''El gran juego de la oca'' by its very nature had many groundbreaking moments; some of its elements can still be seen today in competition reality programming all over the world as well as in other media (''VideoGame/MarioParty'' comes to mind in particular). Here are some of the best ones:
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Auei5neEEM Mene]], the [[CoolOldGuy 74-year-old]] contestant who completed many of his challenges, won the game, and did just about as well on his return to the semifinals.
* The 10th episode, in which Flequi got to give [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKg0IjdufIE TWO]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpyLNy5RB4o haircuts]]. The first contestant's reaction to landing on him (really the way he acts throughout the whole thing) is legendary in itself.
* One contestant was sent to recruit at least 15,000 people to dance a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevillanas Sevillana]]'' in the ''Plaza de España''. The event drew ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txphc9c9ICY EIGHTY THOUSAND participants]]'' and was officially recognized on the first season finale as having set a [[Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords Guinness world record]].
* Both the first and second seasons featured a DancePartyEnding during the season finale. In lieu of the normal weekly challenge involving just the Oquettes dancing, the entire cast also participated. The first season in particular featured the cast and crew - including the major characters not appearing in challenges that day, as well as ''everyone'' behind the scenes (producers, technical staff, makeup, cleanup crew, you name it) - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHMwKhosjM&t=01m20s dancing to a song]] written and performed by Emilio Aragón himself. At the very end of the episode, a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdJjqg-2x3c&t=02m22s free-for-all party scene]] erupted on set as the theme played repetitively, with the cast and crew dance being replayed as well. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJBWAwG59g&t=00m51s second season]] went with a ''[[Film/TheBluesBrothers Blues Brothers]]'' routine.
* Any time a contestant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d5d85iT5FM beat Maxtor]].
* One early second season episode featured a ''prueba'' wherein the young contestant's husband was brought onstage, with the catch being that every question out of five she got wrong resulted in her being ForcedToWatch him get seduced by a voluptuous blonde woman. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8og3iWOu5s The husband's demeanor,]] [[NotDistractedByTheSexy one of complete indifference to the sexy woman throughout the contest]], definitely qualifies.
* In the third season, after going six episodes with no barber, [[TheBusCameBack Flequi was brought back]] in what would be the next-to-last episode. To increase the element of surprise, he was placed out of sight near the beginning of the board and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsjJxu0Jr0 came down to swoop the unsuspecting contestant up to his chair.]]