Game show hosts by their very job description creep me down to the bone. It's just in their nature. They have to go out of their way to make ordinary people look comfortable, even though they have never been on television.

Some housewife from Minnesota who is one number away from owning a new Ford Focus is so nervous, she could fly into an eye-bleeding seizure at any moment. Enter the host. He has to step in and calm her down before that happens.

However, there is a fine line between comforting someone and invading their personal space with the force of a German infantry. These are the hosts who put that creepy feeling you get whenever you hear the phrase, "Come on down!"

Jim Peck from '3's a Crowd'
The advent of privacy-invading game shows like 'The Newlywed Game' and this pseudo-spinoff ushered in the kind of TV creepiness that wouldn't be seen again until the rise of the daytime talk show. This 1970's baby of TV guru Chuck Barris took three guys and asked embarrassing questions to their wives and secretaries. The only thing that made the whole affair more uncomfortable to watch was Peck's total non-reaction to the intrusive and disturbing things being spouted back at him, all in the name of points.

He was so eerily quiet and aloof during these admissions of extramarital affairs and female competitiveness that it was impossible not to imagine him standing off screen in a bulky trenchcoat that keeps his hands out of sight. In this clip, for instance, he asks a question that creates a full-on hair pulling match between two ladies and not only does he not intervene, he doesn't even say anything to try and break it up.



Richard Dawson from 'Family Feud'
Dawson's amorous ways are well-known in the annals of television history, particularly with his trademark kiss to all of the fairer-sex contestants on his stage. If you walked out on the set of 'Family Feud' with at least one X chromosome, Dawson was definitely going to plant a big wet one on you. He stopped it because his daughter asked him to during his return to the show's revival in the early 1990s.



Bob Barker from 'The Price is Right'
When you're constantly surrounded a bevy of female eye candy, your hormones are bound to get the better of you. Normally when a game show host goes out of his way to complement every female contestant on the stage, it's written off as just playful banter to keep them calm. That all changed when word surfaced about Bob Barker's off-screen antics with Dian Parkinson. Now every "pretty face" compliment and "atta girl" praise feels like there's more than just a rising price on the set.



Fergie Olver from 'Just Like Mom'
You rarely see the same level of creepiness on children's game shows. That's because none of those hosts want to even come close to reaching the excruciating level that this Canadian game show host reached. His requests for hugs and kisses from his younger contestants made Dawson look like a chaste Buddhist monk. What makes it even worse was all of this took place right in front of the child's mother. You might want to tape your spine down because this could send it flying out of the back of your neck.



Kevin Pereira from 'Billionaire!'
The 'Attack of the Show' host and G4 fixture once dipped his toe in the fountain of game show stardom when he hosted this obvious 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' ripoff. It was extremely short-lived, due to his sultry sister contestant, his horndog-ish hosting ability and his extra duties as the show's question writer.