Trebek has been grumpy this whole week

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Trebek has been grumpy this whole week

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haha has anyone noticed he has been grumpy and not been so complimentary this week (12/26-12/29 so far). When the Stephanie Schlatter(spelling ?) lady was champ he would bring up how she didn't win big. I was thinking damn, though at least she can say she won twice on Jeopardy and money is money. Yeah it wasn't impressive but she won, and he has mentioned it being a weird week. think Alex is just ready to party for the New Year.
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Didn't AT call a contestant a "loser" a couple of weeks ago because she was a member of some sort of nerd-trivia group in her hometown? Seems like Mr. Trebek is starting to cop a ' tude (or maybe he's ready for some vacation time).
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He has given the contestants a few jabs here and there during the weeks.
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First post from a newbie, but I don't think he's grumpy. Some of his pithy humor is falling flat. He tried to give some cover to the rime answer about the albatross as if the contestant just got confused (I think he didn't know the story of the poem, just the name of Coleridge's works).

Also, he tried to get jiggy when the Hula Hoop answer turned out to be a triple stumper. I don't think he had it planned in advance because who knew it would be a TS.

ps. i found this board just two weeks ago when I googled for more info on Cindy Stowell. I'm afraid I have a new guilty pleasure to cause me to lose sleep. I've been a big lifelong fan of the show, but never watched much TV and only got DVR recently.
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Kenny wrote:Didn't AT call a contestant a "loser" a couple of weeks ago because she was a member of some sort of nerd-trivia group in her hometown? Seems like Mr. Trebek is starting to cop a ' tude (or maybe he's ready for some vacation time).
He was just teasing her which he said immediately after he said that.
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Trebek has always had a dry sense of humor.
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