JEOPARDY!'s latest contestants are on blast for not knowing the omnipresent '90s Sears air conditioning TV commercial. Internet users were wrecked that no one buzzed in, while others argued that Ken Jennings didn't accurately present the clue. Adriana , who'd win a rare tenth game for a tremendous $225,700 total, faced Scott McCann and Sarah Hartzell on Tuesday, June 12.
She selected the $1000 "FROM THE AD" clue in the Jeopardy! round. Host Ken, 50, read, "From the '90s - Woman: 'So what's the paper say about tomorrow?' Man: 'Another scorcher!' Woman: 'Cool.'" The players all stared until the timer ran out, and Ken revealed the correct response with a cheeky grin, "It's a classic air conditioning ad from Sears.
" The clue, of course, was about the brain-burrowing commercial in which a married couple sweats it out at home due to their broken A/C. It ends with them getting a new one and the wife punnily saying, "Cool." Fans lost their cool on social media and discussed the flub on the iconic ad.
“Nobody knowing the Sears air conditioning commercial killed me," one Redditor wrote. "I could recite that from memory. It played all the time when I was a kid.
Often twice in the same commercial break." "I was in the NY area and got it all the time. Does it help to hear 'I'll call tomorrow,' 'you'll call now,' 'I'll call now?" another posted.
"Same, I was excited to see it lol, that commercial is burned into my brain for years and years," a third lamented. A fourth even pointed out it.
