Chain Reaction (TV series)/YMMV

YMMV Tropes for the Game Show.

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• Adaptation Displacement: Although it was rerun heavily, the NBC version's lone season was eclipsed by the five-season run of the USA version. In turn, the large gap between the Emmons/Edwards and Lane versions added a slight degree of displacement to the latter.
  • Never mind that GSN had previously rerun the NBC and USA versions itself, and had been the first in America to air the Emmons episodes.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: The GSN version, which added a betting round — bets were capped at $500, and many contestants would piss away their winnings with boneheaded guesses. For Season 2, the bonus was altered to use similar staging to Go and stop the clock for each guess; each word was worth $100, and getting five in 60 seconds won $5,000.
• What an Idiot!: Many GSN-era contestants weren't the sharpest tools in the shed, often failing to guess the right word with only one letter missing (and at least once when the word was fully exposed) or composing a sentence in the bonus round. The latter wasn't just because they gave dumb clues or answers, but sometimes the clue givers would mess up or giggle uncontrollably, wasting time for the contestant trying to guess the answers.