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*** It looks like they tried to avoid this for a while on the Brady version, as almost anything given away as a Zonk during the first season, even the large amounts of food, was usually spray-painted, smashed, or otherwise defaced to render it worthless. This practice now seems to be abandoned for the most part, to the point where certain Zonks contain things like DJ mixers and old-style TV's that appear to be in perfect condition and often even ''shown to be working''.
*** During the days of Door Number 4 on "The All-New Let's Make a Deal", the "Zonk" space on the wheel was always awarded as a red T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "I was Zonked by Monty Hall!"
** Even the foreign versions played along. The German ''Geh aufs Ganze'' had Zonks known as "Zonks", [https://web.archive.org/web/20070213104107/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Zonk.jpg grey-red, fox-like plush animals]. On the Polish version ''Idź Na Całość'', Zonk was a red plush cat in a black bag ("cat in a bag" being the Polish idiom equivalent to "pig in a poke").
* These gag prizes also appeared on ''[[Concentration]]'', which was part of the reason for the "Forfeit One Gift" cards.
** One such gag prize was a brick wall. The contestant surely wouldn't want a brick wall, would he? Oh yes, he would, and the producers were forced to build a brick wall around the contestant's house for several thousand 1960s dollars. Since then, such gifts have been described more carefully (usually as something like "3 feet of brick wall").
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