On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:32:04 AM UTC-4, JW wrote:
>
> When Trebek started doing Jeopardy!, there wasn't immediate universal
> acceptance. I can't find the quote online, but I remember seeing Bob
> Costas quoted as saying something like "Anyone who prefers Alex Trebek
> to Art Fleming probably prefers watching baseball at the Metrodome to
> Fenway Park." The formats are robust enough (and the shows profitable
> enough) to chance new hosts.
>
I was in college when the Trebek Jeopardy! began, and while I was a fan of
the new host right away, my friends couldn't accept "the High Rollers guy"
in Art Fleming's old job. They used to mockingly yell "Doubles! Roll
doubles!" whenever they saw Trebek.
Yet today, when I see Fleming clips on YouTube, Fleming seems awfully stiff
with his canned, rote lines ("The answer is..."). He was a jovial sort,
though, and it's nice to see him rooting for contestants whose scores
slipped below zero ("C'mon, get yourself out of that hole").
BTW, let's have a moment of silence for Elaine Stewart, the dice roller on
the nighttime "High Rollers," who died on Monday.
-Tim
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