History Series / GetThePicture

[[caption-width-right:304:The game show where an eye for detail can make you a winner.]]

** Season 2: "A picture is about to appear right here, so get your mind into focus/overdrive, as (team names) of the Orange Team, and (team names) of the Yellow Team, get ready, to ''Get the Picture!''".

** Early Season 2 tapings gave computer terminology for the Orange and Yellow teams (i.e. Bits, Bytes, Analogs, Digitals, Hard Drives, Floppy Disks, Modems, and Networks).

** Season 2: "A picture is about to appear right here, so get your mind into focus/overdrive, as (team names) of the Orange Team, and (team names) of the Yellow Team, get ready, to ''Get the Picture!"''.

** Season 1 had different rhyming opening spiels from Henry J. The first tapings, for example, went like this: "It's not a picture yet, but if you use your powers of perception, then you're ready... to ''Get the Picture''!"
** Season 2: "A picture is about to appear right here, so get your mind into focus/overdrive, as (team names) of the Orange Team, and (team names) of the Yellow Team, get ready, to ''Get the Picture''!

** Season 1 had different rhyming opening spiels from Henry J. The first tapings, for example, went like this: "It's not a picture yet, but if you use your powers of perception, then you're ready... to ''Get the Picture''"!

* SuddenDeath: When the time buzzer rang at the end of a round, if there was a picture in progress, it would be revealed one square at a time. The teams could buzz in as often as they wanted (with no penalty for a wrong answer) and the team that guessed the picture got the $50/$75.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Series/{{Dotto}}'', only minus the rigging.

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* ConsolationPrize
* DoubleTheDollars: Partially; questions were raised from $20 in the first round to $40 in the second. The pictures, however, were more like 1½ times the dollars ($50 in round 1, $75 in round 2), with wrong guesses always costing $20 (except in a sudden death situation; see below).
* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Henry J, who had previously announced the Orlando season of ''Series/ThinkFast''.
** GameShowHost: Creator/MikeOMalley.
** StudioAudience: Mike often went into the audience as he pitched to break following round 1.
* PromotionalConsideration
* SpeedRound / SuddenDeath: When the time buzzer rang at the end of a round, if there was a picture in progress, it would be revealed one square at a time. The teams could buzz in as often as they wanted (with no penalty for a wrong answer) and the team that guessed the picture got the $50/$75.
* ThinkMusic: During the Power Surges; also the 10-second timer used while the winner was given the answers for Mega Memory.
* UndesirablePrize: The grand prize was often a trip to Universal Studios in Orlando where the show was taped. Basically, this meant that if you weren't impressed with the park the first time, you "won" the opportunity to see the same things all over again. [[InvertedTrope On the other hand]], if you enjoyed the park, you got a return trip on Nick's dime.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* BaitAndSwitch: Sometimes Mike O'Malley would read an overly complicated math problem and then end it with a completely different question altogether. For example: "While driving from New York to Los Angeles, you decide to stop for ice cream every 2.7 miles. Assuming that a cone costs just about 75 cents and that your entire journey will be about 3,455 miles, and that your car gets about 27 miles per gallon on the highway, 21 in the city, and if the shoe fits wear it, how many left feet do you have?"

Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} GameShow that had two teams of two kids identifying pictures on a large 16-panel screen. Each round featured a main picture, parts of which were slowly revealed as teams answered questions correctly.

* SpeedRound / SuddenDeath: When the time buzzer rang at the end of a round, if there was a picture in progress, it would be revealed one square at a time. The teams could buzz in as often as they wanted (with no penalty for a wrong answer) and the team that guessed the picture got the $50/$75. During Sudden Death, If a team guessed it incorrectly, Their opponent automatically wins.

* CelebrityEdition: One episode had two cast members from ''Welcome Freshmen'' playing against two cast members from ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll''.