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Memes on the [[Game Show]] front:
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*** Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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* Richard Karn wants you to know that because he feels like a meme, he's going to [[Family Feud|DOUBLE THE POINTS]]!!!!!!!! <ref>
** But not before you've DRAWN FIRST BLOOD.
** Good answer! Good answer! <ref>
** Survey said...
** NEKKID GRANDMA!! <ref>
** IS IT UP THERE? <ref>
* But if you do, chances are you'll hear [[Tic-Tac-Dough|Patrick Wayne]] tell you that "YOUUUUUUUUUUUU WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" If not, that's okay, "Just cause you're divorced doesn't mean you can't have fun, riiiiiiiiiiiight?" <ref>
** Oh yeah, and Jim Caldwell wants to add that those red boxes are special categories, he'll be sure to explain them when we get to them.
* [[Press Your Luck|Big bucks]], no [[Whammy
** Stop at a [[Prize Letdown|Flokati Rug]]! <ref>
▲* [[Press Your Luck|Big bucks]], no [[Whammy|Whammys]]...STOP! <ref> The mantra of many a contestant on ''[[Second Chance]]'', ''[[Press Your Luck]]'', and ''[[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy]]!'' — hitting a Devil/Whammy on the game board wiped out one's score.</ref>
** The title format of ''[[Revival|Whammy! The All New Press Your Luck]]'' became a meme in and of itself.
▲** Stop at a [[Prize Letdown|Flokati Rug]]! <ref> Often considered the least desirable prize on the board, an opinion even mentioned within the show itself.</ref>
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▲** The title format of ''[[Revival|Whammy! The All New Press Your Luck]]'' became a meme in and of itself. <ref> Message board posters would come up with similar titles for hypothetical revivals, such as ''Dragon! The All New [[Tic-Tac-Dough]].''</ref>
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!!]] <ref>
▲* ''[[Twenty One]]'' was RRRRRRRRRRRIGGED! <ref> Early meme dating from the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows, referring to the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s. While ''Twenty One'' was a big offender, this also applied to ''[[Tic-Tac-Dough]]'', ''The $64,000 Question'', and the smoking gun itself — ''Dotto''.</ref>
** What? You didn't know any of this? I bet you didn't know that Woolery left ''[[Wheel of Fortune|Wheel]]''.<ref>
▲* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!!]] <ref> [[Title Scream]] at the top of each show since 1983.</ref>
** A group of pill-pushers? <ref>
▲** What? You didn't know any of this? I bet you didn't know that Woolery left ''[[Wheel of Fortune|Wheel]]''.<ref> A popular way of saying that a piece of game show news is old. The reference is to former ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' host Chuck Woolery, who left on Christmas Day 1981.</ref>
▲** A group of pill-pushers? <ref> A humorous missolve from 1999 that has shown up in countless blooper specials. The actual answer was A GROUP OF WELL-WISHERS.</ref>
*** '''''This is WHEEL OF FORTUNE, Joe!''''' <ref>Pat's [[What the Hell, Player?|reaction to the above.]]</ref>
** I'd like to buy a vowel.
** "Top dollar value on the Wheel for the first round is $500. But look out for this black space, Bankrupt, because if you hit it, you lose all your cash, but not your merchandise, because once you buy a prize, it's yours to keep." <ref>
** RSTLN E <ref>
** The ceramic dalmatian.<ref>
* Good internet game show forum etiquette: DON'T ask how ''[[Hot Potato (TV series)|Hot Potato]]'' was played.
** ...or ask what game shows [dead celebrity]'s corpse will host.
* [[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?|"Is that your final answer?"]] <ref>
** "Can I phone a friend?" <ref>
* That dating show from the 1990s is actually called FREAKIN' STUDS.
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|This...]] ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|is]]''... ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Jeopardy!]]'' <ref>[[Title Scream]] at the top of the show.</ref>
** [[Jeopardy!|Sorry, you didn't phrase that in the form of a question.]] <ref>Reference to the format of ''Jeopardy!'', which inverts the typical question-and-answer format of quiz shows.</ref>
** Who are three people that have never been in my kitchen? <ref>On an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' ("What Is... Cliff Clavin?"), [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] postman Cliff Clavin appeared on ''Jeopardy!'' and had a runaway lead. He lost after wagering all of his winnings on the Final Jeopardy! clue and writing that as his response. ''Jeopardy!'' has made this episode into an [[Ascended Meme]] of sorts, as "[[Person As Verb Pulling A Clavin]]" is now the term for an all-in Final Jeopardy! wager from a runaway lead.</ref>
** What is Toronto? <ref>During a special set of episodes in February 2011, a computer named Watson competed against former contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Despite amassing a runaway lead, Watson was stumped by Final Jeopardy! and guessed Toronto. Since then, this has become the successor to "never been in my kitchen" for contestants who are stumped in Final Jeopardy!</ref>
