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===Outtakes===
[[File:Countdown letters game.jpg|thumb|right|The letters of a round during a 1991 episode in which both contestants declared the word ''wankers''.]]<!-- FAIR USE of Countdown_letters_game.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Countdown_letters_game.jpg for rationale -->
''Countdown'' has also generated a number of widely viewed [[outtake]]s, with the letters occasionally producing a word that was deemed unsuitable for the original broadcast. A round in which Dictionary Corner offered the word ''gobshite'' featured in ''TV's Finest Failures'' in 2001 (the actual episode aired on 10 January 2000), and in one episode from 1991, contestants Gino Corr and Lawrence Pearse both declared the word ''wankers''. This was edited out of the programme but has since appeared on many outtakes shows.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120912001233/http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/countdwn.htm Snopes] on the ''wankers'' incident—Retrieved 21 June 2006.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427103824/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/06/28/db2801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/28/ixportal.html Telegraph.co.uk] on the ''wankers'' incident–Retrieved 20 July 2006.</ref> When contestant Charlie Reams declared ''wankers'' on 21 October 2008 edition, the declaration was kept in but the word itself was [[bleeped]]. Other incidents with only marginally rude words (including ''wanker'', singular) have made it into the programme as they appeared, such as those with Tanmay Dixit referenced above, a clip from a 2001 episode in which the word ''fart'' appeared as the first four letters on the board (which also featured on ''100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell''), and a round where an anagram of the word ''fucked'' appeared on the board in the string "A U O D F C K E G", although neither player chose to use the word and Dictionary Corner was able to find two seven-letter words that could have been made from the board's offerings.<ref>{{cite news |title=Countdown contestants asked to make word using U, D, F, C, K, E |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7511173/Countdown-contestants-asked-to-make-word-using-UDFCKE.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7511173/Countdown-contestants-asked-to-make-word-using-UDFCKE.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=London |date=24 March 2010 |access-date=27 March 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On 2 February 2017, the board for the letters round was "M T H I A E D H S", and with both players offering sevens, Dictionary Corner found the word "shithead", which was bleeped out in the audio and censored on-screen with the poo emoji.<ref>{{cite news |title=The word 'sh*thead' came up on Countdown and they blocked it out with the faeces emoji |url=http://www.dailyedge.ie/countdown-3220410-Feb2017/ |newspaper=The Daily Edge |date=2 February 2017}}</ref>