I have now watched this video eight times in a row, and I’ve laughed each time. As you can tell by the scores, Neil is
perhaps not the strongest contestant on Kids Week of “Jeopardy!” And when he tries to get himself out of the hole, he awkwardly stumbles through his response the way most of us stumbled through puberty. This 16-second clip is a microcosm of my life from age 12 to 18.
Hang in there, Neil. I’ll send you a DVD of Tombstone for your birthday.
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“Can I have a, er…” A vowel? Alex Trebek was offended his show was confused for a mindless Sajak game.
I watched this live, and my girlfriend, listening just to me in another room, said, “Umm, is this somehow the funniest episode of Jeopardy? I’ve never heard you laugh at the show like this.” I felt bad because he was just a kid, but man did nerves get the better of him. He was like this from the get go.
Any chance we can get a little description? I’m stuck in Friday work hell and have no access to the youtubes. There is no way I can wait another 3-5 hours before I see this trivial piece of internet history.
FAT NEIL!
I was watching at the gym, giggling at him, and the audience that clapped so loudly for him every time he got a question correct.
One time in a 7th grade spelling bee, I was eliminated on the word “knowledge” and accidentally mumbled “Goddammit” into the microphone, to the horror and/or delight of those around me.
I feel ya, Neil.
to be fair, the kid got out of the hole and ended up in second
“I THOUGHT ASIAN KIDS WERE SMART”
yeah, that tag is exactly what my parents said concerning me. thanks Warming Glow for reminding me of my failures since I’m not a MD.
@Mike
Question: A stone marker on a grave, or an old west Arizona town.
Neil: What is…umm…ahh, can I have, ohhhhh…nevermind.
@Hee Moy: I thought that kid was hispanic?
I am laughing way to hard at this. I bet at least a quarter of the girls at my high school reunion have heard me mumble that dejected “Nevermind….” at the very end.
Apparently nobody explained that when in doubt, “Suck it, Trebek” is always a good answer.
@Burnsy
Wrong. Kebert Xela is the only answer he could have used to get out of that mess.
“Can I have the language of origin?” is not an appropriate question for Jeopardy. It seems young Neil got his after school drills mixed up. His father is going to beat his shins with reeds when he gets home. Here’s to performing better in the spelling bee Neil!
@dachshund
thats funny. people think i’m hispanic too, but i’m just a fat asian.
First Grade Spelling Bee: Misspelled “trap” in the first round: T-A-P. Scarred me for live.
(Yes, that was an intentionally ironic typo)
Was that video recorded on an in-store TV? It looks like it has the features sticker on the left top and bottom .
I had a similar incident when I was 12 or 13 and got picked to go on a radio show to answer some trivia questions. It was something ridiculously easy by comparison and I ended up choking and treated the listeners of KUIC to me saying “Aww, fuck”.
On the bright side, I never caused the FCC to fine a popular radio station before.
I wanna say it was 4th grade when I went on stage to accept the 3rd place ribbon for something my team did not win… Why didn’t my team stop me from going up there? Sons of britches!
The same grade I was also on stage singing “Greatest Love of All” and started bawling… Needless to say I don’t do karaoke… (Siblings if you’re reading this: SUCK IT!) ^_^