What's the geekiest thing you know about any game show ever made?

[howierules86]

For me, mine is the fact that I OVERDOSED on "Family Challenge" (Ray Combs version, NOT Michael Burger's) as a nine-year old, and wrote down the airdates and families' last names for every single episode in a notebook I had over ten years ago, and to this day, I still have all 65 episodes of this show memorized! How about you?

[FieldsFan336]

I was a huge fan of the 1998-2004 incarnation of Hollywood Squares.  I had notebooks full of every play from season 2 onward and I operated a daily spoiler site (taking over from someone who started it in season 1) with my square-by-square play notes.  I also had 72 various episodes on 5 VHS tapes from every season (including the famous "YOU FOOL" episode), but my mom threw them out two years ago when she re-decorated my room while I was on vacation during my school reading week

[dmaingame]

the april fool's joke that hollywood squares played on john davidson.  they hired a set of mock contestants (really actors) then staged a scene where the male contestant "mr x" was accused of cheating by the the female contestant "ms o"  she proceeds to shove him off the elevated contestant platform while john davidson looks on open-mouthed in awe

[Teddy]

I was a big fan of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and Super Millionaire with Regis Philbin. I never missed a single episode, and I played the online game regularly. More often than not, I ended up winning the million dollars! 

[dh027]

the april fool's joke that hollywood squares played on john davidson.  they hired a set of mock contestants (really actors) then staged a scene where the male contestant "mr x" was accused of cheating by the the female contestant "ms o"  she proceeds to shove him off the elevated contestant platform while john davidson looks on open-mouthed in awe

I think by the "YOU FOOL" episode, Fieldsy was referring to the Bergeron episode that Penn and Teller were on.  They were either the last square left or both X and O need them to win.  Penn Gillette would give a convincing bluff, the contestant would agree, and then Penn would shout "YOU FOOL" at them.  This went on at least seven times.

[howierules86]

Actually, it was Gilbert Gottfried who was the last square picked in that round, and ended up being asked several questions that day thanks to the contestants being wrong too many times!

[ayoung]

when i was 12 i knew all the store names in the Shop 'Til You Drop mall..  the other kids in school were not impressed.

[Plinkoplayer83]

i know all the rules to every single pricing game played on TPIR and when I was younger people thought I was wierd...

[Timotheus]

when i was 12 i knew all the store names in the Shop 'Til You Drop mall..  the other kids in school were not impressed.

That probably shouldn't've made me laugh as much as it did...

[AndyL]

I think the fact that I used to remember game shows that left the airwaves, supposedly never to be seen again.  And, I don't necessarily mean the ones that turned up on GSN during various eras, either.  I'm talking about the rarities that I later discovered had been erased.

[SuperBall85]

I know what a "trilon" is--the rectangular-triangular prisms used in the old-style Pyramid board and the original Wheel of Fortune display. The best example in "everyday" life would be the Toss Across beanbag tic-tac-toe game, which also uses trilons.

[Reloaden]

I know every host first and last name on every version of weakest link around the world

[SteveGavazzi]

I deciphered Price's production number system pretty much by myself.  Does that count?

[PriceFanArmadillo]

Is that even in your top five? 

Me?  Probably the fact that I quit watching Wheel of Fortune for several years as a teenager because it was too easy.

[Chief-O]

Name a game show, chances are, I know the model of cameras that shot it.