THE CHECK IS IN THE M_IL
sORRY, i NEED A NEW KEYBOARD
yeah, that is better. wow I feel dumb.
The check is in the…mall?
Mental note: Refresh threads when you come back from being out all day. :smack:
Maybe the check was in the moll (“Alright, Rico, where’d you stash that check?”)
Does it make me a Jeopardy geek that I remembered what you were referring to before the video started? And yeah- that was too funny. Technically wrong, but I think he should’ve been credited. 
This was on a mother/daughter (two contestant) day.
MEXICAN CHI_AHA_
Mother/daughter: Uh, can we have an L?
However, a true story is my mother, who loved watching the show but mom, well…she was mom…the answer to the puzzle was ROOSTER but mom, in the room with guests visiting, said, “I know the answer!” and shouted out “it’s Cockadoodledo!”…she was close, and had the right idea, but didn’t get the proverbial cigar for her quick thinking.
I don’t get the last one, DMark. Is the clue supposed to be CHIH_AH_A?
Boxer David Tua, not the brightest of bulbs even among the ranks of men who get punched in the head for a living, won everlasting fame here in New Zealand for requesting to buy the vowel “O for Awesome!”. He later compounded the matter by insisting that he had been misheard, and really wanted “O for Olsen”.
Actually, that’s something I’ve wondered about. When I’ve watched the show, I’ve never seen people say something like M as in Mary, but just M. So how often do they misinterpret the letter called out?
But if that was the case, wouldn’t Pat Sajak inform the contestants that only vowels were left?
(For what it’s worth, “CHI_AHA_” makes no sense at all…I can’t figure it out.)
Yeah, I saw that one too, and I gasped along with the audience, heh.
Yes, I screwed up that one…and I believe Pat did indeed say vowels only and the mother and daughter still asked for an L.
Never, that I’ve seen. If there’s any doubt, Pat asks them to repeat and/or clarify.
We were howlin’ at this one yesterday…
The board was set up something close to:
BEL_GA
__ALES
And the contestant yells out “BELUGA SNAILS!”
This is the first thing I thought of when I opened this thread!
The show was Give Me A Break. In that episode, Nell appeared on Wheel of Fortune. The puzzle was nearly solved, and she got all cocky and excited and said (with attitude), “Give me liberty or give me a car!”
The back seat of a Volkswagen?
I saw one where the complete answer was on screen: “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn” (or whatever that quote really is.) The contestant tried to solve the puzzle. She said “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a darn.” Pat didn’t give it to her!
This was from back in the 80s and I felt the judges were being dorks, but the hint was “people” and the puzzle showed:
P_TTSB_RGH P_RATES
Contest #1:“Is it ‘The Pittsburgh Pirates’?”
WRONG!
Contest #2:“Umm, the Pittsburgh Pirates”
WRONG!
Contest #3:“I don’t know, the Pittsburgh Pirates?”
WRONG!
They denied all three because they said “the” before “Pittsburgh Pirates”. How anal.
One from the 80’s I vividly recall:
THE NEW YORK _ETS
Contestant #1, with a small fortune: “I’d like to solve it. The New York Jets!”
“…no, I’m sorry, that is incorrect.”
Contestant #2, with $200 or something: “The New York Mets!”
DING DING DING!!!
Hard to blame him for being stupid on that one, though.
The smartest people were on Win Ben Stein’s Money. Next came Jeopardy. Further down the line was Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I often commented that the smarter one was, the less likely they would win big. If you beat Ben, you knew your stuff…and you would walk home with five grand. In Millionaire, it was multiple guess, you could reach out for help, and there was no time limit.
The rest of America was on Wheel of Fortune, Press Your Luck, and Card Sharks.