Most unsettling thing ever on GSN was \"Beat the Clock\" when they started the \"Hickory Dickory Dock\" thing to open the show. After the song they showed creepy bottom-lit faces of a mom, dad, and young sun, slowly zooming in on their laughing faces as about a hundred people could be heard laughing. Extremely creepy. Ugh! Brrr!
Same with me, and from the fact that it was pulled rather quickly, I have a feeling we were not alone in this.
I can think of two things that I actively tried to avoid: the \"jack in the box\" secret word near the end of the run on the original You Bet Your Life, and the time\'s up signal on the 1970s syndicated Hollywood Squares (which is strange, as I am under the impression that it was the same buzzer as the penalty buzzer on Baffle and (when Chuck needed it) the time\'s up buzzer on The Gong Show), and I didn\'t have a problem with those. (It may have been combined with the fact that, because (for some strange reason) every TV in my house got both the OTA and cable signals for the local ABC station that it was on, but out of video horizontal sync, the picture was pretty much unwatchable.)