History Series / TheHollywoodSquares

-->--'''Kenny Williams''', [[RattlingOffLegal reciting the famous legalese]] during the ending credits of the original version.

* HomeGame: Watkins-Strathmore made two in 1967 and 1968. Ideal made one in 1974, with Peter Marshall pictured on the box; this was reissued under the ''Celebrity Squares'' name in Britain, with the only real changes being the name and Peter Marshall's photo on the box being swapped out for Bob Monkhouse's. Creator/MiltonBradley made two in 1980 and 1986. Parker Brothers made one in 1999 (cited as being the best of the bunch), and Tiger made an LCD handheld game that same year. [=GameTek=] made computer versions for MS-DOS and the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem. A video game, based on the later-era Bergeron format, was released for the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 on October 5, 2010.

** ''Hip Hop Squares'', which ran for most of 2012 and was revived beginning in 2017.
** ''Nashville Squares'' can be considered a spinoff of this and the above ''Hip Hop'' revival, beginning in 2019.

** The Bergeron version saw the "Secret Square Stash" usually begin with a trip (of about $2,000-$4,000) or a gift card and added prizes until claimed; the highest-valued Stash during the Bergeron era was worth $50,731. For whatever reason, the final Bergeron season modified it to be a singular prize that varied per game, that didn't carry over (much like the Davidson run).

** "Hollywood Square Biz" used for the later years of the Bergeron run: H2 (2002-2004) is Teena Marie re-recording her 1981 classic hit "Square Biz".

** The Bergeron era also had a rare example of guest announcers: Rod Roddy announced the first Game Show Hosts Week, and Shadoe returned one last time to do the second. In addition, author/entertainer "Mother Love" announced Valentine's-themed weeks during the H[[superscript:2]] seasons.

** The Bergeron era also had a rare example of guest announcers: Rod Roddy announced the first Game Show Hosts Week, and Shadoe returned one last time to do the second.

* TheAnnouncer: Kenny Williams handled the entirety of the Marshall era. Shadoe Stevens (best known as Creator/CaseyKasem's replacement on ''Radio/AmericanTop40'') did both the Davidson version -- on which he often pulled double duty as a panelist -- and the first four seasons of the Bergeron version. After Shadoe left the latter, Creator/JeffreyTambor announced Season 5, and Creator/JohnMoschitta announced Season 6. Fill-ins included Shadoe's brother Richard and Creator/HowardStern (!) on the Davidson version, while Creator/HenryWinkler (also executive producer at the time) sometimes filled in for Tambor. "[[TotallyRadical DJ Ms. Nix]]" (real name: Nicole Lyn Hill) was the announcer on the original version of ''Hip Hop Squares''; Creator/IceCube is the announcer on the revival. ''Nashville Squares'' does not have an announcer.

* CouchGag: During the ''H2'' era, there was a scrolling electronic marquee mounted below the host/contestant area, and often when coming back from or going to a commercial break, it would display all sorts of funny stuff, ranging from puns and references to the celebs to weird messages; one notable one was "Help, I'm trapped under the podium!" Occasionally, they'd run backwards on the marquee and scroll by the right way superimposed on the screen, and just before every second commercial break (mostly during the 2002-03 season), the ticker would display something like "Let's go behind the Squares" and the video square underneath would zoom into the camera to feature a short behind-the-scenes funny moment.

After a few false starts during the decade, another syndicated revival premiered in 1998, now produced by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg (who also served as center square) with Creator/TomBergeron hosting. Whoopi left the show in 2002, replaced as center square by Creator/EllenDeGeneres, and it was given a cosmetic overhaul that year, with a floating "H[[superscript:2]]" present in the new logo and Creator/HenryWinkler now onboard as producer. Ultimately, this run ended in 2004. Reruns of this version can currently be seen on Creator/PlutoTV.

After a few false starts during the decade, another syndicated revival premiered in 1998, now produced by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg (who also served as center square) with Creator/TomBergeron hosting. Whoopi left the show in 2002, and it was given a cosmetic overhaul that year, with a floating "H[[superscript:2]]" present in the new logo and Creator/HenryWinkler now onboard as producer. Ultimately, this run ended in 2004. Reruns of this version can currently be seen on Creator/PlutoTV.

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2023 saw the announcement of another revival, this one instead given the British version's title ''Celebrity Squares'' (possibly to refer to the world of celebrities stretching beyond Hollywood), for Creator/{{BET}}. In September 2023, it was announced that the revival had [[ChannelHop jumped ship]] to ''Hip Hop Squares''' second home of [=VH1=], with DC Young Fly hosting and Creator/KevinHart producing, and is to debut on October 17, 2023.

