Thirty years

It's lasted a lot longer than a lot of marriages. Pat and Vanna have been together with the wheel for thirty years now.

Wheel of Fortune's new season kicked off with the well-worn clip of Pat introducing Vanna as the "new" permanent hostess. Once upon a time the whole world was new, I guess. And once upon a time Vanna was new to Wheel. In fact, I've heard a rumor that a guy named Woolery actually preceded Pat on the show.

Nowadays it seems almost impossible that Pat and Vanna wouldn't be on Wheel. What if somebody else showed up one of these days? We don't have to worry about that any time soon because they've both re-upped through 2016.

Frankly, there's not much else to report on the new season. In the chitchat at the end of the show, Pat ticked off a few different tweaks to the gameplay. But they don't amount to much.

And we did have a bonus round winner, which was nice. In fact, the winner was a really good player who dominated the entire game. He was also a little loud, but I'd be loud, too, if I won that big.