Trivia / The Newlywed Game

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The "In the ass" quote (see below) has frequently been a victim of this. Many people thought it was a variant of "In the butt, Bob!" or even a black lady giving an AAVE variant such as "It be the butt, Bob." In reality, it was said by an ordinary housewife named Olga, who gave the answer hesitantly and uncomfortably.
• Creator Backlash: A 1977 episode where a woman answered the question, "What is the strangest place you've ever gotten the urge to make whoopie?" with, "in the ass". Eubanks denied that this ever happened (probably because of the mis-remembered or embellished details, as stated above) until the clip surfaced online in the late 90s. He later came to show a great deal of disgust at it on blooper shows, probably because of said common beliefs and mutations it took.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Many ABC episodes of the show were wiped due to the practices of the era, and many of the ones that do exist are unfit for reruns due to color deterioration.
  • The 1977-1980 Syndicated run exists, but in the final years of GSN reruns, GSN opted to only air the last season for some reason.
  • GSN aired one of the five 1984 test episodes with Jim Lange.
  • Of the 1985-1989 New Newlywed Game, only the 1985-1986 season was rerun regularly, with a handful of episodes from the other seasons with Bob only being played on occasion on GSN (and the Paul Rodriguez-hosted episodes never having been rerun at all).
• Network to the Rescue: The ABC debut was slated to be pre-empted by a press conference with Robert McNamara covering the Vietnam War. The conference wound up being delayed a half hour, allowing ABC to air the premiere uninterrupted while CBS "vamped" until the conference began. Some viewers who expected to see Password on CBS defected to The Newlywed Game, giving it a larger sampling than it likely would've had otherwise.
• The Pete Best: Before Johnny Jacobs, Scott Beach was the original announcer. Supposedly, Beach was fired after a few months because he would sing protest songs to the audience during breaks.
• Real Song Theme Tune: As mentioned above, the original theme is an instrumental arrangement of Eddie Rambeau's "Summertime Guy". The Paul Rodriguez version used "The Book of Love" as its Theme Tune from the second episode onward, complete with Synchro-Vox applied to pictures of early 20th-century married couples.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Scott Beach was originally tapped to host instead of announce. Given that Beach was let go early in the run, would the show have been as long term of a success under his watch?
  • Kathy Najimy was the original choice for hosting GSN's 2009 revival, but she ended up turning it down. Had she taken the job, it's very likely that the controversial reality show Carnie Wilson: Unstapled would have never happened...nor would Sherri Shepherd's turn as host, after Carnie left the show on bad terms in 2010.

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