Yes, it's the beard. Alex Trebek unveiled his full facial hair on Jeopardy's season debut yesterday, and the reaction was immediate and vociferous. In fact, the beard was hardly a secret. Alex had displayed it in a Twitter message a few days ago. And even further back, he had shown off the whiskers at a Junior ROTC event. (I blogged about it months ago.)
But yesterday was the coming-out party for the oddly 19th-centuy looking facial hair on Jeopardy itself. As I rather gloomily speculated in the old blog post, the show is making a big deal about it. They've even got a Twitter vote on the whiskers. I voted "no" just to be contrarian, but I'm getting outvoted heavily.
So the beard may remain for the foreseeable future.
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