** I'll take over-used memes for $800, Alex.
** Eleventy billion dollars! <ref>What "Keanu Reaves" bid in a [[Saturday Night Live SNL]] ''Celebrity Jeopardy!'' sketch. This "number" is often used among game show fans to spoof the trend towards very high payouts.</ref>
* [[The Joker's Wild|Joker...]]''[[The Joker's Wild|Joker...]]''[[The Joker's Wild|First Ladies!]] <ref>Jack Barry's over-dramatic read of the giant slot machine on ''[[The Joker's Wild]]''.</ref>
** Jack, I'll go off the board and take Baseball.
* [[Hollywood Squares|I'll take [celebrity's name] for the win, please.]] <ref>The origin of "for the win", originally said by many contestants on the celebrity tic-tac-toe game when three-in-a-row was imminent.</ref>
** [[You Fool!]] <ref>From a 1999 episode where Gilbert Gottfried was the only star left on the board, but the contestants kept whiffing the increasingly easy questions and falling for Gottfried's obvious bluffs. Every time they whiffed, he would scream "YOU FOOL!"</ref>
* "The [[Password]] is..." <ref>Whispered by [[The Announcer]] in most versions of the word-association game.</ref>
* [[Deal or No Deal]]? <ref>[[Title Drop
* [[What's My Line?|Is it bigger than a breadbox?]] <ref>In reference to the [[Panel Game]] where a celebrity panel would ask yes-or-no questions in attempt to determine a contestant's job. "Bigger than a breadbox" existed well before that, but the show helped popularize it thanks to Steve Allen.</ref>
* [[Blockbusters|I'll take a P, Bob.]]
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** Let's rotate the board! <ref>From a game show parody sketch on ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' called "Numberwang", the premise being a complete [[Non Sequitur]] number-guessing game. References to Numberwang have bled over into the game show fandom, to the point that many consider it an overused meme.</ref>
* [[The Dating Game|I have a question for Bachelor #2...]] <ref>From ''[[The Dating Game]]'', in which a bachelorette inquires three mystery bachelors before deciding which one she wants to date.</ref>
* [[The Newlywed Game|"Tell me specifically, where is the weirdest place you've ever gotten the urge to make whoopee?"]] <ref>A notorious 1978 question from the show that asked prying questions of four sets of newlyweds; one wife answered "in the ass". For years, it was believed that this question and answer were [[Urban Legend
* "Dumb Dora was ''so dumb...''" "HOW DUMB WAS SHE?" <ref>Although the "X was so Y..." "How Y was X?" construct originated with [[Johnny Carson]], ''[[Match Game]]'' help popularize it whenever the show had a question about "Dumb Dora" or any other personality made up for the show's humorous fill-in-the-blank questions. The "How Y was X?" portion was usually asked by both the celebrity panel and audience, and host Gene Rayburn would typically rate their performance (e.g., "You blew it").</ref>
** "Slide it, Earl!" <ref>Host Gene Rayburn's [[Catch Phrase]] when asking for the top answer to be revealed in the Audience Match portion of the [[Bonus Round]], where a contestant has to try and pick the top answer given by an audience in response to a fill-in-the-blank question.</ref>
** Old Man Periwinkle <ref>
* "...The choice is yours, and yours alone." <ref>From the kids' show ''[[Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'', the end of the [[Rules Spiel]] given by "Olmec", an animatronic stone head voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]].</ref>
** "...Through the SHRIIIIINE OF THE SILVEEEEEER MONKEEEEEY." <ref>
* "I can [[Title Drop|name that tune]] in five notes." "Four notes." "Three notes." "Name that tune." <ref>From the "Bid-a-Note" round of ''[[Name That Tune]]'', where contestants bid on how many notes they need to identify the song.</ref>
* "Not a match; the board goes back." <ref>Hugh Downs often said this on ''[[Concentration]]'' when a contestant's chosen numbers did not have the same prize behind them. [[David Letterman]] helped get this phrase here, as he says it occasionally when a joke falls flat.</ref>
** "Oh, swell." <ref>
** ...''IS RIGHT!'' <ref>
* '''[[Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?|"DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!"]]''' <ref>[[Catch Phrase]] in reference to the a cappella group Rockapella, who provided the music for ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?''</ref>
* Is it behind Door #1, Door #2, or Door #3? <ref>Reference to the three numbered doors on ''[[Let's Make a Deal]]'', which may conceal a [[Zonk]] or a prize.</ref>
* "Your starter for ten..." <ref>
* "For $10/$25/$50/$100,000...here is your first subject. Go!" <ref>
** "Threefourfifty...$500!" <ref>
* "Lower/Higher than a...?" <ref>
** "All of it, higher/lower!" <ref>
* "Will the real X please stand up?" <ref>
** [[Weird Al Effect|Although these days, people are more likely to associate it with]] [[Eminem|Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady"]].
* "I would like to introduce you to ten of the most (alliterative two-word phrase, usually with negative meaning) that ever stood between an (occupation) and his/her money, and here...they...are!" <ref>
** LONGSHOT! (screeeeeeeeeeech...CRASH!) <ref>
** TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME'S UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP! <ref>
* If you'd like to be a contestant on ''Hit Man'', forget it! <ref>
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