It was the moment she’d been waiting for! She’d studied, memorized, trained, slept and prayed. She was proud of her achievements that brought her back to this place once again. Then it came: the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
Alex Trebek: If Andy yearns for Brenda and Brenda cares about Charlene who pines for Andy, the three of them form one of these.
Kara Spak: What is a threesome?
Er, no. It was likely just seconds later the Upper St. Clair native became the biggest hit on YouTube in … oh … days.
The poor woman. And there, Trebek stood, mocking her apparent wealth of … ahem … “experience” on the subject. You had to feel for her, for her mother in the audience, and for the blood defying gravity as it rushed up to her face.
Then you Google-searched and bookmarked it to share with friends. But should she even be embarrassed? Why bother?
In those televised moments, we forget anything we do has likely been done before: a slip of the tongue, a slip of the bra. Just ask Janet Jackson.
Sure, Spak’s faux pas was in full HD and recorded in the coffers of YouTube. But so is everything else and will likely be lost there like the Ark of the Covenant in a government warehouse.
Besides, we love making fools of ourselves, don’t we? Isn’t that why the audience dresses up as wildly as possible for Let’s Make a Deal? How else can you explain the existence of The Gong Show?
One could argue they do so in the safety of a crowd of others acting similarly. But time and again, individuals try to shock and outdo each other on The Real World, Survivor, and every Bachelor/ette by being different from the crowd.
Plus, we love watching people screw up. TV’s Funniest Home Videos were at their best when someone got nailed in the crotch or fell on their face.
Really, momentary mental lapse aside, Spak’s brain power could still make most of us feel quite stupid any day of the week.
Her momentary sexual innuendo simply made her a little more relatable. Heck, another Freudian slip like that and she could become a cult hero!
While probably the most embarrassing moment in Spak’s life, her little threesome will fortunately have a life span only slightly longer than a fruit fly.
And her name? Forgotten even faster. Unless she wins the Championship. Then it will really go down in infamy.
But I have a better one from the 1980s. In response to a reporter’s on-camera question, a man smiled and told TBT News that he would be conferring with his “liars … I mean, lawyers.”
Now that, had YouTube been present in the day, would have lived on FOR-EV-ER. So if you know where THAT tape is …
