In a Season 1 episode, where the contestant's secret was "Discovered New Type of Bug", as his first question at the start of a game, Marc Weiner asked the contestant if he liked imitation maple syrup, which unsurprisingly got a "no". When Danny's turn came up, he used his first question to ask the contestant if he thought that Marc was a dipstick. Unsurprisingly, the contestant answered "yes".
Danny and Lori Beth got slimed so many times throughout the series for increasingly mundane actions.
Every single time Kevin Kopelow gets his first question in each round in most, if not all, episodes he is in.
Any time Kevin gives an obviously wrong answer if he's stumped by a contestant's talent. In a Family Style episode, he guessed a pair of family members were "Abducted By Aliens in a Wisconsin Corn Field." The answer was "Carved Maze in Wisconsin Corn Field."
In another Family Style episode, where the two talents were "Pull Flag On Rope Over Line" and "Invented Crumb Catcher for Car", the slime tube above Kevin had a minor malfunction after the first Secret Slime Action, resulting in a never-ending small trickle of slime dropping onto his head throughout the rest of the episode. Occasionally when it was his turn to ask a question, it would cut to a close-up of the slime hitting his head.
In the second half of a Season 1 episode, where the contestant's talent was "First Girl Starter in Little League World Series", Josh Server asks the contestant if she was "the first girl in the world to ever think Danny was attractive." Her response was "No", which gets a response from Danny of "That's so mean." Just after that Josh answers "I love Danny!" As he hugs Danny, they both get slimed. Danny asks for more slime and gets his wish. Danny then yells, "That went right down my pants!"
In the same vein as the "Member of the Communist Party" coincidence (see below), the earlier section of that episode where the talent is "Shows and Races A Miniature Horse" Josh asks the contestant "Were you the star of my favorite show California Dreams?" and while he says he wasn’t, the word "Shows" appears on Billy the Answer Head.
There were a few episodes where the entire panel got nearly or completely stumped.
One episode had the entire panel guessing no words on Billy. When it came time for final guesses, Danny, who went last, took one look at the board and told the contestant, "Have a good time in Jamaica."
There's a Season 1 episode where the entire panel guessed no words on Billy. The contestant's talent was "Rescues and Raises Ferrets." When it came time for final guesses, Lori Beth simply passed to Danny, Danny and Mike O'Malley gave half-hearted guesses, and Josh, in true Large Ham fashion, loudly guessed "Blank and Blank Blank, Summer!"
There's a Season 2 episode where the entire panel guessed only one word. The contestant's talent was "Fits Body Through Coat Hanger," and the one word the panelists got was "Hanger." During the final guesses, Danny, who went last again, took one look at Billy and told the contestant, "Have a great time in New Hampshire."
There's a Wild Style episode where, once again, the entire panel guessed only one word. The talent was "Built Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder From Bottles", and the one word the panelists got was "Bird." Mark Saul, Shane Sweet, Arjay Smith and Steve Burns could only make half-hearted final guesses. This mixes with Awesome because Arjay finally guessed "Bird" with seven seconds remaining on Round 3. He even spent the remaining seconds yelling excitedly over his victory.
In a Season 1 episode, where the talent was "Plays Basketball While Riding Unicycle", Josh asks the contestant "Do you think I'm pretty?" which gets a "no" response. Later on, the Clue Recap shows the contestant doesn't think Josh is pretty. Danny says, "I do!"
In a Season 2 episode, Lori Beth takes over as host for the first contestant while Summer takes her seat on the panel. The contestant's talent is "Rescues and Resuscitates Frogs", and the Secret Slime Action is "sitting in Lori Beth's seat". Summer, who knows that she is guaranteed a revenge sliming while sitting on the panel, gets slimed three times in succession.
The "Little Billy" segments are this because the panel more often than not don't try to get the right answer to the contestant's question about their talent, but opt instead to be as random as possible just so the contestant will get another prize. The results are often very comedic.
"Finds Homes for Retired Racing Greyhounds"
Crossed with Awesome: This section of the game has the Secret Slime Action of "Saying the Word 'Is'" and during the second round, Amanda asks: "Is your dog a champion?". When the alarm triggers, it happens to be one of the few times Amanda's not wearing a helmet when she was infamously known for doing so. She at first tries to avoid leaning back—or tries to lean back to avoid it, but ends up successfully letting herself get hit while only feebly trying to use the racing shall to try to deflect it too and taking it with good nature in the end anyway.
For Final Guesses with "Retired" being the only blank left, Travis White just for laughs guesses "Uh Legless Racing Greyhounds". The audience laughs, Lori Beth responds with an "OH NO!" and Summer replies with an "Awful, awful."
"Coached Champion to Spell Thirteen Letter Word"
During Round 3, the only words left still as blanks are "Thirteen" and "Letter". The Charade Brigade tries to mimic someone mailing a letter and someone else receiving said letter with the panelist so utterly confused about what was going that the frustration level in each one rises. Lori Beth spends the rest of the round asking both a what the heck—as well as if the contestant herself knew what the charade was and Danny before her just totally loses it:
The first half of a Family Style episode had the talent of "Fifth Generation Cheese Wheel Makers". At the final guesses, the only word left to guess is "Fifth". Lori Beth guesses Third and then Kevin right after her guesses Fifth. What makes it so funny is how Kevin just seemed to pull it out of a hat.
