The game consists of 100 Mob members, ranging from teachers, brain surgeons, and Mensa members to Deal or No Deal models and game show champions to even memorable kids' show characters and actors. Here are some of the notable Mob members, many of whom play for charities:
Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! champion. (lectern #13 in episode 1; previewed the show on his weblog[20]; eliminated in episode 2; won $714.29)
Meghan Markle, Katie Cleary, and Marisa Petroro, Deal or No Deal models. (lecterns #7, #8 and #9 in episode 1)
John Carpenter, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire first $1,000,000 winner (lectern #16; appeared and eliminated in episode 3.)
Nancy Christy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire $1,000,000 winner (lectern #17; appeared and eliminated in episode 3.)
Dr. Kevin Olmstead, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire $2,180,000 winner (lectern #18; appeared and eliminated in episode 3.)
Kevin Federline, rap artist and singer Britney Spears's then-husband (lectern #13; appeared and eliminated in episode 6)
Annie Duke, poker player (appearing in episode airing December 1 in lectern #22; moved to lectern #13 on December 15) Was eliminated on the December 25 episode. Annie went through 37 correct questions before she was eliminated on the December 25 show on the third question. During her four weeks, she didn't win any money. In the episode on February 9, 2007, she returned and competed in the "Last Man Standing" special, along with Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and others.
Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! contestant and all-time American game show winnings record holder (appeared in December 1 episode at lectern #33). He was eliminated on the December 15, 2006 episode.
David Eckstein, of the St Louis Cardinals, 2006 World Series MVP (appeared in the second game of the December 1 episode at lectern #13; eliminated on the December 8 show).
Four members of the main cast of the NBC drama Las Vegas: Josh Duhamel, Nikki Cox, James Lesure and Molly Sims (appeared in the first game of the December 1 episode to promote a 2-hour Las Vegas special that followed the show; playing for charity, they were all eliminated without winning any money).
Bob Eubanks and Wink Martindale, December 8 show (appearing at lecterns #13 and #14, respectively; they were eliminated on consecutive questions.)
PJ Golden, (lectern #87 episode 5). Owner of Stereotype Records and former rock semi-demi-star. Returned for upcoming episode.
Danny Bonaduce, who was in the 1970s TV show The Partridge Family, appearing on the special Christmas episode airing on December 25 as "A Partridge in a Pear Tree". Was eliminated on the show's third question.
Adam West, the original star of the Batman TV series, appeared on January 5, and was eliminated January 12.
Jackie Beat, famous New York drag queen, appeared on January 5, eliminated on January 12.
Male model Fabio, appearing on January 12, eliminated on January 19.
Matthew Lesko and Anthony Sullivan, infomercial pitchmen, appearing on January 12, both were eliminated on January 19 episode.
Television judges Joe Brown, Cristina Pérez, Alex Ferrer, Lynn Toler, and Mablean Ephriam, appearing on January 19, all of them were eliminated without winning any money.
Former child actors Todd Bridges (Diff'rent Strokes) and Willie Aames (Charles in Charge and Eight Is Enough), both appearing on the January 19 episode. Bridges was eliminated on his first question; Aames was eliminated on the January 26 episode. (Bridges was introduced at the start of the January 26 episode, but was already eliminated the prior week.)
Five members of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, who appeared on the January 19 episode. Two of them were eliminated on the January 19 episode; the rest were eliminated on January 26 episode.
Olympic Gold Medalists Shannon Miller, Bart Conner, and Nadia Comăneci, all appearing on the January 26 episode; Miller and Comaneci were eliminated on that episode; Conner moves on to the next episode in game number two, after the first game which featured one hundred kids in the mob.
Three cast members each of NBC's soaps Days of our Lives and Passions, appearing on the January 26 episode. All of them were eliminated without winning any money.
Actor/comedian D. L. Hughley, who appeared in the February 2 episode during the second game, and was eliminated on his first question.
Fabled sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, medium Allison DuBois, on whom the lead character in the NBC drama series Medium is based, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, and members of Three 6 Mafia, appeared and eliminated on February 23 episode. Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul and Dr. Ruth were notable in that they were eliminated twice, as that mob so quickly beat the first contestant, producers decided to let them stay for the second game. Appearing in the third game was Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of the TLC show Shalom in the Home.
Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street (voiced and puppeteered by Carroll Spinney), appearing on the January 11, 2008 episode as a representative of Sesame Street and the Muppets. He was eliminated on an initial question about Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, though later he claimed that he knew the answer (noting Mr. Hyde as his "hero") but pressed the wrong button, and was the only person eliminated. Later, in a question regarding social security, he claimed that he has always been 43 years of age. In another episode, Saget accidentally refers to Oscar as "Grover," and then as "Cookie Monster" just to incite some laughs from the audience. Oscar later gets back at Saget by calling him "Howie" (after Howie Mandel, the host of another NBC game show, Deal or No Deal, which his friend Big Bird made a special appearance in one Christmas episode and when Kermit made an appearance as well). He most recently got the question "Alphabetically, which number comes first?" incorrect, with the correct answer being 24. This leads to a humorous conversation in which Bob asks if it isn't what he and his fellow Muppets do on Sesame Street, to which he replied that only know the number of letters in the alphabet. Safe to say, he doesn't act grouchy either in any of his appearances on the program, as he comments that three other mob members like him, he does a victory dance when an answer was correct and he gets a worried look on his face when there's tension. The audience even clapped for him when he was finally eliminated in the final episode. He is now a regular and one of the most popular nonhuman members of the mob, sitting in lectern #21.
The Dahm Triplets, also mob regulars
Ross "The Intern" Mathews, a mob regular
Richard Rubin, a mob regular
Sister Rose Pacatte, originally appeared on episode 4 and was eliminated on episode 5, winning $249.14 for charity. She became a mob regular in season two and also was in the Last Man Standing episode.
Jake, a chimpanzee. He only answered one question correctly in his game.
Cassandra Whitehead, a former contestant of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5.
David Eisenberg, a Rhodes Scholar and a renowned biochemist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael B. Rich, a real life "40-year-old virgin", who appeared in January 2007. When the show returned in 2008, Saget noted that the last time Rich appeared he was a virgin, to which Rich cheerfully replied "Yes!" When Saget asked whether that had changed, Rich sadly replied "No!"
The following appeared on the episode that aired on March 16, 2007 (it was originally advertised that they would appear on a special Sunday episode in January that was pre-empted by Deal or No Deal):
Kelly Perdew, the second winner in The Apprentice.
Sean Yazbeck, the fifth winner in The Apprentice.
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the notable candidate from the first installment of The Apprentice.
Members of the nostalgia rock group Sha Na Na who performed some of the music in the film Grease almost 30 years earlier.
Jeff Conaway from the film Grease (as well as Taxi)
Susan Buckner also from Grease. She played Patty Simcox.
