History Trivia / TheHollywoodSquares

* OldShame: Creator/{{VH1}} seems to be trying ''really'' hard to pretend the [=MTV2=] version of ''Hip Hop Squares'' doesn't exist. Original host Peter Rosenberg [[https://twitter.com/Rosenbergradio/status/841324804221333504 lampshaded this in a tweet.]]

* RoleReprise: Noel [=MacNeal=], Carol Spinney, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire and Eric Jacobson reprised Bear, Big Bird, Oscar, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy for their respective episodes.

*** Games were played best of three with the winner getting only $2,000 and the loser $1,000 for one TabletopGame/TicTacToe or parting gifts for none. Also, no bonus money was given for captured squares and the Secret Square prize was a flat package which changed per show instead of a ProgressiveJackpot.

*** Marshall also said that NBC considered hiring Dan Rowan, and that he took the job to prevent Rowan from hosting. [[note]] in his memoir, Marshall felt his pre-''Squares'' comedy partner Tommy Noonan was professionally--and later personally--betrayed by Rowan. Peter stopped speaking to Dan Rowan as a direct result. Despite Peter Marshall staying close friends with Dick Martin, [[DisproportionateRetribution producers felt awkward about booking Dick Martin without also including Dan Rowan, so they never did]]. [[/note]]

** He also had no love lost for ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'', telling USA TODAY in 1985 the show was "Basically a CIA plot to destroy (''Squares'')" and adding in his 2002 memoir ''Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square'' that he was "happy" that the show lasted less than a year. [[note]]October 31 1983 to July 27 1984, to be exact [[/note]]
** ''Squares'' co-creator Merrill Heatter told game show historian Jefferson Graham [[note]] credited author of Come on Down!!! The TV Game Show Book, published in 1988 [[/note]] he thought the Davidson version [[note]] Executive Producer: Rick Rosner [[/note]] was "a circus (and) not my vision of the show."

*** The BonusRound's prize structure originally had the car, $25,000 and the trip around the world as the first three prizes. In the final season, they became the last three with a sub-$10,000 trip as the first and $10,000 cash as the second, replacing the upper tier prizes of $50,000 and $100,000. [[SarcasmMode It got better]]. Contestants had to pick from all nine keys regardless of how many correct answers they got in the question part and whether it was the first time playing for a prize or the fifth. The consolation for each question also got halved to $500.

** The two "Blondes Have More Fun" weeks in the ''H[[superscript:2]]'' era used "'Cause I'm a Blonde" by Julie Brown as the opening theme.

* RealSongThemeTune: Tom Bergeron's last two seasons had a slightly redone version of Teena Marie's "Square Biz" as its theme song.

*** Marshall also said that NBC considered hiring Dan Rowan, and that he took the job to prevent Rowan from hosting. [[note]] in his memoir, Marshall felt his pre-''Squares'' comedy partner Tommy Noonan was professionally--and later personally--betrayed by Rowan. Dan Rowan was no longer on speaking terms with Marshall, and despite the close friendship Marshall had with Dick Martin, producers felt awkward booking Martin without Dan Rowan, so they never did. [[/note]]

*** Marshall also said that NBC considered hiring Dan Rowan, and that he took the job to prevent Rowan from hosting. [[note]] in his memoir, Marshall felt his pre-''Squares'' comedy partner Tommy Noonan was professionally--and later personally--betrayed by Rowan. Dan Rowan was no longer on speaking terms with Marshall, and despite the close friendship Marshall and Martin had with each other, producers felt awkward inviting Dick Martin without Dan Rowan, so they never did. [[/note]]

*** Marshall also said that NBC considered hiring Dan Rowan, and that he took the job to prevent Rowan from hosting. [[note]] in his memoir, Marshall felt his pre-''Squares'' comedy partner Tommy Noonan was professionally--and later personally--betrayed by Rowan. Dan Rowan was no longer on speaking terms with Marshall, and as a direct result, ''neither'' Rowan nor Dick Martin ever did ''Squares'' during Marshall's tenure, despite the close friendship Marshall and Martin had. [[/note]]

*** Marshall also said that NBC considered hiring Dan Rowan, and that he took the job to prevent Rowan from hosting.

** He also had no love lost for ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'', telling USA TODAY in 1985 the show was "Basically a CIA plot to destroy (''Squares'')" and adding in his 2002 memoir '''Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square'' that he was "happy" that the show lasted less than a year. [[note]]October 31 1983 to July 27 1984, to be exact [[/note]]

** The Davidson version was rerun on the Creator/USANetwork for a few years in the '90s and hasn't been seen since.

** For the Bergeron version, the 2000-01 season was never rerun on GSN, and the seasons that did air sometimes had episodes missing from the rotation due to celebrity clearance issues, including the 1998 Comic Relief week (though at least one ep of that circulates, taped from C-band satellite). The show has recently resurfaced with an entire channel on Creator/PlutoTV, currently running a mix of episodes from the ''[=H2=]'' era.

** For the Bergeron version, the 2000-01 season was never rerun on GSN, and the seasons that did air sometimes had episodes missing from the rotation due to celebrity clearance issues, including the 1998 Comic Relief week (though at least one ep of that circulates, taped from C-bans satellite). The show has recently resurfaced with an entire channel on Creator/PlutoTV, currently running a mix of episodes from the ''[=H2=]'' era.

* MilestoneCelebration: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNVrFNk2BgA The Bergeron version's 500th episode]] featured a sparkler-filled cake wheeled out at the end of the show, with confetti going off and the day's winning contestant allowed a slice.

** For the Bergeron version, the 2000-01 season was never rerun on GSN, and the seasons that did air sometimes had episodes missing from the rotation due to celebrity clearance issues, including the 1998 Comic Relief week (though at least one ep of that circulates, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NMZItkArDU taped from the satellite feed]]).