Wheel of Fortune timeline (syndicated)/Season 30

<h2>April 2013</h2>
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">April 1 is Spring Break, taped November 29. Unlike the last time this theme was done in Season 26, this week is not a College Week.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 1:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Round 2 is the first appearance of Star &amp; Role since May 20, 2011.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">In the final segment, Pat and Vanna re-air a clip of Pat's bald wig prank from April Fools' Day 2008.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 2:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">In the Bonus Round, Pat forgets to ask the contestant for a vowel until he is reminded from offstage.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">There is a $100,000 win, although against precedent the winner does not write the week's contestant blog. The confetti fails to come down at first, and does not fall until later in the celebration. Coincidentally, the bonus puzzle is A PAUSE IN THE ACTION.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The weekly promo video indirectly reveals the $100,000 win by showing footage of Pat and Vanna playing with streamers and Pat saying "Time to clean up."
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 4, for no particular reason, the Prize Puzzle is a very short answer of MAN OF LA MANCHA. It is not known why this was done, as the episode did not run overly long, and comparatively longer answers were used in Rounds 4 and 5.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 5, all three contestants hit Lose A Turn in Round 1.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">April 8 is Island Hopping, taped November 30.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 8:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">In Round 1, contestant Tameka lands on the Prize wedge and calls a right letter, but does not pick it up until after buying an E. The shot of her picking up the wedge appears to be added in post-production.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">In Round 5, Pat prompts Austin to use his Wild Card on $500, which he does.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Neither Bankrupt nor Lose A Turn is hit on-air, although a Final Spin landing on Bankrupt is edited out.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 9:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Bankrupt is hit five times in Round 1, three of which are consecutive.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">There is an $11,450 Jackpot win.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Round 4 and the Bonus Round are What Are You Doing?
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">From April 8 to April 22, ten of eleven shows have a What Are You Doing? puzzle.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 10:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro clip in the opening is the same one from October 10. Once again, it is not dated.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">There is a $7,300 Jackpot win.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">There is a ½ Car win in Round 2.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro Bonus Round is not done.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 11:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The $2,000 Toss-Up is a rare What Are You Doing? puzzle without an "-ING" suffix (MY TAX RETURN).
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">There is a ½ Car win in Round 2.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 12, the winning contestant leaves with only $8,200.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">All five Bonus Rounds are lost on the week of April 8, part of an eleven-day losing streak beginning on the 3rd.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">April 15 is Sightseeing Week, taped January 25. During this week:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The floor is blue.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Vanna announces the Mystery prize.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The Final Spin is framed through the viewfinder of a camera.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 15 and 19, <i>Wheel</i> is at least partially pre-empted on many affiliates due to extended news coverage of the explosions at the Boston Marathon and manhunt for the second suspect, respectively.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 16:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro Bonus Round is not done.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Before spinning the Bonus Wheel, contestant Sarah remarks that she likes the ding that sounds when the bonus envelope is selected. The sound effects booth then plays the ding a second time at Pat's request.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 18:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro Bonus Round is not done.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The Prize Puzzle STUNNING SURROUNDINGS is inexplicably categorized as Phrase instead of Same Letter.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 19:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro clip in the opening (Pat reading a letter from a woman who gave birth while watching <i>Wheel</i> in the hospital, just after solving the puzzle DOBERMAN PINSCHER) is a very rare appearance of a post-December 13, 1982 daytime clip: specifically, between mid-February and August 5, 1983 (whereas the episode mentioned in the letter aired no earlier than January 3). "Big Wheels" begins playing near the end of the clip, but against precedent it appears to be mostly edited out. The clip is known to have aired in Season 25.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The second-place contestant has $23,648.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">April 22 is America's Game.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 22:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">As it is the sixth episode of Sandals Resorts Romance Week, three couples play and both trips are to Sandals properties.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The category wipe for America's Game episodes is changed to a flying eagle against a sky backdrop.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On the second shot of the board in Round 3, the category strip accidentally reads Proper Name (not used on this episode) instead of the puzzle's actual category of Place.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 23:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The overhead shot of the second spin in Round 2 is obviously dubbed in from another episode, as all of the cardboard is absent and the Wild Card can be seen on the railing even though no one had picked it up yet.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">A total of $27,700 goes unclaimed in Round 3.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro Bonus Round is not done.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 24:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">As it is the sixth episode from the Sandals week of March 11, the Prize is a trip to the Sandals resorts in Jamaica or Turks and Caicos, and the Prize Puzzle is to a Sandals property. Unlike the rest of the week, Vanna does not promote the theme at the top of the show, nor are any Sandals-related bumpers done.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro clip in the opening is the same one used on December 27, and once again, the music is simply muted instead of dubbed over.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Contestant Brenda wins the ½ Car in Round 2.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The closed captioning on the retro Bonus Round once again says "Did you solve it?"
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Brenda finishes in second place with $24,380, thus becoming the first ½ Car winner not to win the game. Contestant Matt manages to win by $90 despite a Final Spin of only $1,300.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Matt wins a Mini Cooper Roadster in the Bonus Round, resulting in a very rare instance of two contestants winning cars in a single episode.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 26:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Although Vanna's voiceover after the retro Bonus Round is "Did you solve it?", the captioning displays "Watch tomorrow night for another classic puzzle", suggesting that today's puzzle and yesterday's may have been accidentally switched.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Six rounds are played.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Instead of the usual closing segment, Pat and Vanna promote the New York City weeks in a pre-recorded segment from behind the yellow contestant's arrow.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The weeks of April 29-May 20 are taped at Madison Square Garden in New York City. During these weeks:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The retro clips and retro Bonus Rounds are not done.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">No cars are available in the Bonus Round.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">The weeks are promoted with the letters N, Y, and C in circles similar to what is seen at the subway stations.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">No Same Name puzzles are used.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">April 29 is NYC, taped March 15. During this week, the category wipe is a New York taxi and the Speed-Up wipe is a subway speeding by and opening its doors to reveal the players and puzzle.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 29:
<ul><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Contestant Joe solves the $1,000 Toss-Up STATUE OF LIBERTY with only the F showing.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">Before the $3,000 Toss-Up, Matt Bogart, John Lloyd Young, Quinn VanAntwerp, and Andy Karl of the Broadway musical <i>Jersey Boys</i> wish <i>Wheel</i> a happy 30th Anniversary.
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">In the final segment, Pat and Vanna announce that members of FDNY are in the audience. They are then shown on-camera with "FDNY" appearing on a category strip.
</li></ul>
</li><li data-rte-spaces-before="1">On April 29 and 30, for the first time, two consecutive Bonus Rounds are What Are You Doing?
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