Funny / To Tell the Truth

Bud Collyer (1956-1968)

• November 18, 1958: On the third game, featuring football coach and private detective Mickey Sullivan, one of the impostors mistakenly identifies himself as Mike Spillane during the introduction.^note Despite popular belief, the impostor wasn't Mike Spillane himself; his real name was James Bauld.
• February 18, 1963: A game revolving around Polish defector Pawel Monat. All three contestants wore bags over their heads for two reasons — the real Monat (Number One) wore it to avoid being recognized, while the impostors wore it to conceal their identities. After the game was over, the impostors removed their bags and revealed their identities. Number Two bore a resemblance to then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (to further the joke, guest panelist Art James, who was the son of Russian immigrants, took off his shoe and started banging it on the desk in reference to Khrushchev allegedly doing the same at a 1960 UN meeting), while Number Three, who received all of the votes by the panel, was revealed to be Henry Morgan.
• July 5, 1965: The third game features Harvard campus policeman and English literature scholar George Burroughs, who says his claims to fame include being the father of "that well-known actor, comedian, and TV personality, Dallas Burroughs". Bud asks Orson Bean to start the questioning, but he can't do that, because...
  Orson Bean: I'm afraid I have to disqualify myself, Bud.
  Bud Collyer: [feigning innocence] You do? Why?
  Orson Bean: Well, since you ask, my real name is Dallas Burroughs, and one of these three men is my father! [laughter from the audience and the panel, especially Kitty Carlisle]
  Bud Collyer: Very well! Then we proceed to Kitty Carlisle. Kitty?
  Kitty Carlisle: [through laughter] I must tell you... I did something I've never done in my life before. I said to Orson, "I don't know who Dallas Burroughs is!" [hysterics from the audience and the panel]
  Bud Collyer: Never heard of him!
  Kitty Carlisle: [still laughing; to Orson] I feel so ashamed! Forgive me!
• Exact date unknown: An attempt to reveal the owner of a parakeet by having him fly to his master goes wrong.
• Date unknown: A contestant is asked on what do you make (as in what inventions the contestant does). The contestant misinterprets it as in "how much money do you make", saying “$2.68 an hour”.

Garry Moore/Joe Garagiola (1969-1978)

• C. 1970: Garry Moore holds an armadillo during the intro in preparation for the first set of contestants. Unfortunately, the armadillo chose to relieve itself on Moore just before the panelists could be introduced. None of them would shake Moore's hand as custom while they came on stage, choosing to stay as far away from him as possible.
  Moore: Does anybody in the audience want an empty armadillo?
• 1971: As three contestants come on stage, the music goes haywire. Johnny Olson tries not to laugh while introducing them.
  Moore: The orchestra wants to go home early!
• 1971: Similar to the Pavel Monat game, one subject was Jack Pentes, who ran a Wizard of Oz-based theme park with all three people wearing costumes (#1 was the Scarecrow, #2 was the Tin Man, and #3 was the Cowardly Lion). After the real Pentes revealed himself^note (Number One), the impostors revealed themselves.^note (Number Two, who received all the votes, was Nipsey Russell, who would go on to play the Tin Man in The Wiz, and Number Three was Johnny Olson.)
• 1971: Caroll Spinney's appearance prompts this exchange between Number 3 and Gene Rayburn:
  Gene: Who created the character Big Bird?
  Number 3: Jim Henson.
  Gene: And who's he?
  Number 3: ...who is Jim Henson?
  Gene: Yeah.
  Number 3: The creator of the Big Bird.
• 1972: Garry Moore calls the producer's bluff after being told that "any dummy can do this show!"
• 1972: As three contestants are introduced (one of whom is in a bikini), Bill Cullen's chair falls over. Garry and the panelists play it off as Bill being Distracted by the Sexy.
  Garry: It's always been a failing of Cullen's; he just goes crazy when he sees a green suit.
• 1973: On an episode about a judge on a bicycle safety court, Kitty Carlisle questions #1 by asking her "Who legalized your body?" She meant to ask who legalizes her court's body.
  Garry: I assume it was the minister who legalized your parents!
• 1977-1978: This introduction:
  Number 1: My name is Peter Agabanbi Polangen.
  Number 2: My name's the same as his.
• 1978: In one game involving a contestant who had birds, Bill Cullen excuses himself from the round because he had seen one of the contestants in the restroom. When asked how he knew it was one of the contestants, Cullen replies that "He had his bird in his hand!"

Anthony Anderson (2016-2022)

• In one episode, the penultimate round featured Kevin Farrell, a.k.a. Dee W. Ieye, a drag model who markets Tupperware, alongside a RuPaul's Drag Race contestant and a woman dressed like a man in drag as impostors. The final round involved a contestant who was a famous stuntman. However, everyone was caught off-guard when one of the impostors ended up being Farrell out of costume.
• July 5, 2016: The contestant is a pastor who is also a strongman, who was to perform a stunt involving holding on ropes attached to two motorcycles driving in opposite directions. Cue a simulated demonstration of said stunt using action figures.
• One particularly notable round featured two professional cosplayers ... and one Paul Reubens making the panel go mad.

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