Many game- and non-game show fans can identify certain game show sfx and apply them to their daily lives.

The TPIR losing horns is a great example, as is the CLANG for the FF reveals.

One sound effect that I don't think ever got it's full respect is the $xxx,xxx Pyramid clock.  That original cue has been used consistently.for over 50 years in the Pyramid incarnations, or used on other Bob Stewart shows.

That cue was so good, other producers had tried to imitate it in their shows.  The last $OTC end game as well as the Every Second Counts end game countdown clocks are examples of the "oftern imitated, never duplicated" category.  I think the Stewart family owned their countdown clock cue outright and never let anyone else use it.

Hence why I nominate it as the most underrated sound effect in game show history.

For some reason, Bill Rafferty's Every Second Counts came to mind first.

Likely because the main game was all softball and goofy "this or that" questions.  Once you got to the bonus round, it went all serious and was pretty intense.

A couple years ago, someone posted a megamix of Face the Music episodes. As much as I like the show in all its cheesy glory, I usually skip straight to the $10,000 Championship Round nowadays.

Card Sharks.

Winning Lines is often considered one of the worst formats with one of the best bonus rounds.