopardy, and won 5,000 days straight, but I didn't win the most money in a single game." Most likely it's his being smug again. Now there's some other poor sucker out there who can still say, "I won the most money in a single day on Jeopardy, the same as that asshole KenJen."
The saddest part of it all is that we are all the willing or un-willing johns in his ever-present whoredom. Tomorrow is our last hope for a loss this season, or we'll be stuck with KenJen fever all over again next fall.
posted by Swankette at 10:36 PM
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