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  • Funny Moments: Central Television's Christmas tape 1992 had a blooper from the British Bob Monkhouse version:
    Bob: For a total prize of £3,200, I'm going to ask you a five-part question that will require five correct answers. Should you wish to piss—should you wish to piss?
    (audience laughs, Bob somewhat walks away)
    Bob: Should you...!
    (Beat, completely stunned at his slip of the tongue)
    Bob: ...if you do, we can take you out of there for just over...! It makes me think - we all make mistakes. That’s why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In both the Swedish and Finnish versions, this show lasted more than 30 years with the same host.
  • Memetic Mutation: The idiom of the "$64 question", and later the "$64,000 question", referring to somebody asking one a very important question, stemmed from the show.
  • Moment of Awesome: Anyone who won the $64,000 prize. Dr. Joyce Brothers deserves a special mention, studying every source she could find about her category of boxing.
  • Never Live It Down: Like fellow rigged quiz 21, the show will forever be linked to the quiz show scandals.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The Isolator in the 1990's UK revival. The music cue also counts as Awesome Music.

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