Hot Potato/YMMV

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• Crowning Music of Awesome: The closing theme is a favorite among Game Show fans.
• Dude, Not Funny: The June 25, 1998 episode of GSN's Faux Pause had its Jerkass hosts make fun of the Premiere (Moms-To-Be vs. Teachers). Among other things, they mocked the smoking logo, Oregon, Shelly Long, New Jersey, and Bill Cullen.
• Memetic Mutation: A Troll on the newsgroup alt.tv.game-shows would frequently make posts asking how "hat putato" was played. Even though the first "hat putato" post was made in 2000, and the majority of the game show community migrated to a message board in June 2003 (due to the increasing number of such trolls), references to "hat putato" followed.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Instead of moving the show from its Noon timeslot, on April 23 the format went from using teams of three people with the same occupation to teams of two celebrities and a single contestant. This worked about as well as it did on |Bullseye two years previous — i.e., not very well at all.
  • It Got Worse when comedians were featured, since they took their wisecracks and shenanigans far more seriously than they did the game (giving bad answers just to be funny should not be happening, people!). Either right when the format changed or when the aforementioned happened, the show decided to cripple the format even more by ousting the 7-Straight Jackpot.
• Too Good to Last: In addition to a bad timeslot and the suicidal ousting of its three-of-a-kind contestant teams, Hot Potato further suffered by being very low-key in an era when the trend was toward glitz and glamour. Nonetheless, it's fondly remembered by game show fans.