Top 20 Game Show Scandals

Whether the contestants were caught cheating or they simply outsmarted the game, these game show scandals caused quite a stir. For this list, we’ll be looking at the 20 most shocking, head-scratching, and eyebrow-raising moments on game shows. Our countdown includes “Wheel of Fortune,” “The Price Is Right,” “Jeopardy!,” and more! WatchMojo ranks the biggest game show scandals. Which scandal shocked you? Let us know in the comments!
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[@WatchMojo]

Which gameshow scandal do you find the most shocking?!

[@muhlisunalsalman1836]

second one

[@Ihavenoidea-kj3ib]

Number 286,948,948,847,837 Am I right

[@bbarron7066]

No

[@discoveringideas]

Second one 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@MrRonald327]

To Flip Flop or Not to Flip Flop?

[@Vikn01]

The "I've got a good feeling about this" lady was probably the only game show moment that felt badass...well, besides the guy who used his lifeline to call his Dad and tell him he won 1 million.

[@SerpySerper56]

John carpenter is an absolute legend, first one ever to win the million and he looked slick as doing it

[@vergilmontiero2558]

Yeah that who wants to be a millionaire one was amazing, people underestimate how hard it was to answer questions without the prominence of things like "Google" and "Wikipedia" at the time. 1999 I believe was the year? Those questions, while easy now wouldn't be for most at that time.

[@NS1.]

" the guy who used his lifeline to call his Dad and tell him he won 1 million." Does anyone know where I can find this clip?

[@bronxjewelix]

What Perfect Phrase For A To Describe This

[@darkangel_1978]

Yeah I guess it's a good thing my great grandma never went on that show. What that woman did with one letter, my great grandma used to do a lot. We would just sit there stunned. Once in a while, it would take 2-3 letters, but usually one letter was all it took for her. Decades later, we still don't know how she did it, and she took that to her grave.

[@3oh3fanboy]

Odd cut between 13 and 12 “He flipped off a censored bird to the NUMBER 12”

[@caisonrivera9207]

Ah, I see... Abdullah the butcher. What a teddy bear, right?

[@CorrineFerguson]

Love abby!

[@GeronFletcher]

It’s like they purposely censored themselves talking about censorship lol

[@JimmiPynk]

@@GeronFletcher yeah but it just came off awkward instead of cute or clever

[@Vampiress_2004]

Ngl that made me laugh

[@vurvo574]

The post-it note one was terrible because they lost 800k even though they were right and the show didn’t give them the money they deserved.

[@Iggystar71]

For real!! Now that would have been a legitimate reason to sue.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@imjusthere750 I don't get it. If they got the right answer, why did they lose?

[@lightdragoon88]

@@imjusthere750 But there is the psychological aspect where losing the 2nd to last they didn't care/focus enough on the last question.

[@lpcrossover5424]

AJ Mainiac still doesn’t matter. Having wrong technicalities on a test...let alone a LIVE game show is inexcusable. Those contestants should at least be fully refunded after that mess or just have a small bit of cash to take home.

[@TheNis240sx]

But think about this. They lost so much money on that question that they didnt have enough to cover their bases on the final questions. If they had all that they could put it on all the options and have better luck rather then having to guess.

[@MW93249]

The dating game killer was so freaky, that girl was smart enough not to go with him, good judge of character

[@WonderWhatHappened]

Her judge of character was the reason why he was the one she chose. Just joking. I know what you mean.

[@MrDash03]

She was smart. The things I heard that guy did were disturbing.

[@mepapasmurf7371]

WonderWhatHappened no technically his answers is what won him the game, but meeting him after showed his personality and that’s why she chose not to go

[@WonderWhatHappened]

@@mepapasmurf7371 OK thanks. Now can you technically explain " just joking" to me?

[@alfonsogreen2722]

She did the right thing

[@WayWardWonderer]

A law student who can read body language is actually a great thing! It's a tough skill to master, and being able to use it on a professional manner to determine which clients are guilty/innocent would be phenomenal.

[@HackiePuffs]

It is a great thing to have but as the saying goes there’s a time and a place for everything. Game shows: no. Court settings: most definitely!!

