Wheel of Fortune (2)/Wheel In Popular Culture

Wheel was given a parody in Cracked magazine (issue #222) in 1986.

Wheel was given a mentioned in the March 15, 1987 issue of Bloom County featuring Opus the Penguin watching an episode of the show and turning into an eggplant.

Wheel was given a parody in the Archie comic spinoff called Betty & Me issue #160 in August 1987 however, the specifics are unknown.

Wheel was parodied twice in the Foxtrot comic in 1988 where Jason watching the daytime version while his mother tries to get him help with the computer. Amusingly, the dialogue and puzzleboard shot from the TV date the Wheel episode to between August 1980 and December 1981: the host uses Chuck Woolery's "One, two, three of them!" style, the puzzleboard has three lines and Jack Clark is mentioned by name. The puzzle, OBESEQUIOUS OPAQUE SQUID, is solved with just the Q's. Another one in 2008 has Jason hacking into the show's puzzle's database and the puzzle ends up being PAIGE FOX IS UGLY, prompting Paige to call the show. Jason tells her "I'll let you do the next one".

A July 4, 1988 issue of Broadcasting Magazine features an ad for the "info-tainment" news magazine show A Current Affair (with the vowels "U" and "I" respectively missing in action) where it briefly spoofs Wheel (mainly the puzzleboard) as it tops the show in key demos for its main purpose to "Reinventing the Wheel".

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Other game shows that were featured in the opening montage were its sister show Jeopardy!, The $25,000 Pyramid, The New Newlywed Game and of course Double Dare.

In 2017, a online comic of Web Toons has parodied Wheel with the main character saying the show's actual catchphrase I'd Like to buy a Vowel! as the host asks Aren't you a millennial? as the main character slaps his face and sighs then asks the question I'd like to rent a vowel!.

In addition, Chuck Woolery & Pat Sajak appeared as guests on each other's short-lived talk shows, and Pat himself made a cameo on the premiere of Bob Goen's version.

Other game shows that share a similar format to Wheel of Fortune include:

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

Caesar's Challenge

Gambit (1979 pilot)

Headline Chasers

Money in the Bank (local 1980s pilot for Portland, Oregon's KOIN-TV)

On a Roll (1986 pilot)

Scrabble

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