I would usually lose to my parents, sure, but that one time I happened to learn what aqueous humour was in grade school biology the week a question about ‘noticing someone’s humour is showing at a dinner party’ let my heady confidence rise in a way that would rarely ever happen again. As a kid, I came for the witty banter and stayed for the captivatingly ballsy phrasing. That cheeky and smug attitude integrated itself into the very fabric of the game, most of the answers lay not in how much information you had stored in your cranium, but in your ability to decipher the wordplay YDKJ so proudly smothered them in.
What always separated YDKJ from Jeopardy on the SNES or Jeopardy on the PC, or whatever other trivia we played in the 90’s, was not just a bald dude on the cover, oh no. Should have wished for world peace or something.
As it turned out, I didn’t even have to wish, because a quick Google search would have told me that a long overdue entry would actually be released the very next week by THQ and series creators, Jellyvision. Amidst that, oh, I’d say an hour long inner dialogue, notes like, “It was a very good game” and, “I remember it being very clever” or, “with the only slight exception of Scene It, most party trivia games these days are kind of lame.” Then, as a stray shooting star whipped on by - which I can only assume because I probably wouldn’t have seen it through the light pollution - the whimsical words, “there should probably be a new one or something” slipped out of my tender lips. My thoughts drift in and out of worldly ambitions and stupid stuff I wished was real, but it was in the latter half of that equation that the thought, “whatever happened to You Don’t Know Jack?” came about.
Well, I look at where the stars would be if you could see them in this city. Late at night, I look out my window at the stars.
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