This wildly incorrect guess on 'Wheel of Fortune' will leave you screaming

You don't have to be freakin' Tennessee Williams to get this right.
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Johnny Lieu
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This guy needs a beer, or at least a brief explainer of 20th century American plays.

A contestant on "America's #1 game show!" Wheel of Fortune blew what was quite possibly one of the easiest puzzles in game show history on Tuesday night.

All he had to do was guess the remaining letter in this title to win the round: "A STREETCAR NA_ED DESIRE."

You don't have to be freakin' Tennessee Williams to know the answer, and yet this contestant gave the letter "K." Yes, K!

Aren't those moans from the crowd just painful? Naturally, Twitter was ablaze with people wondering just how? How could this happen?

But maybe this contestant was referring to the "other" version of A Streetcar Named Desire. If that even exists.

He definitely blew it. Unfortunately, he'll have to enter in the annals of Wheel of Fortune infamy, like this dude a few years back, who messed up the pronunciation of "Achilles."

Makes you never, ever want to be on a game show.

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