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Memes on the [[Game Show]] front:
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''Please add entries in the following format:''
* The name of the show.
** Meme name: description of meme and how it's used.
*** Source of meme and fandom it relates to in the form of a hot tip.
*** Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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*  Richard Karn wants you to know that because he feels like a meme, he's going to [[Family Feud|DOUBLE THE POINTS]]!!!!!!!! <ref>Karn's [[Large Ham]] explanation of the Double round, where the value of each survey answer is doubled. He did the same thing with "triple the points" in the Triple round.</ref>
**  But not before you've DRAWN FIRST BLOOD.<ref>Also from Karn; his way of saying which family will score the points first.</ref>
**  Good answer! Good answer! <ref>Usually said by the other members of the family, no matter how far off-base the answer is. Some families even seem to say it ironically because they ''know'' the answer can't possibly be up there.</ref>
**  Survey said...<ref>[[Catch Phrase]] heard in every version of ''Feud'', when asking how many points an answer scored in the Fast Money [[Bonus Round]]. May be used in conversation when "revealing" the answer to a question.</ref>
** NEKKID GRANDMA!! <ref>Shortly after Steve Harvey became host, the show's [[YouTube]] channel began posting clips. Among them was a man who gave this as a response to "Name something a burglar would not want to see when he breaks into a house" — it lit up as "Gun/Occupant" for 33 points. Now, nearly every video on Family Feud's channel has someone offering "nekkid grandma" as an answer in the comments.</ref>
** IS IT UP THERE? <ref>What Louie Anderson would say after just about EVERY answer given in the main game.</ref>
*  But if you do, chances are you'll hear [[Tic-Tac-Dough|Patrick Wayne]] tell you that "YOUUUUUUUUUUUU WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" If not, that's okay, "Just cause you're divorced doesn't mean you can't have fun, riiiiiiiiiiiight?" <ref>From the 1990 revival of ''[[Tic-Tac-Dough]]'', a couple choice quotes from host Patrick Wayne, another [[Large Ham]] of a host whose name often crops up when bad game show hosts are mentioned. The latter is from the run's Divorced Couples Week.</ref>
**  Oh yeah, and Jim Caldwell wants to add that those red boxes are special categories, he'll be sure to explain them when we get to them.<ref>From the 1985-86 season of the same show; when Jim Caldwell took over from Wink Martindale as host, Caldwell became obsessed with the red box [[Bonus Space]]s.</ref>
*  [[Press Your Luck|Big bucks]], no [[Whammy]]s...STOP! <ref>The mantra of many a contestant on ''[[Second Chance]]'', ''[[Press Your Luck]]'', and ''[[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy]]!'' — hitting a Devil/Whammy on the game board wiped out one's score.</ref>
**  Stop at a [[Prize Letdown|Flokati Rug]]! <ref>Often considered the least desirable prize on the board, an opinion even mentioned within the show itself.</ref>
** The title format of ''[[Revival|Whammy! The All New Press Your Luck]]'' became a meme in and of itself.<ref>Message board posters would come up with similar titles for hypothetical revivals, such as ''Dragon! The All New [[Tic-Tac-Dough]].''</ref>
* ''[[21 (game show)|21]]'' was RRRRRRRRRRRIGGED! <ref>Early meme dating from the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows, referring to the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s. While ''Twenty One'' was a big offender, this also applied to ''[[Tic-Tac-Dough]]'', ''The $64,000 Question'', and the smoking gun itself — ''Dotto''.</ref>
*  [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!!]] <ref>[[Title Scream]] at the top of each show since 1983.</ref>
