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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Most modern viewers will recognize the main theme as a new car cue on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', completely unaware that it had originated on this series.
2	%%* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The main theme, Edd Kalehoff's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gTMRkDZkuI "Lottery"]]. Several other cues from the music package also qualify.
3	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: For a brief period beginning on February 13, 1984, the show did a Telephone Match contest (somewhat of a CallBack to the 1960s ''Match Game''). Gene called a home viewer chosen at random and awarded them $500 outright, then had them play a Head-to-Head Match against a celebrity of their choice for another $5,000 and an appearance on an Creator/{{NBC}} soap opera. Although the contest itself wasn't particularly notable, the eligibility requirements were rather complicated- leading Gene to have to recite a mouthful of legalese.
4	* HilariousInHindsight: One episode had a question regarding UsefulNotes/RichardNixon being hired by NBC to host a new game show, "a remake of _______." The agreed-upon definitive answer, being said by literally ''everyone'' on the panel, was ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''. Sure enough, the network would air the next version of that show several years later in 1990 (though, of course, it wasn't hosted by Nixon).
5	* QuestionableCasting: Bauman was a decent panelist on ''Match Game'', but what terrible lapse in judgment made NBC think that somebody would work better than Marshall at hosting ''Squares''...and that that person was Bauman? And why did Goodson go along with it? It could've been worse, though - at least Bauman didn't host in his "Bowzer" persona.
6	* ReplacementScrappy: Jon Bauman, especially since the ''Hour'' replaced Peter Marshall's ''Series/{{Fantasy}}'', and ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' had been off the air for just two years. Fan opinion is somewhat divided on how Bauman did as host, although most think he really didn't have any right being behind a game show lectern.
7	* RetroactiveRecognition:
8	** Much like his appearances on ''Series/{{Pyramid}}'', Barry Gordon- aka [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Donatello]], [[WesternAnimation/SwatKats Razor/Jake Clawson]], and the [=NesQuik=] Bunny, appeared during the final week, promoted as being from ''Series/TheJeffersons''.
9	** Six years before he hosted ''Series/SupermarketSweep'', David Ruprecht was a panelist during the first week of 1984. He was one of the co-hosts of ''Real People'' at the time.
10	** Creator/ButchHartman was a contestant, also appearing on the first week of 1984. [[spoiler:Sadly, he became the first contestant to [[DownerEnding play for the $30,000 and lose]], then to top it off, he managed to once again find the sole "30" multiplier on the next show, but again failed to match, albeit for a lesser grand prize of $7,500.]]
11	** John Cervenka, host of ''Burt Luddin's Love Buffet'' and voice actor for ''Series/MostExtremeEliminationChallenge'', was a contestant near the end of the run.
12	* SpecialEffectFailure: During one ''Hollywood Squares'' game on a January 1984 episode, the electronic X/O displays failed, so Gene and the other panelists had to hold their arms up in the shape of an X or O for the rest of the segment.
13	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Mainly toward the botched ''Hollywood Squares'' format. Rayburn didn't like the changes, either, and [[TakeThat let America know]] on June 29, 1984 (about a month before the end).
14	-->'''Rayburn:''' ''[after being asked a question]'' I'm going to have to take a wild shot at this, since yeah...this is ''really'' not the object of the game: you're supposed to know or give a good bluff — and I can't do either at this point.

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