'Jeopardy!' Fans Blast 'Misheard Lyrics' Category That Stumped All Contestants
Ken Jennings
Apparently Jeopardy! fans are too good at deciphering song lyrics.
Many viewers at home weren't impressed with Monday night's "Misheard Lyrics" category, which left even the game's three contestants scratching their heads.
During the Double Jeopardy! round of the final Second Chance tournament game, players Christopher Pennant, Xanni Brown and Greg Czaja were prompted with clues reading misinterpreted song lyrics, which they had to match to the artist or song behind the actual lyrics.
One of the clues that completely stumped all three contestants was an $800 spot that read, "Many have sung along to the radio, 'I left my brains down in' here."
Pennant, Brown and Czaja were all left puzzled, before host Ken Jennings revealed the correct lyrics as "I blessed the rains," a lyric from Toto’s "Africa."
More of the perplexing misheard lyrics in the category included "The Reverend Blue Jeans" from Neil Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans," and "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby," from Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning," per TV Insider.
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Not only were the contestants stumped by the category, but viewers watching at home weren't big fans either, with many of them arguing that the clues didn't provide enough context.
"I couldn't stand the misheard lyrics category," one user wrote on a Jeopardy! Reddit forum after the game. "I don’t mind the concept, but too many questions give no information but a misheard lyric that most people probably aren’t familiar with. If it gave us a correct lyric that came before or after the misheard one or even the artist, I could get on board, but 3 out of 5 today included no information other than the misheard lyric itself and in one case, the year the song came out."
"This is my issue with it!" someone else replied. "I could have figured some of these out if they had just given me a LITTLE more context. I don’t know why they didn’t provide more info."
"Weird game," someone else chimed in. "Seemed like a lot of triple stumpers, especially the misheard lyrics."
Users on X were equally as disappointed with how the category unfolded, including one person who didn't mince words while tweeting, "These misheard lyrics suck."
Another went as far to say the whole category should be thrown out in future games, writing, "Misheard lyrics category should never be repeated," in another post.