**  What? You didn't know any of this? I bet you didn't know that Woolery left ''[[Wheel of Fortune|Wheel]]''.<ref>A popular way of saying that a piece of game show news is old. The reference is to former ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' host Chuck Woolery, who left on Christmas Day 1981.</ref>
**  A group of pill-pushers? <ref>A humorous missolve from 1999 that has shown up in countless blooper specials. The actual answer was A GROUP OF WELL-WISHERS.</ref>
***  '''''This is WHEEL OF FORTUNE, Joe!''''' <ref>Pat's [[What the Hell, Player?|reaction to the above.]]</ref>
**  I'd like to buy a vowel.<ref>[[Catch Phrase]] from contestants. Another is "I'd like to solve the puzzle."</ref>
**  "Top dollar value on the Wheel for the first round is $500. But look out for this black space, Bankrupt, because if you hit it, you lose all your cash, but not your merchandise, because once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep." <ref>Chuck Woolery's rundown of the show's rules from the earliest days. He even recited this in full on an [[April Fools' Day]] episode of ''[[Scrabble (TV series)|Scrabble]]''.</ref>
** RSTLN E <ref>In the early days of the [[Bonus Round]], contestants were asked for five consonants and a vowel to help solve the bonus puzzle. RSTLN are the most common consonants in the English language, and E is the most common vowel. This achieved [[Ascended Meme]] status so that contestants are now given those letters, in that order, and then asked for three more consonants and another vowel.</ref>
** The ceramic dalmatian.<ref>An [[Prize Letdown]] when the show still had contestants shop for prizes after each round. Very few contestants wanted it at first, but by March 1987 it became famous enough that some deliberately bought it. Although the shopping was removed in the late 1980s, it has been referenced in several game show parodies, and repeatedly by the show itself. His name is Sheldon, by the way.</ref>
*  Good internet game show forum etiquette: DON'T ask how ''[[Hot Potato (TV series)|Hot Potato]]'' was played.<ref>Refers to a [[Troll]] on the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows, who would make nonsensical posts asking how "hat putato" was played.</ref>
**  ...or ask what game shows [dead celebrity]'s corpse will host.<ref>Another recurring troll post on the same newsgroup.</ref>
*  [[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?|"Is that your final answer?"]] <ref>[[Catch Phrase]] from ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' to ensure that the contestant is actually going for the answer s/he has said.</ref>
**  "Can I phone a friend?" <ref>One of the [[Lifelines]] available to contestants to aid in picking the right answer. This Lifeline was eliminated in some versions after too many Phone-A-Friends began Googling the answer.</ref>
*  That dating show from the 1990s is actually called FREAKIN' STUDS.<ref>In reference to a "50 Greatest Game Shows" poll conducted by [[GSN]]. This was one fan's reaction to the fact that ''Studs'' ended up on the aired list, as it wasn't a long-running or well-remembered series.</ref>
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|This...]] ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|is]]''... ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Jeopardy!]]'' <ref>[[Title Scream]] at the top of the show.</ref>
**  [[Jeopardy!|Sorry, you didn't phrase that in the form of a question.]] <ref>Reference to the format of ''Jeopardy!'', which inverts the typical question-and-answer format of quiz shows.</ref>
**  Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen? <ref>On an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' ("What Is... Cliff Clavin?"), [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] postman Cliff Clavin appeared on ''Jeopardy!'' and had a runaway lead. He lost after wagering all of his winnings on the Final Jeopardy! clue and writing that as his response. ''Jeopardy!'' has made this episode into an [[Ascended Meme]] of sorts, as "[[Person As Verb Pulling A Clavin]]" is now the term for an all-in Final Jeopardy! wager from a runaway lead.</ref>
** What is Toronto? <ref>During a special set of episodes in February 2011, a computer named Watson competed against former contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Despite amassing a runaway lead, Watson was stumped by Final Jeopardy! and guessed Toronto. Since then, this has become the successor to "never been in my kitchen" for contestants who are stumped in Final Jeopardy!</ref>
**  I'll take over-used memes for $800, Alex.<ref>Common method of requesting the next clue to be revealed.</ref>
**  Eleventy billion dollars! <ref>What "Keanu Reaves" bid in a [[Saturday Night Live SNL]] ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketch. This "number" is often used among game show fans to spoof the trend towards very high payouts.</ref>
*  [[The Joker's Wild|Joker...]]''[[The Joker's Wild|Joker...]]''[[The Joker's Wild|First Ladies!]] <ref>Jack Barry's over-dramatic read of the giant slot machine on ''[[The Joker's Wild]]''.</ref>