* EpicFail:
** The infamous "YouFool" episode, where the poor contestants guessed incorrectly with Gilbert Gottfried ''nine'' consecutive times (in a block-and-win situation) before finally someone was correct. Amusingly, Gottfried kept bluffing and the contestants kept agreeing. It only ended when Gottfried finally provided a correct answer which the contestant obediently agreed to, if he hadn't, the game would've ended with a tie as the times up bell sounded afterwards.
** A situation involving numerous consecutive incorrect answers in a similar block-or-win situation also happened at least once on the original Peter Marshall version, this being a 1968 NBC episode, this time with Don Adams as the celebrity. At one point, in a variation of his ''Series/GetSmart'' CatchPhrase, Adams quipped: "Would you believe we may never finish this game?!"

2023 saw the announcement of another revival, this one instead given the British version's title ''Celebrity Squares'' (possibly to refer to the world of celebrities stretching beyond Hollywood), for Creator/{{BET}}. In September 2023, it was announced that the revival had [[ChannelHop jumped ship]] to ''Hip Hop Squares''' second home of VH1, with DC Young Fly hosting and Creator/KevinHart producing, and is to debut on October 17, 2023.

Most recently, another revival on [=VH1=] was announced (interestingly, titled ''Celebrity Squares'' like the British versions) with DC Young Fly hosting and Creator/KevinHart producing, set to debut on October 17, 2023.

** The Bergeron version originally had front-game payouts similar to the Davidson version for the first four weeks[[note]]$500 for the first two games, $1000 for the third, and $2000 for anything beyond that, plus $250 for each captured square when time was called[[/note]]; they were doubled after that. In addition, the Secret Square Stash didn't come until the next season (they'd simply move it to another star); some sound effects were different, and the endgame was a bit different (see above).

* TransatlanticEquivalent: Multiple ones, but he best-known one would be Britain's ''Celebrity Squares'', on Creator/{{ITV}}. Running first from 1975 to 1979 with British legend Creator/BobMonkhouse at the helm, it was closely modeled after Marshall's version- it even had most of the tapes wiped. When the show returned from 1993 to 1997 (again with Monkhouse), it was now heavily influenced by the Davidson era, complete with the five cars in-studio, though there wasn't a key-related endgame to earn one. An unsold pilot was pitched to Creator/Channel5 in the early 2000s (with Joan Rivers (!) as center square), but wasn't picked up. The show returned again in 2014, now with [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Warwick]] [[Franchise/HarryPotter Davis]] as the ringleader; this version took its own sense of style and direction, and also stretched out the show to run for an hour (at least for the first series). This version had dismal ratings and was canned in 2015. Should be noted that the UK version predated the US version with having a bonus round. The player had to get nine answers to a question. The 70's version had a top prize of a score augmentation to £1000 though with a risk of losing the front game money; they had a second option of an additional £100. The 90's run had a random choice of five cars for a win, while the Davis run awarded £1000 per right answer with all nine winning £20,000 (£25,000 in that version's second series).

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Inverted with a famous Secret Square question with Art Fleming, host of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''. Art was asked a multiple-choice question (as all Secret Square questions are) about tennis, which he later admitted did not know the answer to, and just blurted out a guess. The (rather naive) contestant remarked that since he was Art Fleming, he just ''had'' to be correct. Luckily for her, he was right, and the contestant won a $10,000 prize package.

* TVNeverLies: Averted when the naive young contestant, a pretty girl (as it turned out) who was counting on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' host Art Fleming -- who had gained a reputation as a storehouse of trivia -- to have the correct answer to a Secret Square question about tennis ("In 1938, who won the Wimbledon women's tennis championship?" to which Fleming said the answer was Helen Wills Moody, one of the three choices given). "Art Fleming would never lie. I agree!" As it turned out... Art Fleming was right(!), and the pretty young contestant with the puppy-dog eyes won an $11,000 prize package (a then-record). Fleming admitted in several latter-day interviews that he was merely guessing and didn't know a thing about tennis.

* TVNeverLies: Averted when the naive young contestant, a pretty girl (as it turned out) who was counting on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' host Art Fleming -- who had gained a reputation as a storehouse of trivia -- to have the correct answer to a Secret Square question about tennis ("In 1938, who won the Wimbledon women's tennis championship?" to which Fleming said the answer was Helen Wills Moody, one of the three choices given). "Art Fleming would never lie. I agree!" As it turned out ... Art Fleming was right(!), and the pretty young contestant with the puppy-dog eyes won an $11,000 prize package (a then-record). Fleming admitted in several latter-day interviews that he was merely guessing and didn't know a thing about tennis.

-->'''Kenny Williams:''' One of these stars is sitting in the Secret Square, and the contestant who picks it first could win a prize package worth over $x,000! Which star is it? (The stars are introduced one by one, finishing with the center square, usually...) ...or Paul Lynde...all in ''The Hollywood Squares!'' And now here's the Master of ''The Hollywood Squares'', Peter Marshall!

** "YouFool!" for Penn Jillette whenever a contestant incorrectly agreed or disagreed with him. (See the eponymous entry below for how Gilbert Gottfried would etch this phrase into the annals of ''Squares'' history.) Whenever a contestant ''correctly'' agreed or disagreed with him, he would respond "Good thinking!"