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* [[Whammy]]: The red balls, which pass control to the opposing team. Chuck called these "Stoppers", no doubt as a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Scrabble (TV)|Scrabble]]''.
** It came full circle with the Engvall version, with "Stopper Balls" [[Ascended Meme|now being their official term]]. These have the number circle filled in in red, rather than the whole ball, since the balls are selected from racks behind the teams instead of from a hopper.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The ''[[Vliegende Panters]]'' <ref>(Flying Panthers)</ref> sketch ''Nineteen-Letter Lingo'' <ref>(Negentien-letter Lingo, in Dutch)</ref>, which features such gems as M-I-N-I-M-U-M-T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E-N <ref>(minimum temperatures)</ref>.
* [[April Fools' Day]]: On April 1, 2003, the then-hosts of GSN's other originals (Graham Elwood of ''[[Cram]]'' and Kennedy of ''[[Friend or Foe (TV)|Friend or Foe]]'' vs. Marc Summers of ''[[Win Tuition]]'' and Mark L. Walberg of ''[[Russian Roulette (TV)|Russian Roulette]]'') played each other for charity, with Todd Newton (then-host of ''[[Whammy (TV)|Whammy]]'') as announcer.
* [[Bowdlerization]]: One early promo ended with the narrator saying, "Doesn't Chuck Woolery make you..." followed by a clip of a contestant saying "Horny, H-O-R-N-Y." This was later changed to a clip of another contestant saying "Laugh, [[Rouge Angles of Satin|L-U-G-H]]."
* [[Catch Phrase]]: As he did on ''[[Love Connection]]'', Chuck regularly threw the show to commercial with, "We'll be back in two and two."
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