At the beginning of the run, in the bonus round, the times' up buzzer was taken, from the main game, near the end of the run, the bell was replaced, by a foghorn, in the sound of the "Whammy," which was taken from: Press Your Luck (1983).
When Joe Alaskey was unable to finish the entire series, in its last few weeks, beginning with Game Show Week, he was receiving offers to travel to New York to audition for cartoons, in addition to doing Out of This World (1987), he was too busy, so consequently, the "Next Door Neighbor" role had been vanished, and he was replaced by James MacKrell, where no on-camera exposure was seen.
Marc Summers was the producers's first choice as host. He got the job, because he received a phone call from Ellen Levy-Sarnoff, whilst doing Double Dare (1986) for both syndication/Nickelodeon. When not doing the show, Summers had to fly from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California, to do the show, on a weekly basis, in-between late 1988 to mid-1989. He admitted in an interview, he really hated flying.
It was not Haim Saban's, nor Ellen Levy-Sarnoff's, nor David Greenfield's call to come up with the "Next Door Neighbor" role on this show. When Joe Alaskey came to the show, in gaining on-camera exposure as announcer, and being the comedian that he was, he followed the lines on cue cards that Greenfield wrote for him to say, in terms of doing comedy, before going into each commercial break. That really did not serve the show well.