Megaword debuted on my 10th bday. I always watched Wheel with my great grandparent’s and they made so much noise during this episode. I remember so much about this night. Thank you for triggering so many memories!! ❤❤
many of these words arent even suitable for like a 19 year old like myself, you? (i forgot that u also always commented on transit vids too bc i seen u there all the time)
Oh, he did. You can even hear it when he introduced it. "ISN'T THIS FUN?!" When Trent Girone, that special-needs contestant, appeared on the show several years ago, he brought up Megaword as one of the bizarre pieces of Wheel history, and Pat started talking about how much he hated every second of when one came up. So you're absolutely right.
As an old soul Wheel Of Fortune person for 1994, I'd say I like that category Megaword it's quite a combination of the dictionary in each word. This is gold.
2:11:43. Pat: “I am in the mood for a mega word.” Sure, you were Pat. Just like you would be in the mood to throw up. Haha! In real life, Pat and Vanna HATED this category as time wore on.
Yes, you're right. In fact, if you see her lips closely right after she calls the A, she said "I know what it is." But she was too embarrassed to solve it. What were they thinking using a word like that for a puzzle on WOF, a family-friendly game show? I would've said absolutely not for that word.
@@jasonarnold8448 I wouldn’t solve that either. If I did, I would not say anything to complete the sentence because there were kids watching the show at home and especially in the audience! What were the staffs thinking to put that obscure word as the puzzle?! I’m glad it never happened again after this inappropriate puzzle in front of the kids at home and in the audience! I watched wheel when I was little and thank goodness I didn’t watch that episode because of the puzzle so I wouldn’t have any idea what the puzzle was!
@@biruss that would be a good sentence to make sure that the kids don’t understand what the sentence means by that and you tell them that they don’t wanna know and inform them that you’ll tell them when they get older.
I'm fairly sure this is what got producer Nancy Jones fired. The 1994-95 season was so bad. Using a low-money category FOUR TIMES during a CHARITY WEEK?!
The only reason they’ll never bring this category back is because no one nowadays understand what big words are. Could you imagine, “I like to solve the puzzle. Duh Da Duh”
Omg all these years I thought the tan part was a border around each block! Now I see it’s the background 😆 back when vanna had to turn them around! I miss those. Always loved the shiny green ones!
All together, there were 42 Megaword rounds in season 12, and perhaps were Pat Sajak's 42 least favorite rounds in his 90's career. I liked the category, but I personally would have not ever tried this as a category if I was the producer back then. Even some of these contestants back in 94-95 may have never heard of some of those words before, and puzzles like PRISTINELY, BOMBASTIC and OXIDIZED were examples of showing how this category turned out. Oxidized? OXIDIZED?!?! As a WOF wheel-spinning puzzle, seriously?! You're just asking for a lengthy round with that! And it sure was, nearly 6 minutes, possibly the longest-lasting single round in WOF history! "That was a mega-headache" Pat Sajak must've been saying after that round!
Pat: “Megaword is gonna be great.” What an unintentionally funny statement since we know what we know now about this category and how Pat and Vanna hated this category.
I guess when Harry took over in the mid-12th season, he must’ve been felt like towards Merv: “To Hell With this category, I got better plans than having contestants put words into sentences that wasted too much time for taping!”
😂😂😂 it’s just the fact that they chose words with little to no repeating letters for me. And based on the fact that Wheel is 30 mins an ep.. I can’t believe they chose to have a category like this! They damn near forced ppl to solve on some of them.
English is not my native language,and have been about 27 years in America ,but I was surprized myself when after watching about 15 minutes of this video I gussed "haphazardly" word at 6:25 by only seeing "......ard.." and "flamboyantly" at 21:22 by only seeing ".l......ntl." But I didn't know the meaning of them , but they were ringing in my ears.Probably because of watching too much tv. Btw often I guess puzzles in wheel of fortune. Sorry talking about myself
1994 was the debut of 3 things on wheel of fortune the megaword category the surprise wedge and the $10,000 wedge sandwiched in between 2 bankrupts the only megawords I know are cognizant cornucopia flatuently and wittiscism
@matthewcasiglio2539 Actually, the Surprise wedge debuted in the 1992-93 season, which was season 10. And I believe the Surprise wedge idea came with the commemorating of the show reaching its 10th season. At least that's what I heard Pat say about it on a clip from that season.
@jasonarnold8448 well I knew it debuted before the wheel's cash 💸 layout was permanent which was 1996 and before Vanna started tapping the game board which was 1997
I was a high school freshman when this category was introduced. This category is discontinued. The 1997 puzzle board was introduced during my junior year of high school.