In the second half of a Wild Style episode, the contestant's talent was "Invented Snake Escape Alarm'' and the Secret Slime Action was "getting a 'no' answer." Mark Saul begins Round 2, gets two 'yes' answers in a row and then passes. Shane Sweet also gets two 'yes' answers in a row and then passes. Arjay Smith gets a 'yes' answer, then a 'no' answer, so he gets slimed. The round is more than half over by that point!
Danny got an amazingly Funny and Awesome moment by accident in a Wild Style episode when CatDog appeared. The talent is "Shows Off Chinese Hairless Dog"note In the second half of the episode, the audio and video are not in sync with each other, and the only words left to figure out are "Off" and "Hairless." Dog guesses "Shows Chinese Movies to His Dog" not being able to come up with anything else, and then Danny easily guesses "Off." Now Danny has figured it out in the past, but it was so unexpected when he guessed "Hairless" that the audience both gasped and cheered and a shocked Summer yelled "DANNY!!!" Danny himself couldn't believe it either.
In a Family Style episode, the second talent is "Designed Winning Card for Mom's Birthday" and the Secret Slime Action is "wiggling your toes." In Round 2, Danny begins guessing when Lori Beth shoves a birthday cake in his face, then Amanda Bynes follows suit, and then Danny gets slimed. As Summer explains what the SSA was, Travis White throws a piece of cake at Danny and it lands on his head! As the round continues, Amanda and Lori Beth keep placing any remaining cake on Danny's head, leading to him yelling "I can't think with cake on my head!"
Where the second talent was "Collects Spit Samples From Dogs Mouths"note The audio and video are not in sync with each other only in the second half of the episode, Kevin Kopelow was one of the regular panelists while Colin was a guest panelist. The Secret Slime Action happened to be "having a shiny head."
During final guesses, Kareem Blackwell guesses: "Something Spit Something from Bird's Mouth" while Colin who ends it guesses "Constructed Spit Sculptures".
In the previous section of the show, the clue-cano fires out a goopy material and Colin asks "Did your animal have a cold?" in response.
Also in the first section of the show, after Kareem gets slimed for "Saying 'Pass'", Kevin asks if it'll happen to him too if he passes in a later round himself. He then actually passes and then flinches uncomfortably waiting for it to happen. Nothing happens though and Summer tells him he's in the clear.
One of the CatDog appearances on Wild Style had this exchange between the two:
Dog: The suspense is killing me!
Cat: If it doesn't kill you, I will!
Big Show, then known as The Giant, was a panelist for two episodes in Season 2. When the show came back from commercial in one episode, Big Show tore open his jumpsuit at the chest and had to spend the rest of the episode wearing only the plain clothes he had on beneath it.
The Secret Slime Action for the first half of a Season 1 episode was "Being a Panelist". After all four panelists got slimed once, Preslaysa Edwards kept getting slimed through the rest of the game so the staff could be sure she got hit. In the second half of the episode, all four panelists again got slimed for performing the Secret Slime Action of "Elbows on the Table".
One Secret Slime Action was "Saying 'Um'", which Danny violated immediately after Round 2 began. Phil Moore kept teasing Danny about it, prompting Danny to ask, "Does it involve me and Phil in the parking lot after this!?"
The 2010s revival
Two funny moments took place in episode 536 (not saying the title in case some want to play along):
In that same game, a gem of a contestant named Grennan who was rather smarmy about his talent being guessed. Once it was, he bolted right out of his seat and runs backstage before he could get slimed (since the last word that completed the puzzle was the Word of Honor). Jeff had to drag him back to his seat to get slimed (and is, so far, the most Jeff's ever been slimed himself as he restrained the kid to make sure he actually got it).
In another episode, Lulu performed the Secret Slime Action and got slimed, just as she was saying the Word of Honor and the contestant was slimed too.
Two other slimings involving Lulu Antariksa in the same episode—both crossed with Awesome:
The first SSA is "The High Five" and all the panelists when Jeff tries to set them up for it Lulu, Noah, Halston Sage and Ciara all immediately become cagey and fearful at what it obviously means (with Noah even saying "I'm a chicken!"). The only good sport, Lulu at first tries to get one of the others to high-five with her; she offers to just high-five herself and then when asking Jeff to high-five her, he rushes across the stage to give her the high-five and then rushes back as Lulu then opens her arms and accepts is.
The second SSA "Being Itchy" is triggered when Lulu briefly scratches herself and it's not until Jeff has to point it out that Lulu gets slimed. It takes her more off-guard this time and she's a little annoyed that it's something as trivial as that, but still is otherwise good-natured about it though. She's ultimately the only one who got it at all in the whole episode.
In another episode, the Secret Slime Action was wearing socks. Everyone got slimed...except Ciara Bravo. Cue the other panelists trying desperately to find out whether or not Ciara was wearing socks or not.
In one episode, Jennette McCurdy refused to take her clue (a pair of shoes) out of the box fearing she would get slimed. Ironically, the Secret Slime Action was "Not Having a Clue". She managed to leave her seat before the slime hit, but Jeff went over to the panel and forced her back to her seat so she could get hit. It's made funnier by Noah Crawford chanting "Get her, get her" as Jeff tried to grab her.
", as his first question at the start of a game, Marc Weiner asked the contestant if he liked imitation maple syrup, which unsurprisingly got a "no". When Danny's turn came up, he used his first question to ask the contestant if he thought that Marc was a dipstick. Unsurprisingly, the contestant answered "yes".