Things You've Learned From Game Shows..

[Fedya]

I learned the (possibly apocryphal) story of the naming of the Queen Mary from an episode of Hit Man.

From PYL I learned what flokati is.

[mrchips]

How to measure time in the absence of a watch or clock.

[colonial]

Thanks to "Pyramid," I learned how to spell and pronounce "hors d'oeuvres," as well as an introduction to three-digit addition (even at a very young age, I wanted to be quicker than Dick Clark adding up the boxes in the Winner's Circle).

WOF taught me multiplication, and I got a crash course in counting by hundreds the "Jack Barry way" on TJW.

SOTC was good when it came to subtraction, particularly with Instant Bargains.

When she was 4-5, my daughter started getting comfortable with the concept of taking letters and putting them into words after showing her a few episodes of "Countdown" on YT (she was in what my family called her "British stage," where she watched UK kids shows on YT and spoke in British colloquialisms -- "Ready, steady, go … let's take the lift, etc.".)



 JD

[Chuck Sutton]

I learned from Battlestars,.  Sex is actually good treatment for a headache.

[BrandonFG]

A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.

Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.

[BillCullen1]

On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.

[chad1m]

On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.

During 2017's Dream Car Week, they offered a new car as an item up for bids for the first time, so everyone's display held five digits.

[Joe Mello]

A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.

Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.

From Bergeron's Squares I learned slowly pulling your tongue out allows you to stop hiccups.

[Steve Gavazzi]

On today's repeat of TPIR (6/23), I learned the contestant boards can hold bids of five numbers. One guy bid $12,995 on a motorcycle. I don't remember ever seeing that before.

They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38.  Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.

[tvmitch]

It taught me to add to $750.

Two
Four-fifty
Five
Six
Seven hundred fifty dollars

[Brian44]

Pyramid taught me the definitions of "Maitre D'" and "metronome." 😁

[aaron sica]

They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38.  Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.

Such as "Decades Week" when they took on the look of the displays from 1972.

[Winkfan]

The Dating Game introduced me to the term "Bachelorette."  And from To Tell The Truth, the term, "Imposter."

Cordially,
Tammy

[Steve Gavazzi]

They installed LCD displays in Contestants' Row back at the start of Season 38.  Obviously, though, they're programmed to look just like the old sportstype displays unless there's a reason for them not to.

Such as "Decades Week" when they took on the look of the displays from 1972.

Decades Week in general was great, but they really went all-out for that '70s episode.

[CarbonCpy]

it's a tricky balance between "make it possible to win" it and "make them earn it."

there's only so much chrome that can distract from a weak format.

and specific to family feud: sometimes it doesn't have to be factually correct, make sense, or even be relevant to the question -- it just has to be popular.