[@mrwassef]

Lawyers don’t determine who’s guilty or innocent. That’s the job of the jury or judge. Lawyers defend their clients and make their case using evidence. Body language cues aren’t admissible as evidence. It might be a good skill for an interrogator to have...but you can’t determine whether someone is guilty or not based on body language, it’s not a reliable method. You have to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

[@fashiondiva6972]

While it is true that guilt is only decided by the trier of fact (judge or jury). Otherwise your comment made clear that you’re not an attorney. As a defense counsel in a criminal case you don’t need to assess “innocence or guilt p” per se. However reading body language of clients, judges and juries, just as a starting point, is everything in our profession. If you can’t do it well you won’t last long as a litigator, criminal or civil. If we can’t read a client’s body language how do you think we make a full assessment to best advise on any number of critical issues, such as accepting a plea, whether to choose a jury or a bench trial and how to plead.. I’ve practiced law for over 23 years, as a federal prosecutor, public defender and now as a judge and will never understand why the general (non attorney) public feels comfortable giving legal advice and explaining concepts as though they’re practicing members of their state bar. Even attorneys hire other attorneys to represent themselves in areas outside their normal practice areas (myself included) yet for some reason the world thinks it’s appropriate to pretend they’re qualified to speak to others definitively on myriad legal issues (that is almost always wrong). There’s a reason I don’t have my dentist perform my annual mammogram; yes, he’s a doctor but that’s not his job. I’m sure he’s touched breasts before but he has no training or expertise to perform the test. By the same token I don’t walk into other people’s workplaces and decide to do their jobs on the spot, skipping all that pesky school, training and experience.

[@samanthafairweather9186]

@@fashiondiva6972 I love what you said about the dentist! Also, you're right about everything else too. I worked for a law firm, as a legal secretary, when I first left school. That doesn't mean I'm able to give legal advice, just advice on a good law firm!!

[@MrWebby93]

If I lost a game on Wheel of Fortune because of my accent or pronunciation, I would walk off the show.

[@deepikachandra7857]

same!

[@bluegenes2273]

Or you could learn to pronounce words correctly.

[@Cynful033]

@@bluegenes2273 Man this is mild racism! Accents exist in all languages and pronunciations are really based on region and geographic location. Like please tell me that you're nor American and speak our fucked up english while throwing this stone in a glass house.

[@msnewsenior]

blue genes If you grew up with a certain accent then getting rid of it is next to impossible. Stop being a jerk

[@shubhsiddhartha5237]

srsly those guys jerks

[@Slipknot4769]

I love the contestants who don't really cheat, but actually just learn how to game the game show. That's so satisfying.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

Exhibit A being Michael Larson. He figured out the patterns.

[@landoman107]

I think the best gameshow scandal was how "pork-upine" wasn't on the board in Family Feud

[@vanityplates3125]

That was so unfair!!

[@AwkwardBlackGal613]

Nightman

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

That clip never fails to leave me deceased. I've been revived multiple times 😂

[@AnimeboyIanpower]

I thought it was funny as hell! Do you think Steve Harvey ever found out what "cupine" is?

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@vanityplates3125 No it wasn't. The contestant's answer was stupid! The question called for something that comes after the word "pork" (i.e.: pork chops, pork loin, pork rinds, etc). The contestant said "upine," apparently thinking of the word "porcupine," which didn't make sense, because there's a "k" in "pork," but not in "porcupine." So, of course, the man's answer wasn't on the board, because obviously the people who set it up would have known that there's no "k" in "porcupine," so it never would have occurred to them to include such an asinine answer as "upine."

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Charles: I did not hear any coughing Buddy: You sit on a throne of lies

[@DeviemTwen]

They even smell like beef and cheese, and not Santa...

[@Zeytrixx]

It’s entertaining to watch them get caught cheating.

[@discoveringideas]

Agree 😅😎😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[@AnDrei-nf5jb]

Micheal Larson didn't tho, he just knew the patterns

[@abellewis3062]

Yes!

[@takyia9353]

yeah

[@isaacwalker7818]

FAX

[@colmor05]

“And flipping a censored bird to the- number 12: our little genius”

[@ZoeyHope]

They didn't need to do that!

