WINNIE THE BOO
JEOPARDY!'s Ken Jennings has allowed a player's "terrible" spelling of a famous cartoon character on Tuesday, fans fumed.
Many viewers already came in "infuriated" by the news that he and Mayim Bialik will continue split-hosting.
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Ken Jennings, 48, hosted Jeopardy! on Tuesday - he's buttoned up to finish the last week of this exciting season.
Off-stage, multiple outlets reported on July 25th the alum and Mayim, 46, would both continue hosting the show.
According to and Deadline, they will continue to split hosting on the syndicated game show’s upcoming Season 39.
The "infuriating" information was forgotten, however, during the 'tail' end of tonight's game.
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Final Jeopardy's category was Literary Animals, and read "This children’s book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title character, gets his name from the sound he might make."
The correct response was "Eeyore," the down-in-the-dumps Donkey from Disney's Winnie The Poo.
Middle lectern's Mark had written "Ee-Or" - which Ken accepted.
"Yes! Winnie The Poo's donkey friend," Ken explained, saying his name sounds like "the sound a donkey would make."
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2-game winner Ed bet enough to beat him with $40K total, and also got it with correct spelling - but Mark's was still cartoonishly "bad," fans said.
In fact, many forgot about which host they preferred in the tragic moment.
'SO BAD!'
"Ee-or! Bad spelling!" one wrote.
"Interesting that they aren’t nipping misspellings for Eeyore," a second Twitter fan fumed.
"It’s soo bad. Ee-or," wrote a third.
"So @Jeopardy, we’re going to say this is incorrect, yet accept the ABSURD spelling of 'Ee-or'?!?!" wrote a third sharing a photo of a recent infamous spelling snub. "Thankfully it didn’t affect the game"
A fifth accused, "So we’re just taking any ol’ spelling or pronunciation. K."
Indeed many more fans instantly recalled a controversial June 22 episode that came down to spelling.
THIS SPELLS TROUBLE
During that game, Sadie Goldberger lost in Final Jeopardy! because her response of "Harriet Tubman" was deemed as false after judges thought her penmanship was illegible.
Fans said she was robbed of a win by Mayim after having the correct answer but not writing it out in full.
Mayim told Sadie: "… It looks like you were going for 'Harriet Tubman' but you did not finish, so unfortunately that is not going to be acceptable."
The player nodded in agreement, but seemed to look disappointed in the results and her response did read as finished to many online, and she would have won otherwise.
An even gained buzz and was signed by hundreds and an alum to get rid of handwriting the show's final clue and typing it instead.
Last month there was also ironically a typo in Final Jeopardy just days after the spelling snafu.
Clearly the show is upsetting fans with when to accept Final Jeopardy responses and when not to.
CO-HOST CHAOS
And under the Upsetting category, according to Variety, Sony was eager to boost more versions of the program, so more than one host was needed.
Ken, Mayim, nor the show have made an official announcement confirming the news (or non-news).
They began filling in for the legendary Alex Trebek after his tragic 2020 passing and a fleet of Season 37 celebrity guest hosts, including now-disgraced Mike Richards.
The show's ratings nearly doubled to 9.7 million viewers when Ken made his first appearance.
When Mayim took over her hosting duties the headcount dropped to 5.9 million viewers during a college championship and sadly, she hadn't bested Ken's ratings since.
Fans have not been pleased with the actress' stage presence, slamming her for errors and mishaps quite regularly during her past eight weeks before Ken returned to finish the season last week.
They have nit-picked her “slow” reaction time to players' responses, frequent judge interventions for re-scores, and stiff interactions with players during the Q&A storytelling portions.
All that considered, the fanbase was pretty disappointed the show will "indecisively" continue as-is.
"You obviously don't care about your fans," one person wrote on a fan page. "Most fans don't want Mayim back at all next season. I'll be considering cutting back my viewership when she's on."
"Makes no sense," a second added, while a third followed: "NO NO NO! Make a decision!"
Another agreed: "Just make a freaking decision.. either way you’re going to lose viewers."
"You really know how to screw things up," another fan tweeted tonight amid the co-host continuation.
"Ken should be permanent. Period. Mayim is just not quick enough and her mannerism interferes with the flow."
A fifth at least begged for a Ken title boost given he's the 74-time winner and alum Alex seemingly wanted:
"I'm fine with Ken and Mayim sharing the hosting duties (for now), but they should at least make Ken's position as a co-host a more permanent post.
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"And dispense with the ridiculous (and quite frankly demeaning) 'and now, hosting Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings' business."
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Jeopardy! airs weeknights at 7 pm ET.
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