The Big Spin/YMMV

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• Ear Worm: The Anderson/Gallagher theme.
• Heartwarming Moments: The Hero in Education segments. At least one person appeared on the show beforehand as a contestant.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • November 4, 1985: One of the earliest episodes (with Woolery) had four $2,000,000 winners. One has to wonder why they even bothered to leave in that fifth spinner...
  • One Finn episode had a contestant's ball fall out of a $1,000,000 slot...and slowly bounce its way into another.
• Replacement Scrappy: Either Jack Gallagher and/or Pat Finn.
  • Gallagher typically hosted with a very low-key attitude and even reacted to million-dollar wins with little excitement (as seen in a clip from the 2009 finale). Larry Anderson, who preceded Gallagher, was generally much more animated.
  • Finn had hosted some sub-par shows previously, the most notable being the failed 1990s version of The Joker's Wild. One could argue whether Shop 'til You Drop was sub-par during Finn's era (nobody will argue if you say it fell down after he left), but it did run for the better part of 14 years.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks:
  • During the tail end of Geoff's tenure, the game was reformatted so that every contestant had to match three wheel symbols on a makeshift scratcher just to get a chance to spin the wheel — if they didn't, they were sent packing with the wheel's lowest amount ($25,000). This opened up the possibility of entire episodes where nobody spun the wheel, a hole that was patched when Anderson took over.
  • In 2004, all non-wheel minigames besides the Dream Machine were scrapped, while the set became not only smaller, but much darker.