‘Jeopardy’ producer wants you to forget painful episode: ’23 triple stumpers’

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If you were watching earlier this month as a trio of Jeopardy! contestants all failed to buzz in on 23 separate questions, producer Sarah Foss would like you to forget that episode ever happened.

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The producer joined co-host Buzzy Cohen to discuss the June 7 episode, which saw players — Collette Lee, Kristine Rembach and defending champ Suresh Krishnan — all get stumped by nearly two dozen questions.

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“One thing that was not so great about this game — and, actually, (contestants) Kristine and Collette joked about it in the post-game chat, they were really hoping they wouldn’t go viral for leaving so much money on the board,” Foss told Cohen on a recent episode of the Inside Jeopardy! podcast. “In this game — this has to be a record — 23 triple stumpers. And it’s something we never like to see.”

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According to the J! Archive, the record for total missed questions was set on Feb. 23, 2005, when contestants were stymied 24 times.

The June 7 episode had fans fuming on social media, with some viewers declaring it “in the running for worst game ever.”

“It was brutal,” one person wrote on Reddit, with another adding, “That was just not fun to watch.”

“20 (plus) stand-&-stares,” a third critic swiped. “That may be a first.”

Lee opened up on the episode, revealing that she was worried the trio’s silence was going to rile fans online. “Kristine and I commented on that to each other before Final, saying that we were worried we’d go viral for not knowing anything!” she wrote. “I personally tried to ‘keep calm and clam up’ to try to avoid ending up in the red with bad guesses. But as the game wore on, especially in Double Jeopardy it was obvious we were collectively riding the struggle bus with our board!”

“It was one of the toughest boards I have ever seen in regular play,” Krishnan added. “I genuinely did not know the answer to a lot of the questions and did not have much context on them either.”

One person at home said they were flummoxed by the questions saying they were “a little too detailed and worded weird…”

Past winner Jesse Matheny defended the threesome, writing, “Sometimes you just get a run of categories that none of the three of you love — happened in my 2nd (and last) game.”

Krishnan ended up winning the game with $21,099 in prize money.

The trio’s poor game play was followed days later when three contestants couldn’t answer a question about the Lord’s Prayer — likely another moment Foss hopes couch potatoes forget.

“Matthew 6:9 says, ‘Our Father Which Art In Heaven’, This ‘Be Thy Name,’” read the clue from host Mayim Bialik, with the correct answer being, “Hallowed Be Thy Name.”