JEOPARDY, MAKING STUPID QUESTIONS WITH STUPID ANSWERS SOUND SMART
It's beyond me how the people at Jeopardy manage to give away all that money on a daily basis, but it's even more beyond me why anyone in their right mind would ever want to piss away thirty boring minutes of their life watching this bullshit. Who could seriously watch a bunch of smartasses, who constantly remind us that we're all nothing but retards, battle it out with boring trivia questions day after pathetically tragic day?

I'd say the most annoying part about Jeopardy would be the whole system that they use to answer the questions, oops, I mean question the answers, whatever the hell you'd call it. It's stupid. What difference does it make if the "answer" has to be in the form of a question? Nothing. That's what. All it does is screw the contestant out of more money if they forget what show they happen to be on. It doesn't add anything exciting to the show. It doesn't even make it more challenging. It just makes the whole show that much more stupid. I mean, does anyone ever stop and reverse the question and answer around? The answers don't even sync up with the questions reasonably. Here's an example of a question/answer that they'd have on the show (note, this isn't an actual question. I just made all this shit up to prove a point):

Mary-Anne Worth tossed this off of a building and then killed a police officer at the bottom.

What is a penny?

Ok, now if we just reverse the two you'll understand what I mean:

What is a penny?

Mary-Anne Worth tossed this off of a building and then killed a police officer at the bottom.

Personally, if I asked someone a question like that, and they gave me that sort of answer, I'd give them a punch in the mouth (if they were being serious). When I ask a simple question about an inanimate object I don't expect to get a history lesson that involves that object. I expect a straight answer. The whole question/answer system that Jeopardy uses is complete bullshit.

On top of that, the show is just plain boring. You sit there for thirty long minutes, watch answers flash up on the screen, you have two seconds to guess the answer before one of the contestants answer, and then the cycle repeats about sixty times. Chances are that 99.9% of the answers are about subjects that you don't know about. Do some people think that they'll actually get smarter just by watching the show? It's all useless trivia. I frankly don't care if so and so dropped a penny on top of someone else from the top of a building.

Anytime I get forced to watch the show I decide to make it a little more fun for me by pointing out how stupid all the answers/questions are. While other people are desperately shouting out answers in hopes that someone will notice that they're smart I'm busy pointing out that the answers to the questions are faulty. I enjoy ruining things for everyone, granted this IS Jeopardy and there's no way it can be ruined any more than it is.

One last thing here, why would anyone call this a "game" show anyways? Note the word in quotations. "Game". I always thought that games were supposed to be fun. The only gameshow that's around that's still worth watching is, you guessed it, the Price Is Right. Screw it, there's nothing we can do. Jeopardy will be around until the day we die.

 

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