The 10 Craziest Game Show Contestants Ever

Christie (Family Feud)

"Name something you know about zombies," asked "Family Feud" host Steve Harvey. With the benefit of time to consider an answer, you'd probably come up with something like they're dead, they eat human flesh, they groan, they walk slowly with their arms extended. In a split second, you probably wouldn't come up with something as nonsensical as Christie, whose allegedly racist answer and subsequent explanation prompted Harvey to command, "You shut up, lady!"

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Newlywed Woman (The Newlywed Game)

"Where specifically is the weirdest place that you personally have ever gotten the urge to make whoopie?" host Bob Eubanks asked the young woman. First ask yourself, is the euphemism "making whoopie" any goofier than the Jersey Shore term "smushing"? Then watch the infamous moment - which is made more awesome by the husband's reticent acknowledgement. 

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Terry (Scrabble)

Years before Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," there was a flamboyantly gay man who looked just like him named Terry Ray, who appeared not as any character but himself on an episode of "Scrabble." And Terry was absolutely hysterical - not only because he came on to host Chuck Woolery but because his general demeanor was that of a teenager who chugged a 20-oz Red Bull before the show and also smoked week for the first time. 

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Raymond (Wheel of Fortune)

Also known as "Crack Head on Wheel of Fortune" thanks to the YouTube clip showing his dominant three-show stretch in 1993. At that time, the eccentric Raymond meandered awkwardly and excitedly through the studio, but also expertly, as he solved numerous puzzles en route to over $80,000 in cash and prizes. Some have claimed that Raymond is no crackhead but a sufferer of autism or a related illness; he later became obsessed with the show, prompting the studio to obtain a restraining order against him. In any case, we can mostly agree that Raymond was highly enthusiastic and entertaining and certainly made the most of his opportunity - giving Vanna White a huge bear hug.  

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Aaron Paul (The Price is Right)

Presented with only this comment: the character Jesse might have been based in part on Paul's game show appearance. 

Michael (Press Your Luck )

The rise and fall of Michael Larson parallels Raymond, only Larson's on-air success in 1984 owed not to innate skill but a revelation he made that Press Your Luck's Big Board operated in predictable patterns that Larsen memorized. During his delirious exploitation (but not cheating, as CBS accused) of the game, Larsen racked up an absurd $110,237 in cash and prizes. The rest of life, for Larson, was downhill. He became obsessed with getting rich quick, lost his wife, lost much of his money in a real-estate investment scheme and died at age 49 of throat cancer. Pretty dark, I know. Still, Larsen's mastery of the game is impressive.

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Curtis (Sale of the Century, Greed)

Curtis Warren dominated not one game show but two (and also took a modest prize from "Win Ben Stein's Money"): First, he won $136,288 on Sale of the Century in 1988, and in 2000, he hauled in over $1.4 million during a couple appearances on "Greed." Although Warren's hair and humblebragging is much more entertaining in the Greed appearance, his utter thrashing on "Sale of the Century" was the must-embed. 

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