This week: You should have all seen The Fall Guy . A beautiful game show fail. Carrie Bradshaw is back.
Broadway’s big secret. J. Lo.
.. Game Show Fails Are the Best Fails Apologies if, at around 7:45 p.
m. Thursday night, you heard a faint high pitch noise that lasted for a full minute. That was me shrieking while watching Wheel of Fortune and witnessing a Greatest of All Time inappropriate answer to a clue.
The clue was “Phrase,” and it was one of those rounds where the letters are filled in one by one. If a contestant knows the answer, they can ring in. Please, for context, see the image below, to fully understand the hilarity of what a contestant named Tavaris answered.
“Right in the butt.” That’s what Tavaris said. “Right in the butt.
” Nevermind that “right” has five letters. Nevermind that this is Wheel of Fortune , a family game show. I can’t get over what his friends and family are going to do to poor Tavaris.
They will mock him from now until eternity. On his gravestone, it will say, “Here lies Tavaris. Right in the butt.
” Outrageous game show answers are a passion of mine. It’s an entire genre of entertainment that is, honestly, better than most entertainment. In the “butt” genre of wild answers, the classic is, of course, the Newlywed Game contestant who answered the prompt , “Where is the weirdest place you’ve made whoopee?” with—you guessed it—“in the ass.
” Oh, game show fails are a magical rabbit hole to lose yourself .