Bonus round over the front game?

[Loogaroo]

Pyramid and all versions of Password, though I will say that I've always found the main game of P+ and SP to be far more exciting than 20 minutes of just guessing random words in the original PW main game.

I gotta say, as someone who's played it online, it can be really frustrating to play a game of Super Password and be done after what feels like six or seven words' worth of gameplay.

[Chelsea Thrasher]

I generally didn't care about the front game of Shop Til You Drop except for the Shopper's Challenge round (tangent: Pat Finn is underrated in terms of handling rapid-fire Q&A), but I always found the bonus utterly delightful - and only JUST behind Legends of the Hidden Temple as the exemplar of the Stone-Stanley "Run around a ridiculously huge set finding stuff" bonus factory.

[TimK2003]

I generally didn't care about the front game of Shop Til You Drop except for the Shopper's Challenge round (tangent: Pat Finn is underrated in terms of handling rapid-fire Q&A), but I always found the bonus utterly delightful - and only JUST behind Legends of the Hidden Temple as the exemplar of the Stone-Stanley "Run around a ridiculously huge set finding stuff" bonus factory.

Meh.  On average, most of the gifts that were offered at the table were usually traded in the mall for something else.   It was mostly a blind luck bonus round whereas much of the front games were based on skill and the buzz-in round was based on knowledge.

[Loogaroo]

Yeah, it would be nice if they had more valuable prizes in the boxes on offer to make it a little bit more strategic as to when to keep a prize and when to exchange it. But then again, the whole fun of the round was watching the husband run up and down the stairs for 90 seconds and marvel at the fact that nobody ever took a tumble carrying those boxes without holding a handrail.

[CeleTheRef]

Many examples in Italy, writers here seem to put a lot of effort into the bonus round.
 
L'Eredità (now in Season 24) became a staple only when the Guillotine bonus round was introduced.
Avanti un Altro!'s front game is pretty much a comedy show with some questions mixed in, but the bonus round has been imitated on YouTube (21 Questions Wrong).
And the most recent example is the "triple bonus round" (3 puzzles in 60 seconds) on Wheel of Fortune, which is often the most watched quarter hour in the country.

[BrandonFG]

Guillotine bonus round

Damn European game shows are intense.

[The Ol' Guy]

A vote for Stewart's Winning Streak. Lame front game, but the end game, with some similarities to Beat The Odds, was good. Blindly picking letters one at a time and being challenged to use every letter picked in a single word for double the money each time was quite the challenge.