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A fact from Hi, Bob appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 July 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the drinking game Hi, Bob may have been the first to use prompts from a television show to initiate player action?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hi, Bob.

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Stylization of name

Do all the sources cited give the game's name this way? Not that I ever played it—by my college years in the late 1980s it would have been hard to as the series was long off the air and not really in syndication that much, and Newhart had another show running in prime time—but I did know of it, and everytime I recall having read of it, the name was given as "Hi Bob!" Daniel Case (talk) 02:16, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Addendum: So I went and started looking at how the sources that I can read style the name:

Parade: "The show also became a hit with college kids at the time … as a drinking game called 'Hi Bob.'" Neither comma nor exclamation point.
SNL]": "I mean ... I'm very flattered that you enjoy the old show, but I ... I want you to know I don't approve of the game. I hate the idea of people driving around drunk because of 'Hi, Bob!'" Comma and exclamation point.

I don't have newspapers.com access, so I can't review those. (And I can't find the Mansour cite because it lacks a page number. Sloppy!

Oh, and here's the SAGE Encyclopedia direct link: "One famous drinking game is 'Hi Bob' ..." No punctuation.

Other sources which would be considered reliable:

Today show, 2013:"More than a few college students lost a few brain cells to that infamous drinking game 'Hi Bob,' where players watch 'Bob Newhart' reruns and drink every time 'Hi Bob' is said." No punctuation inherent.

Network World, 2006: "And some of you might even remember a popular college drinking game called 'Hi Bob'" No punctuation.

Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place: "Drink whenever someone says 'Hi, Bob" ..." Comma; the first one I've found so far that uses the same punctuation as the article title.

Bronner, now linked directly in the article, uses the same punctuation as the article title.

New York Post, 2004: "'For instance, take 'Hi Bob!', a game based on the old 'The Bob Newhart Show.'" Punctuated the way I remember it; must have been written by someone else who went to college in the '80s.

Oh, and I also found the URL for Mansour, looks like it's "Hi Bob!" for him too.

Bob Newhart's official website: "[W]ho else has a drinking game named after him? ('Hi Bob!')" Again, the way I remember it.

Anyone else want to weigh in? Daniel Case (talk) 02:53, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]