History Series / Whammy

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: One of the Double Whammy animations has a Whammy that loves M&M's.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: Ed and Janie, Michael Larson's opponents when he broke the bank on ''Press'', were invited back to play ''Whammy!'' against his brother James, since Michael had died in 1999. [[note]](James won, continuing the Larson family legacy.)[[/note]]

* InflationNegation: Premiered 16 years after ''Series/PressYourLuck'' ended, but retained the same nominal values in Square #4 despite inflation going up about 63% in America during that span. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], in that a cable network most definitely a smaller budget than Creator/{{CBS}}.

* FourIsDeath: As before, getting four Whammies knocked you out of the game. There's no special elimination Whammy though.
* InflationNegation: Premiered 16 years after ''PressYourLuck'' ended, but retained the same nominal values in Square #4 despite inflation going up about 63% in America during that span. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], in that a cable network would probably have a smaller budget than Creator/{{CBS}}.
* LimitedAnimation: Averted, with rather impressive 3-D CGI Whammies (most notably the Tarzan Whammy, which [[BreakingTheFourthWall smacked into the screen]] quite realistically, and was the first Whammy used in a taped episode).

* FourIsDeath: As before, getting four Whammies knocked you out of the game.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Round 3 had 11 Whammies for most of the run, up from nine in Round 2 on ''Press'' and three Devils on ''Chance''. For the record, there was no spike between ''Chance'' and ''Press'', as both had the same chance of hitting the villain (3/18 = 9/54 = 1/6).

* GameShowWinningsCap: One-and-done, which didn't really work out too well when people were the "big winner" with less than $3,000. The only contestant to win with $0 was invited back on a later episode, while 12 contestants were invited back for the very last week of shows.

* Pilot: Two of them were taped on February 13, 2002, and were respectively hosted by Peter Tomarken and Todd Newton. Clips from them made it to early GSN promos.

*** "Whammy Flashback... Flashback... Flashback..."

** Todd Newton had a couple for flashbacks:

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / ShoutOut: Among the many new Whammys were [[{{Expy}} expies]] of George Foreman, Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Steve Irwin, BritneySpears, Music/OzzyOsbourne, [[TheWeakestLink Anne Robinson]], JudgeJudy, Franchise/HarryPotter, and Music/{{NSYNC}}.

** This time, the female Whammy is named "[[Creator/{{TBN}} Whammy Faye Bakker]]".

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: One of the Double Whammy animations as a Whammy that loves M&M's.

* DoubleUnlock: Winning the car required contestants to collect both "pieces" ("Gem" and "Car" in Season 1, two halves of a key in Season 2) and win the game. In Season 1, hitting a Whammy at any point in the game took the car out of consideration (the Whammy would take the GEM/Car card(s) away from the player, and hitting a Whammy in Round 1 would also eliminate the player from further participation in that round, making it impossible for them to obtain the GEM card); this was fixed with the Big Bank.

* LimitedAnimation: Averted, with rather impressive 3-D CGI Whammies (most notably the Tarzan Whammy, which [[BreakingTheFourthWall smacked into the screen]] quite realistically).

* ObviousRulePatch: The Big Bank, which made the car ''much'' more likely to be won. Kind of hard to miss the display below the contestants...
** The show also had any player that hit a Whammy in the first round be eliminated from the rest of the round. This is to address a rare but serious problem from ''PressYourLuck'' where it was possible for a player to get 4 Whammies in the first round and be unable to play in the second round because of it.

* DoubleUnlock: Winning the car required contestants to collect both "pieces" ("Gem" and "Car" in Season 1, two halves of a key in Season 2) and win the game. In Season 1, hitting a Whammy after getting "Gem" or both pieces took the car out of consideration; this was fixed with the Big Bank.

** This time, the female Whammy is named "[[{{TBN}} Whammy Faye Bakker]]".

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / ShoutOut: Among the many new Whammys were [[{{Expy}} expies]] of George Foreman, Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Steve Irwin, BritneySpears, Music/OzzyOsbourne, [[TheWeakestLink Anne Robinson]], JudgeJudy, Franchise/HarryPotter, and *Music/{{NSYNC}}.

* ProgressiveJackpot: The Big Bank, which started at $3,000 and grew by whatever was lost to the Whammy. If a player landed on a Big Bank space, s/he was asked one question. Answering it correctly (and it had to be exact) [[BreakTheBank broke the Bank]], which was usually enough to put them far ahead of everyone else.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / ShoutOut: Among the many new Whammys were [[{{Expy}} expies]] of George Foreman, Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Steve Irwin, BritneySpears, Music/OzzyOsbourne, [[TheWeakestLink Anne Robinson]], JudgeJudy, Franchise/HarryPotter, and N'Sync.