History Series / HaveYouBeenPayingAttention

*** His [[RummageSaleReject questionable taste in shirts]] also comes up quite often.

*** Celia Pacquola's increasingly desperate status as a [[OldMaid single woman in her late 30s]].

** Similarly, in one episode, Peter Helliar kept trying to introduce [[Lindy Chamberlain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Chamberlain-Creighton]] as a punchline. The situations got increasingly more absurd that people started laughing after a few attempts.
* TeamDad: Tom, naturally, since he's the host. He does have NotSoAboveItAll moments where he makes off-colour jokes, though.

* VerbalTic: Ed Kavalee greeting Tom Gleisner in response to getting introduced at the start of just about every episode in which he appears.

*** Tony Martin usually cops it for having achieved the lowest score of any contestant in the history of the show.

*** Jokes based on his Chinese heritage [[note]]Prior to Lizzy and Aaron appearing, he was typically the only Asian on the panel[[/note]].

** Starting in Series 7 / 2019, Tom asking a question about the news story they've just discussed and getting a reply in the form of a clip from a newsreader or journalist somewhere in the world answering the question and ending with "Back to you, Tom" or some variant. Adding to this this is the additional running gag of Sam Pang's increasing exasperation with this bit.

A New Zealand version of the show began broadcasting in July, 2019.

* UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent

* CrazyCatLady: Regular guest Kitty Flannagan is portrayed as this any time she is on. Often by herself.

* DoNotCallMePaul: After Music/KanyeWest announced that he was changing his 'Ye', Sam Pang said that if the name 'Kanye West' was now available, he'd have it. He then refused to answer he next several questions unless Tom addressed him as 'Kanye'.

'''Kitty Flannagan:''' Isn't that what Marty calls his penis?
** And after wrestling fan Sam Pang talked about how the first Wrestling/WrestleMania featured tag-team match of Mr. Wonderful and "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper vs. Wrestling/HulkHogan and Creator/MrT, there was this exchange:

** Sam Pang is subject to a few, such as jokes based on his Chinese heritage, or reactions of surprise whenever he gets a question correct. His [[RummageSaleReject questionable taste in shirts]] also comes up quite often. His stint hosting the unsuccessful quiz show ''[=ADbc=]'' also comes up frequently.

*** Kitty Flannagan being a CrazyCatLady or jokes relating to her show on a competing channel, ''Fisk''.

* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: The panellists were asked to define certain words coined during the Corona virus lockdown. While puzzling out 'trikini'[[note]]a two-piece swimsuit and a face mask[[/note]], Sam Pang offered "'tri' is Latin for three, and 'kini' is Latin for...kini".

*** Celia Pacquola's increasingly desperate status as a [[ChristmasCake single woman in her late 30s]].

* LamePunReaction: Tom describes a group of salmon swimming across a road as a school crossing and receives the appropriate responses from Sam and the audience.

* "International Versions of Reality TV Formats": Each contestant is shown a clip from international reality TV, their task being to correctly guess both the show and the country in which it was shown.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Following a Mitsubishi promo into which an an image of Tom [[HandOrObjectUnderwear holding a strategically placed towel]] had been inserted:
-->'''Tom Gleisner:''' Just integrating myself with the fine folks at Mitsubishi.\\
'''Anne Edmonds:''' Is that you call it?

*** Kitty Flannagan being a CrazyCatLady.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Ed Kavalee's wife Tiffiny Hall once appeared as a guest to ask questions. Hayley Sproull [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7450395/Tom-Gleisner-stunned-realise-comedian-Ed-Kavalee-married-personal-trainer-Tiffiny-Hall.html#article-7450395 was in shock that they were married]]. (Somewhat lampshaded when Tiffiny says her type is weird guys with big noses)

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: Anne Edmonds once made a joke about someone pitching an actual shark tank to ''Shark Tank'' (the Australian version of ''Series/DragonsDen'') which fell completely flat. Not content to let the joke die, Anne kept returning the joke throughout the episode; adding additional information to the shark tank pitch, and explaining why it was fuunny. By the end of the episode, it was hilarious: not because the joke was any funnier, but just because of her sheer doggedness and desperation, and the refusal of anyone else on the show to get drawn into this train wreck.

-->'''Ed Kavalee:''' It's Elon Musk's rocket...Blue Origin.\\
'''Kitty Flannagan:''' That's what he calls it.

*** And after wrestling fan Sam Pang talked about how the first Wrestling/WrestleMania featured tag-team match of Mr. Wonderful and "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper vs. Wrestling/HulkHogan and Creator/MrT, there was this exchange:

* BottomOfTheBarrel: When Tom introduced the desperate sounding 'Nobel or Netflix' round, Anne Edmonds asked:

An Australian PanelGame in a somewhat similar vein to the [=BBC's=] ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' (though with a larger focus on the "quiz" side of things as the contestants actually score more than five points), ''Have You Been Paying Attention?'', as its intro suggests, tests a group of five comedians/radio personalities on the week's events.

* CrazyCatLady: Regular guest Kitty Flannagan is portrayed as this any time she is on. Often by herself.

** Sam Pang is subject to a few, such as jokes based on his Chinese heritage, or reactions of surprise whenever he gets a question correct. His [[RummageSaleReject questionable taste in shirts]] also comes up quite often.

* ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino: The panelists were asked to define certain words coined during the Corona virus lockdown. While puzzling out 'trikini'[[note]]a two-piece swimsuit and a face mask[[/note]], Sam Pang offered "'tri' is Latin for three, and 'kini' is Latin for...kini".

* ICallHimMisterHappy: Following the death of Wrestling/PaulOrndorff:

** And after wrestling fan Sam Pang talked about how the first Wrestling/WrestleMania featured tag-team match of Mr. Wonderful and "Rowdy" Wrestling/RoddyPiper vs. Wrestling/HulkHogan and Creator/MrT, there was this exchange:

* NoodleIncident: During a round of 'What's the Point?'--where the panelists have to identify what product, service or organisation is being advertised from the snippet of an ad played by Tom--Marty Shergold commented: