That cracked up his mom, Edna Bacon, who watched the show at Oakwood Village with several other residents. She uttered the same phrase more than a few times herself Friday night.
“That’s his line, too. That’s our favorite thing,” she joked.
Malykke Bacon, who now lives in San Diego and is a high school history teacher, won more than $21,000 on the game show, including the trip.
He has loved “Wheel of Fortune” since he was a little kid, his mom said, and he would make words with his blocks and turn the letters around like on the show.
Edna Bacon was a nervous wreck all day waiting to watch the show. Her son wouldn’t tell her how he did before it aired.
“I couldn’t eat lunch,” she said. “Just to see your child on TV on a big nationwide program like this, it’s just exciting.”
Malykke Bacon, 38, had told her that during the commercial breaks the make-up artists powdered him down because he was sweating.
At one point in the game, he narrowly missed a bankrupt slot on the wheel.
“I bet they had to powder him after that one,” his mom said.
Another of her sons, Micah, came to the show as his brother’s guest and was shown on air before the final puzzle.
Malykke Bacon didn’t solve the final puzzle and lost the $30,000 prize.
“It’s all good,” he told Pat Sajak.
And seeing her sons on TV was all good for Edna Bacon.
“I’m ecstatic,” she said.
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