Password/YMMV
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Allen Ludden: Alright, we've got "All", "The", "Tropes", "Different", "Opinion", and "Tab". You there, for the game, what do you think it is? |
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- Ear Worm: Pretty much every one of the American franchise's themes and sound effects...until Million-Dollar decided to go with all-generic. The second theme for the 1960s version, composed by Bob Cobert, was so popular that Bob Crane once suggested writing lyrics to it.
- Retroactive Recognition: Kirstie Alley was a contestant on Plus in 1980.
- Surprise Difficulty: Try playing the home versions - it looks pretty easy, but a lot of people accidentally give the password as a clue because the word's written right in front of them.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Not much has ever been derided, except the All-Stars format and Plus making antonyms illegal... and even then, YMMV.
- Million-Dollar. As per the standard for Fremantle Media, all the good things added to the format over the years were thrown out in favor of each half-hour being self-contained. The main-game switched to a Pyramid-esque format, while the Bonus Round used Cashword's three-clues-per-word concept and didn't really have the suspense of Alphabetics/Super Password.
- The bonus round required a clue-response-clue communication method — if the clue-giver said two clues in a row, or the contestant gave two guesses in a row, that word was forfeited. One contestant lost because she gave two guesses (the second of which was correct) with about two seconds left on the clock; she would've lost had she followed the rules (there was no time for another clue to be given), and lost because she gave two answers (likely because she knew there would be no time for another clue). Basically, she was screwed either way.
- Million-Dollar. As per the standard for Fremantle Media, all the good things added to the format over the years were thrown out in favor of each half-hour being self-contained. The main-game switched to a Pyramid-esque format, while the Bonus Round used Cashword's three-clues-per-word concept and didn't really have the suspense of Alphabetics/Super Password.
- What an Idiot!: Anyone who ever gave the password as a clue.
- This Alphabetics round. Granted, those are not the easiest words, but the clues given were rather terrible.
- Many celebrity players on Million-Dollar were... none too swift at playing the game. Sara Evans and William Shatner were abysmal.
- The "Giving the password as a clue" was actually more of an Ignore the Disability. Plenty of times, people have said "okay don't say that word" mentally but then said it by mistake, or they thought of a clue, and then accidentally say the word that's written right in front of them. Even Bert Convvy has said it a couple times, since he sees the word and accidentally reads it. Try it yourself.