Bullseye (U.S. game show)/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Accidental Innuendo: During a civilian-era show while Jim was talking to a contestant about her golf game:

Contestant: I'm straight, but I'm not real long.
Jim Lange: Well, we all have our problems. I'm real long but I'm not very straight.
(while the clip typically appears in blooper specials, they usually omit what Jim said next — "See how they misinterpret me?")

  • Funny Aneurysm Moment: Patrick Wayne played on one episode and mentioned that he had hosted a game show pilot. Lange remarked that he thought Wayne would make a good host, which turned out to be a rather inaccurate prediction.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Near-unanimous opinion on the Celebrity format, and not just because the change appeared to have been done as a last-ditch effort to save the show.
    • Contestants now played a best-of-three match, with most questions being multiple-choice of three answers. A $500 value was added to the main game, and the categories were no longer announced by Lange before the game began. All other rules remained as they were before the change.
    • Still, Celebrity Bullseye is unique among celebrity games in that it continued to use returning champions and straddle matches. For example, one episode aired by GSN began with Fred Travalena playing Bonus Island, after which he faced Phyllis Diller.
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