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Despite the allure these programs have to viewers, they're not without controversy. But why, you ask? The idea of a phone-in game show is pretty much a trope on its own, because practically every single phone-in quiz show on Earth follows the exact same series of events:
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To note, there are far too many of these shows to count, so this page will mainly be general to the genre since they're all rather similar.
* [[Bonus Round]]: Some of these shows offered bonus games to win jackpot prizes.
* [[Carried
* [[Double the Dollars]]: Sometimes done as an incentive to "[[Just for Pun|double the dialers]]"
* [[Let's Just See What Would Have Happened]]: In the case of puzzles having more than one answer.
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** During the British phone-in scandals, one complaint surfaced involving a show which named "rawlplugs" (a piece of hardware used to anchor a screw into a drywall or plaster wall) and "balaclava" as items a woman would keep in her handbag. Seriously?
▲=== Oh, time's up! Here's what was behind the money on the TropeBoard! ===
* [[Easier Than Easy]]/[[Harder Than Hard]]: In layman's terms: if the questions are easy, politicians will call it gambling. If the questions are hard, politicians will call it a scam.
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