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** July 2000: Johnny Gilbert mistakenly said "Glenn Trebek". While this may seem a totally arbitrary name-switch, Glenn was the name of one of the contestant coordinators, who at the time hosted the "practice" games that contestants-to-be played.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: The contestant coordinator hosts "rehearsal games", recorded under actual taping conditions and designed to let the contestants "warm up" on clues taken from past episodes. For the first Trebek season (1984-85), the role was filled by former ''[[Starcade]]'' host [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYzUosREpk Mark Richards] and the clues were primarily from the 1983 pilot; coincidentally, Richards got the job for ''Starcade'' after Trebek turned it down following a trio of pilots...which means that in another universe Richards is a legend, Trebek is a semi-remembered host whose career began fizzling out after ''High Rollers'', and [[Treasure Hunt US|Geoff]] [[Jackpot|Edwards]] never played a single video game.

* [[Written in Infirmity]]:

** A variant. Season 28 began with Trebek staying at his podium for the whole game, as opposed to walking to the contestant podiums during the interviews. This is because he tore an Achilles tendon during the summer while chasing a would-be burglar out of a hotel room.

** On several occasions between 2004 and 2010, he sported a cast on his right wrist due to carpal tunnel syndrome.

** Season 25 had an unusual variant: contestant Priscilla Ball (who was champion on January 16, 2009) was unable to make the taping for her next episode. As a result, she was brought back as co-champion on an episode that aired in April.

** Sarah Whitcomb Foss of the Clue Crew had her own real-life pregnancy worked into a pregnancy-themed video category on September 18, 2013.