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Post by pannoni1 on Aug 19, 2021 7:18:20 GMT -5
Most hosts and personalities have their signature ways of expressing various phrases as invoked within the show. Pat Sajak is no exception, and few that come to mind are:
"It was never in doubt, was it?" (When a contestant narrowly escapes a penalty wedge or sometimes solves a tricky BR)
"More money for our holiday/Christmas party this year" (For a Toss-Up Triple Stumper)
"Charlie, put down that..." (Introduction to the Jackpot round during Season 15)
"You can buy an alphabet" (When a contestant asks to buy a vowel after hitting multiples on a TDV wedge on the last spin)
"Put that prize down on that red/yellow/blue dibbly-thing" (Said occasionally after a contestant collects a prize wedge)
"Thanks to that quick thumb of yours, you picked up $X,000" (Said when a contestant ends the game with the only cash won during toss-ups)
"You made it to the X yard line, put couldn't quite get in" (When a contestant finishes the game with little or no money after missing an opportunity to win big in a previous round)
Please post some others that come to mind, and fee free to use those by Chuck, Rolf, or Bob as well.
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 19, 2021 11:43:19 GMT -5
Whenever Pat thinks a contestant should solve, he'll say something like, "$2,350, Kim. What do you think?"
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Post by wheelfan910 on Aug 19, 2021 13:07:01 GMT -5
“That was my nickname in high school”.
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Post by jarvisabrodie89 on Aug 19, 2021 16:29:13 GMT -5
"Never in doubt."
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 19, 2021 17:20:15 GMT -5
"Did you need more time or is that enough?"
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Post by bigblue999 on Aug 19, 2021 17:23:46 GMT -5
Yeah that’s it.
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Post by mechamind on Aug 19, 2021 19:28:08 GMT -5
Simple, but I'd consider them unique to these hosts:
Chuck: "1, 2, 3, 4 of 'em." (or more if there are more letters)
Bob: "We'll give you the R, S, T, L, N's, and E's..."
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 19, 2021 19:37:58 GMT -5
Bob: "We'll give you the R, S, T, L, N's, and E's..." Vanna said it that way too, both when she hosted the Bonus Round in 1996 and during her 2019-20 episodes as host. In the N64 game, she said, "Here is the R, S, T, L, N, and E." As a kid, I misheard the "and" as "N" and always thought, "Why did she say N twice? R-S-T-L-N-N-E?" |
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Post by germanname1990 on Aug 19, 2021 22:35:26 GMT -5
I remember that one from my early days (sometimes, I would say that when emulating him; I always took a liking to that phrase), but I've noticed recently there were times where he would sarcastically ask a contestant along the lines of, "You want to throw this one in the back/bank?" when they landed on a small dollar amount usually after previously spinning up larger values, making a reference to when a fisherman gets a small fish. One notable case was the infamous $62,400-loss episode from 1985. |
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Post by Jay on Aug 19, 2021 23:46:25 GMT -5
I’m sure some folks here can vet this…
On a long-shot bonus puzzle, when vamping before starting the clock to give the contestant a couple extra seconds of thinking time, Pat will often say, “there’s a used-letter board; that can help you.” I swear more often than not - maybe even 8 or 9 times out of 10 - that’s code for, “the letter ‘B’ is key to the puzzle.”
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Post by jjc927 on Aug 20, 2021 22:08:57 GMT -5
When the bonus puzzle does not have that many letters showing-- "This looks tough but you're a good player, you can do this." and when a player gets part of the bonus puzzle-- "Can we give her/him half the prize?"
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Post by sushibarset14 on Aug 20, 2021 22:36:14 GMT -5
Bonus Round: “A (insert letter) would’ve done it.”
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 25, 2021 11:46:21 GMT -5
When a bonus puzzle has a lot of RSTLNE in it...
"A lot of dinging going on."
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Post by woffan4ever on Aug 25, 2021 12:38:45 GMT -5
"Either Vanna is glued/velcroed to the puzzle board, or none of the letters you called are in the puzzle."
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Post by playerwm86 on Aug 30, 2021 8:43:06 GMT -5
(PS3/X360/Wii, when a tricky Toss-Up puzzle is solved): "Aren't you the clever one?"
(Season 7 (1989-90)-Season 13 (1995-96), when a champion on occasion goes undefeated for the maximum three days): "Three new players; we retired an undefeated champion on our last show..."
(At the start of the game, in the early days): "$1,000 is the top-dollar value for our first round; (we're playing for cash, and) here is our first puzzle, the category is (insert category here). And just before the show we drew numbers to see who would start our game, and (Player 1), it's going to be you. Good luck!"
(Whenever the short-lived Megaword (Season 12 (1994-95)) was used as a category): "We'll give you an extra $500 if you can use that word in a sentence."
(During the early days, when Person was used as a category): "Just a reminder that Person does not always mean proper name."
(When a puzzle on the old puzzle board had a punctuation mark): "We have an ampersand/hyphen/quotation mark in the puzzle..." (letter bell then dings; Vanna walks over and turns over the lit space that has the punctuation)
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Post by woffan4ever on Aug 30, 2021 11:06:26 GMT -5
When the bonus puzzle will inevitably be solved: "Now, audience, please, no help from you. *Contestant* must do this on his/her own. It's going to be very difficult for them." Or some such variant.
When none of the player's 3 and vowel are not in the puzzle: "Now, those are wonderful letters, found in many words in the English language/dictionary, just not these."
"Talk it out."
"Stranger things have happened."
"Keep talking; you never know what may spill out."
Bonus round, if it's a team: "There's 2 of you, so it's like getting 20 seconds."
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Post by sushibarset14 on Aug 30, 2021 12:03:46 GMT -5
If a contestant fails to solve the bonus puzzle and Pat is about to open the envelope:
“What’s in here is theoretical.”
“You don’t have to look; there’s no rule which says you have to look.”
If a contestant fails to solve but wins more than displayed in said envelope:
“But you’ve got more than that, this is nothing!”
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Post by genius2751 on Aug 30, 2021 12:11:57 GMT -5
If a contestant fails to solve but wins more than displayed in said envelope: “But you’ve got more than that, this is nothing!” Or “this is chicken feed!” |
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Post by MarioGS on Aug 30, 2021 12:12:48 GMT -5
"Now we gotta look in he--Oh boy... Well, you've won over $17,000, you're going to Hawaii... Eh, I guess I got to show it." (shows $100K envelope)
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Post by WarioSajak on Aug 30, 2021 13:49:20 GMT -5
( During the early days, when Person was used as a category): "Just a reminder that Person does not always mean proper name." Fun thing about that one: Pat only ever said that when the puzzle wasn't a proper name. |
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