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{{examples|Examples with real [[Game Show|Game Shows]]s:}}

* January/February 2007: ''[[Rules of Engagement (TV series)|Rules of Engagement]]'' (premiered February 5) did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SREPMGJRt1E a promo] with Jim Lange himself (albeit somewhat balder and grayer up top) reprising. Sadly, there was no big 'ol KISS like the old days.

* July 14, 1959: In ''It Happened To Jane'', the title character [https://web.archive.org/web/20160418023631/http://ivegotasecretonline.com/transcripts/other/it-happened-to-jane-movie/ appears on the original version.] Garry Moore and the panel ([[Bill Cullen]], Jayne Meadows, Henry Morgan, and Betsy Palmer) appeared as themselves in the only surviving color footage of the 1952-67 era. Also in the film were Robert Paige (on ''[[The Big Payoff]]'', shortly before its demise and which is also pretty rare) and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIXZWiguJc an uncredited Gene Rayburn] (as himself, a WTIC reporter).

* January 18, 1990: Cliff Clavin of ''[[Cheers]]'' appeared on the show) and had enough going into Final Jeopardy! (nearly $18,000 more than his opponents ''combined'' thanks to a "dream board" for the Jeopardy! Round) to easily secure a large payday, but bet everything and got it wrong. <ref>(For the record, [http://www.j-archive.com/wageringcalculator.php?a=22000&b=3300&c=750&player_a=Cliff&player_b=Agnes&player_c=Milford this] is how Cliff ''should'' have played.)</ref>

* December 7, 1996- – May 16, 2009: The "Celebrity Jeopardy!" sketches with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek.

** Another Jeopardy spoof appeared in the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "K-ACME TV", also titled "Gyp-parody". Buster hosts this, and his tolerance is tested against the contestants -- Dizzycontestants—Dizzy Devil was only interested in eating his podium, Calamity Coyote's buzzer was broken, and Elmyra could only answer "A bunny. {{spoiler|When the final question asked what animal was commonly associated with Easter, she answers "George Washington", causing Buster to finally snap.}}

* January/February 2007: A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y6YyQFAXgw promo] for CBS' ''[[Rules of Engagement (TV series)|Rules of Engagement]]'' featured the three main couples on the show with Bob Eubanks (who else?) appearing as host. Eubanks' question, to the surprise of nobody, was the urban legend.

* November 29, 1990: An episode of ''L.A. Law'' ("Vowel Play") picked up after the "previously on" trailer as a '''Bob Goen''' episode, with no hint that it was anything but (well, minus the $1,250 space already out). "But wait", you say, "daytime ''Wheel'' was on CBS and ''L.A. Law'' on NBC!" Yes, and on January 14, 1991 ''Wheel'' [[Channel Hop|Channel Hopped]]ped [[Hilarious in Hindsight|to the Peacock]].

=== Examples with Fake [[Game Show|Game Shows]]:s ===

* In the [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]] story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120606102436/http://disneycomics.free.fr/index_barks_date.php The Crazy Quiz Show]" (by [[Carl Barks]]), [[Donald Duck]] (having gone through an intense book study in preparation), Huey, Dewey and Louie become contestants on a radio quiz show named "You Say -- We Pay". The quiz itself is a massive [[Refuge in Audacity]], giving the nephews questions that take little to no effort to answer correctly, while giving Donald [[Unexpectedly Obscure Answer|rediculously impossible questions]] just because he looks like a professional prize-grabber. They also prevent Donald from coaching the nephews into choosing money over bicycles. {{spoiler|Donald answers the last question successfully, but the mental effort taken to answer the question ("How many drops of water pass over Niagara Falls in a week?") was so exhaustive that Donald ends up choosing a trike instead of a barrel of money.}}

* ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'' had a ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)||Double Dare]]''-esque game with a "sibling rivalry" theme called "Brain Drain", containing elements suspiciously similar to Nickelodeon's later game ''[[Brain Surge]]''.

* The ''[[Hardcastle and McCormick]]'' episode "Games People Play" centered on a local Los Angeles quiz show called "Trivia Masters" hosted by "Bryce Benson" (Tom Kennedy), which has the lowest ratings of ''any'' show in the nation. McCormick appears on the revamped version, "Million-Dollar Trivia Masters", and climbs the money ladder; unfortunately, his game is rigged and Benson is a homicidal maniac. You can read a full recap [https://web.archive.org/web/20141029053515/http://www.game-show-utopia.net/hardcastle.htm here.]

* In a popular episode of ''[[The Honeymooners]]'', Ralph competes on "The $99,000 Answer", a ''$64,000 Question'' [[Expy]] hosted by "Herb Morris" (Jay Jackson) where a contestant must answer a series of questions in a category of their choosing in order to win the titular prize. <ref>($100--$600--$?--$6,187.50--$12,375--$24,750--$49,500--$99,000; the third hurdle isn't mentioned, hence the question mark. It would probably be $1,200 or $3,093.75, but in either case that's quite a jump.)</ref> After stage fright and stuttering badly while choosing his category (Popular Music), Ralph gets a full week to study and doesn't slack around — he grabs Ed Norton and studies like hell, to the point where he can name virtually any song no matter what part of it gets played. Ralph returns to the show a knowledgeable man, confident that he can tackle any and every song Morris may ask him to identify; [[Status Quo Is God|naturally]], the $100 song is the only one he doesn't know, and furthermore it's "Swanee River", the song that Norton always played the first few bars of "to warm up" while he was helping Ralph memorize songs.

* On ''[[Small Wonder]]'', the Lawsons and Brindles were opponents on a game similar to Nickelodeon's ''[[Double Dare (1986 TV Show)||Family Double Dare]]''. Its host was played by Geoff Edwards.

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