Pat Sajak addressed the on-air slip-up in a video that aired after the episode, saying that he realized his mistake right as he said it.
"I wonder how many people at home caught it," he remarked. "There weren't many letters up there and I said, 'I'd rather be here than up there, quite frankly' — which was the puzzle. But it goes to show you that people are concentrating and they're not paying any attention to me."