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'''Note To Producers:''' If your game is typically played by civilians, do ''not'' switch to "All celebrities, all the time!" It doesn't matter if you're a veteran or a newbie, because your show ''will'' die within a year...at most. To be more blunt, '''''it has never worked.'''''
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== Game Shows ==
* In general, most Japanese games use Japanese celebrities due to TV prize laws [[Game Show Winnings Cap|limiting civilian prizes to 2 million JPY (about US$20,000) total.]]
* ''[[Bullseye
* The Australian ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'' had this with celebrities from ''[[Dancing With the Stars]]''.
* Inverted with ''[[Definition]]'', as the teams were originally celebrity-civilian and switched to civilians-only on December 16, 1985.
* Subverted by ''[[Distraction]]'', which used former ''[[Big Brother]]'' contestants.
* ''[[Don't Forget the Lyrics]]''
* ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)|Double Dare]]'' had several celebrity episodes (including one with [[Weird Al]] and [[Incredible Hulk|Lou Ferrigno]]) playing against each other. Nickelodeon mounted a pilot on July 27, 1987 for a spinoff called ''Celebrity Double Dare'' hosted by Bruce Jenner with teams of celebrities (Scott Baio and Heidi Bohay) and adult contestants, but it never got past there and said pilot never aired.
* ''[[Family Feud]]'' had several of these over its various incarnations, but of particular note is the "almost celebrity" editions which had teams of celebrity lookalikes playing each other. Oddly enough, they still had to donate their winnings to charity, even though they weren't actually celebrities.
** The British version, ''Family Fortunes'', currently only runs as a celebrity version somewhat oxymoronically titled ''All-Star Family Fortunes'', despite only two (usually) out of the ten contestants actually being stars...and even then, the "stars" are usually nothing more than average soap actors.
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** The WWE-themed episode in the US, which was hilarious because almost everyone remained completely in character for the entire show, leading to such brilliant moments as HHH refusing to vote out Stephanie who was at the time (in the strictest sense) his boss (as well as his wife) and the Big Show towering over Ann when he was eliminated.
* During the 1990s, ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' played this straight. In the 2000s, they occasionally tried a variant, where each team consisted of a celebrity ''and'' a contestant; the game was played normally, with the contestant earning cash and trips as usual, while the celebrity had an identical amount donated to a charity. These have not happened since 2007.
* ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'': One of the reasons the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] version fell down in its final season (2001–02) was about half the episodes being celebrity oriented. The French version took it a step further by '''completely ceasing to cast non-celebrities''' and allegedly giving the cash to charity (much like ''[[Fort Boyard]]'' years earlier).
* The original ''[[Concentration]]'' had an annual Christmas episode where two celebrities, both dressed as Santa, would match dollar amounts for charity.
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