1:44:59 I am not native English speaker, but when I saw "b.mb..t.." I gussed bombastic, why it took several spinning of the wheel to guess it actually saying I try to "attempt" to solve it
@@bauTom 1. There's a reason why I put "spoilers below". 2. It's also for those who want to watch some moments of a round and they want to find what they're looking for. If you find this comment "useless", why waste your time replying to it instead of simply ignoring it?
@@Mr.Face222 someone’s got to make ur education if ur parents so blatantly failed. Maybe ur still not too old to learn, evolve & change. Just coz u can post doesn’t mean u have to. That index of yours was totally useless. Nobody wants to go back to a specific puzzle. You watch this episode from start to finish and u watch it once. Nobody going back to rewatch the moment they played for OXIDIZED. Come on.
@@bauTom Just because I don't _have_ to post anything doesn't mean that I'm not going to. You're over here wasting your time replying with unnecessary crap when all you had to do is _simply_ ignore the comment. I'm not going to fight over stupid shit, so I'm going to end this and move on.
@@Bluetailvappy yep! That’s why Pat hated that category Megaword so they got rid of that category for GOOD on April 30, 1995 so good riddance to Megaword!
I bet Oxidized irritated Pat because only three consonants appear, two of the consonants being X and Z, which seldom appear, so the contestants called almost every letter to finish the round
Imagine what Pat's reaction must've been when he saw OXIDIZED on the solution card he was given at the start of the round. He must've said in his mind "Oh, great, this one's gonna be fun."
My favorite category, no joke, no troll. WoF at it's base is just a Spelling Bee, and this category was the EPITOME of that! But, you know.... Haters gonna hate!
2:06:49 when the contest is asked to use “sophisticated” in a sentence, and he says, “If I were high society, I would be sophisticated.” Did Pat Sajack actually respond with, “and we would be glad to have you.”? Did I hear that right? Did he just simultaneously elevate himself to high society and put this man down at the same time?
can anyone do the hard work and list all the puzzle words as a list, so people can see how many of those they know? Im not watching for 2.5 hours. I see i know quite a few of them, but others i had to look up.
Megaword debuted on my 10th bday. I always watched Wheel with my great grandparent’s and they made so much noise during this episode. I remember so much about this night. Thank you for triggering so many memories!! ❤❤
I’m raising an eyebrow on some of the megawords, but it’s the best 2.5 hours ever spent watching this chaos 😂
many of these words arent even suitable for like a 19 year old like myself, you? (i forgot that u also always commented on transit vids too bc i seen u there all the time)
"Megaword is NOT a new Mighty Morphin Power Ranger!"
😂😂😂😂😂
“Switching to Megaword Battle Mode!”
@@bkachief *_"MEGAWORD SEQUENCE HAS BEEN INITIATED!!"_*
@@bkachief*_"MEGAWORD ACTIVATED!!!"_*
I remember this when I was a kid. I actually liked it!
I love this gameshow..thank you!
I like how Pat says "megaword". It's like it's his dastardly supervillain name.
As I'm watching this, I'm getting the impression that as the season went on. Pat was getting more and more exasperated with the category.
Oh, he did. You can even hear it when he introduced it. "ISN'T THIS FUN?!"
When Trent Girone, that special-needs contestant, appeared on the show several years ago, he brought up Megaword as one of the bizarre pieces of Wheel history, and Pat started talking about how much he hated every second of when one came up.
So you're absolutely right.
@@coldsnap5742 I'm friends with Trent as I too have Aspergers.
When Wheel of Fortune turns into a spelling bee.
Well, this is something I didn't know I needed. Thanks!
That makes two of us
Megaword was a category until it was oxidized.
Megaword lasted as long as a few mini games on the price is right most notably professor price
@@matthewcasiglio2539 It lasted longer than Professor Price actually
Wow! I've never seen that category , at least I don't remember seeing it 🤷
As an old soul Wheel Of Fortune person for 1994, I'd say I like that category Megaword it's quite a combination of the dictionary in each word.
This is gold.
When ideas sound good on paper. Wheel of fortune edition.
"Megaword is not a new MMPR"
Well that came out of left field lol.
The only category you would have to rely on Q, X, Z, and J to have a shot 😂😂😂
Wish they would have the puzzle board, wheel and set-up for the Wheel of Fortune video game as a retro-throwback
With Pat retiring, they should kick it old school for a bunch of episodes when his final season starts up.
CAR
@@lornemyers😊
Wow, the quality of this upload is spectacular (another megaword!)
