History Funny / TheJokersWild

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" (starting from 4:09 in [[https://youtu.be/3pCxqwn3Gag this clip]] where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant had to guess what the animal was. The guess "An orangutan?" cracked everyone up and Jeannie responded with ''genuine surprise'' and mock-anger. (The correct answer was [[spoiler: a dolphin!]])

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant had to guess what the animal was. The guess "An orangutan?" cracked everyone up and Jeannie responded with ''genuine surprise'' and mock-anger. (The correct answer was [[spoiler: a dolphin!]])

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant had to guess what the animal was. The guess "An orangutan?" cracked everyone up and Jeannie responded with genuine surprise and mock-anger. (The correct answer was [[spoiler: a dolphin!]])

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant must guess what the animal was. The guess "An orangutan?" cracked everyone up and Jeannie responded with mock-anger. (The correct answer was [[spoiler: a dolphin!]])

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant must guess what the animal was. The guess "An orangutan?" cracked everyone up and Jeannie responded with mock-anger. (The correct answer was a dolphin!)

* 2017: The category "Dr. Snooplittle" where Jeannie Mai made a high squeaky voice as an impression of an animal and the contestant must guess what the animal was. The guess "Orangutan?" cracked everyone up and sent Jeannie into mock-anger. (The correct answer was a dolphin!)

* 1985(?): During the Cullen era, one game had Sex Symbols as a category, but as a gag, the staff replaced the animated blonde normally featured in said category's graphic with an actual photo of Bill during the 50s, which broke him up when he first saw it whilw reading off the categories at the start of the game, then again when it first came up on the wheels!

* 1985(?): During the Cullen era, one game had Sex Symbols as a category, but as a gag, the staff replaced the animated blonde normally featured in said category's graphic with an actual photo of Bill during the 50s, which broke him up as he was reading off the categories at the start of the game, then again when it first came up on the wheels!

* October 1978: During big winner Hal Scheer's first appearance, one of the categories in his second game was "The Olympics", with Hal getting a question at one point about how many interlocking rings are in the Olympic logo. The problem? The category's slide ''used the Olympic rings as part of its graphic'', essentially giving away the answer! Although the discrepancy wasn't caught until after the game had been completed, Jack explained what happened at the end of the show, and while Hal claimed he wasn't looking at the category slide when he answered the question correctly, Jack stated that in the interest of fair play, the challenger that Hal defeated would be invited back to play again on a later episode.

* October 1978: During big winner Hal Shear's first appearance, one of the categories in his second game was "The Olympics", with Hal getting a question at one point about how many interlocking rings are in the Olympic logo. The problem? The category's slide ''used the Olympic rings as part of its graphic'', essentially giving away the answer! Although the discrepancy wasn't caught until after the game had been completed, Jack explained what happened at the end of the show, and while Hal claimed he wasn't looking at the category slide when he answered the question correctly, Jack stated that in the interest of fair play, the challenger that Hal defeated would be invited back to play again on a later episode.

** An employee of KCOP-13 (where the show taped in the early-to-mid 80s) recounted "During one taping, a contestant became a little too exuberant during the bonus round (when they pulled the large slot machine handle to the right of the machine) and wound up snapping off the plexiglass column at it's base. All of the light bulbs inside the handle cascaded to the floor in a heap, still fully lit. Jack became completely flustered, and the whole scene was quite hilarious. Unfortunately, I doubt you'll ever see it on a blooper reel as Dan Enright immediately took control of the tape room and ensured no one made any unauthorized copies."

* November 1972: A surprising answer to the question [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26y2vTeDP1Q "What is the longest bone in the human body?"]]

* October 1978: During eventual big winner Hal Shear's first appearance, one of the categories in his second game was "The Olympics", with Hal getting a question at one point about how many interlocking rings are in the Olympic logo. The problem? The category's slide ''used the Olympic rings as part of its graphic'', essentially giving away the answer! Although the discrepancy wasn't caught until after the game had been completed, Jack explained what happened at the end of the show, and while Hal claimed he wasn't looking at the category slide when he answered the question correctly, Jack stayed in the interest of fair play, the challenger that Hal defeated would be invited back to play again on a later episode.

