[quote name=\'Unrealtor\' date=\'Dec 18 2004, 02:31 PM\']The first toss-up on Wheel does nothing for the flow of the show. It's relatively fast paced, gets the game started, then you lose all that momentum by going immediately to the contestant interviews.
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I'm no Wheel fan, but you know why this is REALLY broken? The opening tossup, aside from the cash award, doesn't mean jack, because they have that SECOND tossup to determine who has control of the first puzzle.
They'd keep that "momentum" of which you speak a little better if they played the FIRST tossup for control, then Pat introduces and does his schtick with the players, and then after that Pat said something like "Okay, Bob (or whoever), you solved the tossup, so you'll start us off on THIS puzzle <ding-ding-DING-ding>...a Thing. Let's go."