Things You've Learned From Game Shows..

[TimK2003]

Question taken from another FB Group:

What did game shows teach you when you were a young'un?

For me was that if you won, say, $2500, you could say Two Thousand Five Hundred OR just Twenty-five hundred.

Others?

[gamed121683]

Pyramid helped up my vocabulary. Thanks to that show, I know what a quota and vichyssoise are.

[Mr. Matté]

I think from all the Showcase Showdowns I've watched as a youngin', it helped drill into my head that when you have #5 + #5, the tens digit is #+#+1.

[SuperMatch93]

Supermarket Sweep helped me understand where things are located in a grocery store.

[Kniwt]

The word "abeyance," when Dennis James would use it on nighttime TPIR before checking the other prices in the game, although I had no idea that's how it was spelled or how a "bayance" would hold a price tag.

[clemon79]

Pyramid helped up my vocabulary.

It taught me to add to $750.

[Steve Gavazzi]

I know that the singular form of "dice" is "die" because Bob had contestants roll a single die in Dice Game.

On the other hand, I was probably 6 or 7 before I realized that "showcase" had a meaning outside of "Showcase Showdown" and "The Showcase."

[Kevin Prather]

My mom insisted I learned how to read from watching WoF and Jeopardy.

[tyshaun1]

I learned what an awl is.

[Jeremy Nelson]

I learned my positive and negative numbers at an early age thanks to Jeopardy.

[BrandonFG]

When I was 6 or 7, I remember watching PYL and learning about Cleopatra and the ass. I asked my mom about it (obviously censoring myself) because I was shocked they allowed that word on a game show. My mom corrected me and said Cleo was bitten by an asp.

Like Tim, I also learned “twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars” instead of “two thousand, seven hundred and fifty” from Wink on High Rollers.

[TimK2003]

Also, as a kid, ot took me a while to figure out what "the rubber game of the match" was. 

Matvh Game '7x taught me what an upper and lower tier was.

[mystery7]

Jack Barry taught me how to count.

[PYLdude]

Scrabble helped me learn how to spell.

[parliboy]

Wheel was why I learned multiplication three years early.  Three Ns in the puzzle at $400 apiece.