In the most embarrassing moment to happen to him since he tried to teach Jesse Katsopolis how to play basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was scolded by ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek for asking “What is X” when the question we were looking for was “what is G, you old creep”. Apparently Jeopardy is a family show, and “what is the back of Linda Lovelace’s throat” has never been an answer. Who knew?
You can check out video of the moment below, and don’t worry, it wasn’t shot on 8 MM film.
I wish Kareem had gone full-on seventies horror with his answer and asked, “what is us going out into the woods with our Super 8 to gut a bunch of animals and pretend to graphically rape a lady for 20 minutes”. I’d like to see what kind of smug retort Trebek had for THAT one.
Better yet, let’s bring Ken Jennings back on and ask him about nothing but Brazzers ads, whether or not the pop-ups that look like chat windows are real people trying to find singles in their area and why Gianna Michaels won’t stop talking and spitting on people. I can’t decide if he’d nervously squirm or ace it.
[h/t Guyism]
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Suck it Trebek
Wow, the content of this article got super racy after the jump. Well done.
You might say it “starwiped”
To be fair, the answer was clearly flawed as Kareem gave a question that is technically right.
Actually, the X is now NC-17.
Yeah, but since these folks are playing for charity, the answers are super-easy and he still gave the obviously wrong question.
The best parts about “Power Players Week” is how embarrassing the entire proceedings are and also that the real Power Players have better things to do than go on a game show, so they’re left with a couple pretty famous people and a bunch of others no one’s ever heard of. That’s why Kareem is in the title picture with Soledad O’Brien and Michael McKean, because Kareem played against Bush’s former press secretary (who is fairly important by virtue of that position but scarcely recognizable to anybody but a political junkie — or maybe I’ve actively tried to erase any memory of the Bush administration from my psyche) and some guy from… CNBC, I think? Or MSNBC? One of the NBCs.
No, the best part about Power Players Week was Chris Matthews making an ass of himself. I don’t have an opinion on the guy either way, but that was a funny flame-out.
I still say Gary Powers.