I’ll take “Members of Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family Band Solution” for $800, Alex.
This blue man from “Arrested Development” was a clue on last night’s “Jeopardy.”
Who is Tobias Fünke?
You’re never going to get back the two seconds it took to read that terrible intro gimmick, and I’m really sorry about that. Honest. But yes, everyone’s favorite Frightened Inmate Number Two was a clue on “Jeopardy,” and now the Internet is upset. Why? BECAUSE THAT WALKING OLD WOMAN’S DRY DREAM TREBEK PRONOUNCED HIS NAME WRONG. (I’m more disappointed at the umlaut being left off “Fünke” than I am about the mispronunciation, though.) Gee, he really Britta’d that! Oh wait, wrong show. Trebek, um, really pulled a Homer? D’oh! If only there was an “Arrested Development” reference that could succinctly define this situation, and how much Trebek BLUE it, man. He’s sure got a mess on his hands. Come on, Josh…I guess I’m just distracted thinking about how he would have said “analrapist.”
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I was expecting much worse. Like “Funk” or “Funk-ee”.
Agreed. It really wasn’t that bad.
No doubt in my mind Trebek would pronounce GOB’s name as “gob.”
Don’t blame Trebek. He just Ron Burgundy’d it. He says what’s on the card and there was no umlaut.
Q: It’s the English translation of San Diego.
A: What is a whales vagina Alex?
/obligatory
My huge NPR crush Peter Sagal made the same mistake when David Cross was on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and it broke my heart clean in two. I hate it when people I love don’t love the same things I love. Or hate the same things I hate.
That’s actually the correct pronunciation of his name.. the internets got it all wrong.
He would butcher GOBIAS.
As in, go buy us some coffee, you see.
Boy this Funke is all anyone is ever talking about.
That paragraph was epically unreadable. Good job, Josh.
I know, English, right?
It’s pronounced “analRApist”