History YMMV / Password

* WhatAnIdiot:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2c2Lxuu0FQ This]] Alphabetics round. Granted, those are ''not'' the easiest words, but the clues given were rather terrible.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclXvT-_8-k George Peppard's]] infamous rant against about Creator/{{NBC}} standards and practices, that resulted in George Peppard not being asked back to do the show and the episode being unaired until Creator/{{GSN}} and Creator/{{Buzzr}} aired the episode years later. The pulled episode also resulted in having to filmed a six episode week with Judy Norton Taylor and Robert Walden two weeks later, to catch up due to the rant episode being skipped.
** Hosts loved to play along with the celebrities and the contestants, trying his best to give the perfect clue. The problem is, in doing so, they'd wind up blowing the answer to many puzzles, forcing them to be thrown out. Some, however, were edited out and replaced.
** Many celebrity players on ''Million-Dollar'' were... none too swift at playing the game. Music/SaraEvans, Monique Coleman and Creator/WilliamShatner were abysmal. Shanter was reportedly so bad that the one BonusRound he played went unaired (even after they let him try it ''[[EpicFail twice]]''), and they escorted his civilian partner off the set with nothing to show for it.
** In ''Plus'', guessing an antonym to a clue as opposites were illegal in that version.

** One summer 1985 episode had Markie Post and Richard Moll as opposing celebrity players, but they were yet to be ''Series/NightCourt'' co-stars (Post was finishing up her run on ''Series/TheFallGuy'' and would join ''Night Court'' that fall season).

** ''Million-Dollar''. As per the standard for Creator/FremantleMedia, all the '''good''' things added to the format over the years were thrown out in favor of each half-hour being self-contained. The main game switched to a ''Pyramid''-esque format, while the BonusRound used Cashword's three-clues-per-word concept and didn't really have the suspense of Alphabetics/Super Password.
*** The bonus round '''required''' a clue-response-clue communication method — if the clue-giver said two clues in a row, or the contestant gave two guesses in a row, that word was forfeited. One contestant lost because she gave two guesses (the second of which was correct) with about two seconds left on the clock; she would've lost had she followed the rules (there was no time for another clue to be given), and lost ''because'' she gave two answers (likely because she knew there would be no time for another clue). Basically, she was screwed either way.

* WardrobeMalfunction: [[https://youtu.be/jdv0kIMxa9E Debralee Scott experienced one on ''Plus''.]] This episode is in the Buzzr rotation (as of late 2019), so if you're watching it and know what's coming, it's impossible not to see her constantly fighting to keep her top closed for practically the entire episode leading up to the [[JustForPun reveal]]. Note: the link, like the Buzzr version, is SFW, having had any actual nudity blurred out.

** A 1981 all-celebrity episode hosted by Tom Kennedy saw "Body" and "Language" being used as the first two clues for the puzzle "Charades". Four years later, Tom Kennedy would host the charades-themed game show... ''Series/BodyLanguage''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclXvT-_8-k George Peppard's]] infamous rant against about Creator/{{NBC}} standards and practices, that resulted in George Peppard not being asked to do the show and the episode being unaired until Creator/{{GSN}} and Creator/{{Buzzr}} aired the episode years later. The pulled episode also resulted in having to filmed a six episode week with Judy Norton Taylor and Robert Walden two weeks later to catch up, due to the rant episode being skipped.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclXvT-_8-k George Peppard's]] infamous rant against about Creator/{{NBC's}} standards and practices, that resulted in George Peppard not being asked to do the show and the episode being unaired until Creator/{{GSN}} and Creator/{{Buzzr}} aired the episode years later. The pulled episode also resulted in having to filmed a six episode week with Judy Norton Taylor and Robert Walden two weeks later to catch up, due to the rant episode being skipped.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclXvT-_8-k George Peppard's]] infamous rant against about NBC's standards and practices, that resulted in George Peppard not being asked to do the show and the episode being unaired until Creator/{{GSN}} and Buzzr aired the episode years later. The pulled episode also resulted in having to filmed a six episode week with Judy Norton Taylor and Robert Walden two weeks later due the rant episode not being aired on NBC.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclXvT-_8-k]] George Peppard's infamous rant against about NBC's standards and practices, that resulted in George Peppard not being asked to do the show and the episode being unaired until Creator/{{GSN}}and Buzzr aired the episode years later. The pulled episode also resulted in having to filmed a six episode week with Judy Norton Taylor and Robert Walden two weeks later due the rant episode not being aired on NBC.

* ValuesDissonance: One early puzzle on ''Plus'' was about the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan. Buzzr finally pulled the offending episode from its rotation in 2017.

* WTHCastingAgency: Watergate co-conspirator [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vGGpRoCWrY G. Gordon Liddy]] on ''Super''.

* WTHCastingAgency: Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy on Super Password.

** Many celebrity players on ''Million-Dollar'' were... none too swift at playing the game. Music/SaraEvans, Monique Coleman and Creator/WilliamShatner were abysmal. Shanter was reportedly so bad that the one BonusRound he played went unaired (even after they let him try it ''[[EpicFail twice]]'', and they escorted his civilian partner off the set with nothing to show for it.

** Many celebrity players on ''Million-Dollar'' were...none too swift at playing the game. Music/SaraEvans, Monique Coleman and Creator/WilliamShatner were abysmal. Shanter was reportedly so bad that the one BonusRound he played went unaired, and they just escorted his civilian partner off the set with nothing to show for it.

** Many celebrity players on ''Million-Dollar'' were...none too swift at playing the game. Music/SaraEvans, Monique Coleman and Creator/WilliamShatner were abysmal. Shanter was reportedly so bad that the one Bonus Round he played went unaired, and they just escorted his civilian partner off the set with nothing to show for it.

** Many celebrity players on ''Million-Dollar'' were...none too swift at playing the game. Music/SaraEvans, Monique Coleman and Creator/WilliamShatner were abysmal.

* EarWorm: Pretty much every one of the American franchise's themes and sound effects...until ''Million-Dollar'' decided to go generic. The second theme for the 1960s version, "You Know the Password", composed by Bob Cobert, was so popular that [[Series/HogansHeroes Bob Crane]] once suggested writing lyrics to it.

* WTH,CastingAgency?: Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy on Super Password.

* HilariousInHindsight: Florence Henderson got the password "Bunch" in 1966, three years before she became [[Series/TheBradyBunch Mrs. Brady]].

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:

* EarWorm: Pretty much every one of the American franchise's themes and sound effects...until ''Million-Dollar'' decided to go generic. The second theme for the 1960s version, "You Know the Password", composed by Bob Cobert, was so popular that [[Series/HogansHeroes Bob Crane]] once suggested writing lyrics to it.
* GameplayDerailment: The disallowing of opposites as clues in ''Plus'' was seen as this.