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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Chuckie Baby made it his ''mission'' to see how much he could with this show.
* [[Grand Finale]]: The last NBC episode had a member of Barris' staff guest-hosting as Chuckie's Fables presented "The Land Of Ferb And Fenwick Gotterer". Barris himself appeared to sing a slightly-modified "Take This Job and Shove It" — and got gonged by Jamie Farr.
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* [[Hold Up Your Score]]
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: During the 1976-80 run, signs would occasionally hang at the back of the stage.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Whenever Barris nervously clapped his hands, so would the audience; Gene-Gene the Dancing Machine; The Unknown Comic; the signs hanging at the back of the stage area. In the 1989 version, "ventriloquist" Oscar and Bernie performed three times and got humiliatingly gonged each time.
* ''[[Sanford and Son]]'': The 1976 episode "Sanford & Gong" featured the show and Barris.
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* [[Take That]]:
** The aforementioned "It's Not Lin Bolen Day!"
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