Jeopardy! viewers have been left open-mouthed throughout Wednesday’s (March 26) episode in spite of everything three contestants failed to acknowledge the actor behind one among movie and tv’s most well-known detectives.
The episode noticed returning champion Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, taking up John Rindone, a coverage advisor from Brooklyn, New York, and Melanie Hirsch, a lawyer from Silver Spring, Maryland. It was a hard-fought recreation, apart from one clue that stumped all three gamers.
Beneath the class “Be My TV Present Visitor,” host Ken Jennings requested the contestants, “This star of the O.G. ‘Shaft’ visitor starred as two completely different characters on ‘The Contemporary Prince of Bel-Air.’”
All three gamers regarded dumbfounded as none of them have been in a position to provide you with the reply, Richard Roundtree, the Golden Globe nominated actor who portrayed personal detective John Shaft within the 1971 movie Shaft and 4 of its sequels, in addition to the eponymous tv collection from 1973 to 1974.
“I’m deeply saddened concerning the authentic Shaft Triple Stumper,” wrote one fan on the Jeopardy! Reddit discussion board.
“You would say he was Shafted,” quipped one other.
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“In the meantime, these idiots don’t know who Shaft is? Shut yo mouth! #Jeopardy,” mentioned one viewer on X.
One other added, “They didn’t know Richard Roundtree?!”
“Richard Roundtree! I believe we’re all screaming!” mentioned one other.
On Reddit person admitted, “I went with Isaac Hayes. So shut.”
“Comprehensible mistake, as he wrote, recorded, and obtained an Oscar for the rating to the film, together with the indelible “Theme From Shaft.” He’s ceaselessly linked with the film, even when he wasn’t in it,” replied one other commenter.
Roundtree, who handed away in 2023 following a battle with pancreatic most cancers, appeared in Will Smith‘s hit Nineteen Nineties sitcom The Contemporary Prince of Bel Air as two completely different characters, Dr. Mumford and Rev. Gordon Sims.
He additionally appeared in a number of different TV reveals, together with Roots, Generations, Roc, 413 Hope St., Rescue 77, Determined Housewives, Being Mary Jane, Chicago Hearth, Household Reunion, and Cherish the Day.
His final on-screen position got here posthumously within the 2024 comedy-drama movie Thelma, during which he starred alongside June Squibb.
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