History Trivia / DoubleDare1986

* DescendedCreator: Marc Summers being the announcer of the 2018 version.

** Whenever an obstacle gets updated on a later season, fans give it numbers to distinguish the never version from its predecessor. These include "Inside-Out 2.0" for the ''Super Sloppy'' and ''Family'' versions of "Inside-Out" and "Kid Wash III" for the ''Double Dare 2000'' update of 1992's "Kid Wash II"

* FanNickname: ''Double Dare '18/'19'' for the latest revival.

** There was a brief prime time version of the show which aired on FOX during the summer of 1988. However, it only lasted a single season of 13 episodes due to disagreements between FOX and Nickelodeon. FOX wanted adult-oriented specials while Nickelodeon wanted the show to remain kid-friendly. This became the first volley which led to FOX striking out on their own and creating FOX Kids. Since Nickelodeon already had a lease the New York studio, footage for ''The Messiest Moments'' and ''The Inside Slop'' was shot in lieu of episodes.

** There was a brief prime time version of the show which aired on FOX during the summer of 1988. However, it only lasted 13 episodes due to disagreements between Nickelodeon and FOX, as FOX wanted to produce more specials while Nickelodeon wanted the show to remain kid-friendly. This became the first volley which led to FOX striking out on their own and creating Fox Kids.

** Every episode from the three ''Family'' runs and ''2000'' is intact. One 1990 episode never reran on Nick [=GaS=], resurfacing on Website/YouTube in December 2011. The 1992 Tournament of Champions special (the final episode of the original run) stopped airing on [=GaS=] prior to 2005. A re-run from 1994 is the one that's most circulated.

* On average, a typical taping on the original series was as many as 4 episodes; two up-front games and two endgames with both respective winning teams, followed by two more up-front games and two more endgames with different respective winning teams. Usually, the entire tape day featured the same obstacle course layout, but with slight changes as the day went on.

* On average, a typical taping on the original series was 4 episodes; two up-front games and two endgames with both respective winning teams, followed by two more up-front games and two more endgames with different respective winning teams. Usually, the entire taping day featured the same obstacle course layout, but with slight changes as the day went on.

* On average, a typical taping on the original series was 4 episodes; two up-front games and two endgames with both respective winning teams, followed by two more up-front games and two more endgames with different respective winning teams. Usually, the entire taping day featured the same obstacle course lineup, but with slight changes as the day went on.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: ''Double Dare 2000'' saw the most frequent airtime out of every Nickelodeon game show towards the end of [=GaS=]. It was the only version of ''Double Dare'' to air on the channel in the final two years of its life.

* AlanSmithee: Dana Calderwood directed 'Double Dare 2000'' under the pseudonym "Hal Leigh". He based the name on his daughter Hallie.

** Three episodes from season 2 early in 1987 are unaccounted for. One of them, Goldfish Vs. Gumballs, is almost never in circulation.
** 130 episodes were taped for Syndication in 1988. Seven are unaccounted for. One episode, Cosmic Sparks Vs. Slimey Worms, is missing the second round. The full version with the missing second round surfaced on Amazon Prime in December 2019.

*** Highlights from these missing episodes include Marc Summers doing a Mary Tyler Moore impersonation, Marc losing it over a toy boat and spitting to the camera during an obstacle course briefing (as shown in the 1988 Direct-to-Video special ''Double Dare: The Inside Slop''), and one team in particular winning the main game with a record-breaking '''$750''' ($375 for each of the two teammates), as described in 1988's ''The Double Dare Game Book''.

* The timer above Marc in the 1986-93 run rotated 180 degrees in between physical challenges on the Fox run of ''Family'', Orlando-based episodes of ''Super Sloppy'', ''Super Special'' and the 1992 season of ''Family''. On all seasons where the timer did not rotate, it displayed "00" when not in use. The clock was chroma-keyed in every version except for the Orlando run of ''Super Sloppy'' which used a graphic. ''2000'' and the 2018 revival use graphics for the clock.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Marc Summers was host for seven years (1986-93) of a game show remembered as one of the messiest ever. Summers has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and he's been known to obsessively straighten out the fringe on a rug.

