I’d Like to Solve the Puzzle

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Today is (not) Pat Sajak’s birthday! He was born October 26, 1946 and was the host of Wheel of Fortune for over 40 years.  I thought I’d take a look at some of the funnier wrong answers to Wheel of Fortune puzzles.

12 You say “flamenco,” he says…

In 2018, a contestant named Jonny lost out on a $7,100 prize after pronouncing “flamenco” like “flamingo.” Ashley, whose turn it was next, almost looked sheepish as she offered the correct answer.

11 Tennessee Williams is rolling in his grave

After thinking that the play A Streetcar Named Desire was titled A Streetcar Naked Desire in a 2017 episode, Kevin Haas said in a statement that he was glad to give viewers a laugh. “That, my friends, is the naked truth,” he added, per TIME.

10 A “fregh” response

A contestant named Khushi might never go to a grocery store without a twinge of humiliation, having offered a “G” instead of a “S” as the final letter in “FRE_H TROPICAL FRUIT” in a 2023 Wheel of Fortune episode.

9 A child-ish flub

In 2002, a contestant named Linda actually thought that the answer to a Wheel of Fortune puzzle would be “an ugly child” instead of “an only child.” (“What can I say? I’m a schoolteacher,” she said by way of… explanation?)

8 No Live fans here

None of the contestants of a 2010 episode could nail the names of former Live cohosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa at first, saying “Philburn,” “Philmin,” and — even once the answer was revealed — “Ree-pa” instead of Ripa.

7 A prescription for failure

In an infamous 1999 episode of Wheel, one contestant guessed “a group of pill-pushers” instead of “a group of well-wishers.” Sajak jokingly announced the end of that episode’s taping.

6 Wand-ering around the answer

If you can deduce the answer from the puzzle “MAG_C _AND,” you’re better off than a contestant named Zach, who in a 2012 episode guessed 10 wrong consonants for that second blank before realizing — just after the buzzer — that the answer is “magic wand.”

5 Pronunciation is his Achilles heel

Julian Batts staked his place in game show infamy in 2014 when he lost $1 million by pronouncing Achilles like “A-chillus.” (“It’s the Wheel of Fortune,” Batts said in a follow-up interview with IndyStar. “Crazy stuff happens all the time. It’s a crazy game.”)

4 Tuber on the tube

Lolita McAuley also had an embarrassing turn on the show, guessing “self-potato” — whatever that is — instead of “self-portrait” in a 2009 episode. McAuley told The New York Times she wanted to “go and hide” right after the word salad fell out of her mouth.

3 What kind of shower?

Melanie inadvertently — seemingly inadvertently, at least — name-dropped a NSFW sex act on Wheel of Fortune in 2018, saying “gold shower” instead of “cold shower.”

2 The lovely Parisian city of Venice

After winning a trip to Venice on the show in 2016, a contestant named David flunked Sajak’s impromptu geography quiz, venturing that Venice is a city in the country of Paris. (“Do we still get [the prize]?” asked David’s embarrassed wife.)

1 Right where?!

Tavaris Williams made a wild guess in a toss-up round in 2024, thinking “____ I_ T_E B__T” might be “right in the butt.” (The correct answer was “this is the best.”) “I have never used those words in sequential order a day in my life,” Williams later said on Jimmy Kimmel Live!)

Thanks for the laughs!

SOURCE: TVINSIDER.COM

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  5. She was a great actress!

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ Red State: “It’s sad, those occasions when an actor or actress we remember fondly from our youth passes away.

    I first saw Teri Garr on “Star Trek,” the original and still the best version. She played “Roberta Lincoln” in the second-season 1968 episode “Assignment: Earth,” and the seven-year-old me immediately found this young actress with the miniskirt and the girl-next-door vibe quite fetching (I was a precocious little guy). She went on to appear in such films as “Oh, God,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Tootsie” as well as in Mel Brook’s masterwork “Young Frankenstein.”

    I was therefore saddened to read on Tuesday morning that Teri Garr has passed away at 79 years of age after a prolonged battle with multiple sclerosis.

    An influential performer to comedians including Tina Fey, Garr was a familiar face in dozens of TV shows and films of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The actress revealed in 2002 that she had been diagnosed with MS, and she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.

    After starting her career as a dancer, Garr first gained attention as Inga, the saucy assistant in Mel Brooks’ 1974 “Young Frankenstein,” who greeted Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frederick Frankenstein with the memorable “Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay?”

    On “Friends,” she played Phoebe Abbot in three episodes in 1997 and 1998. 

    Teri Garr may not have been as flashy and dramatic as today’s A-list celebrities. She maintained her private life as private and didn’t often speak out on the day’s issues, although she was an early advocate for having women in acting paid as much as men for similar roles. But for the most part, Teri just showed up and always turned in a great performance from the very start.

    Teri often played the long-suffering spouse to main characters beset by odd events, as when she played opposite Richard Dreyfuss in the 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” or John Denver in the lighthearted 1977 movie “Oh God.” I saw both of those films in the theater – in those long-ago days, that was the only way to see them – and I attended in no small part because of Teri Garr’s presence.

    Teri Garr’s legacy includes:

    She published an autobiography, “Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood,” in 2006.

    She is survived by her daughter, Molly O’Neil, and grandson Tyryn.

    Farewell, Teri. I’ll always remember you as you were when I first saw you – young, beautiful, with a lopsided smile, a down-to-earth charm, and a great talent. We’ll miss you – but now, in this modern world, we can always go back and see you how you were.”

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  12. SCOTUS does NOT want to get involved in this election!!!

    Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to remove himself from the ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan ahead of next week’s election.

    Kennedy suspended his presidential bid earlier this year and endorsed former President Donald Trump. The states had argued that removing a candidate when early voting has already begun would be impossible, but Kennedy argued that keeping him on violated his First Amendment rights.

    The Supreme Court did not state a reason for the rejection, but Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented in the Michigan ruling, according to the Associated Press.”

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