Funny / Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

• When a self-proclaimed Boston Celtics #1 fan tries for $300,000, he tries to also hit on a Boston Celtics cheerleader (one of the episode's "visiting class"). Jeff teases him about it.
  • Then when she tells Jeff "Of Course!" when he asks her if she'd let the Fan keep his Celtics stuff, Jeff turns around and tells the Fan, "Now That's a Woman right there!"
  • He'd earlier quipped to the Fan, "You're single, aren't you?" when the Fan admitted he had Boston Celtic underwear, and did a bit of old material where when he got married, his wife went to HIS stuff like a flight attendant bidding passengers off the plane: "Bye-bye...bye-bye... thanks for coming, bye-bye..."
• Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings is always funny, and this show is no exception. When he gets to the Million Dollar Question, Jeff remarks that the audience always chants "Do it!" and Ken snarks "Yeah, they're never like, 'Go home! Open an IRA!'" He also talks about how the giant dollar signs on the big screen are hypnotizing him into going for it.
• Kellie Pickler as a contestant got stuck on a 3rd grade World Geography question asking what European country of which Budapest is the capital.
  • "This might be a stupid question..."
  • "I thought Europe was a country... I know they speak French there... don't they? Like, I wanna say… is France a country?!"
  • Jeff then tried to offer her some options, to which she told him "I hear what you are saying, but I am only hearing what I want to hear." Jeff snarked back with "That's just called being a woman.", receiving boos from Kellie and the audience.
• A pre-med student is asked a true/false question on whether the esophagus connects the mouth to the nose^note False; it connects the mouth to the stomach. He gets it wrong, and he would have flunked out if not for his student saving him. What sells it is Jeff quipping "Thank God you are not my doctor!" and "Did you go to any of your pre-med classes while you were there?"
• On the Canadian version, the contestant was figuring out a math question, ultimately deciding 'I'm feeling 30.' Host Colin Mochrie responded, "I once felt 30, but that was a long time ago.'
• The First Licensed Game of the show for the Nintendo Wii took the Elimination Catchphrase one step further.
  • If you flunk out on the very first question...
    Player Character: "I just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am not smarter than a fifth grader."
  • If you drop out without going for the final question...
    Player Character: I am not smarter than a fifth grader. But I am richer.

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