- Heartwarming Moments: The Hero in Education segments. At least one person appeared on the show beforehand as a contestant.
- Replacement Scrappy: Either Jack Gallagher and/or Pat Finn.
- Gallagher typically hosted with a very low-key attitude and even reacted to million-dollar wins with little excitement (as seen in a clip from the 2009 finale). Larry Anderson, who preceded Gallagher, was generally much more animated.
- As for Finn, he had hosted some sub-par shows previously, the most notable being the failed 1990s version of The Joker's Wild. One could argue whether Shop 'Til You Drop was sub-par during Finn's era (nobody will argue if you say it fell down after he left), but it did run for the better part of 14 years.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
- Towards the end of Geoff Edwards' tenure, the game was reformatted so that every contestant had to match three wheel symbols on a makeshift scratcher just to get a chance to spin the wheel — if they didn't, they were sent packing with the wheel's lowest amount of $25,000. This opened up the possibility of entire episodes where nobody spun the wheel, a hole that was patched when Anderson took over.
- In 2004, all non-wheel minigames besides the Dream Machine were scrapped, while the set became smaller and much darker.
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