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Song: I Lost On Jeopardy
Running Time: 3:43
Year: 1984
Album: In 3-D, Greatest Hits 1, TV Album, Al-In-The-Box, The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic
Parody of: Jeopardy by The Greg Kihn Band
Genre: Power pop
Lyrics: Lyrics
Video: Yes
Download/Listen: Mp3
Forum: Forum Discussion Page
Trivia
- The song refers to Jeopardy!, a trivia game show that originally aired from 1964 to 1975 with host Art Fleming and announcer Don Pardo. A revival of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host premiered only a few weeks after the "I Lost On Jeopardy" single was released, and still airs to this day. Don Pardo himself plays the announcer on the song's recording.
- Several people have cameos in the video:
- Don Pardo and Art Fleming appear as themselves.
- Dr. Demento is one of the crew members in the control room.
- The original "Jeopardy" singer Greg Kihn is the driver of the car, Al is thrown into at the end. In an interview, Kihn claimed the woman dressed as a bride sitting next to him (whose face isn't shown) went on to be a famous rock singer, but said he wasn't allowed to say who.
- Al's parents appear as themselves.
- The answer shown under the "Potpourri" category in the video is a garbled version of the equations for a Lorentz transformation in Einstein's Theory of Relativity.
- The categories in the music video consisted of the following: "TV Themes", "Nuclear Physics", "World Geography", "Food", "Potpourri", and "Famous Accordion Players".
- The answer shown under the "World Geography" category in the video is: "Number of bricks in the Great Wall of China". The number is "~4 billion".
- The answer shown under the "Food" category in the video is: "Secret ingredient found in both Cheez Wiz and Crazy Glue".
- The answer shown under the Daily Double in the video is: "This German baroness could suck the chrome off of a fender". The person is Jeanette Schmid aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill.
- Years later, Al appeared as a contestant on Rock and Roll Jeopardy!, and lost.
- The car at the end of the video is an Alfa Romeo Spider, with the license plate reading "LOSER".
- One of the contestants is an architect. Al has a bachelor's degree in architecture
Reference to Greg Kihn's "Jeopardy" video
- As two stagehands forcibly grab him from the studio, Weird Al tore a piece of wood off from the contestant podium. In the original "Jeopardy" video, Kihn tore a piece of wood off from the church's pews, where the monster pulled him into the center of the church.
- Weird Al lands in the backseat of an Alfa Romeo Spider driven by Greg Kihn, with the license plate reading "LOSER". In the original "Jeopardy" video, Kihn drives away with a female bride in an MG MGB convertible, with the license plate reading "LIPS".