If you heard children singing in the streets, noticed that the sky was a bit brighter or just got a gut feeling that maybe, just maybe things were finally starting to turn around for all of us, we've found the reason: Alex Trebek is bringing back his mustache.

This is not a drill. You aren't dreaming. This is very, very real. The national nightmare is over.

The Jeopardy! host removed his beloved mustache in 2001 for reasons nobody will ever fully understand. Perhaps the pressure had become too great, perhaps the mustache was hurting him in some way. What's important is that it is back.

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“This year I had a two-and-a-half-month period where we were not taping a show, so I grew it back on another whim," Trebeck tells People. "I like to keep my life simple.”

And now, as a result of Trebek's actions, perhaps some simplicity can return to all of our lives as well.

Trebek hosted his first episode of Jeopardy, complete with mustache, in 1984. In the 17 years we'll call his "mustache period," viewers watched the Canadian-American's facial hair go through a few different stages, which we've detailed below.

Alex Trebek's Mustache Stages

Tip your hats to Alex Trebek, a man worth his weight in golden mustaches.