The Most Outrageous Game Show Moments

Richard Dawson:
Name the first article of clothing you take off when you get home from work.

Contestant:
My underwear! [Audience busts out laughing]

Richard Dawson:
Next question, what time do you get off work?

Contestant:
[trying to solve the puzzle] A group of pill-pushers? (Whole studio cracks up)

Pat Sajak:
This is "Wheel of Fortune", Joe!

Gene Rayburn:
Doesn't she have pretty nipples... uh, pretty DIMPLES? [Whole studio busts out laughing]

Richard Dawson:
I said name a time that most people get up. And being the Einstein that you are, you said morning. Our survey said... zip! Now if that wasn't bad enough, I then said name a time that most people go to bed, and you said, of course. Night. Our survey said... 2!

Richard Dawson:
Name something you might accidentally leave on all night.

Contestant:
Your shoes.

[audience laughs]

Richard Dawson:
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, Kenneth, but you are weird.

Richard Dawson:
Name an animal that has letters in its name.

Contestant:
Alligator. [audience starts laughing]

Richard Dawson:
During what month's pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?

Contestant:
September.

Bob Holness:
What "O" is the generic word for any living animal plant, including bacteria and viruses?

Contestant:
Orgasm. Oh-!

[audience laughter; Bob Holness looks at the camera with a shake of the head]

Gene Rayburn:
[interviewing an aged female contestant] Tell us about yourself.

Contestant:
I live in Orange County... I'm retard- I mean, retired...

[Question is "Which of these abbreviations represents the computer storage capacity known as one thousand bytes?"]

Contestant:
I'm gonna go with B, kilobytes.

Regis Philbin:
Final answer?

Contestant:
Final answer.

[Answer is locked in]

Contestant:
[blurting] I'm a fat man, Regis, my heart can't take it!

[audience laughter]

Regis Philbin:
I'm just trying to help you sweat off a few pounds.