If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.

So is WGAL in Lancaster (NBC). Because everyone knows soap operas are more important than game shows (insert eyeroll here), once "The Doctors" moved from the 2:00 slot to 12:30 in August 1980, WGAL moved up their "Noonday on 8" show, as it was known at the time, from 12:30 to noon. From this point on all the way up to and including Super Password, the Harrisburg/Lebanon/Lancaster/York market never saw an NBC noon offering again.

Either format of Trivia Trap.  I was not a fan of "Work as a team, now turn on each other".

The Challengers over any "Ultimate Challenge" format that stuck to/fell from the wall that month.

Obvs. the "EEYOOOOOWWW" Stinger scream from the second season of $1M Chance of a Lifetime.

Obvs.

Any Split Second besides the last one.  I know GSN shows are formulaic in certain ways, but the end-game of their Split Second was a great improvement.