On Tuesday night, the three contestants on "Wheel of Fortune" absolutely BOMBED on a puzzle . . . failing multiple times to guess "Another Feather in Your Cap", even after most of the letters were filled in.
Well, PAT SAJAK has seen how much those contestants are being mocked online, and he would like it to STOP.
He Tweeted, quote, "It always pains me when nice people come on our show to play a game and win some money and maybe fulfill a lifelong dream, and are then subject to online ridicule when they make a mistake or something goes awry.
"Sitting at home, it seems incredible that they couldn't solve it, but I knew in real-time what was happening."
He added, quote, "These are good people in a bad situation under a kind of stress that you can't begin to appreciate from the comfort of your couch."
And he said, quote, "Good-natured laughter is one thing. Heck, they laughed at themselves. But, hey, cut them some slack. Unless you're there, you have no idea how different it is in the studio . . . those things happen even to very bright people."
(You can read the whole thread here.)
Okay, people have made fools of themselves on the "Wheel of Fortune" before. But last night, all three contestants put on a display for the ages.
The category was "Phrase", and the answer was "Another Feather in Your Cap".
With almost all the letters filled in, it still took the three contestants a combined NINE TURNS to solve it. One woman made three wrong guesses, saying the last word as "Hat", "Lap", and "Map".
Another guy asked for two wrong letters, a "G" and a "D", then went bankrupt.
And the third guy hit "Bankrupt" and "Lose a Turn" . . . but was finally able to solve it with his third chance.
(Check out the video here. None of these contestants seemed particularly old, yet two of them had clearly never heard the expression "Another Feather in Your Cap.")
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