- Harsher in Hindsight: 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 To Tell the Truth; while it didn't kill him, it forced him into retirement.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- 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.
- John Cale appeared on the September 16, 1963 show, several years before The Velvet Underground was founded, with his secret related to his participation in the first public performance of Erik Satie's Vexations a week earlier.
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