YMMV / Spicks and Specks

• Awesome Moments: The reunion special as a whole. In particular the cheers when Adam introduced the fan favourite round “Substitute” for the first time in several years.
  Adam: I’ve never seen a round get a cheer on a quiz show before!
• Harsher in Hindsight: In 2007, the show asked an innocuous question about which Australian children's song is featured in the hit song "Down Under", by Men at Work. The children's song in question, "Kookaburra", turned out to be still under copyright and not a Public Domain Soundtrack as commonly thought, and the rights holders, Larrikin Music, decided to pursue a controversial and messy lawsuit against Men at Work, which ruled that the song's composer, lead vocalist Colin Hay, has to pay royalties to Larrikin Music. Hay suggested that the stress from the lawsuit resulted in the death of his father and the suicide of his bandmate Greg Ham.
• Replacement Scrappy: The replacement hosts for the 2014 series, especially Josh Earl were getting this a lot, mainly from fans who dislike his voice, the way he speaks, or the fact that he's not Adam. Ella Hooper was also getting this, though not in such great amounts, mainly because she's quiet and calm and not as lively or excitable as Myf. It helps that she was a frequent guest during the Hills era.
• Retroactive Recognition: Gotye appeared on the show in 2007, some years before "Somebody That I Used to Know" became a global phenomenon
• Special Effect Failure: In the 2021 series, during the first time Malvern Stars on 45 is played, there are lots of close-ups to hide suspicious details. During the second time, we clearly see Dave O’Neil putting on a different record while a song is still playing in the background, indicating that the music is not actually coming from a record player.

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