The Weakest Link/YMMV

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• Critical Research Failure: "Montreal is the capital of which province in Canada?" According to the show, the answer was "Quebec". Actually, the answer is "none", as the capital of Quebec is "Quebec City".
• Fake Difficulty: Better hope you understood what Anne said the first time - if she repeats the question, you might be voted off as the weakest link specifically because you sucked time off from the clock having her repeat the question.
• Replacement Scrappy: Syndicated version host George Gray, who had to follow Mean Brit Anne Robinson and whose previous game was the abysmal Extreme Gong. To be fair, the man brought his own style to The Weakest Link and appears to have redeemed himself along the way.
• Too Good to Last: Despite its short life in America, the show has a noticeable cult following.
• What an Idiot!: In the 2010 "Sporting Heroes" edition, the collected group of sporting heroes managed to get a chain of seventeen correct answers, and yet nobody thought to bank the huge amount of money they had earned (even though they weren't earning anything extra after the tenth correct answer). Eventually, they lost it all when Alex "Hurricane" Higgins confidently answered "What day comes after Tuesday" with "Sunday!"
  • "What letter is the name for a female sheep?" "Baa?" "...EWE."
  • One contestant confused the motto of Boy Scouts with Alcoholics Anonymous.
  • In the puppet version, Zippy and George (Technically just Zippy as he was the only one talking) knew the answer to the question ("Pearl Harbor") but just messed up anyways.