- Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Patrick Wayne's infamous statement during the conclusion of Divorced Couples' Week is often misquoted (including here on TV Tropes) as "Just cause you're divorced doesn't mean you can't have fun, riiiiiiiiiiiight?" Here's what he actually said:Patrick: I hope you all enjoyed our tournament of ex-husbands playing against their ex-wives. It proved to be an exciting contest which shows that divorced couples can still have fun together, riiiiiiiiiiiight?
- Blooper: At the start of one 1982 episode, Martindale refers to the champion as a "lady", but realizes his mistake after the champion, architect Bill Peters, is introduced.
- Development Hell: A reboot was planned with an initial announcement in 2021. It got as far as a pilot which got leaked some time after its production (and was taken down almost immediately). In August 2022, Tom Bergeron confirmed via Twitter
that the attempt had been scrapped. Another attempt for GSN, without Tom, was announced in 2024. - Franchise Killer: Negative reception to the 1990-91 revival killed interest in the show for more than 30 years; no attempts have been made to revive it until 2021.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Complicated.
- Only two episodes of the NBC nighttime versionnote and the first four episodes of the CBS runnote circulate. Some Barry episodes are available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York.
- YouTube has the Jackson episode and the Elliott episode, as well as a Barry episode.
- Of the 1978–86 nighttime run, GSN has never shown anything from 1981 to 1983, along with the tail end of the final season.
- Rescued with the Caldwell season. In 2020, Game TV (Canada's equivalent to GSN) acquired this 175-episode final season. After showing some episodes, they stopped, picking up where they left off over a year later. By the end of the year, they had gotten past #H-116 (which was far as GSN ever got back in 2001), and reached the finale, the first time since its original airing it was rerun. Two episodes (#H-167 and #H-170) were skipped.
- The 1990s version reran on the USA Network from 1993 to 1994, but hasn't been seen since. (This might have to do with ITC, the people who brought us Thunderbirds and The Muppet Show, distributing it (though by this point they weren't doing much other than making the occasional TV movie) having been successively bought and sold; Polygram and then Universal owned the company itself for a time in the late 1990s, but its library (or at least the good stuff) was acquired by Carlton, which would eventually become part of ITV Plc; so it's likely the show has fallen into legal limbo.)
- The 2021 pilot was briefly leaked onto the Internet. It was quickly taken down.
- No Budget: The NBC era's daytime set, which looked far cheaper and had a different layout than the upscale nighttime set. The UK version adapted this set for at least part of its run. Unfortunately, the nighttime version was also rigged, whereas the daytime version was not.
- Outlived Its Creator: The Martindale-Caldwell version continued for two years after the death of Jack Barry.
- Star-Derailing Role: Jay Jackson's career suffered the most after the quiz show scandals first came to light. He never hosted another game show for the rest of his life, and his only credit after this was narrating some Laurel and Hardy anthologies.
- What Could Have Been: There would have been a syndicated version no matter what, and it would have aired alongside the CBS version, when production began in June 1978. But when the daytime edition fizzled a month later, production immediately switched over to the syndicated edition. Tapings lasted at CBS Television City (using Studios 43 and 31) from June 1978 to December 1980 (two-thirds into season 3). Production then moved to KCOP-TV for all but the 1984-85 season (there, they were at The Production Group Center, as the KCOP studios were undergoing renovations). The 1990 version taped at Hollywood Center Studios.
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