“Jeopardy” host Ken Jennings makes hilarious callback to his notorious ‘hoe’ reply: ‘By no means appropriate’

Jeopardy (and host Ken Jennings) had a really sudden NSFW throwback on Wednesday evening.

It began when contestant Micah Fritz started the trivia sport present by selecting "That is Not a Drill" for $400. The clue was: "A software with an angled blade to get undesirable crops out on the root is known as a Cape Cod sort of this."

Fritz buzzed in and promptly guessed, "What’s a hoe?" He was advised that the reply was incorrect, as a substitute, the proper one was: "What’s a weeder?"

Jennings then joked, "It looks as if 'What’s a hoe?' isn’t appropriate out right here," which made the viewers howl with laughter.

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Viewers on-line appeared to benefit from the reference, too, with one Reddit person writing, "I actually paused my DVR and screamed. It scared my cats." One other wrote, "'Looks like 'What’s a ho?' isn’t the proper reply round right here.' LMFAO Ken."

The host was referring to his personal notorious second as a contestant on the present in October 2004. On the time, the class was "Device Time" for $200, and the clue given was, "This time period for a long-handled gardening software also can imply an immoral pleasure seeker."

Jennings shortly answered, after all, with "What’s a hoe?" The viewers burst into laughter, as then-host Alex Trebek advised him “no” after which set free a "woah" when he realized why everybody was laughing. "They train you that at school in Utah, huh?" Trebek joked, earlier than admitting {that a} totally different contestant's reply of "rake" was in reality the proper one.

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In 2022, 18 years after the actual fact, Jennings shared his ideas on his preliminary viral second.

"TikTok has apparently simply found this and is delighted," Jennings could possibly be heard saying in a TikTok shared to the official Jeopardy account. "Yeah, why didn’t I get it proper… I nonetheless suppose I used to be shafted, fairly frankly. I believe I’m owed $200 and perhaps the writers ought to get a pool collectively.”

Jennings added that he noticed why "What's a hoe" was incorrect, however he nonetheless disagrees.

"I believe the concept is the clue says it's 'an immoral pleasure seeker' and we don't need to characterize all hoes that method," he stated. "Rakes, apparently, we're okay with that aspersion on their character."

After longtime Jeopardy host Trebek’s dying in 2020, Jennings — who additionally holds the data because the contestant with the longest successful streak and the very best common appropriate responses per sport — was the primary particular person to take over as interim host. He was then named everlasting co-host in 2022, alongside Mayim Bialik, till she introduced her exit in Dec. 2023.

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