Rhyme marked Eubanks' return to daytime television, six months after ABC cancelled The Newlywed Game.
Regulars on the show were Nipsey Russell and (marital partners) Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall.
[1] Some critics consider the series to have been expressly designed for Russell's talents as "comedy's poet laureate".
Rhyme inherited the vastly-changed competition at that timeslot from Deal, which now featured 60-minute versions of Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns, two very popular serials.
The pilot featured a hodgepodge of music, including an instrumental version of the Amboy Dukes hit Journey to the Center of Your Mind as its theme song and the opening notes to Perrey and Kingsley's The Savers (originally used on The Joker's Wild) as a reveal cue, as well as recycling the game win cue from Eubanks' previous series, The Newlywed Game.
The pilot exists on video, and the finale–in which the celebrities began destroying the set as the show progressed, breaking props, tearing the carpet, and knocking down Bob Eubanks's podium–was discovered on audio tape in January 2011.