JEOPARDY! fans have shared their distaste over the show’s taping schedule as they feel they’ve been tricked into thinking episodes are reruns due to late airing.
The game show aired an episode that was filmed in September earlier this week, adding to fan confusion.
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FAN COMPLAINTS
Now several have flocked to Twitter to complain about the situation.
“That Federer clue shows how far back #Jeopardy episodes are taped,” one mentioned, referring to one of the nightly clues that discussed Roger Federer’s retirement announcement last month.
“I searched latest jeopardy tweets because I heard that and was wondering if I had a rerun on,” a second noted with confusion.
“Understandable. The clue was very awkward given recent events. Federer’s retirement did come out of the blue, but they should avoid clues about possible future events,” another replied.
Jeopardy! returned for season 39 on September 12, 2022.
Throughout August, fans watched reruns from the archives that included favorites selected by producers.
Ken Jennings, who was the show’s most winningest contestant of all time, has been selected to host from September through December, with his co-host Mayim Bialik taking the reigns from January onward.
Bialik has been hosting Celebrity Jeopardy! while Jennings will host the Tournament of Champions.
CELEBRITY JEOPARDY!
On Monday’s Inside Jeopardy! podcast, show execs defended the celebrity spinoff but admitted it’s been called polarizing and even a mistake.
Executive Producer Mike Davies, who scored the gig in 2021 after the disgraced Mike Richards was ousted, was joined by former “Clue Crew” member Sarah Foss on their weekly podcast.
Davies said: “Episode two of Celebrity Jeopardy! [in particular], I think we’d characterize that as one of the more polarizing episodes at least I’ve been involved with.
“[We had] three comedians; Eddie Huang, Reggie Watts, Iliza Schlesinger had a lot of fun with it.
“[But] There are certain people on Twitter who didn’t enjoy the episode.”
“Some of the suggestions, ‘we shouldn’t have done a tournament,’ ‘we should have done… half-hour shows.’
“Every episode does play a little differently, we kind of know where this is all going,” hinting once the A-lister tournament progresses things will get more competitive.
But they admitted the episodes so far have played out more like a “comedy” since many of the stars haven’t watched the show.
Producer Foss buzzed in: “Longtime fans want to play this like it’s the regular show.
“[At least] Ike Barenholtz [from episode three] was a real fan.”
The tournament-based spinoff, in which each winner will advance to a semi-finals game and then a finals matchup worth $1M for charity, has aired three episodes so far.
ROUGH START
In the September 25th premiere, Marvel Shang-Chi star Simi Liu, 33, faced Saturday Night Live’s Ego Nwodim, 34, and Andy Richter who had done quite well when the Celebrity edition was hosted by Alex.
In a wild finish, Simi claimed victory in an upset after trailing way behind frontrunner Andy for much of the game.
But the infamous second episode saw Reggie Watts admit he’s only ever seen the show’s SNL parodies, and in tow, fans felt the spinoff ended up like one.
In one segment, the trio was asked to name the 540-foot-tall landmark replica at the Paris, Las Vegas hotel.
Eddie said: “the Statue of Liberty”, Iliza simply said: “Paris” and Reggie said: “Tour Eiffel.”
Host Mayim Bialik burst out laughing in frustration at their answers, saying it was the Eiffel Towel, at first she didn’t realize Reggie had given the correct answer in French, per Rolling Stone.
She then allowed him the points soon after.
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