“Trebek’s Heart in Jeopardy!”

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Alex Trebek has suffered a mild heart attack.  EMTs were on the scene quickly, but the money was only awarded to the one with the quickest response.

Now Alex is trying to get answers from his doctors, but the doctors have to phrase them in the form of a question.

While in the hospital, Alex was given a single room, but opted to downgrade to a Daily Double.

On the plus side, Trebek’s doctors tend to be smarter than, say, Wheel of Fortune’s doctors.

When the first paramedic hit his defibrillator, it locked out the others’ defibrillators, so they didn’t have the chance to buzz in.

A normal, human heart has 4 chambers, 2 auricles, and 2 ventricles.  Trebeks has 5 chambers per row, in 6 different categories.

Alex Trebek’s hospital gown was furnished by Mr. Guy of Beverly Hills.

To prevent another heart attack, Alex may have to be more careful with his diet and other lifestyle factors, depending on how much he wants to wager.

Before his cardiologist told Alex the results of his tests, Trebek already knew – but only because he was had the answers on the index cards he was holding.

Trebek’s heart surgeon operated in exchange for promotional consideration.

The medical bills will be for thousands and thousands of dollars.  Luckily for Alex, what  Medicare won’t cover, Ken Jennings will.

If Alex doesn’t take his doctor’s advice, he could be putting himself in double Jeopardy!

When asked what the heart attack was like, Trebek described it as feeling like someone put one of his Emmy awards on his chest.

While in the hospital, Trebek won a Daytime Emmy award as the host of Jeopardy.  To win more votes next year, Pat Sajak is planning a heart attack right before the Daytime Emmys. 

"Big Wheel"

After 26 years on television, Wheel of Fortune is celebrating its 5,000th episode this week. It has been on a long time. To get around the puzzle board, Vanna White now needs a scooter.

Some of the contestants from the first season’s Kids Week are now coming back for the Senior Citizen Challenge.

5,000 shows, and I still giggle when a contestant spins and then says, “I’ll take a P, Pat.”

They’ve been on for so many years, R, S, T, L, N, & E want to retire.

Over the years, they have had 15,000 contestants. That’s a lot of people for Jeopardy! fans to look down on.

Wheel of Fortune really has been on a long time. In fact, here’s a little of its history:
-Before the Premiere: The Used Letter Board was briefly called the New Letter Board.

-Season 1: Before episode number one, they had to invent the wheel first.

-Season 2: Pat Sajak’s suits were by Botany 1.

-Season 3: The show became more challenging with new puzzle categories and the invention of the alphabet.

-Season 4: Before each round, the producers had to carve the letters into rocks.

-Season 5: The prizes were livestock.

-Season 6: Instead of letters, the contestants had to guess hieroglyphs.

-Season 7: The top monetary value on the wheel was a handful of beads.

-Season 8: Pat Sajak’s cue card lines were painted on a cave wall.

-Season 9: If Vanna was wearing fur, it was from an animal she’d killed that morning.

-Season 10: There were still only 4 vowels.

-Season 11: The winner got cash and merchandise. Second place got a parting gift. Third place was hunted, killed, and eaten.

-Season 12: To widen their audience to more than 50 people, television was invented.

-Season 13: To widen their audience to more than 100 people, the Mid-West was invented.