We have good news for the following Wheel of Fortune contestant:
Previous contestants have messed up worse than this. (See pieces of footage below.)
But we also have bad news for this Wheel of Fortune contestant:
This is still a pretty terrible screw-up.
On Monday evening"s edition of this beloved game show, a man named Jonny, was doing very well, filling in the final letters of the puzzle, “Flamenco Dance Lessons."
All the guy had to do was read the completed puzzle out loud to solve it and win $ 7,100.
Easy peasy, right? Not quite.
Unfortunately for Jonny, he said “flamingo” instead of “flamenco.”
It was a small slip-up, but not small enough to not be noticed.
Host Pat Sajak called Jonny out for the mistake, allowing fellow contestant Ashley a shot at the solve and awarding her $ 1,000 for reading the puzzle correctly.
Jonny looked confused and stricken as Sajack explained the mispronunciation and promised to review the play during the commercial break.
Earlier in this same episode, Jonny landed on the $ 2,500 mark and was two letters from solving the puzzle, whose final words read as follows:
“Dog and Pony Show Me the Money."
At the time, it was missing the letters "g" and "p."
But Jonny asked for a "c" and also failed to win that round. Ouch.
As you can see above, plenty of Wheel of Fortune players have screwed up even worse than Jonny.
But that probably isn"t of much comfort right now to him.
Watch the mishap below and join us in feeling terrible for poor Jonny:
