Max Greenfield and Camilla Luddington Serve Up a Major Usher Fail on 'Celebrity Jeopardy'

The two were competing in the game show against W. Kamau Bell

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It’s not personal, Usher!

Max Greenfield and Camilla Luddington failed to name the rapper’s 2004 hit song during the Triple Jeopardy round in the season 3 premiere of Celebrity Jeopardy on Wednesday, Jan. 8,

The two were competing in the game show against W. Kamau Bell, who chose a prompt in the category "2004, what a year!"

The question read: "We got so caught up in this Usher song that it spent 12 weeks at the top of the charts."

Thrown off by the tricky wording, the New Girl star buzzed in first, answering, "What is ‘Caught Up’?" But unfortunately, host Ken Jennings informed him that his guess was incorrect. The song, while included on Usher’s 2004 album Confessions, was not released as a single until 2005. 

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Max Greenfield and Camilla Luddington on 'Celebrity Jeopardy'.

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Luddington proceeded to answer with a variation of Greenfield’s response. "What is ‘All Caught Up’?" she incorrectly guessed. 

Bell, meanwhile, ran out of time before he could give an answer. Instead, he quipped, "Feels so awkward to be the Black guy and not know the Usher song," to everybody's laughter. "I was listening to Rage Against the Machine at the time, sorry everybody."

Ultimately, Jennings revealed the answer to be, "What is 'Yeah.' The song is called 'Yeah.' "

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Max Greenfield, Camilla Luddington, and W. Kamau Bell on 'Celebrity Jeopardy'.

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The incorrect guesses cost Greenfield, 45, and Luddington, 41, $1,500 each.

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Usher released the song — also featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris — as the lead single from his fourth album and it made history as the longest-running number one single that year.

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Usher is pictured performing onstage during a taping of iHeartRadio's Living Black 2023 Block Party in Inglewood, California.

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Bell received another music-related clue later in the round in the category "Hard New York Times Crossword Clues." The question was, "11-down, 3 letters: Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach No. 1 on Billboard."

"Who is N.W.A.?” he correctly answered. "That’s more my style."

Bell ended up advancing to the semi-finals with $11,009 in winnings.

Celebrity Jeopardy airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

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