Countdown (game show)/YMMV
- Adaptation Displacement: Approximately zero of its viewers know it is actually a British localisation of a French gameshow.
- Crowning Music of Awesome / Ear Worm: The main theme and 30-second timer.
- Funny Moments:
- Many of the times a funny word comes up on the board, or where a contestant declares a "Dirty" word often count. The word "Fart" once showed up on the board, along with "Poo" and then "Poof".[1] It also deserves special mention when the first letters were "ORGA" and Carol began to dread the next few letters.
- Carol gets a scare!
- Richard was once GOTCHA'ed for an entire episode, only discovering the joke upon seeing the Conundrum answer (HOGCAT = GOTCHA). Only a small portion was ever aired, but the full taping (complete with stopdown footage) can be seen here.
- Memetic Mutation: The Theme Tune embodies this Trope, but also "Two from the top and one from the bottom, please, Carol".
- Misblamed: Did you see that video / image with the word Cuntflaps on the board? Well, that didn't actually happen; it was a photoshopped hoax.[2] Even if that did happen, the second the word cunt showed up, someone would have come out and changed it.
- Moment of Awesome: Anytime someone finds a 9-letter word.
- Replacement Scrappy: Rachel Riley.
- Tear Jerker: Carol Vorderman's tribute to Richard Whiteley the day after his death.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Rachel Riley. Des Lynam to a lesser extent; he had a pretty difficult act to follow in Richard Whiteley, but it didn't help that he often came across as somewhat grumpy.
- An attempt on September 18, 1990 to export the show to America kicked out the Numbers Games and tacked on a $10,000 bonus round. The fact that there was a $25,000 bonus for any nine-letter word
- Parodied in this skit showing a fictional NBC attempt to "Americanize" the programme. Yes, the "model" is Amy Pond. You're welcome.
- Dead Ringers also did a (radio) parody of an attempt to Americanise the show, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the host and Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson as the contestants.
- What the Hell Casting Agency: To say that Nick Hewer was a surprising choice for host would be a spectacular understatement. He hasn't actually taken over at the time of writing, so this could yet turn out to be a stroke of genius.
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