**  Jack, I'll go off the board and take Baseball.<ref>A rarely used tactic; anyone with one or two Jokers showing could go "off the board" and ask for a category not shown on the slot machine.</ref>
*  [[Hollywood Squares|I'll take [celebrity's name] for the win, please.]] <ref>The origin of "for the win", originally said by many contestants on the celebrity tic-tac-toe game when three-in-a-row was imminent.</ref>
**  [[You Fool!]] <ref>From a 1999 episode where Gilbert Gottfried was the only star left on the board, but the contestants kept whiffing the increasingly easy questions and falling for Gottfried's obvious bluffs. Every time they whiffed, he would scream "YOU FOOL!"</ref>
*  "The [[Password]] is..." <ref>Whispered by [[The Announcer]] in most versions of the word-association game.</ref>
*  [[Deal or No Deal]]? <ref>[[Title Drop]]ping question asked by any host of the show, when asking if the contestant wants to take the Banker's deal or keep eliminating suitcases or boxes in hopes of finding one with the top money prize in it.</ref>
*  [[What's My Line?|Is it bigger than a breadbox?]] <ref>In reference to the [[Panel Game]] where a celebrity panel would ask yes-or-no questions in attempt to determine a contestant's job. "Bigger than a breadbox" existed well before that, but the show helped popularize it thanks to Steve Allen.</ref>
*  [[Blockbusters|I'll take a P, Bob.]]
**  Saucy female students: "I'll have U, Bob."
**  "I'll take an E, Bob." <ref>[[Double Entendre]] letter request from the British version of ''[[Blockbusters]]'', which involves a board full of letters — each answer begins with the letter selected. "P" of course refers to "taking a pee"; "U" as in "I'll have ''you''" and "E" was a common slang for the drug Ecstasy.</ref>
*  BRING ON THE WALL! <ref>[[Catch Phrase]] on ''[[Hole In The Wall]]'', where contestants must contort their bodies to fit through holes made in an [[Advancing Wall of Doom]].</ref>
*  In Ireland, "Stop the lights!" <ref>From the game show ''Quicksilver'', and used as an expression of surprise; impressive as the show was cancelled decades ago.</ref>
*  "You are [[The Weakest Link]]... goodbye." <ref>Spoken by the host of the show in question, when the "weakest link" player has been voted off by the others.</ref>
*  [[That Mitchell and Webb Look|That's Numberwang!]]
**  Let's rotate the board! <ref>From a game show parody sketch on ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' called "Numberwang", the premise being a complete [[Non Sequitur]] number-guessing game. References to Numberwang have bled over into the game show fandom, to the point that many consider it an overused meme.</ref>
*  [[The Dating Game|I have a question for Bachelor #2...]] <ref>From ''[[The Dating Game]]'', in which a bachelorette inquires three mystery bachelors before deciding which one she wants to date.</ref>
*  [[The Newlywed Game|"Tell me specifically, where is the weirdest place you've ever gotten the urge to make whoopee?"]] <ref>A notorious 1978 question from the show that asked prying questions of four sets of newlyweds; one wife answered "in the ass". For years, it was believed that this question and answer were [[Urban Legend]]s as host Bob Eubanks denied that it ever happened, until footage of the actual question and answer surfaced.</ref>
*  "Dumb Dora was ''so dumb...''" "HOW DUMB WAS SHE?" <ref>Although the "X was so Y..." "How Y was X?" construct originated with [[Johnny Carson]], ''[[Match Game]]'' help popularize it whenever the show had a question about "Dumb Dora" or any other personality made up for the show's humorous fill-in-the-blank questions. The "How Y was X?" portion was usually asked by both the celebrity panel and audience, and host Gene Rayburn would typically rate their performance (e.g., "You blew it").</ref>
