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WHEEL of Fortune host Pat Sajak has dropped to the ground in the middle of an episode, so agonized by a contestant that he “needed a minute.”
Sonia picked up every letter in the puzzle before solving it, leading the host to sit on the floor.
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The Wheel of Fortune puzzle under the category “Same Name” was looking for “Love and ejection seat.”
Sonia rang in and asked for every vowel in the alphabet.
The screen flashed “No more vowels” and the puzzle only had a “C” and “J” missing in “ejection.”
“They’re all gone,” Pat, 75, could be heard pleading. “Spin or solve?”
Sonia chose the latter – she kept going even though it looked solvable.
“I would like to buy a C,” she said as Pat could be heard losing his mind.
“Yep, it doesn’t matter how you say it the important thing is you said C,” he said off-camera.
Sonia didn’t solve at that point but instead chose “J” as the last letter – the entire puzzle was up there in completion.
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“Yes,” Pat moaned and raised his voice: “Now would you do us a favor and read what’s up there please!?”
“Love and ejection seat” she declared, taking her time in saying the puzzle as well.
‘I HAVE TO SIT DOWN’
Pat then grabbed onto the wheel and hoisted himself onto the floor.
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“I have to sit down for a minute” he said, looking exhausted as his body disappeared behind the setpiece.
“I’m sorry,” Sonya muttered, as Pat’s hand jutted back in the frame.
“Would you do me a favor, would you reach down there and pick up those two wedges?” he pointed.
‘HE LOOKED SCARED!’
Pat had the contestant do his job for him as he sat for a moment going into the next round.
Fans went insane on Twitter and felt bad for the host as it was quite the “painful” experience seeing a contestant take as long as humanly possible to solve a puzzle.
“Omg tonight’s show soooo painful to watch. Sonia do you have clue where you are???” one critic knocked.
“Sonia would have legit kept calling vowels had Pat not stopped her,” another joked.
A third wrote when “Ejection” had all but a “J” left: “Before y’all get all giggly, R was called on the first turn of the round.”
A fourth was shocked and wrote: “I think Pat Sajak just had a panic attack or a near heart attack.
“He squatted down far too long behind that counter and he actually looked scared!”
Sonia made it to the bonus round and looked “nonplussed” fans said, when she got the $1M prize wedge.
She didn’t get the bonus puzzle but won $35K and the card was revealed to be only $40K.
Pat said: “I have to show America where the million was – you were not at all close to it.”
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