If a contestant buys a vowel and the puzzle has at least one more vowel yet to be revealed, Pat will usually say something to the effect of 'You can buy another.'.On some occasions, he forgets on others, he convinces them to use it on non-top dollar amounts and on at least one occasion, he was about to convince a player to use it on $3,500, but was cut off by him asking to solve. Notably, contestants only seem to use it when he does this (except for its first season of use where several players used it on three-digit amounts). When a contestant is holding a Wild Card and calls a correct letter on the top dollar value, Pat will usually convince them to use the card for another letter at that same value.A subsequent pair taped in 1974 were much closer to the final product, but with the shopping prizes behind the puzzle board and a drunk Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes hosting. Pilot: The first, Shopper's Bazaar, taped in 1973 with Woolery and focused more on the prizes than the puzzles (in addition to having a vertical Wheel instead of a horizontal one).Spawns a Call-Back in the tag of a later show when Vanna mentions that she's wearing the same outfit she had on when Pat pied her. Pie in the Face: Pat and Vanna exchanged pies in the face in the tag ending of a 1991 Cruise Week show.Vanna had to resort to hitting the board with her fist before it finally cooperated. Percussive Maintenance: On an episode shortly after the touch-based puzzle board was introduced, one of the monitors malfunctioned.Painful Rhyme: Pat has begun making fun of the Rhyme Time category since Season 34 whenever the answer is two or three non-sequitur things that rhyme.

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