Jeopardy! was funny tonight!

Yeah, you read that right. Jeopardy! was funny. There's a new champion who has now won three times. His name is Erik and he plays like he is not only bored, but intensly annoyed at Alex for forcing him to choose another category. He would give his answers with a complete blase response, "What is gestation?" like he was stifling a yawn. The other contestants tried to hide how intimidated they were, but they were definitely nervous.

Alex only said one demeaning thing the whole night which was when the other guy (loser #1) responded to the clue with, "What are Muslims?" when the correct response (which Erik gave) was "Who is Muhammad?" Alex said, "HE" in an attempt to shaming the guy into understanding the proper pronouns leading to the correct answer. What a jerk he can be sometimes.

One guy did a true daily double (we always chant, "Be a man!" when people get a daily double), but didn't say, "I'd like to make it a true daily double, Alex," as we all dream of saying one day. He instead just wagered his entire numeric amount. Maybe Alex was right to chastise the man earlier.

The funniest moment was when a clue was talking about how the Lord of the Rings extended version wasn't boring despite its 4 and half hour length. Julie and I simultaneously responded, "So true!"

Julie did raise an important, provoking question. What would your Jeopardy! fact about yourself be? You know how they always talk to the contestants after the first commercial break and say something about their lives and you feel the uncomfortable lack of laughter as Alex tries to be funny and condecending. Well, what would your fact be? Mine would probably be that I had malaria. It's always a safe bet to just list something obscure about yourself that has a short story attached. You don't have to try to be funny and people know how to respond to that. This is in direct opposition to tonight's winner of the awkward award:

Alex: Talk about false labor. What happened when your mother was pregnant with you?

Girl loser: She thought she had a tapeworm for 4 months.

Alex: Why did she think she had a tapeworm?

Girl loser: I don't know...

(awkward silence)

Seriously, that's the most interesting thing about you? I guess that would be funny in some contexts, but on national television? Strangly it bears a striking resemblance to mine (I actually had a parasite and was not pregnant) but can you recognize the subtile differences that make mine a better choice? What would yours be?