Solution - It's So Obvious!

by Tyler Hinman and Joseph DeVincentis

Answer: Click here to reveal

The pictures in this puzzle all clue phrases from the lyrics of the song "Dare to Be Stupid" by Weird Al Yankovic. The flavor text can help you get to Al, as it refers to the Wheel of Fish scene from Al's movie UHF. In addition, in this scene (and certain other times throughout the movie), Kuni tells you what he really thinks, by yelling STUUUPIIID!!!!!! at whoever he thinks is acting stupidly.

The pictures are given in alphabetical order of one of the key words clued by each picture:

  • let your babies grow up to be cowboys
  • like barking up a tree
  • put all your eggs in one basket
  • let the bedbugs bite
  • it's time for crying in your beer
  • put down that chainsaw
  • you can turn the other cheek
  • you can be a coffee achiever
  • watch Leave it to Beaver
  • look a gift horse in the mouth
  • mashed potatoes can be your friends
  • stick your head in the microwave
  • look for Mr. Goodbar
  • find yourself an itch to scratch
  • just give up the ship
  • buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet
  • time for crying over spilled milk
  • eat a bunch of sushi and forget to leave a tip
  • sell some wine before its time

The text below each picture is an actual puzzle from "Wheel of Fortune", mostly filled in, as it was when a contestant called a wrong letter. You need to find the wrong letter called at that time (in a few cases, where more than one wrong letter was called with this part of the puzzle exposed, which wrong letter is indicated after the puzzle - the one with "fourth" given actually had five wrong letters called in a row).

Click the puzzles below for YouTube videos of the rounds when these wrong letters were called, except for three puzzles where no video is available, but links to other pages you might have seen while solving this puzzle are provided.

Keeping the puzzles with their associated pictures, reorder them in the order of the lyrics and read the letters in this order.

Picture Wheel Puzzle (missing letters in red) Letter Airdate
chainsaw IDEAL SPOT FOR A GETAWAY
H 11/10/2015
baby cowboy CHEECH AND CHONG (first) I Fall 1983
bedbug CAN I JUMP UP AND DOWN NOW? S 2/24/2015
basket of eggs RECLINE & RELAX IN THE SUNSHINE B 12/27/2012
wine before its time JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME MAGAZINE R 1/5/2012
scratching BUTTINSKY (second) E 2/26/1993
microwave EROTICISM A 2/1/1995
Mr. Goodbar EXCLUSIVE NIGHTCLUB K 5/18/2006
cheek SETTING UP BEACH CHAIRS F 11/8/2006
ship WHICH OLD WITCH THE WICKED WITCH (fourth) A Fall 1988
sushi THE THRILL OF VICTORY AND THE AGONY OF DEFEAT S 12/5/1985
spilled milk SHOPPING IN BEVERLY HILLS (first) T 3/9/1998
beer THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD M 5/1/2013
shoes and chevrolet WRITTEN ESTIMATE O 12/21/2007
barking up a tree EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE BY THE POLICE N 4/11/2012
look horse in mouth BUTTINSKY (first) A 2/26/1993
mashed potatoes FOREIGN CURRENCY EXCHANGE R 3/16/2012
coffee THE WORLD'S FASTEST MAN C 4/11/2014
leave it to beaver COUNTRY SINGER BRAD PAISLEY H 1/8/2010

HIS BREAKFAST MONARCH refers to Weird Al, who also has a song about a WAFFLE KING, which is the answer.

The picture of the dog barking up a tree is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (CC-BY-3.0) and is from wikimedia user Scochran4.