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I just turned the TV on to NBC to watch Jeopardy, although it doesn’t come on for about ten more minutes. I think I just saw some of the worst Wheel of Fortune players EVER.

This lady gets to start the round with the category of “song lyrics.” She keeps going and going and going, even when it’s obvious what the answer is. I assumed she was just trying to get more money. I assumed wrong. She finally had the board almost completely filled in, until it looked like this:

HOW _ _ _ H
IS THAT
DOGGIE IN
THE WINDOW?

She spins again.

“R!”

I started laughing my ass off. How sad. Unfortunately, that was not the only sign of poor contestants.

For the very next puzzle, the category was “living thing” and though I did not see who guessed what, I came back into the living room during the lightning round or whatever they call it where everyone gets to guess a letter, then has to guess the word. When I came in, the board looked like this:

AUSTRALIAN
SHE_ER_

The guy on the left is up to bat. He guessed the wrong letter. BZZ!

Next up, in the middle, is the same lady who botched the first puzzle. She guesses the wrong letter. BZZ!

These two stare at the board, very obviously dumbfounded. I probably had the same look on my face staring at these two. I mean seriously, how do you get on the show in the first place if you can’t get those right? At least it was amusing.