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* [[Unexpectedly Obscure Answer]]: Some occupations were very...weird, to say the least. Some of the syndicated Mystery Guests were also very big on the "Mystery" but very little on the "Guest", including series producer Gil Fates (and Daly himself, who both was host AND Mystery Guest on the final CBS show). Often, family members of the panel would also be included.

** Salvador Dali was asked if he was a "leading man," and answered yes, to which the host had to specify that it might not mean quite what the contestant was thinking.

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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: [http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/yogicornflakes1.ram Kellogg's did an ad parodying the show], although despite being one of the show's longest-running sponsors it is unknown if it ever aired on the series itself.

* [[Animated Credits Opening]]: Three distinct animated openings were used through the run of the series. The first two featured the same man as he would go from one occupation to another, while the third split the screen into three sections as the heads, torsos, and feet of various characters were mixed and matched. The third open (which was produced in color during a period where the CBS broadcasts were experimenting with color broadcasting) was adapted for use in most of the syndicated run.

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* [[Expy]]: When ''[[Ive Got a Secret]]'' creator [[Allan Sherman]] brought the idea to Goodson-Todman, they initially rejected it as being a copy of ''Line''. Reportedly, Sherman replied that ''Line'' was so popular that '''somebody''' was going to copy it...so why not copy themselves?

* [[Frank Sinatra]]: Was both guest and panelist on one of the last CBS episodes, having more or less snubbed the show prior due to his feud with Dorothy Kilgallen.

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* [[Hey It's That Guy]]:

** A pre-''[[Star Trek]]'' William Shatner appeared as a panelist in a few CBS episodes.

** Leonard Nimoy was a Mystery Guest during the final syndicated season.

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* [[Trans Atlantic Equivalent]]: As was the case with most Goodson-Todman shows, there was a UK version of ''Line''. Its host, Eamonn Andrews, made frequent appearances as a panelist on the American ''Line'' and ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''.

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The syndicated run presented inventions that were awe-inspiring then but commonplace now — automatic teller machines, portable (paperback-sized) calculators, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F522GBtZPk home video games.]

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Given that they were both named Allen, they had roughly the same sense of off-beat humor, and the age was about right, a great deal of viewers incorrectly assumed that semi-regular panelist Fred Allen was semi-regular panelist Steve Allen's father. The two would often play along with this, and in somewhat of a continuation, a later episode had Steve saying how proud he was of the success of his son, [[Woody Allen|Woody]].

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Given that they were both named Allen, they had roughly the same sense of off-beat humor, and the age was about right, a great deal of viewers incorrectly assumed that semi-regular panelist Fred Allen was semi-regular panelist Steve Allen's father. The two would often play along with this, and in somewhat of a continuation, a later episode had Steve saying how proud he was of the success of his son, [[Woody Allen|Woody]].

* [[Who Is This Guy Again]]: One of the potential problems brought up when the idea of a syndicated run was thrown around in 1967-68 was getting five separate Mystery Guests per taping day. While this bullet was generally avoided with most Mystery Guests being as well-known as the ones from the CBS era (if not the same ones), others were stars and actors from Broadway shows and New York-based soap operas that had been nicknamed "Owls" by the crew, after the looks of "Who is this?" the panel would give after they took off their blindfolds.

* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]]: One of the potential problems brought up when the idea of a syndicated run was thrown around in 1967-68 was getting five separate Mystery Guests per taping day. While this bullet was generally avoided with most Mystery Guests being as well-known as the ones from the CBS era (if not the same ones), others were stars and actors from Broadway shows and New York-based soap operas that had been nicknamed "Owls" by the crew, after the looks of "Who is this?" the panel would give after they took off their blindfolds.

** The show once had to stretch so far as to book series producer Gil Fates as a Mystery Guest during the week taped June 25, 1970. In his book ''What's My Line?'', Fates described the resulting segment as "Very big Mystery, very little Guest."