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The wheel of fortune is an ancient motif, recurring in many cultures over many centuries.
The main players are confident Laura, hopeless Christopher, and unlucky Thomas.
This is by far the closest she will get to the answer.
Christopher shouts out G!
What did he think the final word was?Gag?Bag?Gal?
Thomas is bankrupted by the pagan goddess Fate, depicted here as a colorful wheel with numbers and lights.
Laura, ever the showboater, goes for the whole phrase again, guessing another feather in your LAP.
Pat Sajak says, The feather is moving around, joking through invisible tears.
Christopher sticks to his single-letter strategy: aD.
Oh how we wish there could have been another feather in his dad and left it at that.
The dramatic irony here is it seems he may be the one contestant who actually knows the phrase.
Laura, her hubris taken down a few notches, opts only for a letter, correctly guessingP.
This temporarily unfreezes Vanna White as shes finally allowed to go put something on the board.
Christopher lands on Bankrupt, sparing us from another helping of nonsensical word stew.
Thomas finally has a turn and gives us a C for CAP.Thats good enough for me.
You start flailing away looking for alternatives rather than synonyms for hat.
Although he makes tapings ofWheel of Fortunesound like the ravages of war, he has a point.
Then he closes with a harrowing, ominous gut punch.
After all, you may be there one day, he warned.
And no one wants to be trending on Twitter.
After all, you may be there one day.
And no one wants to be trending on Twitter.
Truer words, king.
