Jeopardy - another of my love/hate relationships

I’ve blogged *blathered* about it before, but here goes again...

Love: Vicariously answering mundane, outrageously academic questions without the embarrassment of losing large sums of money with a stupid answer.
Hate: The Elementary School Week: Discovering that most 7 years olds are smarter than I am...and the embarrassment of losing large sums of money because I don’t know the answer to the question, “What is the color of Barney?”
Love: Discovering that I know so much about so much worthless shit.
Hate: College Week Tournament: I assume they have to come up with questions even Jeopardy writers have no idea what the answer is.
Love: Watching a scholarly geek attempt to answer question after question about the Beatles White Album...and getting every answer wrong.
Hate: Watching a 42 year old professional student who lives with his mother go into Final Jeopardy with $27,000...the closest competitor: $872.
Love: Watching Alex Trebek trying to elicit some sort of semblance of personality from the contestants during the interview section. To a 28 year old law student living at home: “It says here that you once stayed out way past midnight...and your mother called the police to find where you were...tell us about that."
Hate: I still miss Art Flemming and the mechanical question squares.
Love: When the Jeopardy production and audition staff makes a really bad choice of contestants...and they end up with minus $6700 and cannot participate in Final Jeopardy. I would pay money to see the production assistants reactions.
Hate: That Wheel of Fortune comes on right after Jeopardy...and has survived for 20 years because of that. The contestants on Wheel of Fortune probably couldn’t pass a “color” test, let alone make it on Jeopardy!

God, I love/hate Jeopardy!