JEOPARDY! has puzzled fans after seemingly forgetting about censorship on Wednesday.
The beloved game show uploaded an instant classic clip of Ken Jennings cursing during summer reruns.
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The Jeopardy! clip was from the 2022 Tournament of Champions, which is fully re-airing this month.
During the re-run, Ken, 49, yelled, "Oh s**t!" after accidentally giving away the correct response to a clue.
The side-splitting moment occurred during a practice match that didn't count towards the tournament and aired on Election Day 2022 - so it was all in good fun.
However, the show's social media team may have been hasty when sharing the clip on YouTube.
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It was titled "Oh S**t! | Season 39 | Jeopardy!" on the official show page [seen here], but without the asterisks.
'YOU FORGOT TO CENSOR THE TITLE'
One fan wrote below the video: "Forgot to censor the title."
"CENSOR THE TITLE," begged another.
"Jeopardy! you need to sensor the title," wrote one more.
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"Oooops," wrote a fourth.
"I busted a gut at this moment, truly the greatest Jeopardy! humor that never meant to happen," appreciated a fifth.
KEN'S CURSING MOMENT EXPLAINED
During the last Tournament of Champions, Jeopardy! didn't want fans to miss the action on Election Day, so they came up with a winning idea.
They aired a practice exhibition game featuring 40-time winner Amy, 38-time winner Matt Amodio, and 23-win sensation Mattea Roach, 24.
Those three contestants out of the 21 contenders were seeded directly into the semi-finals, given their huge winning streaks the year before.
So were given a chance to get their buzzer bearings in the one-off episode before the semi-finals that turned out to be simply hilarious since it didn't have any stakes.
Ken presented a category titled "Numbers, Please," and stopped to explain: "I don't know if you noticed, but the numbers in that category are 40, 23, 38, and 74, which is larger than all of them..."
"Oh s**t!" he yelled, realizing what he had done.
The game show bleeped Ken uttering the swear word as he scrunched his face and threw his clue sheet to the ground.
The category purposefully corresponded to how many games each player on stage had initially won.
One answer corresponded to Mattea's initial wins, one to Matt's, one to Amy's, and one to Ken's own 74-game winning streak in 2004, which is still the largest ever.
But one of the clues still hadn't been read, so Ken gave away the correct response, which is why he cursed.
All three beloved contestants laughed and smashed the buzzer, trying to get the clue Ken spoiled.
“You gave it away!” yelled an off-screen and off-microphoned voice.
WHY JEOPARDY! PRODUCERS KEPT IT IN
On the official Inside Jeopardy podcast, longtime producer Sarah Foss later shared the staff's reaction and why they aired it as-is.
Foss explained that they couldn’t feasibly edit out the curse because it "spilled over" into the clue Ken then spoiled.
“One thing we learned from the great exhibition, yes, Ken Jennings swears!
She shared: “Rocky Schmidt, our supervising producer, was like, 'We have to come up with this category that relates to all of your streaks.'"
“We couldn't edit it out, but it was such a genuine moment you could hear all of us yelling from the judge's table, 'no! No!'
"He fixed it but I loved it.
"I think it’s really great in a game like this where there isn't so much at stake, becoming a day more of a champion isn't on the line, or advancing, or anything like that.
"We could really just have fun."
Foss called it: "One of my funnest moments in the studio.”
PRACTICE MATCH MAKES PERFECT
The one-off 2022 episode featured other sweet in-jokes since it was the second anniversary of Alex Trebek's tragic death.
There was a “Remembering Alex Trebek” category, including the late host's love of Diet Coke.
At another point, Matt stopped the game to say: "Hi Ken, I just wanted to say hi," as it was his first time with Ken as his host.
Matt played under a record seven hosts since he originally competed in 2021 during the host selection processes.
During a pop music round, Mattea called a song by P!nk: "One of my favorite songs when I was like four."
Amy, 42, then called Eminem's Lose Yourself: "One of my favorite songs when I was, like, 27," shading Mattea for her youthfulness.
The 2022 Tournament of Champions was one of the most thrilling in history as it included more super-champs, or 10-day plus winners, than any previous year.
Amy won, but it was hard-fought as the first-to-three-wins finals of the special wound up taking six incredibly intense games.
Her $250,000 victory made her the first transgender tournament winner.
The other two finalists, fan-favorite Professor Sam Buttrey and underdog Andrew He notched one and two victories a piece.
The final three were also unexpected as of the 21 players, Andrew had only previously won five games and Sam the 2021 Professor's Tournament.
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Mattea and Matt were shockingly eliminated before the finals, but they fared much better in May's Masters.
The tooth-and-nail finals are airing in full next week, and it's one of the books.
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