** Taped December 1977: A few years earlier, a champion contestant [[UpToEleven pulled the lever so hard]] that he caused ''the entire handle'' to be dislodged from its base. [[MomentOfAwesome Luckily for him, it was the winning spin]] (he had $975, and he spun $50-$100-$50) and Jack jokingly said that it would cost $1,200 to fix it.

* It's [[HilariousInHindsight probably more funny nowadays]] than back then, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgMp4BA38Y but listen to this female contestant's guess for the longest bone in the human body.]]

** Taped December 1977: A few years earlier, a champion contestant [[UpToEleven pulled the lever so hard that he caused the entire handle to be dislodged from its base]]. [[MomentOfAwesome Luckily for him, it was the winning spin]] (he had $975, and he spun $50-$100-$50) and Jack jokingly said that it would cost $1,200 to fix it.

* Early 1973: In one game, the slots seemed to favor HorseRacing and Music/BingCrosby over the three other categories. When Jack asked for the title of Crosby's autobiography, it turned out to be an UnexpectedlyObscureAnswer.

* It's probably more funny nowadays than back then, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgMp4BA38Y but listen to this female contestant's guess for the longest bone in the human body.]]

** Taped December 1977: A few years earlier, a champion contestant pulled the lever so hard that he caused the entire handle to be dislodged from its base. [[MomentOfAwesome Luckily for him, it was the winning spin]] (he had $975, and he spun $50-$100-$50) and Jack jokingly said that it would cost $1,200 to fix it.

* September 21, 1972: A contestant spun the category "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybMlouwM4M Annual Events]]", whose slide used art of a groundhog. When the question turned out to be about Groundhog Day, the contestant pointed out that the answer was on the slide. JackBarry was quick to deny that it was a groundhog, and the contestant remarked that it looked more like an otter. The other contestant then spun and came up with a triple (two Annual Events and a Joker), to which he said "I believe I'll take that otter for $200."
* Early 1973: In one game, the slots seemed to favor HorseRacing and BingCrosby over the three other categories.
* Early 1973: In a game with a category of British Singers, Jack noted that the picture of the singer of the slide reminded him of "Tom Jones on a bad night". Then he couldn't ask the question he had in his hand because the answer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC61NPPiZrA was Tom Jones!]]

** Taped December 1977: A few years earlier, a champion contestant pulled the lever so hard that he caused the entire handle to be dislodged from its base. Lucky for him, it was the winning spin (he had $975, and he spun $50-$100-$50) and Jack jokingly said that it would cost $1,200 to fix it.

* 1973: In one game, the slots seemed to favor HorseRacing and BingCrosby over the three other categories.
* 1973: In a game with a category of British Singers, Jack noted that the picture of the singer of the slide reminded him of "Tom Jones on a bad night". Then he couldn't ask the question he had in his hand because the answer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC61NPPiZrA was Tom Jones!]]

* 1980-1981 season: An over-eager contestant in the BonusRound pulled the lever so hard that she ''broke it off''. Jack replied, in pretend anger, that "[[TrashTheSet You broke our wheel!]]"
** Taped December 1977: A few years earlier, a champion contestant pulled the lever so hard that he caused the entire handle to be dislodged from its base. Lucky for him, it was the winning spin (he had $975, and he spun $50--$100--$50) and Jack jokingly said that it would cost $1200 to fix it.
* Fall 1979: From ''Joker! Joker! Joker!''...
-->'''Jack''': What about your daddy, what does he do?\\
'''Contestant''': He sells cookies.\\
'''Jack''': Cookies? To whom?\\
'''Contestant''': To the movie theaters...\\
'''Jack''': Anybody else?\\
'''Contestant''': ... and fat people.\\
'''Jack''': Fat people.

* Taped December 1977: An over-eager contestant in the BonusRound pulled the lever so hard that she ''broke it off''. Jack replied, in pretend anger, that "[[TrashTheSet You broke our wheel!]]"