[@colmor05]

Zonnie Hoffer it’s probably an editing mistake

[@ZoeyHope]

@@colmor05 I hope they can fix that

[@schoolcamr.e179]

@Zonnie hoffer it's 2020 they had not fixed it

[@bleedingcuppajoe]

to think I was the only one that caught that, and it has been 3 months already.

[@нерусский-о8г]

Bro the guy who was just looking at the host's body language was a freaking genius

[@ThoughtfulPotato]

Here in India, we've got Amitabh Bachchan playing the host... And you could NEVER tell from his face what the right answer was! I'm not a big fan of his but it was always amusing to watch people try reading his reaction as he just smiled like Dumbledore!

[@ohwell94]

Try that coughing now they will throw you in isolation Literally!

[@chazztreat8317]

Really

[@LilithGrey...FromHell]

And it was so obvious too 😄

[@jdb47games]

@@LilithGrey...FromHell Those coughs were subsequently amplified for the purpose of making a documentary about the case. They were not obvious in the original recording.

[@unknowna8056]

I find that scandal funny for some reason lol

[@unknowna8056]

Probably because of the time nail

[@jeremywilliams5141]

In Michael Larsen's case, it would have only been cheating if he had anything to do with the design or the creation of the board. So you really can't fault him for his strategy. As for Terry Kneiss, if you watch enough episodes of The Price for Right, you're likely to know and memorize the prices of prizes. So technically no rules were broken.

[@TeamPaul17]

The reason Kneiss looked shady was that while it is difficult enough to get the Item Up For Bids exactly right, pricing three prizes (or even four or more on occasion) for a showcase is nearly impossible. However, you are right -- I remember the $144 BBQ tool kit well, as they used that particular mini-prize ALL THE TIME a few years ago. It's no one's fault that producers repeated items frequently. Now, they'll mix things up a bit with various add-ons or accessories being used to create a range of price points for common prizes. As for Larsen, once I heard the explanation for his strategy, I was shocked to hear that it hadn't happened already (although early 80's tech made that a little difficult). In the documentary on his life and death, Peter Tomarken even had his opponents that day (and Larsen's brother) practice Larsen's technique on a mock-up board with the same patterns. It took them a bit, but they started to get it.

[@georgemaster6356]

Michael Larson won the $128,000+ money legitimately.He studied the show by taping it and studying the board's strategy,so CBS awarded him the money.

[@jeremycrispo1993]

@@georgemaster6356 There was an incident during a pricing game on the nighttime version of Price is Right in 1976 where Cliff Hangers was played, but the game itself it had nothing to do with cheated, rigging but rather the name of the Mountain Climber. Dennis called the mountain climber Fritz after the contestant lost had cliffhangers. However what Dennis did not realize and wasn't aware that the name comes from model Janice Pennington's husband Fritz Stammberger who had vanished while mountain climbing in Afghanistan. After the game was loss Dennis yelled out "THERE GOES FRITZ" this upset Janice so much that she ran off and remained backstage crying for the rest the episode.

[@JonesDylan874]

@@jeremycrispo1993 And WE NEVER SAW DENNIS AGAIN after this.

[@alanguages]

Mike Larsen deserved every cent he won. He outsmarted the game and paid attention to the algorithm. In other words he used his brain.

[@StriderStryker]

This is the reason why I don’t watch game shows. _Because the _*_possibilities_*_ are _*_endless..._*

[@subarashii2374]

They could make 59 seasons out of any stupid thing

[@abellewis3062]

The game show "The Moment of Truth" should have their own list. The entire show is a scandal all by itself. Enough said.

[@shannond7437]

So true!!

[@GabrielaTorres-do3cg]

Yes! That show destroyed relationships

[@dasiareed5147]

Gabby Torres how?? They shouldn’t have been lying to their partners

[@christopheredale]

Explain how Moment Of Truth is fradulant pls..

