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Memes on the [[Game Show]] front:
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** 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>
** 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>
* ''[[Twenty21 One(game show)|21]]'' 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>
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!!!!!]] <ref>[[Title Scream]] at the top of each show since 1983.</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>
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* If you'd like to be a contestant on ''Hit Man'', forget it! <ref>Rod Roddy's famous line in place of the contestant plug on said show's [[Grand Finale]].</ref>
 
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