History YMMV / WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire

** The "Rave" music initially composed for the UK's 2007 revamp by Nick Magnus and Ramon Covalo. The [[https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/File:WWTBAM_UK_2007_intro.ogg theme tune]] (and its subsequent variations), [[https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/File:Host_Entrance_Rave_Short.mp3 host entrance]] and [[https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/File:RAMON_COVALO_-_LIGHTS_DOWN_C.ogg "In the Hot Seat" cue]] (composed by Magnus) give the show just the right mix of epicness, fast-paced excitement and "party" nature, while its cue for the [[https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/File%3AWWTBAM_Q1-2_music.ogg first few questions]] is a nice, relaxed bit of a bop that eases you into the game while helping you to focus, and the cues for the next few questions get more ominous up until the penultimate, and the final question cue is quite menacing. That being said, the https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/File%3AWWTBAM_Q1-2_music.ogg

** Amazingly for game shows, especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRW_B79D3SQ Radio Edit by Amoure]] of the main theme. During the height of the show's popularity, there was even an official soundtrack released.
*** The original music for the series was written by father and son composer team Keith and Matthew Strachan in 8 days between the "Cash Mountain" pilot and filming of the first broadcast episode, with the two actually over-delivering on their contract by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eADBkar3cV0 submitting 95 tracks instead of 45]].

** Thousandaire, a mini-game played starting in 2010 (referred to as ''The $1,000 Question'' before 2013) if a contestant departs and there isn't enough time to begin a major run with another, a ''very'' anti-climactic watered down version of the standard format used as shameless {{Padding}}. Some feel like it robs the show of a chance to get underway and severely retards its ability to get contestants, and is like an unspoken recognition that they failed to give the grand prize away in that particular taping and aren't willing to bother trying in earnest. Others, especially the audience, like the perk of possibly being picked to pick up some fast cash. But considering the major drought in winners has lasted almost two decades, now's not really the time to be doing anything to delay a grand prize win.

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** In general, while the show became seen as a flash in the pan compared to ''{{Series/Jeopardy}}'' by some American QuizShow fans, ''Jeopardy!'' has struggled to establish any wide international franchising whilst ''Millionaire'' has, outlasting its original UK and blockbuster US versions whose Jeremy Clarkson and Jimmy Kimmel revivals are currently in limbo.

** The 50:50 lifeline. Almost every time a contestant struggled between two answers, then used the 50:50 only for it to leave them with (or worse, eliminate) ''the two answers they were struggling between''. It happened so frequently over the years that many viewers complained the "random removal" felt more like rigging (a fact Norm [=MacDonald=] caught on to, as mentioned under the SugarWiki/FunnyMoments tab), especially at the very end of a themed week where the contestant's only options are really Quit or Fail. Several fans suggested to potential contestants that, if they considered using the 50:50, not to say the answers they were considering out loud. The fact that it originally ''wasn't'' random (though this wasn't told to the viewers or contestants) doesn't help any -- although the removals were set in advance and ''not'' done in response to the contestants' musings, the answers least likely to get picked were always the ones removed, including when Norm was on.

** The "Ask The Host" lifeline, introduced in the 20th anniversary edition of the UK version. Despite it being ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, Jeremy Clarkson didn't have a clue what the answer was most of the time, rendering it useless.

** ''Super Millionaire'' was even harder than the syndicated version. You can expect the 11th and 12th questions for $500,000 and $1,000,000 to be at least as hard as the 14th and final questions valued at the same amount on the syndicated version, and on the final two questions, which have never been seen[[note]]It's been hinted by EP Michael Davies, now of ''Jeopardy!'' fame, that some unused Super Millionaire $2.5M-$10M questions were later used for $1M on syndicated ''Millionaire'', such as the Nostradamus's Jams Treatise and Benjamin Franklin's Drinker's Dictionary questions[[/note]], you would be literally risking millions.