[@myheartiswriting]

@@christopheredale If you're asking seriously, lie detectors cannot detect if someone is lying, lie detectors monitor your pulse, your temperature, your blood pressure, your breathing, and a few other bodily functions related to stress. They're intended to see if the questions/answers raise your stress level because if you're stressed out over a question, you're "lying". However, people can become stressed out over a lot of things without lying. Say you hook up a car crash victim who witnessed their parents fly through the front window, and asked them if they were somehow responsible, that would likely trigger a lot of stress, anxiety, and even anger, because how could they have caused the accident? But to the lie detector, the victim is lying because they're stressed. If a girl is raped and someone asks if she did something to ask for it, she could be having anxiety about just being there, having to answer uncomfortable questions. Also, a person with low empathy might be okay with murdering someone and not be stressed out by questioning, or someone just might be able to manage their stress so well that the lie detector doesn't pick up on anything because they aren't showing signs of stress. It just doesn't work effectively, and it's been proven to not work repeatedly, so to the point where lie detector tests are not admissible in court. Lie detector tests simply do not work. The whole basis of the show is to use a lie detector in order to find the truth. If the test itself is flawed, then the "truth" is falsifiable, meaning it really isn't the truth. This woman for example lost her marriage out of fear that if she lied, the lie detector test would reveal the truth, and it wouldn't have. Equally, if someone told the truth, but the lie detector read that they were lying, then that is also extremely damaging. If someone was asked if they cheated on a partner, and honestly said no, but the lie detector says that persons lying, what do you think that would do to that relationship? It would ruin real love, real trust, and real people's lives. That is why The Moment of Truth is so incredibly fraudulent.

[@sethfreakinrollins9889]

What do people expect? It's almost guaranteed there are going to be cheaters in those types of game shows.

[@HackiePuffs]

Just like any game what’s your point

[@note2owns]

Alex "A term used for a steak that is cooked for a lengthy period of time" Me "Weldon" Alex "The judges informed me that you answered incorrectly. You forgot the pause between the words. It's Well Done, not Weldon...Sorry"

[@mrwassef]

Well you got it wrong because you didn’t answer in the form of a question 😜

[@barbarachippel3142]

😂

[@isaacmartinez6904]

Herb Stempel, the guy on the right side, passed away this year. My condolences to his family 11:08.

[@jakeholley1970]

The press your luck guy didn’t cheat. He just noticed the pattern he learned the game.

[@nalaterswa3038]

I've long forgotten the name of the show, but I remember watching an Australian kids quiz show where the contestants get quizzed on the specialty subject of their choosing. One kid's area of expertise was Vlad the Impaler and he lost heaps of points because he kept pronouncing it as "Valdameer"

[@jacksonkent69]

Remember when top 20s were rare and not at least once a day?

[@Detroitdawg1983]

Lol... with Covid and riots they have a lot of free time.

[@jacksonkent69]

@@Detroitdawg1983 definitely

[@jasongerrard8940]

@@Detroitdawg1983 just wait for the top20towns with the most rioting or civic deaths.

[@chazztreat8317]

There was an actual TV show where a contestant was hooked up to a polygraph and was asked very personal questions

[@schuckit5300]

Yea, basically how to ruin your life before the next commercial break!

[@somerandomgameranimator4481]

Dude, we know... it was on the list... 13:02

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

which they mentioned, drunkard

[@here2laff397]

“Good luck to ya Patrick, you picked the right time to come on the show”......sure did🤣

[@thudthud5423]

If a gameshow uses predictable and calculable patterns, they are liable to have someone figure it out and win. The fault lies with the gameshow, not the one that honestly figures them out.

[@erieanapappano8437]

The irony of “I’ve got a good feeling about this.” She sure did 😙✌️

[@wolfinsheepsclothing842]

I don’t understand how #16 was a scandal, the girl was just super smart.

[@blackbutterfly233ify]

No that's not what happened

[@MC-dn7pg]

Where I’m from in the UK no one pronounces the G at the end of the words like that

[@Komicklepto]

Where are you from? They pronounce it like it's spelled in the midlands.

[@jdb47games]

Where I’m from in the UK everyone pronounces the G at the end of the words like that, but that's irrelevant . She should have been conscious of the rule that requires saying all normally pronounced letters rather than omitting them in regional dialect.

