Emotional video tribute closes Alex Trebek’s final Jeopardy episode
3 min read More than two months after Alex Trebek’s loss of life, followers of Jeopardy! lastly obtained the prospect to say goodbye. A video tribute to the host closed Friday’s episode of the quiz present, the ultimate one which Trebek taped earlier than pancreatic most cancers claimed his life two months in the past.
The 90-second montage, set to Hugh Jackman singing the Peter Allen track “Once Before I Go”, is a light-hearted and laughter-filled remembrance displaying Trebek’s altering look by his 36 years as host, with moustache and with out, with black hair and with gray, with fits from a number of many years.
It celebrated the wackier moments of the often strait-laced Trebek, displaying him verbally sparring with contestants and arm-wrestling with one. “You really make me feel inadequate,” he tells a baby contestant. “Sorry about that,” she sassily solutions.
Trebek is proven strolling on the set pants-less in a single clip, dressed because the Statue of Liberty in one other, and carrying the costume of a Trojan solider in one other.
Simply one of the best.Thank you, Alex. pic.twitter.com/GgXbV4AWMt
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) January 8, 2021
A clip of the host declaring “I don’t dance” is proven amid scenes of him dancing by the years. The tribute remains to be lots unhappy and mawkish, although, as Jackman sings, “It’s so hard to say good-byes, when there’s so much that’s left unspoken in your eyes,” and “Once before I go, I would like to let you know, that I would do it all again.”
And in its ultimate moments it exhibits Trebek signing off by the many years, repeatedly saying, “So long, everybody.”
Trebek died November 8 at age 80 however had pre-taped a number of weeks of exhibits which have continued to air. He stored working for almost two years after his analysis with pancreatic most cancers, remaining in place on the podium the place he had turn out to be an establishment since beginning in 1984.
The present will proceed subsequent week with a collection of interim hosts, beginning with veteran Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings.
The week’s ultimate Trebek episodes started Monday with the host urging viewers to present to others who have been struggling in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re trying to build a gentler, kinder society, and if we all pitch in just a little bit, we’re going to get there,” Trebek stated.
His ultimate exhibits have been initially scheduled to air Christmas week, however they have been postpone till this week to present the send-off extra publicity. The episode contains vacation parts, just like the class, “Christmas Movies.”
In one of many final of the greater than 500,000 clues Trebek delivered to contestants in his greater than 8,200 episodes, he says:
“Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve.” The right response: “What is ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’?”
Trebek apparently wasn’t sure that Friday’s episode could be his final when it was recorded.
The present’s govt producer, Mike Richards, instructed NBC’s Today present on Monday that Trebek was “an absolute warrior” in his final taping classes, regardless of being in “enormous pain.”
At the tip of the episode, earlier than the video tribute, Trebek says, “See you again next week.”
