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Game Show Moments Gone Bananas

Five hour-long specials aired by VH-1 from May 21-June 18, 2005, consisting of Game Show footage from the Fremantle Media archives. During each show was a "Top 5" countdown, presented by such notables as Chuck Woolery and Ed McMahon.

Oh, you want us to list the games included? Yeah, why not...

Beat the Clock (the "clown-through-suit" stunt from the original series, and nothing else)
Blind Date (UK), plus the Australian Perfect Match
Blockbusters (America and UK)
Card Sharks
Child's Play (America and UK, mostly the former)
Distraction (UK only)
Double Dare (1976)
Family Feud (America and Australia), plus the UK Family Fortunes
I'm With Stupid (unsold 2003 ABC pilot taped on Richard Karn's Feud set)
Ive Got A Secret
Match Game (America) and the UK Blankety Blank
The Names The Same ("A. Mattress" {October 1, 1952} and "A. Maid" {March 17, 1953})
Password CBS, Password Plus, and Super Password
Press Your Luck and Whammy!
The Price Is Right (America and Australia), plus the Mexican Atinale al Precio. Notable for two clips of Dennis James' super-scarce nighttime version.
Puzzlers (unsold pilot taped March 15, 1980 and hosted by Pat Sajak)
Sale of the Century (America and Australia), plus the German Hopp oder Top.
Say When!! (a portion {not the whole existing clip} of the Peter Pan peanut butter incident)
Scrabble
Showoffs (clip of the 1975 pilot)
Tattletales
To Tell the Truth
What's My Line?
Your Face Or Mine?

Released on DVD in September 2008 by BCI, then reissued in 2010 by Mill Creek.

Game Show Tropes in use:

Personnel:
- The Announcer: Randy West, a well-known announcer in the genre, as 1980s toy "Mr. Game Show".
- Game Show Host: Ben Stein, once an emcee in the genre.
- Studio Audience: Of which a few would play Family Feud, Match Game, or Beat The Clock for a cheap grocery "prize". Instead of, you know, just letting Ben and Randy co-host and not have an audience.
Undesirable Prize: The aforementioned grocery "prizes".

This show provides examples of:

Loads And Loads Of Game Shows: A staggering 34 Fremantle-owned games are seen across the five episodes, some of which are their only face time in years...or at all (and especially when the specials reran on GSN).
Pilot: I'm With Stupid (hosted by Graham Norton), the 1990-91 Match Game (hosted by Bert Convy), Puzzlers (hosted by Pat Sajak), and Showoffs (hosted by Larry Blyden).
Wardrobe Malfunction: Subject of a Top 5 countdown, which culminated in Rip Taylor showing his baldness on Super Password.