The most up-to-date episode of Jeopardy! despatched some followers (and extra particularly, some Nintendo followers) right into a little bit of an uproar on-line this week when host Ken Jennings dropped an surprising reference to one in every of Nintendo’s fan-favorite Super Mario characters: Waluigi. Despite being excluded usually from the mainline Mario video games, Waluigi’s fame has continued because of his meme-level standing, so Jeopardy! viewers had been happy to listen to him namedropped throughout the newest episode.
During the Jeopardy! section that aired this week, host Ken Jennings was bantering a bit with Luigi de Guzman, a contestant who’s no stranger to successful Jeopardy! bouts by now. Despite his previous successes, de Guzman’s competitors, Emmett Stanton, had fairly the lead at one level. Jennings pointed that out and could not assist however drop a Waluigi reference within the course of. He and the remainder of the Jeopardy! workforce had been apparently fairly proud of that joke, too, seeing the way it was one of many spinout clips the present’s social accounts highlighted afterwards.
Fans had been equally happy with the reference – no less than for probably the most half. Some thought it was low-hanging fruit provided that the Luigi reference was already there whereas others praised Jennings for incorporating that type of reference that in all probability would not have been heard on Jeopardy! had this case come about years in the past.
Was Jennings’ Waluigi reference timed properly, or was it too straightforward? Let us know within the feedback whilst you try a few of the different reactions to this Super Mario reference:
