Wheel Of Fortune Fans Call Winning Contestant The Most Annoying Of All Time
Wheel of Fortune's recent big winner, Timmy, has been branded the most annoying contestant of all time.
A recent episode of Wheel of Fortune featured a contestant named Timmy, whose antics some viewers found incredibly annoying, and others found delightful. While he began the show by calling his wife his “ball and chain” and made a rather dodgy guess on one of the Toss-Ups, it was his energetic reactions that got viewers calling him irritating and sent host Pat Sajak off the stage. However, since that high energy was most dramatically exerted when he correctly solved the bonus puzzle, having won over $63 thousand, he might have been annoying to some, but he was the night’s big winner.
According to The Sun, Wheel of Fortune fans had feelings about Timmy that they needed to share on Twitter. Many people mocked his name as childish, and some referred to him as a “man-child,” though making fun of someone’s name might be considered infantile. Others thought his reference to his wife was insulting, though he seemed to intend it as a joke that we hope would have been approved by his wife before he uttered it on national television.
After the Wheel of Fortune contestant followed that remark by referring to his children as his “anchors,” Sajak quipped that Timmy was a “weighed-down guy,” but his demeanor and energy were exactly the opposite. To the contrary, Timmy didn’t appear to be held down by anything at all, at times seeming ready to leap into flight if gravity would allow it. In a show where contestants can sometimes be merely going along with the flow of the game, showing little emotion, it can be fun and entertaining to see contestants who are clearly there to have a good time and have no fear of embarrassment.
In fact, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, the long-running puzzle game’s spin-off series, seems to function on the expectation that celebrity guests will crack jokes, act goofy, and generally contribute to the fun of the program. Sajak does a great job on both shows of keeping things light and lively, but when he doesn’t need any help (and doesn’t attempt to bodyslam anyone), he knows it’s best—and funniest—if he gets out of the way. Such was the case with Timmy, who had been so bouncy and energetic throughout the game that the host quipped that he would be dodging for cover if the contestant won.
Sajak did just that, and the Wheel of Fortune producers surely appreciated it as he was not onstage for Timmy leaping around, shouting with joy as he embraced his much calmer younger brother, who seemed quite familiarly amused. Sajak disappeared on another recent episode of the show for an entirely different reason, demonstrating, as regular viewers well know, that he likes to get up to comedic antics himself on the show whenever he can. He also makes fun of contestants on occasion, but never with the mean-spiritedness displayed by some of the show’s fans online.
Online comments about Timmy make us wonder whether people remember that Wheel of Fortune is supposed to be fun and not a magnet for snarky criticism. Yes, it was hilarious that Timmy guessed “Counting the grass” as a solution for a puzzle that was actually “Cutting the grass,” but should that be the inspiration for mockery or, as Sajak, Vanna White, and the other two contestants demonstrated, a moment for laughing along with a funny mistake that any of us under that sort of pressure could have made? Taking those gaffes in stride and seeing them as part of the fun is what makes the show such an enjoyable game to play and watch.
Enthusiastic, silly, and unusual contestants keep Wheel of Fortune fun and interesting. So go on, Timmy. Jump around and enjoy the fact that you just won a ton of money and gave a lot of people a good time!
