Ken Jennings Apologizes After ‘Jeopardy!’ Clue Offends Fans — But There’s A Twist

“John, I hope you’ll forgive me and all of us at 'Jeopardy!' for any insult we may have committed against you or your memory,” Jennings said.

Get ready to feel like your brain just went through a sausage grinder.

Last week, “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings found himself publicly apologizing for something pretty ridiculous after the show received backlash for a clue involving an internet meme known as John Pork.

John Pork is an anthropomorphic pigman with a human body and pig head, who has been popping up in Instagram and TikTok content since 2018. The meme’s use is about as silly and confusing as the viral 6-7 joke, or as one Reddit user described it: “Internet nonsense that is aimed at bored teenagers.”

John Pork is sometimes used just to befuddle older folks. Here’s a little sample:

As goofy as this all sounds, due to John Pork’s popularity, the pigman has some user-generated internet “lore” — or essentially fans of the meme have let their imagination go hog wild about John Pork’s life. He was apparently killed by his nemesis Tim Cheese, a rodent-man with a mouse’s head and human body, and the reasons as to why vary.