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BrandonFG

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« on: May 17, 2010, 07:30:25 PM »
So I'm watching Wheel of Fortune this evening, and during the credit roll, they have some title called "Flipper Gripper", and the name underneath? Pat Sajak.

I'm guessing it's an inside joke, but in case it's not, anyone know what it refers to?
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chad1m

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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2010, 07:35:04 PM »
He always gets some wacky title once a week during the long credit rolls.

J.R.

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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2010, 07:35:08 PM »
They do that all the time whenever they do long credit rolls. During "Chicago Week", they listed Pat Sajak as "Hometown Hero".

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BrandonFG

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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2010, 07:36:42 PM »
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'240996\' date=\'May 17 2010, 07:35 PM\']He always gets some wacky title once a week during the long credit rolls.[/quote]

[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'240997\' date=\'May 17 2010, 07:35 PM\']They do that all the time whenever they do long credit rolls. During "Chicago Week", they listed Pat Sajak as "Hometown Hero".[/quote]

Thanks guys...honestly, that's pretty darn funny. :-)
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2010, 08:07:24 PM »
Last week, it was Ticket Taker or something.

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« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2010, 09:25:27 PM »
while   we're on the subject. do they know which episodes get the long Credits  as theyre taping it

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« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2010, 10:30:07 PM »
During a Teen Week (or it may have been a College Week), he got credited as "Hall Monitor".
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2010, 09:08:58 AM »
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'241005\' date=\'May 17 2010, 09:25 PM\']while   we're on the subject. do they know which episodes get the long Credits  as theyre taping it[/quote]
It's probably now decided in post, but in the old live-to-tape days, they had a physical credit roll in the studio and it was whenever the a.d. decided they had the extra minute or so to roll it.

The syndicated G-T shows ("What's My Line?", "Beat the Clock", etc.) ran full credits every day.
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2010, 04:50:20 PM »
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'241020\' date=\'May 18 2010, 09:08 AM\'][quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'241005\' date=\'May 17 2010, 09:25 PM\']while   we're on the subject. do they know which episodes get the long Credits  as theyre taping it[/quote]
It's probably now decided in post, but in the old live-to-tape days, they had a physical credit roll in the studio and it was whenever the a.d. decided they had the extra minute or so to roll it.

The syndicated G-T shows ("What's My Line?", "Beat the Clock", etc.) ran full credits every day.
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That's probably because some stations only ran one show a week.  During the six months or so in 74 when they ran BTC, KABC had five shows that aired at 7:30pm weeknights, BTC was one of them.
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2010, 04:48:05 PM »
I don't think I'd mentioned it before, but I recall watching during the week of Christmas, and Sajak was listed in the credits as "Director of Holiday Cheer!"

While on the subject of credits, I've also seen that on both Wheel and Jeopardy!, the credits list under "Wardrobe," Phil Wayne!  Is it the former producer of TPIR?

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« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2010, 01:08:59 AM »
Show #5000: He was listed as "Cake Cutter".

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« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2010, 08:54:39 PM »
Tonight's episode credits Sajak as "Rear Admiral".
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