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"I Lost on Jeopardy" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his second album, "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D, released in 1984. The song is a parody of " Jeopardy " by The Greg Kihn Band , released in 1983, and its refrain "Our love's in jeopardy".
Recorded on the same day as "The Brady Bunch", "I Lost on Jeopardy" is a parody of "Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band. [2] The song describes a situation in which the narrator loses spectacularly on the game show Jeopardy!. Show announcer Don Pardo lends his voice to a segment of the song. [7]
A parody of the song, titled "I Lost on Jeopardy", was released by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his 1984 album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D.Kihn made a cameo appearance in the song's music video, driving the car into which Yankovic is thrown after being "ejected" from the Jeopardy! game show, parodying the end of his own video.
Greg Kihn, who led power pop group The Greg Kihn Band to chart success in the 1980s, has died at age 75. Kihn’s most successful hits included 1981’s “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ...
The song, about a relationship gone wrong, would gain yet more popularity when it was spoofed by "Weird Al" Yankovic, who penned the song, “I Lost on Jeopardy,” with a video featuring the ...
His second successful single was 1983's "Jeopardy" (rising to number two) from the Kihnspiracy album. "Jeopardy" was spoofed by "Weird Al" Yankovic as "I Lost on Jeopardy" on Yankovic's album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. Kihn made a cameo appearance in the music video. In 1983, the groundbreaking "Jeopardy" video became an MTV favorite.
The singer-songwriter died Tuesday from Alzheimer's disease at 75 years old.
Fleming reprised his role as host of Jeopardy! in the 1982 movie Airplane II: The Sequel and in "Weird Al" Yankovic's music video "I Lost on Jeopardy". Fleming was also often called upon to host mock versions of Jeopardy! at trade shows and conventions.