[@Komicklepto]

@@jdb47games exactly. If you were writing down the sentence "Seven swans a-swimming" you would write it down the way it's spelled not the way you would say it. Why would a game show not use grammatically correct English just because you don't?

[@kjb6637]

Must be from Birmingham

[@ilFanEditore]

In Italy we had a couple of historic cases, both in tv game shows presented by the same man. The first one was in the Wheel of Fortune. The main contestant is still known today simply as "Mr Giancarlo". He had to solve a phrase about amazons: "They won battles thanks to their ardor" (Vinsero le battaglie grazie alla loro f*ga). But the word "ardor" in Italian is "foga", which is very similar to "F-I-G-A", which means (sorry) "p*ssy". Everyone started laughing, because Giancarlo chose to become a legend by saying out loud the latter, thus knowingly losing the game. The other case was during another show where a contestant started to read her own notes during the final game. Consider that these episodes happened many years ago, when basically everyone was watching those shows. She was caught and eliminated. And then she fainted (or at least faked it).

[@Aka_____]

Why do I feel like this list has been done before..

[@mrodriguez16ks]

right i feel like i watched this a few weeks ago

[@kershabeaver3312]

They had two separate lists

[@marcstephen506]

This was a Top 20 trololol

[@julianjet]

Yes. Twice in fact.

[@COMPFUNK2]

Not only did they do this before, but they even flat-out reused some of Rebecca’s voiceovers. You know, WatchMojo, you don’t _have_ to create a seemingly new list every single day.

[@ebonyneal1192]

"it was throat cancer" nearly took me out lol

[@warriner1290]

how can you say that this guy's "cheating" resulted in throat cancer or a "life whammy"

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

"Have You Got a Nickel?" was genius!

[@Canuck024]

The Gong Show lives through Tik Tok, Instagram, KZbin.....

[@zidannemaulana1537]

17:52 Popsicle Twins was so scandalous

[@pandaplayr73]

You want to know the question that caused the girl on "Moment of Truth" to leave with nothing? "Do you believe you are a good person?"

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

we already knew that, drunkard

[@bernielokz6973]

You forgot to mention the one where Josh Nichols was giving Drake Parker the answers via a small chip heI had in his ear

[@laurahuynh8333]

That wasn’t a really incident. It was a plot on a fictional show.

[@Sly88Frye]

There was also a moment I saw on Family feud where one team said french fries but because they had said potatoes they couldn't say french fries but then the other team actually stole the the board by actually saying french fries and being correct and even Steve Harvey facepalmed after that. I'm not sure if the outcome of the entire game would have changed because that family that won that round with french fries won almost every other round and got to fast money, but I'm not sure. also I feel like post-it notes on invention we should have caught with long before we did because it seems like a very simple thing. Just small square pieces of paper with tape.

[@INKOAA]

You told the perfect bid story on The Price is Right completely wrong. It was person in the crowd you yelled the perfect bid to him. That's why it was so controversial. This video is heavily inaccurate.

[@Matt-vy8kr]

They mentioned the documentary but clearly didn’t watch it.

[@JetBlack2024]

The scandal 😂 that is watch Mojo

[@islandvibes9076]

Thank you! I was thinking the same thing!

[@christopheredale]

Surely the controversy can’t be because he “overheard an audience member yell the perfect bid to him” like the original commentator says, because in every game, audience members are encouraged/constantly yelling out their personal guesses aloud, in literally every game. (Think of the car-game, where the contestant picks a number between 0-9 then pays the host a dollar for every number they’re off) the audience is ALWAYS yelling out what the contestant should choose, so it’s kinda unfair to say but during the showcase the contestant has to now “ignore” what he should hear from any given audience member, when they literally shout & hold up their fingers on what they personally guess, every game/episode The truth I read, is that the contestant shown, & his wife watched a shit ton of episodes of remembered the pricing of each item up for bid. So based off memory they just added up what such & such costed in previous episodes

[@michaelmyers2327]

I just watched the documentary. Ted was the one who knew the exact amount and told it to Terry's wife who was sitting next to him in the audience. Then she signaled that price to Terry.... also Drew knew before reading it on air that he bid the exact price. Because production was talking about it with him during a break. You can see in the episode Drew is not happy when he reads the price because he thinks the show is gonna be canceled for this. Watch the documentary everyone. It's free on KZbin.

