Ken Jennings may have singlehandledly saved Jeopardy from being forgettable in 2004 with his 74 consecutive wins. I went a 5-year drought not watching the show between 1999 and 2004. So I was in Las Vegas on vacation in July '04. Just about every morning I was reading the Life section of USA Today (while eating breakfast and drinking coffee)and there was always a mention of Ken's win on Jeopardy. When I came back to North Carolina, I watched many of the later shows he appeared. He does recall the early '80s era, when contestants won $100,000 to $300,000 on those game shows.

I think that the most recent game show moment was that repetitive $420 bid from that contestant on The Price Is Right. He bid the same $420 bid hoping he would win. But they had prizes over $1000, $2000, even $3000, that they brought out. It was so funny, but after a while, you want to scream "Bid another number!" Didn't he want to win and then later win cars, boats, trips, or even money? I don't know how embarrassed he might have been afterwards, just winning a bunch of silly parting gifts.

The best of all time (very old): "You Bet Your Life" which starred Graucho Marx, and was basically a chance for him to use his wit on contestants. They had to answer trivia questions for prizes, and if they said "the secret word" they won (I think) $100. At the time, 1950's, that was a bundle.

On his very last show--you'll see why it was his last in a minute--he had on a housewife, and asked her how many children she had. She replied something like "I have 9 children, Graucho." He mugged at the camera, then asked her how that came about. "Well Graucho, I love my husband," said the woman. "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while," was Graucho's response.

Unfortunately, the times were even more conservative than now, and this was worse than the equivalent of a "wardrobe malfunction" in the early 21st century. Graucho's show was immediately cancelled.

How about the time on the Price is Right. They called a woman down. And when she was running down her top slip off. That had to be the best game show moment of all time.

How about when the woman on the price is right. Her top fell down and she flashed Bob Barker.

My favorite happened years ago on the original Family Feud with Richard Dawson. During the final for all the money, the question was "In what month does a womans pregnancy begin to show?" and the ladies answer was "September." Poor Richard couldn't stop laughing. Also, I think they should do an entire hour of clips just from the Match game or Hollywood squares.

I don't know about infamous, but my favorite game show moment is from Jeopardy. This has to have been close to 20 years ago. And it's kinda dumb.

Anyway, all through the opening round, you could see this one lady knew a lot of the answers, but she never got any. Not only did she not get any right, she didn't even manage to buzz in first. It was only in the commercial between Single and Double Jeopardy that she realized she had been trying to ring in with the pen they use to write the Final Jeopardy responses.

I'm sure it was embarassing, and she handled it pretty gracefully, but there's nothing that cracks me up quite like smart people doing stupid things, so it always stuck with me.

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What about the newleywed game when the question was the weirdest place you've had sex and she wrote "up the butt"

From TPIR, you could create a whole montage of "Bob vs. the Island of Samoa".

Match Game would be ripe with 'infamous' moments, although the most obvious one is Gene Reyburn's infamous "Dimples/Nipples" Freudian slip. Also, anything involving Gene tormenting Earl, the operator of the Super Match board.