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* [[Funny Moments]]:

** Some of the Whammies, including one that [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] contestants' cries of "Big Bucks!" by bringing out [[Visual Pun|a large deer]].

** April 3, 1984: Karen Martin asking for, and getting, a "pool table for Dan" [her husband]. {{spoiler|She hit a Whammy later in the round.}}

** October 22, 1984: Mabel [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9AO2EOA58 won by default] because the two other contestants hit four Whammies. Unfortunately, her score was $0, which caused Peter to stumble around a bit in total disbelief. When the show returned from break and he had composed himself:

'''Rod:''' Bupkis! }}

* [[Iconic Character Forgotten Title]]: People tended to remember it as "the show with the Whammy" rather than by its proper title, so much so that the GSN revival was called ''[[Whammy (TV series)|Whammy]]! The All-New Press Your Luck''.

### Using ''no prizes'' except generic trips worth $3,000 in Round 1 and $4,000 in Round 2, which considerably breaks Move One Space and Pick-A-Corner by removing half their purpose. For example, the classic Round 1 choice of "$100/$200/$300 + One Spin vs. [nice prize of unknown value]" is now "$100/$200/$300 + One Spin vs. Generic Trip Arbitrarily Worth $3,000".

### Having Big Bucks always redirect to ''said generic trip'' in Round 1 instead of the big-money square ($1,000/$1,250/$1,500). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzWa_0GoUg This playthrough] shows the absurdity of this at 4:21 and 4:49, as the player hits Advance Two Spaces in Square 10 (which wasn't there in the actual show) which leads to Big Bucks...

** Adding insult to injury was the [[Updated Rerelease]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr4gt_XbL0Q for the PS3] — it contained the actual theme, a looping board sound, and '''actual prizes''', not to mention a more faithful board layout.

*** Though to be fair, Fremantle apparently ''still'' couldn't find the master copy of the actual series theme, so they just went ahead and [[Rearrange the Song|made their own version themselves]]. This quasi-[[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version is also heard in the official [[Facebook]] app.

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: Slides occasionally went dark, dim, or otherwise glitched out. On August 23, 1985 a slide actually ''blew up'', meaning that they had to stop taping and finish up that episode the next day.

** In the first five months of the show, the buzzers that the contestants used to ring-in, when answering a question, or stopping the board, were supported by spring coils. They would break apart if they were slammed too hard, which happened on occasion (resulting in some editing to omit the scenes where the buzzers were being put back together). About 4 months in, they tried to fix this problem by changing the sticks that supported the buzzers. That, too, didn't work either, so it was decided to completely redesign them in February 1984.

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: By early August 1985, the Big Board had settled into a respectable configuration for both rounds. During the final season, however, the Round 2 layout had various slides needlessly moved around while nearly the entire board was in flux, with values going up and down so often that the ultimate victim ended up being [http://users.btes.tv/syoder/pylboard/articles/pac.html Pick-A-Corner] — the day the slides went neon was when the once-"fixed" directional square began breaking, as the values in the other three corners never remained static for very long and consistently conflicted with each other (including three layouts where players chose between ''identical values''); instead of correcting the problem, Pick-A-Corner was simply replaced on July 25, 1986 by a $1,000 + One Spin slide. <ref>(The space returned for ''Game Show Marathon'' in 2006, but remained broken.)</ref>

* [[Vindicated by Cable]]: The show originally ran for only three years, but became immortalized through reruns on USA in [[The Nineties]] and [[Game Show Network]] in [[The Noughties]], resulting in a brief 26-week [[Whammy (TV series)|revival]] and becoming one of the most beloved and well-known games that aren't currently being produced.