2:11:43. Pat: “I am in the mood for a mega word.” Sure, you were Pat. Just like you would be in the mood to throw up. Haha! In real life, Pat and Vanna HATED this category as time wore on.
38:23 - Labyrinth Zone is the fourth level in Sonic the Hedgehog. 😃
Labyrinth is a movie starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly
1:25:09 I think she clearly didn't want to solve that puzzle on purpose if you ask me.
Yeah, because the puzzle is not kid-friendly.
Yes, you're right. In fact, if you see her lips closely right after she calls the A, she said "I know what it is." But she was too embarrassed to solve it. What were they thinking using a word like that for a puzzle on WOF, a family-friendly game show? I would've said absolutely not for that word.
@@jasonarnold8448 I wouldn’t solve that either. If I did, I would not say anything to complete the sentence because there were kids watching the show at home and especially in the audience! What were the staffs thinking to put that obscure word as the puzzle?! I’m glad it never happened again after this inappropriate puzzle in front of the kids at home and in the audience! I watched wheel when I was little and thank goodness I didn’t watch that episode because of the puzzle so I wouldn’t have any idea what the puzzle was!
@@anthonyguarino4242 I would. "Eroticism is of the utmost impropriety for the family hour!"
@@biruss that would be a good sentence to make sure that the kids don’t understand what the sentence means by that and you tell them that they don’t wanna know and inform them that you’ll tell them when they get older.
38:16 the puzzle was used on the wheel of fortune day-by-day calendar on February 1996.
I'm fairly sure this is what got producer Nancy Jones fired.
The 1994-95 season was so bad.
Using a low-money category FOUR TIMES during a CHARITY WEEK?!
Interesting...the 1989 theme lived on in the puzzle solve cue when they changed to the 1994 theme.
Congrats Jeremy well played
The only reason they’ll never bring this category back is because no one nowadays understand what big words are. Could you imagine, “I like to solve the puzzle. Duh Da Duh”
I wonder if they would have accepted "I have to use the word extemporize in a sentence" because that is grammatically correct.
Nice one Pat a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Reference.🤣
Fortune500 foreclosed almost it costed you. Thank you beer sir lordgod
I only had to watch the first one to see why everyone hated it.
Omg all these years I thought the tan part was a border around each block! Now I see it’s the background 😆 back when vanna had to turn them around! I miss those. Always loved the shiny green ones!
2:19:40 Always liked this prize cue, has it ever surfaced in the clear?
Llewellyn actually wins something on a gameshow! Unlike 1986
Actually, they neglected to ask her opponent re : free spin
All together, there were 42 Megaword rounds in season 12, and perhaps were Pat Sajak's 42 least favorite rounds in his 90's career. I liked the category, but I personally would have not ever tried this as a category if I was the producer back then. Even some of these contestants back in 94-95 may have never heard of some of those words before, and puzzles like PRISTINELY, BOMBASTIC and OXIDIZED were examples of showing how this category turned out. Oxidized? OXIDIZED?!?! As a WOF wheel-spinning puzzle, seriously?! You're just asking for a lengthy round with that! And it sure was, nearly 6 minutes, possibly the longest-lasting single round in WOF history! "That was a mega-headache" Pat Sajak must've been saying after that round!
30:09-30:11 Kaitou Joker BANKRUPT I’m so sorry Ash
9:21 “the National Game Show WHAT?!”
Pat: “Megaword is gonna be great.” What an unintentionally funny statement since we know what we know now about this category and how Pat and Vanna hated this category.
Thank you
I want to see this category in today's generation
I guess when Harry took over in the mid-12th season, he must’ve been felt like towards Merv: “To Hell With this category, I got better plans than having contestants put words into sentences that wasted too much time for taping!”
With a category like this and all the time it took to figure the puzzles out, especially that "OXIDIZED" one, I'm glad it was retired!
A gimmick of a bygone time. The crowd was going nuts in the first few
35:12 the puzzle was also used on the daytime episode aired on 9/1/82 which was the speed-up puzzle on R4 and was categorized as Thing.
58:30 you can hear audience groans lol. Even they grew tired of the always ubiquitous category
😂😂😂 it’s just the fact that they chose words with little to no repeating letters for me. And based on the fact that Wheel is 30 mins an ep.. I can’t believe they chose to have a category like this!
They damn near forced ppl to solve on some of them.
