Things get pretty awkward on Jeopardy when Alex Trebek interviews contestants. It generally follows this sequence:
1) Alex teases a story
2) Contestant spends 30 seconds talking about the time he got stung by a bee at 5th grade camp
3) Alex makes a witty response like, “Did you beehive yourself the rest of the time?”
4) Audience laughs
5) Rinse-repeat
It’s been like that for as long as I can remember. During tonight’s episode, a physics student named Dan Tran told a story about the time he went to France for a student trip.
I’ve transcribed it for you because WHAT IS DAN TALKING ABOUT?!
“So when I was a senior in high school—I took French in high school—we went on an exchange trip and we arrived incredibly jet-lagged, no cappuccino could really save us in that regard. And uh, during an open air tour bus tour in Paris, I looked up and said to my friend ‘hey, you know, the moon looks pretty bright tonight/today’ and um, they just turned to me like ‘Dan, that’s not the moon, that’s the sun.’
‘And I was like, no guys it’s the sun.’ But um, but then you know it turned out it was actually the sun and not the moon and I still confuse it nowadays.”
Dan finished the game as co-champ and will return tomorrow. He’s likely to tell a story about the time he confused a banana and a penis.
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Why do they continue with this farce after all these years? Pat Sajak doesn’t ask for boring anecdotes
Alex’s ego, probably.
Pat asks about the contestants families, which is way more boring.
i sorta like them.
And then he goes on a crazy crazy rant on Twitter. Which is increasingly what that’s for apparently.
Something tells me that he would never mistake anything for a penis.
That story needs Dolph Lundgren and a Shyamalan twist.
Lel
Block quote and a witty zinger at the end? Xenu Bless you, Andy.
To be fair, the physicist was totally tripping on ‘shrooms.
i’ve often tried to think of what story i would tell if i was on the show. unfortunately all of my stories begin or end with the phrase “i was really shitfaced”
It’s an ambush storytell.
Dan was killed in Viet Nam. Everything that has happened since is his unwillingness to accept his own death.
Nice Jacob’s Ladder reference
Asian Joseph Gordon Levitt is no astronomer.
Said this same fucking thing to my wife last night when we were watching.
I’m surprised Dan Tran wasn’t in the van with a man or his whole clan.
This gets worse when you consider that before you play, you have to come up with three stories which the producers and Alex choose from for the segment. That was the BEST OUT OF THREE.
WAIT! Roll back to Amanda there.
I was really hoping Alex would have responded to that blithering shitdick with this [www.youtube.com]
I DVR the show. Skipping over this segment and the commercials, I finish in 19 minutes.