* ThrowItIn: In the first taped obstacle course win from 1992, a cameraman tripped over one of the bowling pins from the Big Bowl obstacle. The footage went in as aired with Doc and Marc dubbing the prize total and sign-off respectively.

** ''2000'' and the 2018 revival were both cancelled without warning after their second production cycles were completed. The former had it pretty bad: re-runs moved to Nick [=GaS=] by year's end.

** After production was completed for the second season, Nickelodeon abruptly cancelled it and then burned off the episodes without advertising them.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: There was a brief prime time version of the show which aired on FOX during the summer of 1988. However, it only lasted 13 episodes due to disagreements between Nickelodeon and FOX, as FOX wanted to produce more specials while Nickelodeon wanted the show to remain kid-friendly. This became the first volley which led to FOX striking out on their own and creating Fox Kids.

** One 1990 episode of Family Double Dare never reran on Nick [=GaS=]. It finally re-surfaced on Website/YouTube in December 2011.
** The 1992 Tournament of Champions special (the final episode of the original run) stopped airing on [=GaS=] prior to 2005.

** 130 episodes were taped for Syndication in 1988. Seven are unaccounted for. One episode, Cosmic Sparks Vs. Slimey Worms, is missing the second round.

** Among the hopefuls that auditioned along with Marc Summers was Michael Burger who would later host a similar show, ''Series/FamilyChallenge'' on The Family Channel, a decade later (replacing the late Ray Combs); he had earlier hosted a failed pilot from Reg Grundy called ''Matchmates'' in 1985, and hosted the ill-fated 1998 version of ''Series/MatchGame''. Other potential hosts included Soupy Sales (who Nick decided was too old) and [[Film/WaynesWorld Dana Carvey]] (he got his invite to join ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' on the same day Nick offered him the ''Double Dare'' gig).

** Among the hopefuls that auditioned along with Marc Summers was Michael Burger who would later host a similar show, ''Series/FamilyChallenge'' on The Family Channel, a decade later (replacing the late Ray Combs); he had earlier hosted a failed pilot from Reg Grundy called ''Matchmates'' in 1985, and hosted the ill-fated 1998 version of ''Series/MatchGame''.

** A likely reason why Marc was demoted to executive consultant for ''2000''. He later admitted that he did not agree with many of the show's changes, most notably the Triple Dare Challenge.
* FollowTheLeader: There were several "messy kids' show" clones, most egregiously the short-lived ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqzyGmeX4No Slime Time]]''. However, most of the other kids' games of the era had completely different stunts and/or presentation.

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Marc Summers was host for seven years (1986-93) of a game show remembered as one of the messiest ever. Summers has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and he's been known to obsessively straighten out the fringe on a rug. When this news became common knowledge, he became something of a MemeticBadass since he was able to power through filming such a messy show and enduring having contestants CoveredInGunge hug him.

** An episode was not aired because a kid broke his arm on the obstacle course. To make matters worse, he had fragile bones and lied on the application form to get on the show.

* ProductionPosse: Marc, Harvey, Edd Kalehoff, producers Dana Calderwood and Michael Klinghoffer, and set designer Jim Fenhagen all later worked on the short-lived game show ''History IQ'' (which aired on Creator/TheHistoryChannel pre-NetworkDecay).

** Among the hopefuls that auditioned along with Marc Summers was Michael Burger who would later host a similar show, ''Series/FamilyChallenge'' on [[Creator/ABCFamily The Family Channel]], a decade later (replacing the late [[Series/FamilyFeud Ray Combs]]); he had earlier hosted a failed pilot from [[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Reg]] [[Series/{{Scrabble}} Grundy]] called ''Matchmates'' in 1985, and hosted the ill-fated 1998 version of ''Series/MatchGame''.

* The timer above Marc in the 1986-93 run rotated 180 degrees in between physical challenges on the Fox run of ''Family'', Orlando-based episodes of ''Super Sloppy'' and the 1992 season of ''Family''. On all seasons where the timer did not rotate, it displayed "00" when not in use. The clock was chroma-keyed in every version except for the Orlando run of ''Super Sloppy'' which used a graphic. ''2000'' and the 2018 revival use graphics for the clock.