History YMMV / IveGotASecret

* RetroactiveRecognition: The September 17, 1962 episode featured a couple whose secret was that their son just became an astronaut. Garry Moore asked them how they would feel if their son was the first person to walk on the moon. The couple was Stephen and Viola Armstrong from Wapakoneta, Ohio. Just under seven years later, their son Neil Armstrong would in fact be the first one on the moon.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Some fans thought the 2006 version ''really'' didn't need an all-gay panel.

* FairForItsDay:
** The amount of cigarette advertisements prominently displayed on many 1950's episodes.
** In December 2019, GSN deleted an entire scene from an episode with Kaye Ballard, in which the panel had to identify a song in Italian, which turned out to be ''Baby, It's Cold Outside''. The song ramped up in controversy in October 2017, with the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, followed by Alyssa Milano's tweet that made the #[=MeToo=] Movement go viral, resulting in a growing number of Feminists claiming the song sends the message that it glorifies rape.

** In December 2019, GSN deleted an entire scene from an episode with Kaye Ballard, in which the panel had to identify a song in Italian, which turned out to be ''Baby, It's Cold Outside''. The song ramped up in controversy in October 2017, with the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, followed by Alyssa Milano's tweet that made the #MeToo Movement go viral, resulting in a growing number of Feminists claiming the song sends the message that it glorifies rape.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The September 17, 1962 episode featured a couple whose secret was that their son just became an astronaut. Their son: Neil Armstrong. Moore even asked them a question about how they would feel if their son was the first person to land on the moon - seven years before he did so!

* FairforItsDay:

** In December 2019, GSN deleted an entire scene from an episode with Kaye Ballard, in which the panel had to identify a song in Italian, which turned out to be ''Baby, It's Cold Outside''. The song ramped in controversy in October 2017, with the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, followed by Alyssa Milano's tweet that made the #MeToo Movement go viral, resulting in an growing number of Feminists claiming the song sends the message that it glorifies rape.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Anything relating to Winston as the show's sponsor. Garry Moore, Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan all died from lung disease. Garry Moore was also diagnosed with throat cancer in 1976 when he was hosting ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''; while it didn't kill him, it forced him into retirement.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The September 17, 1962 episode featured a couple whose secret was that their son just became an astronaut. Their son: Neil Armstrong. Moore even asked them a question about how they would feel if their son was the first person to land on the moon - nine years before he did so!

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Anything relating to Winston as the show's sponsor. Garry Moore, Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan all died from lung disease. Garry Moore was also diagnosed with throat cancer in 1976 while he was hosting ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''; while it didn't kill him, it forced him into retirement.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Anything relating to Winston as the show's sponsor. Garry Moore, Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan all died from lung disease. Garry Moore was also diagnosed with throat cancer in 1976 while hosting ''Series/ToTellTheTruth''; while it didn't kill him, it forced him into retirement.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Anything relating to Winston as the show's sponsor. Garry Moore, Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan all died from lung disease.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Don [=McNeil=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GNEaM2aQY drops eggs]] in a Moore episode, which Alan Alda [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFbjx0MNWQ duplicates]] during the syndicated run.
** January 14, 1959: The inner tube stunt mentioned on the [[Awesome/IveGotASecret Awesome Moments subpage]] has quite a few funny moments:
*** Everyone is scared of the increasingly expanding tube, especially poor Bill Cullen, who hides behind the desk!
*** Gary Moore gets in quite a few quips:
--->Henry Morgan just left, said "I'm going to the drug store next door; call me when he's through."\\
He's using up more wind than it took Clark Gable to be [[Film/GoneWithTheWind gone with]]!
** July 1, 1959: Groucho Marx's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWXjrHOZtrQ appearance.]] His secret? [[spoiler:He had nearly gotten the hosting job on ''Take It or Leave It'' (which became ''The $64,000 Question''), but lost it to Moore.]]
-->'''Garry''': Excuse me, Groucho, Henry [Morgan], but I see someone holding up one finger, does that mean anything?\\
'''Groucho''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar What does one finger mean on this show?]]

*** Everyone is scared at the tube's eventual explosion, especially poor Bill Cullen, who hides behind the desk!

* HarsherInHindsight: Winston as the show's sponsor. Garry Moore, Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan all died from lung disease.

* FunnyMoments:

* TooGoodToLast: The 1976 version lasted all of ''four episodes''. Didn't help that it was slotted directly against ''HappyDays''.

** Don [=McNeil=] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GNEaM2aQY drops eggs]] on the Garry Moore version, then Alan Alda [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyFbjx0MNWQ duplicates]] during the syndicated run.

-->'''Garry''': Excuse me, Groucho, Henry [Morgan], but I see someone holding up one finger, does that mean anything?
-->'''Groucho''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar What does one finger mean on this show?]]