[@skarjj1]

how was number 20 a scandal i've seen the same thing BEFORE on Jeopardy.

[@crimsonslayer6641]

just seeing Alex Trebek on jeopardy on this list makes me miss him even more from the show

[@umainebearman]

The "Ultimate whammy" LMAO!!!!!! Amazing

[@mrwassef]

They went all in on that one 😂 no shame

[@mainetwo6356]

5:28 (Shakes her hand) Drew - thanks for playing the price is right, you’ve just won your self unemployment 🤣🤣

[@spmscout]

Every time i see this i can't help but think that the twenty-one scandal should be number 1, no questions asked.

[@MizLaur]

“…only fair to give them another shot to play…” HAHAHA HAND OVER THE 💰!!!

[@margarethmichelina5146]

Man, #2 breaks my heart.

[@jayjanzee9059]

Notice the body language of the two other contestants at 20:24. They are leaning towards each other, while the one sitting next to the killer is leaning far away from him. Their bodies can suggest an alliance and understanding of discomfort regarding the killer

[@fdl238]

Even the game show on Fox has fake answers LOL...

[@darkjoseph86]

so these top 20's are just their top 10, and other top 10 combined into one vid.....cool

[@ewancooke1109]

Feel so bad for the couple who was robbed of loads of money

[@RENTnerd87]

How did you mention the Perfect Bid documentary and still get the story completely wrong? Terry Kneiss was NOT the one who memorized all the prices, it was an audience member named Ted Slausen, the guy who the whole documentary is about. Slausen did the math in his head and shouted out the price from the audience. He was banned from the studio afterwards

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

ya but why? isnt the audience allowed to shout out the price? they do it all the time

[@RENTnerd87]

@@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821 Yeah, he didn't break any rules of the game or do anything illegal. But he made himself persona non grata at the studio because he was a game breaker

[@Renegade2786]

Holy cow, the Only Fools and Horse episode, *If They Could See Us Now* predicted # 2.

[@dewey9596]

Michael Larson was a legend

[@AfroManny15]

Those people working on Money Drop straight rigged that game against them.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

The show was actually cancelled

[@nancyomalley9959]

@@MASTEROFEVIL But the studio, Fox produced the show and THEY should have paid the couple instead of just 'inviting them back'

[@bainsey89]

20. Not a scandal. 19. Not a scandal. 18. This is why we have anti-cheating laws in the US. 17. Dude just had a brain cramp, but should have been DQed. 16. Not a scandal, a very cool moment. 15. Actual scandal, models have not always been treated as they should. 14. Not a scandal, brilliant contestant. 13. It's the Gong Show. What did you expect? 12. A scandal nipped in the bud. 11. Scandal, glad he was caught. 10. Total overreaction. Not a scandal, and it was a runaway game, anyway. 9. Absolute scandal, which is why we have anti-rigging laws in the US. 8. Not a scandal. He studied and beat the game. 7. Not a scandal, but hard evidence of the worst game show idea ever. 6. Absolute scandal, and the couple still won't own up. 5. Not a scandal. He studied and beat the game. 4. Repulsive. Glad he was caught. 3. It's the Gong Show. What did you expect? 2. Producer error. Since this show is gone, another big-money show should these two a shot. 1. Repulsive. Glad he was caught.

[@VOLAIRE]

10:13 "you put a *p* in there" Yeah its actually supposed to have a *p* He didnt give the explanation right

[@gameshowguy2000]

It was a T he put in. But the misspelling is NOT the issue, but the change in pronunciation the misspelling caused.

[@ItsMyPixel]

Flipping a bird to the cam- number 12!

[@ryanmoore7733]

Later on in years Bob Barker turned into a crabby old man , but yea he had the right to pissed at that guy

[@thudthud5423]

They ought to have a game show where the contestants are given the answers ahead of time, but the hosts have to guess the questions.

