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General trivia:

  • A typical taping day was 3-4 episodes. The host, Phil Moore, would wear one outfit for one or two shows, and then change it for the tapings of the next two.

Specific trivia:

  • Edited for Syndication: The consolation plugs were regularly replaced in reruns, in many cases promoting things that did not exist in 1992 (like Stay Tooned! and the Barf-O-Rama books, both from 1996). This practice did not carry over to the Nick GAS reruns; they would air with either a set from 1996, 1997, and less frequently from earlier broadcast masters.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Despite airing on Nick GaS from its inception to its ending, only 64 of its 84 episodes ever reran there. One of the 20 missing episodes was posted to Nickelodeon's site in the late 2000s, another has been offered for sale on iTunes since December 2013, and at least six others circulated among traders from 90s Nick airings.
    • Finally rescued in March 2021. After 13 years of not airing anywhere, every single episode was posted to Paramount+, meaning viewers could now see episodes that hadn't seen the light of day since 1997.
    • The pilot was uploaded to YouTube in 2014 but removed sometime afterward.
  • Prop Recycling: The set for the 1991 pilot was originally used for Get the Picture, another Nick-produced game show.
  • Screwed by the Lawyers: One theory as to why those 20 episodes never reran on GaS is that Nick Arcade used a lot of music videos in their puzzles, and Nickelodeon couldn't clear (or didn't feel like clearing) the music rights for every episode. While the theory has never been officially confirmed, it's interesting to note that all of the skipped episodes featured a music video.

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