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* [[Crossover]]: Crossed over with ''[[The Dating Game]]'' in the 1990s.
* [[Die Hard Onon an X]]: The [[NBC]] game ''I'm Telling!'' was basically ''The Newlywed Game'' for kids.
** The [[ESPN]] game ''Teammates'' was ''The Newlywed Game'' for professional athletes.
** And ''The Neighbors'' was ''The Newlywed Game'' for... neighbors.
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* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: It's an instrumental arrangement of "Summertime Guy". Eddie Rambeau was to have sung it on ''[[American Bandstand]]'' but was told he couldn't because Barris, who composed the song, was then working for ABC.
** The Paul Rodriguez version used "The Book of Love" as its [[Theme Tune]] from the second episode onward, complete with [[Synchro Vox]] applied to pictures of early 20th-century married couples.
* [[Shout -Out]]: When he appeared on ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'' in 2003, Eubanks was given the question "Married couples spend an average of 800 hours doing what?" and answered with "I was going to say making [[Stealth Pun|whoopie]], but [[Whoopi Goldberg|she's]] no longer on the show, is she?"
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "Whoopie".
 
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