[@danfultz7906]

I love how pat sajak also said swimmin

[@Auron12786]

Even the other 2 bachelors found Alcala very creepy

[@MrRonald327]

It happens. That's called 'drama.'

[@jamiemayfield3151]

I feel for the misspelling. I was able to graduate with my A.A., B.A., and M.A. with a GPA of 3.9. However, I hated school and had dropped out after the 9th grade for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons was that I am horrible speller. I failed every last spelling test I ever took. I have no idea why, I wrote the spelling words sometimes a few hundred times each and would still get them wrong on the test. I have a very high reading comprehension and always got A's in every single other subject. It stressed me out so bad that I skipped pretty much every Friday possible to get out of taking the spelling test. I just hated school to the point I would even poison myself so I would be too sick to go; straight up drank floor cleaner or drank a ton of alcohol. Dropped out after two suicide attempts, the last one was jumping out of the car on the way to school, I woke up in the hospital and was revealed because I knew it meant I would be able to get out of class for at least a week. I know depression was a big factor, but by that point the stress I felt about school was ingrained in me after years of feeling like an idiot. I had teachers grill me about my spelling in front of the whole class a million times and I would be stuck there sobbing while all the other kids felt so bad for me they would give me candy or console me after. I was terrified of college but I loved it. I could go to college forever. I worked full time the entire time I was in college and it was honestly easy. No problem. I still suck at spelling, but in college, my grades were based on my papers which were written with the aid of spell check. Writing is a big part of my job and I excel at it because everything has spell check. Kid got the question right, screw Jeopardy.

[@NickelAntonius]

#20: He mispronounces one syllable, and it's addressed moments later. WatchMojo: SCAAAAAAAAAAANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!

[@bhutch216]

I don’t get the model lawsuits. If you are there because of your looks and body, you get pregnant, lose the looks and body, why would they bring you back????

[@rickusmaximus4037]

Shazaam during a song contest, flawless.

[@ShanesTubes]

I've always been suspicious of Trebek's (and others) "unseen judges." Just seems like a cop out for when someone feels like making arbitrary changes to the rules. I wonder if anyone who works/worked on a game show set can confirm.

[@MrWIZ9000]

Are you fuckin kidding me? That couple should’ve filed a lawsuit and sued the studio for everything they had for the additional public humiliation.

[@nancyomalley9959]

"That's the LEAST of my worries"-Huh???

[@rosemarylovejoy4126]

I felt sick at #2. Tragic.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

You could say she got a good feeling about it

[@trans-dragonroger1948]

Yea, cause she said so herself.

[@HackiePuffs]

2:58 straight up admitting to cheat and SHE GOT OFF SCOTT FREE?!?!!! Talk about biases.

[@Elegantlybella]

Before watching I knew the dating game one would be number 1

[@FORTYFPS]

thanks for #8! our doc isn't about terry though haha

[@cricketguy1206]

7:50 That’s quite rude. Nobody should flip off the number twelve like that!

[@markymark443]

4:53 I guess you could say...she had a good feeling about that puzzle *ba dum tss* sorry I'll leave now.

[@KB-im2dj]

4:00 Oh, Bob.

[@hockeyfreakofnature]

The Colombian version of Moment of Truth was much worse. A contestant admitted on the show that she hired a hit man to kill her husband when she was asked a question regarding this.

[@matthewbaduria]

The Twenty-One was scandal was shocking,but the number one is the Michael Larson scandal on Press Your Luck.

[@mmarston332]

"I've Got A Good Feeling About This" was also the episode when Pat announced the sad death of Charlie O'Donnel which had happened earlier that week. 😢😭😔

[@jwavada]

He was the announcer on the show!

[@mrnobody2683]

12:34 I can feel the tone saying "F you Cheater" in that sentence

[@margegarland7635]

Wow a karaoke machine, trailer, pool table and 3 models, a man's dream prize lol

[@COMPFUNK2]

When I think about what happened with Million Dollar Money Drop, I’m reminded of the short-lived MTV game show Idiot Savants (hosted by Greg Fitzsimmons). In one episode, he would name characters from a TV show and then the contestants would have to guess the proper answer. He said, “Willie Tanner; Kate Tanner…“ And then the contestant “correctly” answered Full House. My brother and I were like, “That’s not Full House; that’s ALF.”

