A Wheel of Fortune contestant had audiences gasping after he shouted a NSFW answer in an attempt to solve an innocuous "phrase" puzzle.
On the May 23 episode of America's favorite wholesome game show, a contestant named Tavaris did his darndest to solve a puzzle for a four-word phrase.
The puzzle board appeared with the letters I, T, E, B, T, and ! with eight blank spaces left.
While the available letters weren't much to go on, the fourth word starting with "B" and ending with "T" made Tavaris cocksure enough to solve the puzzle and click the buzzer.
When host Pat Sajak called on Tavaris to declare his answer, the contestant responded with conviction:
"Right in the butt!"
Tavaris didn't nail it.
A fellow contestant immediately shrieked, "What?!" as the stunned audience gasped and then laughed over Tavaris's penetrating response.
"No," said Sajak deadpanned. He then called on a contestant named Blake, who clicked the buzzer and correctly responded:
“This is the best!”
It certainly was.
An embarrassed Tavaris told Blake, “Much better answer.”
You can see the clip here.
As the game resumed and Sajak introduced the other contestants, he turned to Tavaris and commented:
“Well, Tavaris, you’ve already made an impression on us.”
To which Tavaris replied:
“I apologize, Pat. I was a little excited.”
Sajak quipped:
“We’ll figure out a way to handle that tastefully. I have no idea what that’ll be, but...”
The audience was left howling.
So were social media users.
All time #WheelOfFortune moment right here pic.twitter.com/Nu5j47FcSm
— Taylor J (@TayVictoria8) May 23, 2024
Wheel of Fortune is a lot spicier than I remember 🤨 pic.twitter.com/Bwf7AJASmT
— Jordan (@TheJordanHyland) May 23, 2024
One viewer said Tavaris just became the "greatest game show contestant of all-time" and threw shade at Ken Jennings, who was the highest-earning American game show contestant after having competed in Wheel's rival game show Jeopardy!, which he now permanently hosts.
Beat it, Ken Jennings. We have a new greatest game show contestant of all-time.pic.twitter.com/qS04ADGAYL
— Cousin Sal (@TheCousinSal) May 24, 2024
The best ones have always been from Wheel of Fortune.
— David Galvin (@Galvinizer24) May 24, 2024
Viewers continued LOLing online.
🤣 his family is never going to let him live this down.
— Lucha Dad (@LuchaFamily) May 23, 2024
Please tell me this was real!! 😂💀
— Millee 🇮🇹 (@MilleeGrazie) May 24, 2024
His face waiting for the answer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
— Phony Soprano🐗 (@buttpressshed) May 24, 2024
@Nobunny333 oh dear lord it’s bad!! 🤣😝🤣 but I love the effort! Lmfao 🔥
— Trumpin 340 (@mattholbrook24) May 24, 2024
A Wheel of Fortune clip you will be seeing many times throughout the rest of your life pic.twitter.com/C6C2soweYB
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 24, 2024
It wasn't lost on users that there weren't enough spaces in the first word of the puzzle to accommodate the word "right."
Where did he even get that from the spaces available?!
That's great! pic.twitter.com/2zxnKFc9Iw
— Dave Wakeman ↙️ (@dave_wakeman) May 24, 2024
Everything about this clip is comedic genius. Rite (not right) in the butt will be on his tombstone. The exasperated/offended ‘what’ is perfection. And the final answer, its indeed the best. The best goddamn clip this show has ever spawn in its long and illustrious run. So good
— iTalkwithMyhands (@Palminteri77) May 24, 2024
not even the correct number of letters
— No Context Reply Guy (@noncontextreply) May 24, 2024
Viewers remained slack-jawed.
Oh my!!
— Matthew Pezzone (@MatthewPezzone) May 24, 2024
OMG that is awesome
— David Schultz (@DavidAschultz14) May 24, 2024
There are just not enough Like buttons for this
— Doubting Thomas (@CltNC830) May 24, 2024
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— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) May 24, 2024
Well, you can't blame a guy for trying.
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