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Jeopardy!’s about to get woke.
Host Ken Jennings had to apologize to a female Jeopardy! contestant on Monday’s episode after he read out a “sexist” clue and admitted the question was “a little problematic,” according to the Daily Mail.
Heather Ryan, a health program director from Binghamton, N.Y., buzzed in for a question from the category called, “Complete the rhyming phrase.”
Jennings then said: “Men seldom make passes at…”
“Girls who wear glasses,” correctly guessed fellow contestant Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas, after he buzzed first.
The quote originated with the late New York socialite and commentator Dorothy Parker, circa the 1920s and 1930s.
Jennings then called the clue a “little problematic” before apologizing to the glasses-wearing Ryan.
Wallace then chimed in: “Very.”
Ryan, however, took it all in stride and the game quickly moved on, even if Jeopardy! fans slammed the “sexist” clue and category on social media.
One person said on Reddit: “Rhyming phrases category was awful, especially the sexist clue.”
“Frankly, I don’t need to hear Ken read an obviously outdated and inappropriate clue and then call it ‘problematic,’” another added.
“More like extremely problematic!” a third person wrote on X.
By the episode’s end, Wallace had just $2 in the bank, while Ryan had $19,600. They both lost to Ian Taylor, a food sales representative originally from Cleveland, Ohio, with $19,601.