English is not my native language,and have been about 27 years in America ,but I was surprized myself when after watching about 15 minutes of this video I gussed "haphazardly" word at 6:25 by only seeing "......ard.." and "flamboyantly" at 21:22 by only seeing ".l......ntl." But I didn't know the meaning of them , but they were ringing in my ears.Probably because of watching too much tv. Btw often I guess puzzles in wheel of fortune. Sorry talking about myself
1994 was the debut of 3 things on wheel of fortune the megaword category the surprise wedge and the $10,000 wedge sandwiched in between 2 bankrupts the only megawords I know are cognizant cornucopia flatuently and wittiscism
@matthewcasiglio2539 Actually, the Surprise wedge debuted in the 1992-93 season, which was season 10. And I believe the Surprise wedge idea came with the commemorating of the show reaching its 10th season. At least that's what I heard Pat say about it on a clip from that season.
@jasonarnold8448 well I knew it debuted before the wheel's cash 💸 layout was permanent which was 1996 and before Vanna started tapping the game board which was 1997
Megaword was a MegaMISS.
It was a dissemination fail.
A *MegaFLOP!*
I was a high school freshman when this category was introduced. This category is discontinued. The 1997 puzzle board was introduced during my junior year of high school.
1:44:59 I am not native English speaker, but when I saw "b.mb..t.." I gussed bombastic, why it took several spinning of the wheel to guess it actually saying I try to "attempt" to solve it
49:52-49:54 Kaitou Joker BANKRUPT the Bankrupt got you guys time for me I’m sorry
I just started, and I hope somehow it ends with the game show fan contestant who told Pat how he remembered this category.
(That would be Trent)
Wheel fortune Pamela white pat say jack
10:11-10:13 Bakugan Mechtanium Surge BANKRUPT I’m sorry Yuya Sakaki
This is a supercut of NY Times taking over Wordle
I got one Megaword.
Yhyyy.One lovely.
😊
Timestamps (spoilers below):
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0:00:00 EXTEMPORIZE
0:04:31 HAPHAZARDLY
0:09:23 PROGNOSTICATE
0:13:08 RESUSCITATION
0:16:18 COMMENDATION
0:19:15 FLAMBOYANTLY
0:23:54 ELASTICIZED
0:28:16 HYPOTHESIS
0:31:40 CHRYSANTHEMUM
0:35:50 LABYRINTH
0:38:46 JUXTAPOSITION
0:42:00 PATERNALISTIC
0:45:24 MELODRAMATIC
0:48:39 VACILLATING
0:52:26 HYPOTHETICAL
0:56:15 BOISTEROUS
0:58:20 CORNUCOPIA
1:01:05 PROLIFERATION
1:03:30 PRISTINELY
1:08:03 COPACETIC
1:12:07 ABRACADABRA
1:17:09 SYNCOPATED
1:19:30 CLAIRVOYANT
1:22:06 EROTICISM
1:25:56 AMBIVALENCE
1:30:05 ENTREPRENEUR
1:32:57 APERITIF
1:37:26 STUPEFIED
1:41:15 CONTORTIONIST
1:43:20 BOMBASTIC
1:47:41 PLAGIARISM
1:51:12 WITTICISM
1:54:26 OXIDIZED
2:00:28 VALEDICTORIAN
2:04:27 SOPHISTICATED
2:07:09 COGNIZANT
2:11:29 GARGANTUAN
2:14:58 REVERBERATION
2:16:32 OVERINDULGES
2:20:17 REJUVENATED
2:23:21 CIRCUMFERENCE
2:26:13 MAGNANIMOUS
Please let me know if I missed anything.
Very useless comment. Why do that? We watching this… we’ll see the answers eventually.
@@bauTom
1. There's a reason why I put "spoilers below".
2. It's also for those who want to watch some moments of a round and they want to find what they're looking for. If you find this comment "useless", why waste your time replying to it instead of simply ignoring it?
@@Mr.Face222 someone’s got to make ur education if ur parents so blatantly failed. Maybe ur still not too old to learn, evolve & change. Just coz u can post doesn’t mean u have to. That index of yours was totally useless. Nobody wants to go back to a specific puzzle. You watch this episode from start to finish and u watch it once. Nobody going back to rewatch the moment they played for OXIDIZED. Come on.
@@bauTom Just because I don't _have_ to post anything doesn't mean that I'm not going to. You're over here wasting your time replying with unnecessary crap when all you had to do is _simply_ ignore the comment. I'm not going to fight over stupid shit, so I'm going to end this and move on.
@@bauTom Don’t sound like a whiny 7-year old all your life.
I Love game show's ❤❤❤
The legendary OXIDIZED round is at 1:54:27
And 21 turns were lost in this round! So exhausting! That’s why megaword is retired and never come back, Thank god!
21 turns?!
@@mitchellhodack657 yes, counting the contestants landing on bankrupt and 18 incorrect letters were called without repeats.
