Jeopardy! fans upset over schedule change as show is off-air over 'annoying' reason

JEOPARDY! fans have expressed their frustration over the show's unexpected schedule change due to conflicting programming.

The game show's airing schedule was postponed due to college football.

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Fans were not pleased with the change, taking to an online thread to complain over the network's "annoying" decision.

"No new episode on in NYC tonight? When's it airing?" one wrote, opening up the conversation.

"I'm looking through my guide and I don't see Jeopardy airing tonight, tomorrow, or Sunday. Any idea when today's episode will be airing?

"(D**n you, college sports)," they added.

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"According to this, it won’t be airing in NYC at all, unfortunately," a second confirmed.

"While I understand that sometimes Jeopardy can be pre-empted due to live events, especially on holiday weekends such as this, what doesn't make sense is that at 2:05am-2:35am (Sat morning) they are re-playing the episode from Thursday 11/23.

"Why not air the Friday episode that we are missing so we can DVR it? Is there any logical explanation to this?" a third wondered.

"Not on where I’m at in Michigan either," a fourth claimed.

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"Someone I know is a contestant, and I was really looking forward to watching it," a fifth noted.

"We're not getting it at all in NYC market. My DVR goes straight from episode 54 to episode 56. I also hate when sports disrupt our Jeopardy..." a final ripped.

EASY PEASY?

The short Jeopardy! hiatus came just days after fans mocked the show for what they considered to be one of the easier final clues ever as player Dennis Chase won the game by a close margin.

All three Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard competitors correctly answered the Final Jeopardy! clue on Friday's episode of the long-running trivia game show.

Dennis, a biotech project manager from Palm Springs, California, competed against Danielle Maurer, a digital marketing manager from Peachtree Corners, Georgia, and Fred Nelson, a university professor from Fresno, California.

The game started out and continued to be close with the scores going into the first break being Fred with $2,400, Danielle trailing with $1,400, and Dennis leading the pack with $3,000.

By Double Jeopardy! however, Danielle had gone on a brief run and gone from last to first, leading the other constants with $7,400.

She added $2,200 during the first Daily Double when she correctly responded: "What is no harm" to the clue, "Completes the Hippocratic injunction 'to help, or at least, to do...'"

Once the game reached Final Jeopardy! Dennis had completed his comeback, adding $8,000 during the second Double Jeopardy!, and was handily in the lead with $30,600 as compared to Danielle's $16,800 and Fred's $8,400.

The Final Jeopardy! clue was: "This company announced 'On September 29th, 2023, we will send out the last red envelope.'"

The three contestants all answered correctly with "What is Netflix?"

Danielle gambled big, wagering her entire $16,800 to bring her total to $33,600 and momentarily placing her in the lead.

The celebration was short-lived however as Dennis wagered $3,003, bringing his total to 33,603 and earning just enough to edge out a win over Danielle by $3 while also advancing him to the Champions Wild Card Finals.

FAN THEORIES

On a Jeopardy! dedicated Reddit board, many viewers praised the close-fought battle between the contestants while others criticized the questionable level of difficulty of the questions.

"Was this Celebrity Jeopardy? Layup common knowledge DDs and the second easiest Final Jeopardy! of the year," one person said.

Another added: "That had to have been one of the easiest Final Jeopardy's to solve that I've ever seen."

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"That was a ridiculously easy Final Jeopardy. I would understand if this was something that happened 10 years ago but it was literally like a month ago…"

While one defended: "If you never had Netflix (as I have not) this wasn't an easy one. I can see where you might connect red envelopes with Netflix just through osmosis, ads, etc… but I had no idea."

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