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Post by futuregshost on Mar 16, 2014 21:24:43 GMT -5
Hello, I'm futuregshost, but you can call me Zach. (Or Zachary, doesn't matter.) Some of you may know me from the Millionaire Fans board. Recently, I took part in therealcu2010's Super Millionaire game, and it was really fun. So I decided to come here! I also watch Wheel of Fortune (almost) daily. I hope to someday come see the show or play it whenever it comes to my home town, Las Vegas. I hope to see you all somewhere on the boards! -Zach (Futuregshost)
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Post by genius2751 on Mar 16, 2014 21:38:20 GMT -5
Welcome Zack!
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 18, 2014 1:32:08 GMT -5
Welcome.  Just curious: where did you get your avatar picture from? |
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Post by futuregshost on Mar 18, 2014 17:26:43 GMT -5
Where did you get your avatar picture from? I did a google image search of buy a vowel. It should be one of the first results. |
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Post by Bryce L. on Mar 18, 2014 17:51:07 GMT -5
As far as I know, the ONLY place I've ever found that capture was on the Wiki... just saying.
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 18, 2014 21:29:55 GMT -5
It's a capture from the show's E! True Hollywood Story, although I originally found that still-shot in a photo montage on YouTube.
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Post by Bryce L. on Mar 19, 2014 1:51:38 GMT -5
Hmm, I'd always assumed you took that capture yourself (along with all the other screengrabs of the premiere) from your copy of the True Hollywood Story
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 20, 2014 0:33:31 GMT -5
Most of the premiere pictures I added were taken by me from the THS, but the Buy A Vowel shot came before I got my partial copy (which, after watching it again the other night to see if any more names needed to be added to the Wiki's page on said episode, I discovered ends just after the narrator {Bil Dwyer?} mentions the scathing reviews Goddess of Love got).
And this isn't exactly related to anything, but boy does my partial copy spend a lot of time on Vanna once they get to about 1980.
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Post by MarioGS on Mar 20, 2014 0:40:00 GMT -5
Wait until it gets to the "Vannamania" part.  (I really need to find an easy encoding method. My copy's losing quality and I really want to do something with it) |
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Post by Bryce L. on Mar 20, 2014 3:22:49 GMT -5
Daniel, in the part about the premiere, I know it shows the blanks for the first puzzle... did it mention a category for it at all? (I ask since I've got a hunch as to what the solution might be...)
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Post by MarioGS on Mar 20, 2014 13:02:56 GMT -5
From what I remember, there was no category mentioned since the audio was replaced with a narration, but it did show that the first two correct letters called (also the first two letters of the puzzle) were S and C:
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 20, 2014 16:17:14 GMT -5
There was also no category displayed, although I have no idea whether the category cards were even presented when the show debuted -- for all I know, they may have still been using the "clue" style of the 1974 pilots. Hopefully the 7/15/75 episode will answer the "clue vs. category" question...
As for the puzzle, I remember some people suggesting it may have been SCOTLAND YARD.
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Post by Bryce L. on Mar 20, 2014 16:34:33 GMT -5
From what I remember, there was no category mentioned since the audio was replaced with a narration, but it did show that the first two correct letters called (also the first two letters of the puzzle) were S and C: S C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ah, scuttles my no-letter guess of "Princess Anne" (I saw the first Byrnes pilot, saw that the number of blanks on his first puzzle and the number of blanks here matched, so I assumed they might have recycled that puzzle... guess not.) |
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 20, 2014 16:54:24 GMT -5
Speaking of the Byrnes pilots, there's another thing I discovered while rewatching my partial copy. On several Wiki pages, the '74 pilots in the order they are because of the timecode being farther along in Tanya/Frank/Lois, even though one wasn't present in the Marge/Gary/Roseanne clips on the ceremonial 3,000th nighttime show. While the Tanya/Frank/Lois pilot begins with a graphic stating "WHEEL OF FORTUNE PILOT #2", I had my doubts since it was dated 2004 and no idea if Shopper's Bazaar was considered Pilot #1. In the THS, when the narrator mentions the 8/28/74 taping, there's a brief shot of a typed paper showing the show's name, host and hostess, and two columns marked "CONTESTANTS #1" and "CONTESTANTS #2" -- the first name in the second column, visible briefly during the transition and clearly handwritten, is "Tanya". Official confirmation if ever I saw one. |
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(I really need to find an easy encoding method. My copy's losing quality and I really want to do something with it)