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* {{Abandonware}}: Most of the radio and TV episodes are in the public domain.
* BeamMeUpScotty: A line that Groucho [[http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp supposedly]] said to a woman with an awful lot of kids.
-->'''Woman:''' I love my husband.\\
'''Groucho:''' I love my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while.
* ChannelHop: The radio show began in 1947 on ABC, then jumped over to CBS in 1949, then to NBC in 1950 where it became a TV/radio simulcast.
* EditedForSyndication: Syndicated reruns were called "The Best of Groucho", with a new opening sequence replacing the original sponsor openings, the NBC letters on Groucho's microphone blurred or burned-out [[note]](strange, considering it was syndicated by NBC Films, who put their logo at the end as can be seen on several prints)[[/note]] and the picture "blown up" to hide the sponsor logos. (Not to be confused with Summertime repeats of the same name, which had a new intro and commercials; at least one 1957 repeat had a unique Prom intro and every mention of [=DeSoto=] replaced by Prom.) Some repeats also had new sponsors; newly-shot segments would have Groucho introduce the new commercials, and the logos of the new sponsors were superimposed onto blank parts of the set in an attempt to make it seem like the signs were part of it. For the most part the illusion worked, but there were times when the logos would cover Groucho's cigarette smoke or the duck coming down...
** [[https://chart.copyrightdata.com/ch01.html This page (scroll down)]] shows some comparisons between the original network airings and the syndicated airings.
* [[HarpoDoesSomethingFunny Groucho Says Something Funny]]: There is less of that than is popularly thought. While Groucho was of course free to think up quips as he could, the contestants were interviewed by the writers beforehand and prepared jokes and comments for Groucho to read on a hidden projection when he felt he couldn't improvise a good line. The beauty is how he still made it look so ad lib.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** The original series could've been this very easily around November 1973 had [[http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/the-day-my-grandfather-groucho.html Groucho's grandson Andy]] not answered the phone one day (while Groucho had Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/ElliottGould, and Creator/MarcelMarceau as guests). The person on the other end, a man working at the NBC storage warehouse in Englewood Cliifs, New Jersey, was part of a group that was destroying a bunch of 1950s-60s shows to clear space for newer programs. [[note]]Most of NBC's pre-1973 in-house shows were sold to National Telefilm Associates due to the "fin-syn" rule forcing networks to divest themselves from their "film sales" units (CBS Films split off as Creator/{{Viacom}} and ABC Films became Worldvision Entreprises), but NTA was not interested in the black-and-white, slow-paced ''You Bet Your Life''.[[/note]] When Groucho responded with "Tell him to burn them for all I care" (which got laughs from his guests, although Andy couldn't tell "if he was just doing his grouchy act for his invited audience or truly didn't care"), Andy reminded him how Oscar Levant's ''Information Please'' was destroyed and Nicholson convinced Groucho to accept the reels. Two weeks later, it turned out that "several boxes" was in fact '''5,000 reels''' in 500 boxes, consisting of not only the entire series but also the EditedForSyndication "The Best of Groucho" package. Andy and show creator John Guedel pitched the idea of airing the episodes in late nights on KTLA, which the station executive liked with one provision: someone had to go through all the shows first. That someone was Andy, who was paid $150 a week to spend eight hours a day at Groucho's house watching and archiving the episodes.
** The Hackett version had ''no'' circulating episodes until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JebjEWk2hqg one showed up]] in February 2010 — which, amazingly, is ''also'' the only time in this run that the Secret Word was said. There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPtwNLbx8Po this brief clip.]]
** The Cosby version wasn't rerun after it's original run in 1992-93 -- and given Cosby's allegations, likely isn't to be at all for the foreseeable future.
** The Leno version was available for streaming on multiple sites during its run; shortly after it left syndication, it was pulled from all of them.
* RecycledSet: The set of the Buddy Hackett version was mostly taken from NBC's ''All-Star Secrets'', which had been cancelled the year prior; both series were produced by the Hill-Eubanks Group.
** The Leno version's set was repurposed for the summer 2022 trial run of another game show called ''Person Place Or Thing''; it was a simple matter of changing what was on the screens and swapping in a different set of podiums. ''Person Place Or Thing'' ended up keeping that set when it debuted nationally in the fall of 2023, immediately after ''You Bet Your Life'' left syndication.
*** Select FOX stations ran edited episodes of the 2021 version of ''Series/NameThatTune'' in August 2023; the newly added home viewer contest segments were filmed on the Leno version's set, with all the regular graphics swapped out for ''Name That Tune'' graphics and logos.
* StarMakingRole: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Gonzalez_Gonzalez Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez]] ended up finding steady work as a character actor for many years after Creator/JohnWayne [[https://youtu.be/RXTqWOx1dOQ?si=rSe3Egjk5Q6MdYId saw his appearance on the show]] and cast him as comic relief in some of his movies.
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