You know you are in for a fun time when X, Z, and D are the only consonants in the puzzle.
@@Bluetailvappy yep! That’s why Pat hated that category Megaword so they got rid of that category for GOOD on April 30, 1995 so good riddance to Megaword!
I bet Oxidized irritated Pat because only three consonants appear, two of the consonants being X and Z, which seldom appear, so the contestants called almost every letter to finish the round
Imagine what Pat's reaction must've been when he saw OXIDIZED on the solution card he was given at the start of the round. He must've said in his mind "Oh, great, this one's gonna be fun."
I just love the irritated way he says Megaword 😂😂😂
1:30:34 - YOU FOOL!
4:00 So happy 😊
19:31-19:33 Inazuma Eleven Go: Galaxy BANKRUPT the Bankrupt gotcha I’m sorry Aiger Akabane
1:23:15-1:23:17 oh man BANKRUPT I’m sorry Aiger Akabane
2:23:29 It's funny to even hear Pat call it infamous.
2:02:23-2:02:25 Kaitou Joker BANKRUPT oh my goodness I’m sorry
Audience reaction to no letter on the board:Awww😔
34:25-34:27 Kuroko’s Basketball BANKRUPT the Bankrupt got you guys again I’m sorry
33:49-33:51 Inazuma Eleven Go: Chrono Stone BANKRUPT
My favorite category, no joke, no troll.
WoF at it's base is just a Spelling Bee, and this category was the EPITOME of that!
But, you know....
Haters gonna hate!
Is it the fact that you’re on tv that makes the brain blank out? These were easy from here.
MEGAWORD!
10:34-10:36 Inazuma Eleven Ares BANKRUPT I’m sorry Chris Quanton
It’s MEEEEGAAAWOOORD!
Great/Fine
We'll of fortune pamla wite wall of fortune
MEGAWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!
3:08-3:10 Future Card BuddyFight Ace BANKRUPT the Bankrupt gotcha I’m sorry
1:51:28-1:51:30 Inazuma Eleven Go: Galaxy BANKRUPT I bad luck gotcha again guys I’m sorry
33:00-33:02 Bakugan Battle Brawlers BANKRUPT I’m sorry 3 Strikes
1:25:17 The puzzle EROTICISM is a dirtiest puzzle on wheel of fortune that is not for kids.
Yeah, that one was a definite surprise.
@@ShamrockParticle glad they never used that puzzle again! Wheel of fortune is a family-friendly game show, not x-rated game show!
1:30:31-1:30:34 Inazuma Eleven Go: Galaxy Double Episodes BANKRUPT ouch nothing you got me back I’m sorry
Doggy style is juxtaposition I prefer.. 😊
32:41-32:43 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Oh no! BANKRUPT nothing you can do about that I’m sorry
1:38:09-1:38:11 Inazuma Eleven Ares BANKRUPT
2:06:49 when the contest is asked to use “sophisticated” in a sentence, and he says, “If I were high society, I would be sophisticated.” Did Pat Sajack actually respond with, “and we would be glad to have you.”? Did I hear that right? Did he just simultaneously elevate himself to high society and put this man down at the same time?
2:01:59-2:02:01 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal BANKRUPT oh man gotcha again I’m sorry to stop the traffic ouch!!!
11:43-11:45 Beyblade Burst Turbo BANKRUPT the Bankrupt gotcha guys again I’m sorry
1:55:20 N?
1:57:46 A G?
1:58:51 W?
This is one category that should never return to Wheel of Fortune. Seemed like a good idea at the time but it was not very well liked.
Nancy Jones was dismissed as a producer because of Megaword.
@@drewzuhosky6826 Among other reasons.
It would just show how dumb people are now a days anyway.
As long as Pat is a producer, Megaword will never return.
@@Ghostrider6A Given how reviled it was, the chances of it ever returning are zero, even with Pat retiring.
Save it
32:51-32:53 Beyblade Burst Quadstrike BANKRUPT I’m so sorry
allison looks like lady gaga
Correct/Too
1:03:41-1:03:43 Inazuma Eleven Ares New Episodes BANKRUPT the Bankrupt gotcha I’m sorry
1:25:25 Something suitable for the family hour
*begins answer with sex* 💀😂
At 1:25:24 says use eroticism in a sentence suitable for family hour, he means don't say" if you f somebody you follow eroticism"!
2:08:19-2:08:23 Beyblade Burst Surge oh my goodness BANKRUPT I saw a coming close I’m sorry
can anyone do the hard work and list all the puzzle words as a list, so people can see how many of those they know?
Im not watching for 2.5 hours. I see i know quite a few of them, but others i had to look up.
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