- Edited for Syndication: GSN reruns replaced the "...is a Barry-Enright Production" in Charlie O'Donnell's closing spiel with the Columbia-TriStar Television logo. The CBN and USA Network reruns left it alone. (This was CTT's policy at the time—add their logo to the end of practically anything they owned, and quite often plaster it over older logos. This, of course, only applied to Hot Potato, as all other Barry-Enright games used on GSN had the Barry-Enright logo already in the credits, making plastering impossible.)
- Hostility on the Set: Milton Berle was a guest during the week of May 14-18, 1984. According to producer Allen Koss, Berle was a nuisance towards everybody during the taping session. At one point, Berle asked the crew to replace his microphone, only to be told that his mic was working perfectly—the audience didn't think his jokes were funny. During one commercial break, Bill Cullen threatened to walk off the set unless the crew did something about Berle. To make matters worse, the episodes were taped the day Jack Barry was found dead after a heart attack, so there was a tinge of sadness behind the scenes.
- Real Song Theme Tune: The pilot used the 1983 dance-pop hit "Stop, Look, and Listen"
by Donna Summer for its opening theme, and the 1978 disco hit "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" by Sylvester James, Jr. for its closing theme. - Recycled Soundtrack: The pilot also reused cues from a previous Barry and Enright show, Play the Percentages.
- Screwed by the Network: The show's brief lifenote was mainly due to its Noon timeslot, where many NBC affiliates generally preempted it in favor of either local newscasts or syndicated programming.
- The show's replacement in the Noon timeslot, Super Password, actually managed to thrive in said slot even with preemptions, mainly due to independent stations stepping in to air the program in lieu of the preempting NBC affiliates.
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