Saturday Night Live Game Show Parodies

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Saturday Night Live Game Show Parodies

This VHS cassette features these sketches from old SNL episodes:
“Old French Whore!” with Garth Brooks
“The Bensonhurst Dating Game” with Joe Pesci
“Dysfunctional Family Christmas,” a commercial parody
“Jackie Rogers, Jr.’s $100,000 Jackpot Wad”
“The Princess and the Homeboy,” a commercial promo parody
“Dysfunctional Family Feud” with Christian Slater (edited)
“Geek, Dweeb or Spazz” (edited)
“Quien es Mas Macho?” (edited)
“Food, Sex, or Cars?” with Rob Lowe (edited)
“Stand-up and Win” with Jerry Seinfeld (edited)
“Clara Turley’s Bible Challenge”
“Death Row Bloopers,” a commercial parody
“Mr. Short-Term Memory,” with Tom Hanks and Tony Randall on “Game Beaters”
“Suckerpunch” with Steve Martin
“Russell and Tate,” a commercial parody
“Jeopardy!: 1999” with Steve Martin
“Celebrity Jeopardy!” with Ben Stiller

Memorable sketches I wish they had included:
“Trivia Busters” with Susan Lucci and Gene Rayburn
The Coneheads on “Family Feud”
“Who’s More Grizzled?” with Robert Duvall
“Chess for Girls,” a commercial parody

[MikeK]

One I would like to see is The Question is Moot with Jesse Jackson.  "Who wins the car?  The question is moot.  I win the car."

[DrBear]

Add to the wish they had included list:

"Wedgie Fever!"
"Jew-Not a Jew"

[JasonA1]

There are a few you didn't mention were edited, but that doesn't matter. I do recall though they corrected a problem in the "Old French Whore" sketch that occured live - all the sound effects were being playing again in the distance, quieter. So you'd hear the CC door open sound effect...hear it again, etc.

"Moot" was hilarious too. Jesse Jackson asked a question, buzz-in, guess - "Sorry, the question is moot."

Some other goodies: the "Family Feud" with the actual Baldwin family playing, "Where You Goin" that used the 70s Pyramid theme and was funny...and one I never saw but would like to, a WLoD parody with Dana Carvey as Bert and Phil Hartman as Burt.

-Jason

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Jul 21 2004, 03:56 PM\'] .and one I never saw but would like to, a WLoD parody with Dana Carvey as Bert and Phil Hartman as Burt. [/quote]
"Win, Lose or Tie," IIRC... the one in which the players just wrote out the answers one letter at a time.  I loved it. :-D

[Robert Hutchinson]

Maybe they thought they had more than enough Steve Martin already, but I'd nominate Common Knowledge--where it's not what you know, it's what you THINK you know.

[TonicBH]

Well, there's that "Where in the World is San Diego, California", proving that Bob Saget is horrible in three different mediums (Sitcoms, sketch comedies and game shows).

And "You think you're better than me?", which is the one that uses a varation of the Pyramid theme.

and of course, "Sabra Price is Right", "Game Breakers" (the Susan Lucci one with a Pardo and Rayburn cameo), "Game Beaters" (Tom Hanks' "Mr. Short-Term memory" character), "You Can't Win!" (featuring Bert Convy), and of course, the various "Celebrity Jeopardy!" and WWTBAM sketches.

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[DrBear]

[quote name=\'TonicBH\' date=\'Jul 22 2004, 07:55 AM\'] Well, there's that "Where in the World is San Diego, California", proving that Bob Saget is horrible in three different mediums (Sitcoms, sketch comedies and game shows).
STS!) [/quote]
 Actually, four, if you consider America's Funniest Crotch Bashings a different genre.

[TimK2003]

I'm not sure if it was called "What's My Drug?", "Name That Drug?" or what?   But what was the parody that had someone playing David Crosby, and who played him?

[Chief-O]

Wasn't it "What's My Addiction?" I think that was the name.

[rugrats1]

Also don't forget "What's That Smell?" featuring Dennis Hopper, around the time he starred in "Blue Velvet".

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'Jul 22 2004, 08:23 PM\'] Also don't forget "What's That Smell?" featuring Dennis Hopper, around the time he starred in "Blue Velvet". [/quote]
 What?! And here I was thinking I had an original concept...

[johnnya2k3]

You could also include "Name That Dog", "Super Buzzers", "Brain Busters", and "Do You Know Who My Father Is?"; all of them were GSN bits.

There's also "Bob Swerski's Quiz Masters" (1992), "Who Wants To Eat?" (1999), "Headgames" (1993), and the classic "Coneheads on Family Feud" (1978).

Jonathan Allen, hoping SNL will do a game show bit about Ken Jennings

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Jul 23 2004, 01:56 AM\'] Jonathan Allen, hoping SNL will do a game show bit about Ken Jennings [/quote]
 I'd actually put a little bit of (Monopoly) money on that as well, especially since they had John Carpenter make a guest shot, the night after he won the $1 million. I think if SNL hadn't been in reruns right now, Ken would've done a guest shot a long time ago. Had "Anchorman" been released a few months ago, landing Will Ferrell as a guest host would've been an even greater coincidence.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Jul 22 2004, 11:56 PM\'] You could also include "Name That Dog", "Super Buzzers", "Brain Busters", and "Do You Know Who My Father Is?"; all of them were GSN bits.

There's also "Bob Swerski's Quiz Masters" (1992), "Who Wants To Eat?" (1999), "Headgames" (1993), and the classic "Coneheads on Family Feud" (1978).

Jonathan Allen, hoping SNL will do a game show bit about Ken Jennings [/quote]
 It's too bad that Norm McDonald left the show on bad terms.

Ken Jennings.

Burt Reynolds.

Sean Connery.

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