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Celebrity Jeopardy!

Saturday Night Live 1997 Season 23 Episode 2

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Alex Trebek lowers the bar for three celebrity contestants, but even their favorite foods prove too difficult.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Alex Trebek tries to guide John Travolta, Michael Keaton and returning champion Burt Reynolds through Double Jeopardy. Travolta treats the clues as movie chatter, Keaton offers facial expressions and tangled explanations, and Reynolds interrupts the game with buzzer complaints and practical jokes. Trebek finally abandons trivia and asks each player to name a favorite food. The answers become another round of jokes and insults, leaving nobody with a win for charity.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 4

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That was a question! Who framed him?

I'm Batman.

Keep in mind, you can't be wrong.

ScriptEnglish · 64 turns

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00:07
Alex Trebek
welcome back to celebrity jeopardy and let's take a look at the scores john travolta has negative 2 000. in a close second with negative 1900 is michael keaton and in first place with zero is our returning champion bert reynolds who of course has yet to ring in it's time now for double Jeopardy and once again for this round contestants I'd like to remind you please no cursing let's take a look at the board the categories are continents theater potpourri potent potables numbers words that rhyme with
00:59
Alex Trebek
dog and finally the Renaissance and you know what let's just replace that last category with shapes. Burt Reynolds, you picked the category.
01:16
Burt Reynolds
Yeah, give me theater for 10,000.
01:18
Alex Trebek
Theater for 600. The answer is this play by William Shakespeare was about a merchant who lived in Venice. Burt Reynolds.
01:30
Burt Reynolds
Yeah, it was Footloose.
01:34
John Travolta
Good flick, Footloose.
01:36
Alex Trebek
No, and please answer in the form of a question. John Travolta.
01:42
John Travolta
Is Is this a horror flick we're talking about? Because I love horror flicks.
01:46
Alex Trebek
It's not a flick at all.
01:54
John Travolta
Okay, who framed Roger Rabbit?
01:57
Alex Trebek
No, and please answer in the form of a question.
02:00
John Travolta
That was a question, who framed him?
02:03
Alex Trebek
Mr. Keaton, Mr. Keaton. I don't think we can accept facial expressions as an answer. Mr. Reynolds, it's your board, pick a category.
02:24
Burt Reynolds
I'll take the dog one.
02:26
Alex Trebek
All right. Words that rhyme with dog. For 400. And the answer is... It's been a hard day's night. I should be sleeping like a this. Burt Reynolds.
02:38
Burt Reynolds
Chinese whore.
02:43
Alex Trebek
No. John Travolta.
02:46
John Travolta
Chinese whore doesn't rhyme with dog.
02:49
Alex Trebek
That's why it was a wrong answer. Mr. Keaton.
02:53
Michael Keaton
I'm Batman. man
02:54
Alex Trebek
no you are not and the board still belongs what mr reynolds
03:03
Burt Reynolds
i think i think my buzzer's broke
03:06
Alex Trebek
no it's not you just buzzed in
03:08
Burt Reynolds
no i didn't i think it's broke
03:11
Alex Trebek
mr travolta why don't you pick a category
03:14
John Travolta
continents for 600.
03:17
Alex Trebek
it's the audio daily double how much do you want to wager
03:22
John Travolta
I'm gonna play it safe I'll wager zero dollars
03:25
Alex Trebek
all right for zero here's your audio daily double clue name this continent
03:35
Asia
03:36
Alex Trebek
mr. Travolta
03:46
Asia
03:47
Alex Trebek
time has run out the answer was Asia
03:57
Burt Reynolds
yeah tough luck there buddy
04:01
Alex Trebek
yeah okay moving Moving on. What is it, Mr. Reynolds?
04:06
Burt Reynolds
Check out this guy's back.
04:13
Alex Trebek
That's nice. You put a kick me sign on Mr. Travolta's back.
04:16
Burt Reynolds
Yeah. Oh, that's good. I did it when he wasn't looking.
04:22
Alex Trebek
That's very nice. Good job, Bert. Tell you what, we're gonna let Michael Keaton pick a category.
04:29
Michael Keaton
All right, number. Number. See, because sometimes it helps to understand a word if we break it down. Let's do that now, shall we? Numb, see, if you're numb, you can't feel.
04:42
Michael Keaton
See, yeah, if you're numb, you can't feel. And then burr.
04:46
Alex Trebek
Numbers for 800. And the answer is, this number comes between five and seven. Mr. Keaton.
04:55
Michael Keaton
See, and then burr. If you're, you know, if you're cold, that's a sound that you would make. So, I guess my answer would be somebody who can't feel that they're cold.
05:08
Alex Trebek
No.
05:11
Michael Keaton
What is somebody who can't feel when they're cold?
05:14
Alex Trebek
No, no, Mr. Keaton, I know what you're trying to do. Just stop. Mr. Reynolds.
05:19
Burt Reynolds
Yeah, I think I fixed it. My buzzer, I think I fixed it.
05:29
Alex Trebek
I see. You know what, let's just move on to Final Jeopardy with every player in negative numbers And the category is... You know what? This is way too hard. I'm just going to make one up. How about your favorite food?
05:47
Alex Trebek
Just write down whatever food you personally like most. Any food you like to eat.
05:56
Alex Trebek
Your favorite food. Keep in mind, you can't be wrong.
06:03
Alex Trebek
You can even lie to me and just put down a food.
06:10
Alex Trebek
Okay, and put down your pens. Mr. Travolta, let's see what you put. Your favorite food is miso, a type of soup, excellent. And your wager, horny, me so horny. Great.
06:33
John Travolta
Come on, that's hilarious.
06:35
Alex Trebek
No, it's not. Now, let's look at Mr. Reynolds' answer.
06:41
Burt Reynolds
Check out Keaton's back.
06:47
Alex Trebek
Right, very funny.
06:49
Burt Reynolds
Yeah, he didn't know it was on there.
06:50
Alex Trebek
Shut up, just shut up. let's see what mr. Keaton came up with you wrote Val Kilmer sucks okay and your wager George Clooney sucks well no one won
07:11
Burt Reynolds
apparently I won
07:13
Alex Trebek
no you didn't
07:14
Burt Reynolds
sure
07:14
Alex Trebek
anyway that's it for celebrity jeopardy once again no money will be given to charity
07:20
Burt Reynolds
seriously I didn't win
07:22
Alex Trebek
no you didn't