Danger! Fans ask competitors who did not identify James Earl Jones

Fans of Danger! have their eyebrows raised after three competitors in a recent episode that all were unable to identify James Earl Jones.

On Monday 15 September, the episode of the prolonged game show, Ryan Sharpe and Kelsi Tyler competed against former winner Paolo Pasco and met a category filled with clues related to Sesame Street.

A little more than halfway into that part, worth Ken Jennings introduced Oscar Grouch.

“Over the years many have stopped by Sesame Street as Alex Trebek and Ken Jennings, ” Said the green muppet from his famous trash. “Why can’t they leave a grouch alone? But the very first was this guy, who recited the alphabet for us.”

When he read his clue, a black and white photo of the late actor appeared from his younger days on the screen and showed when he played on the beloved children’s show.

Seconds went by and the summer sounded, which lets competing know that their chance to answer was over.

“It’s James Earl Jones,” said Jennings about Emmy, Tony and Grammy-winning American actor and voice artist as died on September 9, 2024, 93.

In a clip that is divided to Danger! Instagram Account, fans sounded at the competitors’ lack of knowledge when it came to the actor.

“So excuse me, you know Rocco the Rock But you don’t know James Earl Jones? I cry, “wrote one person. Another commented,” literally how didn’t one of them didn’t know you James Earl Jones!? ”

“Nobody knew James Earl Jones, directly to prison,” wrote another fan, while another fan brought, “how I screamed James Earl Jones to my phone several times.”

Throughout Jones decades long career he recorded SandlottenThe Comes to America and Dream field. But he was also known for having expressed Darth Vader in Star Wars franchise and Mufasa In the classic Disney -animated film 1994 The lion king.

Shortly before the news of his death, Lupita Nyong’o spoke exclusively to people at Toronto International Film Festival September 8, where she reflected on how she “saw The lion king Very many times “as a child, on the question of whether she had an animated movie.

“The lion king Presented a little Swahili in it and I’m from Kenya, so hearing Swahili in a Disney movie blew away my mind, ” said Nyong’o42. “And yes, it was put in Africa. I mean the movie was like, this is mine. So I loved it.”

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Jones also made his mark on Broadway.

“He led an example that we would all strive to be as artists and people,” Annaleigh Ashford told People. “James Earl appeared to rehearse the book, he was the first person in the theater and the last to leave, and always worked to make tomorrow’s performance even bigger than today’s, and he made the person in the piece with the smallest lines feels as important and loved as the person with the most lines.”

“We are so lucky that he adorned the stage and screen to learn through his art and his heart,” she added. “Oh, how will I miss that smile, those eyes and that voice. His soul lives on through the magic of the characters he blessed us with.”