TEANECK -- Talia Lavin, a fact-checker from Teaneck, had not made much of an impression in her Wednesday appearance on "Jeopardy!"

She entered Final Jeopardy with only $600 to her name, $7,000 behind her next-closest competitor.

Spoiler alert: Lavin did not win "Jeopardy!" that night. She instead won our hearts, and helped blur the lines between real-life Jeopardy and the Saturday Night Live version filled with incredibly stupid contestants.

The clue for Final Jeopardy was, "This song, from a 1999 animated film about censorship, had a word censored from its Oscar performance." Lavin's response?

"What is the Love Ballad of Turd Ferguson? P.S. Hi, mom. :)"

That was not correct. The Love Ballad of Turd Ferguson is not a song, and was never performed at the Oscars. Lavin lost the $600 she wagered on her response.

But she deserves praise for getting Alex Trebeck to utter the words, "Turd Ferguson," and reminding us all of Norm McDonald's hysterical turn as a Trebeck-tormenting Burt Reynolds on Saturday Night Live's take on "Celebrity Jeopardy." In a 1999 edition of the sketch, Reynolds writes his name as "Turd Ferguson." It's a funny name:

Lavin seemed to delight in the attention Thursday on Twitter.

i am wrapped in the zeitgeist today like a scallop in bacon #goingviral #15minoffame #increasinglysurrealinterviews — Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) September 17, 2015

So while she may have finished last in actual money, Lavin blew away the competition in Internet points. That's something to brag to mom about.

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