History Series / FamilyFeud

--->'''Steve''' Go get yo' ass over there and you go get your ass over there. I'm gettin' sick of this now, damn it, ''hell.''\\

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Prior to the Harvey era, some answers would be toned down on the board. For instance, ''any'' time a contestant responded "butt" in fast money, it would displayed on the board as "bottom" instead.

There was also a very short-lived ''Celebrity Family Feud'' hosted by Creator/AlRoker during 2008, but started off on a farcical note with an bleeped-out answer that became a precursor to the Steve Harvey era's raunchy contestant responses, and another one of the matches, involving the cast of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', was very clearly staged in character and loaded with in-joke idiocy -- unsurprisingly, that version of the ''Feud'' sank like a stone. Creator/{{ABC}} aired a revival of the format for its summer 2015 line-up, this time with Steve Harvey on board, which more or less guaranteed ''much'' better ratings this time around; it returned for the summer of 2016 as part of ABC's new "Sunday Fun & Games" block, alongside New York-based reboots of ''[[Series/{{Pyramid}} The $100,000 Pyramid]]'' (with Michael Strahan) and ''Series/MatchGame'' (with Creator/AlecBaldwin).

The show spawned a popular British version as well, renamed ''Series/FamilyFortunes''. Hosted by Bob Monkhouse (1980-83), Max Bygraves (1983-85), Les Dennis (1987-2002), Andy Collins (2002), Vernon Kay (2006-2015) and Gino D'Acampo (2020-present). There has also been an Australian version, with several hosts from 1977-1996, then hosted by Bert Newton for the 2006-7 version and Grant Denyer from 2014 to 2018. It also inspired a Mexican version named ''100 mexicanos dijeron'' ("One Hundred Mexicans Said"). Gerry Dee began hosting an English-language Canadian version in fall 2019.

** In a 1982 episode, a Triple Round question about days when kids get a lot of candy had "Saturday" as the #4 answer. Dawson determined that the question was unfair because no one could have possibly guessed a day of the week, and he made an on-the-spot decision to let both families play again the next day.

** In a 1982 episode, a Triple Round question about about days when kids get a lot of candy had "Saturday" as the #4 answer. Dawson determined that the question was unfair because no one could have possibly guessed a day of the week, and he made an on-the-spot decision to let both families play again the next day.

** Unlike most other game shows, ''Family Feud'' allows contestants to return after ten years.[[note]]In comparison, ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' also has a ten year rule, while ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' only allows contestants to appear once unless invited back.[[/note]] Since the current version began, many families from the Dawson era came back to play again.

* RearrangeTheSong: The show's iconic theme song is a remix of a music cue from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' with a banjo line added. The Combs version remixed the theme in stereo, removed the introductory banjo and added a synth drum line. Upon Dawson's return in 1994, the show used a jazz re-orchestration of the theme. Louie's version used its own generic "party" theme. Both Karn's and O'Hurley's runs alternated between a different "party" theme and an edit of the Combs theme. Once Harvey took over, the Combs theme became official again on television, though John Lewis Parker (composer of the "party" theme) is still listed in the credits, and portions of said "party" theme are still heard in tie-ins to the show.

''Family Feud'' is a GameShow from [[Creator/MarkGoodson Mark Goodson Productions]] in which two families compete to guess the most popular answers to survey questions. Richard Dawson was the original host when the show debuted on Creator/{{ABC}} with Creator/PaulAlter as director of the show. The original version began in 1976, with a concurrent syndication run starting up a year later; both ended in 1985 within a month of each other.

** The 2020 season had some regular games stretched to fill the hour-long time slot as opposed to two games on one episode. In the following season, hour-long episodes had a second Triple round in place of Sudden Death.

* ObviousBeta:
** The three Pilots from May 1976 used a different set, different sound effects, different Strike graphics and Johnny Olson instead of Gene Wood. Further, all rounds were Single-value with first to $200 winning. Even more of a beta, Pilot #1 introduced the families as "In this corner!" instead of "Introducing...". And Richard would cue the bank being added with a separate "ting" sound for every question, rather than just the first two.
** The 1992 pilots for ''Family Feud Challenge'' featured a radically-different (and much more complicated) format, including a much longer and more convoluted Bullseye round.