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bandit_bobby:
One year ago this week, Wheel of Fortune had a team who pulled a Michael Larson all day long. They were the Malones, Bonni and Karen(no relation to Karl). The team solved all of the puzzles(9, Including Toss-Ups and the Bonus Round puzzle), becoming the first team ever to do so, and if that wasn't great enough, they also took the big $100,000 check home! They finshed with $121,831 in cash and trip, and in the process became possibly the greatest players to ever play the game.

Folks, the first $100,000 victory the past two seasons has happened in December(Doug won two years ago, the aformentioned team above last year). Also, last year, the big prize was won on the first day AND the last day of an at-home sweepstakes(20 Cars in 20 Days). Will the impossible happen again when we start the $250K At-Home Sweepstakes(Doubt it, but anything can happen!), and/or December being the first hot month on the show? Keep tuning in to find out!

clemon79:
[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Dec 8 2003, 11:32 AM\'] One year ago this week, Wheel of Fortune had a team who pulled a Michael Larson all day long....They finshed with $121,831 in cash and trip, and in the process became possibly the greatest players to ever play the game.
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 ...and comparing them to Michael Larson is about as big an insult as I can think of.

Kevin Prather:
Pulling a Michael Larsen implies that they finessed the wheel in order to beat the house. They didn't do this. I'd say they pulled more of a...Brian Weikle? Debbie Seppien? Anyroad, it was a shut-out.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Dec 8 2003, 01:32 PM\'] One year ago this week, Wheel of Fortune had a team who pulled a Michael Larson all day long. They were the Malones, Bonni and Karen(no relation to Karl). The team solved all of the puzzles(9, Including Toss-Ups and the Bonus Round puzzle), becoming the first team ever to do so, and if that wasn't great enough, they also took the big $100,000 check home! They finshed with $121,831 in cash and trip, and in the process became possibly the greatest players to ever play the game.

Folks, the first $100,000 victory the past two seasons has happened in December(Doug won two years ago, the aformentioned team above last year). Also, last year, the big prize was won on the first day AND the last day of an at-home sweepstakes(20 Cars in 20 Days). Will the impossible happen again when we start the $250K At-Home Sweepstakes(Doubt it, but anything can happen!), and/or December being the first hot month on the show? Keep tuning in to find out! [/quote]
 Them pulling a Larson would mean they were always able to control the way their turns went the way Larson usually did, and they would have had a higher maingame total than $21K had they had Larson powers

TLEberle:
As to the original point of the post, you can bet your bank account that if Wheel had any $100,000 wins this year, they'll play during sweeps.  That's the beauty of the self-contained weeks of shows, drop the best ones in when you need big ratings.  It's no coincidence.  Remember "Millionaire" last year?

By the way, who's Debbie Seppien?  I've heard of most of the big winners of various shows, but that doesn't ring a bell.

Travis

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