Folks are having a field day after Monday's Jeopardy show, which featured a category matching rappers to their iconic lyrics. As already hilarious as that was, it was this moment that had people both cracking up and confused.
Brave contestant Alex Bourzutschky, a junior at Caltech, buzzed in first after Alex Trebek read off lyrics from the 2011 Lil Wayne hit, "6 Foot 7 Foot."
"Who is Kanye West?" Bourzutschky answered.
It wasn't only that Bourzutschky didn't recognize the lyrics — which was a top Billboard charter — it was that the answer, "Weezy," was in the clue. "You don't want start Weezy 'cause the F is for finisher," the clue read.
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People reacted viscerally to it. This person recorded the moment and appeared to have literally choked on the wrong answer.
"COME ON!" he's heard saying.
Someone else is heard slapping the table at that exact moment.
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This person was heard smacking their lips after Bourzutschky said "Kanye West."
"Whose fucking mans is this????" someone joked. Their tweet's been retweeted nearly 14,000 times.
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And people came strapped with all the Lil Wayne reaction GIFs.
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And then some.
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As understandable (er, maybe) and innocent as the mistake may be, people did not let the guy down easy. And they were still so...so confused.
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Bourzutschky later told BuzzFeed News he misread the clue, and thought it said "Yeezy" instead of "Weezy."
He said after taping it in January, he knew he'd regret that mistake.
"But I don't let these things get to me," Bourzutschky said. "I went in to the tournament knowing that my weaker areas were pop culture."
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"For what it's worth, I like Lil Wayne better than Kanye," he added.
Bourzutschky tweeted shortly after the episode aired that he tried his best. Hey, it happens.
Although he will probably never forget those Wayne lyrics ever again.
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