**  "Slide it, Earl!" <ref>Host Gene Rayburn's [[Catch Phrase]] when asking for the top answer to be revealed in the Audience Match portion of the [[Bonus Round]], where a contestant has to try and pick the top answer given by an audience in response to a fill-in-the-blank question.</ref>
** Old Man Periwinkle <ref>The name Match Game used whenever the sentence to complete involved an old person. Gene Rayburn would usually do an old man voice for him.</ref>
*  "...The choice is yours, and yours alone." <ref>From the kids' show ''[[Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'', the end of the [[Rules Spiel]] given by "Olmec", an animatronic stone head voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]].</ref>
** "...Through the SHRIIIIINE OF THE SILVEEEEEER MONKEEEEEY." <ref>Another recurring [[Large Ham]] statement from Olmec while describing the path through the temple.</ref>
*  "I can [[Title Drop|name that tune]] in five notes." "Four notes." "Three notes." "Name that tune." <ref>From the "Bid-a-Note" round of ''[[Name That Tune]]'', where contestants bid on how many notes they need to identify the song.</ref>
*  "Not a match; the board goes back." <ref>Hugh Downs often said this on ''[[Concentration]]'' when a contestant's chosen numbers did not have the same prize behind them. [[David Letterman]] helped get this phrase here, as he says it occasionally when a joke falls flat.</ref>
** "Oh, swell." <ref>Said by Downs early in games when two matched squares reveal blank spaces on the puzzle side.</ref>
** ...''IS RIGHT!'' <ref>Hugh says this after a contestant correctly solves the puzzle.</ref>
*  '''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?|"DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!"]]''' <ref>[[Catch Phrase]] in reference to the a cappella group Rockapella, who provided the music for ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?''</ref>
* Is it behind Door #1, Door #2, or Door #3? <ref>Reference to the three numbered doors on ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'', which may conceal a [[Zonk]] or a prize.</ref>
* "Your starter for ten..." <ref>Phrase used on ''[[University Challenge]]'' to indicate the next question is a basic, ten-point one.</ref>
* "For $10/$25/$50/$100,000...here is your first subject. Go!" <ref>Phrase used by Dick Clark to start the Winner's Circle round on various incarnations of ''Pyramid''.</ref>
** "Threefourfifty...$500!" <ref>Dick Clark adding up the amount of money won in a ''Pyramid'' Winner's Circle round. Or words to that effect.</ref>
* "Lower/Higher than a...?" <ref>What the host of ''[[Card Sharks]]'' will usually say prior to turning over the next card.</ref>
** "All of it, higher/lower!" <ref>What confident ''Card Sharks'' contestants will say when playing the Money Cards, the bonus game where you call high/low on the cards, but this time you bet money on each call. Aces or deuces, the little-to-no-fail cards in the deck, usually get the "all" bet.</ref>
* "Will the real X please stand up?" <ref>What the host of ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' says to find out who's telling the truth and who the imposters are.</ref>
** [[Weird Al Effect|Although these days, people are more likely to associate it with]] [[Eminem|Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady"]].
* "I would like to introduce you to ten of the most (alliterative two-word phrase, usually with negative meaning) that ever stood between an (occupation) and his/her money, and here...they...are!" <ref>Said by ''Whew!'' host Tom Kennedy to players before attempting the Gauntlet of Villains for $25,000.</ref>
** LONGSHOT! (screeeeeeeeeeech...CRASH!) <ref>What a Charger on ''Whew'' would say when time was running out and s/he couldn't reach Level 6 in time. This forced a [[Sudden Death]] single-pick of three possible bloopers to decide the round.</ref>
** TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME'S UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP! <ref>What the Gaunlet said to a Charger if their time ran out.</ref>
* If you'd like to be a contestant on ''Hit Man'', forget it! <ref>Rod Roddy's famous line in place of the contestant plug on said show's [[Grand Finale]].</ref>

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