[@pogbruh1289]

Best of all the speakers in watchmojo

[@jay5533]

7:50 WTF just happened?

[@alexsmith6347]

I think the video skipped before you could finish your sentence at the end of the 13th spot.

[@johnnyboy3635]

I agree that the “seven swans a swimming” contestant should have lost the round. Being from Florida doesn’t make her incapable of pronouncing the “ing” at the end of words. Many of us will drop the “g” in casual conversation, probably out of laziness, but we pronounce it correctly when we’re reading out loud or speaking formally.

[@vesna2999]

I disagree: if you count the letters (which she obviously did before she gave the answer) she was absolutely correct, also I am from a different country, many of us, foreigners, basically copy what we hear from native speakers around, so if I heard "in" in 9 cases of of 10 instead of "inG" I would assume that's the way it's supposed to sound though I know it's spelled "ing".

[@COMPFUNK2]

Anyone notice that many of the shows on here were hosted by Kevin Pollak?

[@michaelmyers2327]

I just watched the documentary on the perfect Price is Right bid. A man named Ted was the one who knew the exact amount and told it to Terry's wife who was sitting next to him in the audience. Then she signaled that price to Terry.... also Drew knew before reading it on air that he bid the exact price. Because production was talking about it with him during a break. You can see in the episode Drew is not happy when he reads the price because he thinks the show is gonna be canceled for this. Watch the documentary everyone. It's free on KZbin.

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

nah, that isnt worth watching

[@georgemaster6356]

There should be a top 10 list of funny game show moments including two Pyramid incidents like a misspelling of ANYTHING as ANTHING and when a plastic square that fell out of the trilon.

[@bainsey89]

Far too much was made about the "Emancipation Proclamation" incident. That game was a runaway, anyway. The incorrect response had no impact.

[@andrewhaase1826]

Number 1: Randy Marsh's Wheel of Fortune fail.

[@eryngresham710]

EVERYONE DROPS G’S IN THE SOUTH!!!! WHEEL OF FORTUNE IS DISCRIMINATORY!!!!!

[@Xonatirose]

I hate how there are people saying “oh, she say the g she shouldn’t have dropped it”. Like she was taught to not say the g. I’m southern and I don’t say the g even if I know it’s there. It’s not what I was taught

[@seabreeze9296]

there's a reason the letter "G" is there, use it.

[@sakuraogami6885]

@@seabreeze9296 chill your ego, queen.

[@hustlinhitch]

We drop Gs here in northern England.

[@trans-dragonroger1948]

My non-binary aunt Artie is Southern, so they tend to drop the G in sentences.

[@PhantomGeass]

That poor editing into number 12. Also when it comes to the mispronunciation and spelling, I'm sure it's in the official rule book of the shows.

[@GeorgiaOverdrive]

Nah, they aren’t consistent. They let it fly from time to time.

[@bleedingcuppajoe]

7:47 - Is, this a joke for how they censored it before cutting away? Because I absolutely loved it.

[@bleedingcuppajoe]

I also wanna say, for how number two hits so close to home. It was a lot of money on the line, and I saw that live on television. I was really upset, looked it up and we had a bit of a lengthy discussion with the family that what happened, was just...unfair. Some argued it was racist, but I assumed that it was the team simply didn't know. And the fact the couple never returned, really speaks about how deep in debt they must have been in.

[@bugcatcherjacky1334]

The fact this guy considered himself an 'Alpha male' made me wish he'd lose...

[@RaskylC]

this was hard to watch :/ i felt the.. wtf in nearly most of them

[@Lazslo_L]

In the Netherlands there was a game show oopsie that got on the national news, I think it was Miljoenenjacht (Hunt for millions). There was a man or woman who wanted to take the €1 million, but accidentally didn't and he lost it all the next round. Even though, right after declining to take the money (and there for he had to keep playing), he told them he DID want it. He didn't get it.

[@jiogcyihsugyiocjfdoivhphvw6821]

thats his fault

[@CanineLupus0114]

I dare you to try that Coughing Technique now in 2020