- Awesome Music:
- Heartwarming Moments: The episode with Rosa Parks. Nipsey Russell is one of the panelists and disqualifies himself from voting, having met Parks in a protest he took part in. He has this to say about Parks.Nipsey Russell: I know Ms. Parks, and I was one of the entertainers that was on that show between Selma and Montgomery, and it was Harry Belafonte who organized it. But Miss Rose is ten feet tall, and she's a legend and a hero for the democracy in the United States, not just for black people.
- Memetic Mutation: "Will the real [person's name] please stand up?".
- Parody Displacement: These days, "Will the real [person's name] please stand up?" is more associated with Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady", where it was snowcloned into "Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?".
- Replacement Scrappy: Robin Ward on the 1980s version, who was generally hated for his stiff demeanor.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Orville Redenbacher appeared on a 1973 episode, only a few years after his eponymous popcorn brand had been introduced (it wasn't even available in New York at the time) and before he had been immortalized in countless commercials; the panelists unanimously voted for one of the imposters.
- Cynthia Nixon's mother worked as a coach for the imposters in the original version, so she appeared among the children of other staff members in a 1970 episode and again as an imposter in a 1976 episode.
- The Scrappy: Anthony Anderson's mother who was brought in to keep track of correct votes for the panelists. Generally, fans who dislike her also tend to dislike this version's format changes that justify her being there (the panelist with the least amount of correct votes by the end of the episode has to "Tweet a Lie" about themselves).
- Seasonal Rot: In the final (1967-68) daytime season of the original run, the orchestral theme song was replaced with a modern (yet generic) piece of music, and the set got a blindingly white makeover with random rectangular color pieces that looked like a bad attempt at emulating the Password backdrop. Most importantly, for the first game of each episode, a celebrity would come on and have the panel guess which one of the contestants were their partner, with the panel questioning the celebrity before the contestants. This gimmick, which might've worked if done once in a while, ended up making things too samey for the show and too easy for the panelists (who had more to work with to guess the person). Those changes were probably due to Executive Meddling from Fred Silverman, then in charge of daytime programming at CBS; his notorious hate of game shows makes it tempting to say he deliberately sabotaged the show to justify cancelling it.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The current ABC version places more gameplay emphasis on the celebrities as opposed to the contestants and the impostors. Each show has a scoring system that had never been used on any other version with some kind of punishment for the worst celebrity. Anderson and his mother are allowed to ask questions resulting in both getting unnecessary spotlight. This is one of the rare classic revivals to have a Commercial Break Cliffhanger, commonly done when Anderson says something to the extent of "Will the real X please stand up... when we come back?" It's also never been mentioned if impostors get any money for incorrect panel votes.
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