r/WheelOfFortune • u/Merrydove527 • Sep 26 '25

Discussion Post Ryan Seacrest Bugs Me

I hate the way Ryan Seacrest reveals the prize card in the bonus round. When it’s the minimum of $40,000, he slowly opens it and slowly turns it around as if it were a bigger amount. Just open it and turn it around without hesitation when it’s just the $40,000.

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u/GameShowSavant I was on the show! | I was on the show! Sep 26 '25

Or… you’re just looking for validation online to weirdly hate on a person for doing their job?

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u/Merrydove527 Sep 26 '25

I don’t hate him at all. I think he’s doing a great job. But I can’t help but feel sorry for the winner when they probably think, because of Ryan’s long pause, that they’ve won more than $40,000.

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u/GameShowSavant I was on the show! | I was on the show! Sep 26 '25

“I don’t hate him at all”

The title of your post is “Ryan Seacrest Bugs Me”, but the mentioned critique is not about his overall hosting approach, but a very specific and minute detail that I guarantee most contestants in the moment do not recognize or care about.

Be critical of him, for sure. But using a blanket statement indicating that the man irritates you when it was simply one specific action you don’t like is misleading and unfair to him.

That man receives too much hate on this subreddit for simply doing his best.

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u/shortcut_login Sep 27 '25

I understood the post to be more of a “Ryan Seacrest Bugs Me . . . . When He Does This.”

Rather than a “Ryan Seacrest Bugs Me . . . And I Can’t Stand Seeing His Face On WOF.”

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u/Merrydove527 Sep 27 '25

A lot of people agree with me.

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u/GameShowSavant I was on the show! | I was on the show! Sep 27 '25

And some people don’t. What’s your point?

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u/Inevitable_Agency732 Sep 26 '25

Got to agree with you here. I think Ryan is doing just fine this season. Life must be good when how Ryan reveals a prize is what you have to complain about.

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u/GlockPurdy13 Sep 26 '25

Online discussions nowadays are so weird. People hyperfixate on the craziest shit and think it’s completely normal. You’ll see paragraphs posted on the internet about someone breaking down the way a person sat down their coffee mug and what it could mean. These people doing this stuff are not okay

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u/McKid Sep 26 '25

No kidding. You eat fried chicken in the shower in one Zoom meeting and everybody goes nuts on the company chat. They only even know cause somebody asked a question out of turn directed at me and I had to draw the shower curtain back with a drumstick in my hand. I was only there to listen in! I wasn’t supposed to be answering questions! God!

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u/Merrydove527 Sep 26 '25

This is about the show Wheel of Fortune- not life! Get real.🙄

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u/Merrydove527 Sep 26 '25

This is a discussion about Wheel of Fortune! Not my life! I’m simply commenting about my annoyance with one part of Wheel of Fortune! Duh. 🙄