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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JayC on November 16, 2003, 08:47:37 PM
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For anyone who doesn't watch Mad TV, last night they aired a pretty funny Wheel parody. They could have done a better job with Pat, considering he looked like Clay Aiken in the parody. They made Vanna was this really old woman with a walker, who needed oxygen and a paramedic to keep from dying. The contestants were quite dumb, and couldn't fill in the letter in the puzzle GIVE ME LIBERT_ OR GIVE ME DEATH. The first contestant guessed LIBERTO, the 2nd contestant tried to buy a consonant, then asked if 3 was a vowel. When he spun, the wheel kept going on and on until Pat finally stopped it. For contestant 3, he stopped the wheel after a second of spinning, and he was wrong also. Finally, they did a Speed Up, and Pat spun the wheel and stopped it after a second. The first contestant guessed LIBERTU, and the 2nd player originally said LIBERTY, but changed it to LIBERT:), and Pat said it was wrong. Finally, "Pat" decided to let "Vanna" turn the letter as she was leaving for the hospital, and it was revealed that LIBERT:) was right, and it ended there.
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Of course, there was a real contestant in one of the NBC Teen Weeks back in the 80s, who, when faced with the following:
_T TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
guessed:
"E.T. takes one to know one".
Maybe the MAD TV spoof wasn't that much of a parody after all. :-)
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Don't forget Gimme A Break when Nell Carter & Telma Hopkins were on Wheel. Nell guessed the puzzle saying, "GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME A CAR!"
She ought join Marla Gibbs along the "SANTA FE TRAIL"!
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And let us not forget the Teen Week contestant who guessed "Abraham Bincoln" (Pat even mentioned it in a 1991 interview on Later w/Bob Costas!).
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 11:56 PM\'] And let us not forget the Teen Week contestant who guessed "Abraham Bincoln" (Pat even mentioned it in a 1991 interview on Later w/Bob Costas!).
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
-ETTYSBUR- ADDRESS was a puzzle on a teen week, and the contestant spun again and picked a B instead of G.