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* BeamMeUpScotty: As listed under MemeticMutation on the [=YMMV=] page, one of Paul Lynde's most-quoted zingers, usually done by the quoter with Lynde's trademark mannerisms and voice, is "Because chiffon wrinkles!"[[note]]given to the question "Why do Hell's Angels wear leather?"[[/note]], despite that not being what Paul actually said -- what he ''actually'' said was "Because chiffon wrinkles too easily."
* BuryYourArt: 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 mentioned this in a tweet.]]
* CreatorBacklash: Peter Marshall reportedly wasn't too fond of the Whoopi-era Bergeron seasons, believing Whoopi's humor (and the show's humor in general at the time) to be too crass for his tastes. Apparently, the changes made to the show for the 2002-03 season (the beginning of the ''H[[superscript:2]]'' era) satisfied him enough to make an appearance as the center square during that season's "Game Show Week".
** 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 (October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, to be exact).
** ''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 was "a circus ... not my vision of the show."
* DiedDuringProduction:
** Happened to two regulars in the Marshall era.
*** Wally Cox died suddenly of a heart attack in 1973. His final 14 shows aired after his death.
*** Charley Weaver had a massive stroke in 1972 that forced him off the show for quite some time. He died of another stroke in 1974, on the same day that the Monday show of what would be his final week aired. George Gobel, who had been substituting for Weaver, took his place as a regular.
** On the Bergeron version, John Ritter taped a week of shows before his September 11, 2003 passing. This week started airing September 29.
* DuelingShows: With ''Series/MatchGame'', which inevitably led to ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Peter Marshall-hosted versions were believed to have been largely destroyed until around 2002, when several hundred episodes (the number varies- Peter Marshall said in a [[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/community/chat/2002-04-05-oldfaces.htm webchat]] there were 3500 episodes they stumbled across) from both the daytime and nighttime versions were found unintentionally as part of a search for episodes of ''Series/DarkShadows'', of all shows (read more [[http://www.classicsquares.com/reruns.html here]]). Even then, GSN aired them only from 2002 to 2003. The 3500 count Peter was talking about could very well have been just duplicates of the Syndicated shows (the Syndicated version was made at a time when bicycling was the norm, before the days of satellite broadcasting).
** The Davidson version was rerun on the Creator/USANetwork for a few years in the '90s and hasn't been seen since. [[note]] Music rights are an issue, and there are rumors that this version's masters no longer exist. [[/note]]
** 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 (which haven't been seen since 2006).
* LongRunners: The original NBC version ran for 14 seasons and the 1970s syndicated version ran for a decade.
* LoopingLines: On the June 20, 1980 NBC Daytime finale, Wayland Flowers' puppet Madame took a jab at Fred Silverman, by saying "You can fuck some of the people some of the time, and you can fuck all of the people some of the time, but you can't fuck all of the people all of the time!". NBC decided to go back and redub that line, by replacing each use of the word "fuck" with "fool".[[note]]Of course, NBC could have just bleeped it.[[/note]] Whether that was actually Wayland dubbing himself or not is unknown. This is further evident that Madame was actually saying something else, based on the audience reaction.
* MilestoneCelebration: 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.
* NoBudget:
** Bergeron's final season. ''Oy!''
*** 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 game instead of a ProgressiveJackpot.
*** 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 no longer got a bad key taken away for each time they'd previously been to the bonus round. The consolation for each question also got halved to $500.
** The first run of ''Hip Hop Squares'', which offered a top prize of $2,500 in '''2012'''. Could be justified, as it was produced for [=MTV2=], a cable network (plus most of the budget likely went towards getting the celebrities). The [=VH1=] version is quite a bit higher-budget.
* RealSongThemeTune:
** Tom Bergeron's last two seasons had a slightly redone version of Teena Marie's "Square Biz" as its theme song.
** Julie Brown's "Cause I'm a Blonde" was used as the opening theme for the two "Blondes Have More Fun" weeks in the ''H[[superscript:2]]'' era.
* RoleReprise: Noel [=MacNeal=], Carol Spinney, Kevin Clash, Steve Whitmire and Eric Jacobson reprised Bear, Big Bird, Oscar, Elmo, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy for their respective episodes.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Creator/VH1's ''Hip-Hop Squares'' was originally announced for fall 2016, but it was delayed to March 2017.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The NBC version. Despite pulling in successful ratings, then NBC president and CEO Fred Silverman abruptly cancelled it, after moving its time slot around several times (helping to kill off ''Series/{{Whew}}'' in the process), along with ''Series/ChainReaction'' and ''Series/HighRollers'', to make room for a 90-minute talk show hosted by Creator/DavidLetterman. Reportedly, Silverman had passed on the show back when he was vice president of daytime programming at CBS, and after seeing it become a big hit on NBC, was obviously not happy.
* TroubledProduction:
** The 1965 pilot. Various technical problems and other stops-and-starts led to the taping session running so long audience members ended up walking out. Producers became so desperate they started paying $10 to customers of the nearby Farmer's Mart to come in and fill the steadily-emptying audience. Ultimately, taping didn't end until ''two in the morning''. Both NBC and CBS rejected the pilot -- ''twice'', even -- before NBC allowed for a second pilot to be shot with Peter Marshall at the helm in lieu of Bert Parks.
** The Vegas episodes. Paul Lynde was frustrated by the supposedly inferior lodging facilities in Vegas (among other things) and in general soured the overall mood. Not only that, there wasn't much time to play the game, some contestants were tourists (and drunk, to boot), and some celebrities, particularly George Gobel, would often rush off to gamble.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Bert Parks hosted the original pilot which was pitched to CBS primetime. NBC was interested in picking it up for a daytime run, but they only agreed to do so if someone else hosted. The job eventually went to Peter Marshall who hosted the second pilot. This would have been Parks' first game show since ''Yours for a Song'' was cancelled in 1963. With the exception of an unsold pilot called ''The Celebrity Game'' in 1968, he would not host another game show in his lifetime.
*** 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]]
** Marc Summers was slated to host the 1998 revival but was dismissed for fears that his OCD (which he had revealed on ''Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow'' a year prior) would make it difficult to work with him. [[Series/EntertainmentTonight John Tesh]] was also considered as a potential host.
** Before Whoopi came on board, Roseanne Barr was attempting to create the ''Planet Hollywood Squares'' [[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19950920&id=bYRXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0_EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3885,5613185&hl=en in the mid-1990s]]. [[http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,28652.15.html This Game Show Forum thread]] revealed that it was intended to be paired with a revival of ''Series/TheGongShow'' (which did have a pilot taped), but held off until 1997 to see if their revivals of ''Series/TheDatingGame'' and ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' were working out; by that time, Roseanne presumably had pulled out and PH was in deep trouble (having overextended themselves with far too many locations and crazy concepts).
** For the 1998 revival, King World first offered Creator/BillyCrystal and later Creator/JasonAlexander multi-million dollar contracts to be the permanent center square, but they both turned them down.
* YouLookFamiliar:
** John Davidson was a semi-regular panelist on the Marshall ''Squares'' before becoming host of the mid-'80s revival.
** Before hosting the 2017 incarnation of ''Hip Hop Squares'', [=DeRay=] Davis was an occasional panelist on the 2012 version.
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