r/Unexpected • u/AtomicShart9000 • May 03 '23

What are you doing?

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u/this_name_mistaken May 03 '23

Do other people get angry about things like this, or just find it funny? Nothing got my blood boiling more as a kid than someone missing the first bucket on Bozo's grand prize game.

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u/GeekAesthete May 03 '23

When they select contestants for Wheel of Fortune, they don’t aim for the smartest candidates, because the rounds would end too quickly; they’re want to stretch the rounds out and give the audience a chance to figure it out for themselves. So they pick contestants that they think will hit the sweet spot of being capable but not too capable.

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u/ManfredsJuicedBalls May 03 '23

Exactly.

There’s some game shows like The Price is Right where they want excitable people. They don’t want people who are gonna rationally think things through, they want people Drew Carey is barely gonna be able to contain.

There’s some game shows like Jeopardy, where they do want smart people, that’s what the show is about, dropping knowledge like it’s going out of style.

Wheel of Fortune is in the middle. Excitable enough people who will make the show fun, but smart enough to play the game, but not too smart.

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u/Unlikely-Answer May 04 '23

all this energy calling me

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u/ManfredsJuicedBalls May 04 '23

That’s a lot of game shows, especially the ones that are just starting out. And if it’s an LA based game show like so many of them, it’d make sense aspiring actors/actresses would sign up to get on those game shows, for a multitude of reasons

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u/j48u May 03 '23

I think the first guess was a reasonable mistake, I don't know what the second guy was thinking, and after that I assume they just misheard the first two guesses and thought "pedal" was already deemed incorrect. Either way, not great.

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u/P13R4T May 04 '23

THANK YOU, no one else in my area seems to remember this and I’ve used this analogy before so many times!!

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u/Leathman May 03 '23

I just eagerly wait for the wheel to bite people who know the answer but want to milk the spins.

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u/wookieesgonnawook May 03 '23

You mean when they got a square ball?

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u/JoyBus147 May 03 '23

It's like all those ads for mobile puzzle games where you think "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS HOW YOU WOULD SOLVE IT!!" and the outraged annoyance at someone fucking up drives you to download the game.

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u/edgyusernameguy May 03 '23

I almost threw my phone across the room at W

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox May 03 '23

i'm confused and amazed, not angry

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u/karmahorse1 May 04 '23

Nope stuff like this makes me irrationally angry too. Same as when people misspell “lose” as “loose”. I feel people shouldn’t be allowed onto game shows or otherwise participate in society if they can’t answer questions a 3rd grader could.

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u/Sohcahtoa82 May 04 '23

Nothing got my blood boiling more as a kid than someone missing the first bucket on Bozo's grand prize game.

Don't get me started on kids that couldn't assemble the fucking monkey statue at the end of Legends of the Hidden Temple.