{"id":59891,"date":"2025-05-20T09:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59891"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:09:13","slug":"fans-outraged-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59891","title":{"rendered":"Fans Outraged\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-387.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-387.png 600w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-387-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wheel of Fortune Fans Erupt Over Controversial Bonus Round Snub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published January 2024; republished for context amid renewed fan outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d is once again under fire after fans claim a contestant, Megan, was unjustly denied a $40,000 prize during a January 2024 episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Megan, a married high school choir director from California, faced a two-word bonus puzzle under the \u201cLiving Thing\u201d category. After selecting her letters, the board displayed: \u201cP_N_\u2019 RC _ D.\u201d In the final seconds, Megan appeared to say \u201cPink Orchid,\u201d but her answer was deemed incorrect. The correct response? \u201cPink Orchid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Host Pat Sajak revealed the would-be prize\u2014$40,000\u2014leaving Megan with only $14,007. The visibly disappointed contestant expressed immediate frustration, and fans at home agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viewers flooded social media, many insisting Megan clearly said the correct phrase. \u201cShe totally said \u2018Pink Orchid\u2019 right at the start,\u201d one user wrote. Another, partially deaf, added, \u201cI lip-read. She said it. No doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the show\u2019s first controversy. Just a day earlier, fans criticized a puzzle labeled \u201cRhyme Time\u201d where \u201cAbsolutely Positively\u201d was accepted as a rhyme\u2014despite many insisting it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With growing scrutiny over recent judgment calls, viewers are calling for fairer rulings\u2014and in Megan\u2019s case, a reconsideration of her denied winnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59871\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheel of Fortune Fans Erupt Over Controversial Bonus Round Snub Originally published January 2024; republished for context amid renewed fan outrage. \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d is once again&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59893,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59891\/revisions\/59893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}