The reviews are in, "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek did not have a very good outing during his debut as a moderator during Monday night's sole debate in Hershey between gubernatorial candidates Tom Wolf and Scott Wagner.

With only 45 minutes to sound out Wolf and Wagner on a complex array of issues in a highly consequential year, Trebek kept breaking away with soliloquies and asides that gave the two candidates little time to actually answer questions.

But one moment, above all, stands out.

With the debate nearly half over, Trebek provided a record-scratch moment when he joked, without provocation, that the only institution with lower approval ratings than the Pennsylvania Legislature was the Catholic church.

Wolf and Wagner fidgeted uncomfortably. The crowd booed.

"Don't go there," Trebek lectured an audience of business leaders and industry titans who ponied up serious coin for the privilege of seeing him bomb. "I was born and raised in the Catholic Church and I'm just as ticked off as everybody else is over what has happened with the church."

But he didn't stop there:

"When I was a young teenager I attended a Catholic boarding school run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Two-hundred and fifty students, other boys and I, spent three years sharing the same accommodations 24/7 with 44 priests and not once in those three years was there any sexual misbehavior. Now boys are pretty sharp, we talk, we would have known. So I believe that there are Catholic priests out there who are able to minister to their congregations without preying -- that's P-R-E-Y -- on the young people."

If that was the only moment, that might have been one thing. But in-between squeezing in questions to the candidates, Trebek offered a reverie on his travels through Delaware County's 7th Congressional District and what it had taught him about gerrymandering.

There was a bit of football trivia involving Philadelphia Eagles star Chris Long. And he lectured an audience of politically connected business leaders on the best way to get in touch with their elected officials.

Twitter reaction to the Hollywood star's oxygen-devouring turn on the stage during the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business & Industry's annual dinner at the Hershey Lodge was savage.

actually, the citizens of the Commonwealth lost today because the ONLY debate, wasn't a debate, it was a monologue. — Karen S. Coates (@KarenSCoates2) October 2, 2018

Some stats from last night's #pachamberdinner #PAGovDebate...each person on stage: the number of times they spoke and the total speaking time:



1. Alex Trebek: 44 times : 21 min, 37 sec



2. @realScottWagner: 29 times : 17 min, 25 sec



3. @WolfForPA: 25 times : 13 min, 7 sec



/1 — Andrew Ritter Jr (@DrewRit21) October 2, 2018