In a similar vein, how do you think Trebek would react to a contestant like Bob Holman (sp?), whose run on Blockbusters GSN is currently showing?
For those who didn't see it on the 3d of August, Bob, who was hoping to get into TV production as a career, correctly answered a question, and Bill Cullen asked his standard Blockbusters question of where he'd like to go next. Bob must have seen Ira Skutch or Robert Sherman gesturing to Bill, because he replied something to the effect of, \"I'd like to go to a commercial\".
Bill, being the quick wit that he was, played right along, even letting Bob take over his spiel for going to a commercial. But for some reason I can't imagine Alex Trebek handling such a contestant very well. (For that matter, I can't imagine such an event ever making it to air nowadays. The expense of editing back in the day meant that less was edited out, so we got to see more interesting \"outtakes\".) I guess I'm also reminded of the J! ToC contestant back in the late 80s who did impressions, and in the Final did an impression of Alex lecturing the contestants that the really needed to learn more about Canada. The audience had a great laugh, but Alex seemed quite irritated.