DANGER! fans lost sleep over what they saw as an overly negligent decision regarding the daylight saving time track.
The show’s last debatable moment occurred during the season 40 finale last Friday, July 29th.
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Double jeopardy! the round track cost $800 and was in the “Tick Tock” category.
The clue showed an image of gentlemen standing next to a clock as Ken Jennings read: “The mysteriously named Ohio Clock has been in the U.S. Senate for two centuries; here, it was first set to do so in 1918.”
Steve Babish of San Jose, California asked, “What is Daylight Savings Time?” and the host thought him right.
The decision did not affect the game, as Rachel Bradley of Greenbelt, Maryland, was the only player to answer Final Jeopardy! correctly, winning $23,597.
‘SURPRISED IT WAS ACCEPTED!’
However, fans took to social media to call out the judges because many argued that the term is technically “Saving” without an “S.”
One Facebook user wrote: “I’m wondering why they accepted “daylight saving time” when it’s actually “summer time.”
“I thought the same thing. The answer was incorrect, even though so many people say it incorrectly. I was surprised,” wrote another.
“Yeah, the inconsistency is a bit much,” shouted a third.
“I’m surprised that daylight saving time was accepted. There are none at the end of Daylight Saving Time,” one fan wrote in a Reddit thread about the game.
“I expected to see this level of criticism,” joked a second about the admittedly fierce debate.
“Daylight saving time also refers to daylight saving time,” pointed out a third.
Others were still not satisfied: “I came here to see if anyone else noticed this. Hmmm…” wrote a fourth Redditor.
“I was shocked that Ken accepted!!!” wrote a fifth.
“This is a joke about Veep – I was surprised it was accepted,” wrote a sixth.
BUT THAT DIDN’T FLY?
The decision comes after what fans considered some ruthless judgments in recent times.
Earlier this month, a contestant suffered a $4,000 score because of an additional “S” – despite trying to correct himself.
Double jeopardy! the round clue was $2,000 and was in the “Romance, Change a Letter” category and said, “Cormac McCarthy’s saga about an elderly chicken caught in a world of drugs and murderers.”
Davey Morrison (who would go on to win the game) performed “What is No Country for Old Hens.”
Ken quickly decided, “No,” just as Davey corrected himself to say, “Hen.”
Davey appeared frustrated when another player was given the $2,000 clue, repeating Davey’s answer verbatim: “No Country for Old Hen.”
Danger! the rules stipulate that once a host determines a player is incorrect, they cannot change their answer.
That said, some fans said that Davey should have received it and that the judges got tougher.
“I actually laughed at No Country for Old Hen. It’s a shame about the added S. Ha!” one Redditor started a comment thread.
“Davey’s errant “-s” on this track led to a 4,000 point swing – if Davey had gotten it right, all else being equal, he would have had the lead going to FJ,” wrote another.
“Luckily for Davey, he still managed to win in FJ, because it would have been a very tough pill to swallow if “chickens” were the difference between winning and losing.”
A third wrote, “The Jeopardy judges deserve some backlash for this,” which got 11 down votes.
Other fans argued: “No, the decision was completely fair – I realized Davey’s answer was wrong at the same time Ken did.”
They admitted: “But it would have been really bad for Davey if he had lost the game because of it.”
CACHOEIRAS DECISION DOES NOT RECEIVE TLC
Additionally, and ironically, another player was recently denied an answer because of a single additional “S”.
Returning champion Kelly Proulx answered the $2,000 clue in the Double Jeopardy “Waterfalls” category.
The clue was: “A Yosemite waterfall with a thin ribbon of water that floats in the air like a diaphanous cloth is named after this marital outfit.”
As fans will know, the one-day winner responded: “What is Bridalveil Falls?”
Ken and the judges determined that his answer was incorrect because of the errant “S.”
“No, I’m sorry,” Ken said. “It’s actually Wedding Veil autumn, so we couldn’t accept that. It’s, ‘What is a Wedding Veil?'”
“The category was ‘Waterfalls’! What’s wrong with ‘Bridal Veil Waterfalls’?” one angry viewer wrote on the X. “I screamed ‘You idiot’ at the screen.”
Another wrote, “ready to individually fight the #Jeopardy judges for finding ‘Bridalveil Falls’ wrong because of the extra “s” that wasn’t pertinent to the clue.”
“I normally give judges long and wide deference, but fuck the judges for that decision. There’s nothing identifying the clue to ‘drop’, so she got the information right. That was positively disgusting,” wrote a third on Reddit.
“Yes, that is a brutal decision on the last clue,” wrote a fourth user.
In a post-game chat, Ken even admitted that the decision was “very tough”.
Two games earlier, the judges accepted the incorrect pronunciation of larynx – allowing “lar-nyx”.
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