The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: chad1m on March 08, 2009, 05:10:47 AM
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Tonight at 7 PM ET, you'll have two opportunities to watch a parody of a game show. You can watch Hole in the Wall on FOX, or you can watch NBC's hour-long collection of game show lampoons over Saturday Night Live's 30+ years. No details on what they're set to air, but they certainly have a plethora to choose from, some of which were released on home video in 2000.
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That's cool! My favoritte one's the FF sketch with the Coneheads when one starts imitating the "Repeat answer" buzzer, then near the end of the sketch, all the Coneheads do it, that was hilarious I thought.
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[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'209777\' date=\'Mar 8 2009, 04:10 AM\']
Tonight at 7 PM ET, you'll have two opportunities to watch a parody of a game show. You can watch Hole in the Wall [/quote]Well played.
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I pray for Jeopardy! 1999.
EDIT: My Yahoo TV grid says HOTW is a repeat.
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I'm hoping for Celebrity Jeopardy!
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'209782\' date=\'Mar 8 2009, 07:15 AM\']
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'209777\' date=\'Mar 8 2009, 04:10 AM\']
Tonight at 7 PM ET, you'll have two opportunities to watch a parody of a game show. You can watch Hole in the Wall [/quote]Well played.
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I just reread that...I concur.
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Celebrity J! is a gimmie. I haven't seen Jew - Not a Jew and Who's More Grizzled? in quite a while. I'd also like to see the Chess for Girls commercial parody. (I know it's available online. I want to see it full screen.)
Zap2it and the L.A. times says this broadcast is not a rerun.
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I Will Also See Sabra Price is Right
Disco, Disco, Good, Good!
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Here's hoping for, "You Win a Dollar"
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For anyone who missed it or is anticipating it on the West Coast, the lineup was:
Deal or No Deal (Steve Carell, 2008)
What's Your Situation? (Jonah Hill, 2008)
It's a Match (Shia LaBouf, 2008)
Wheel of Fortune (Tom Hanks, 2006)
Dry Eyes (Justin Timberlake, 2006)
GSN's rerun of Charades (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 2006)
Celebrity Jeopardy! with Sean Connery, French Stewart and Burt Reynolds (Norm Macdonald, 1999)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (2000)
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It's a Match, Wheel of Fortune, and Celeb J! got laughs out of me. The rest...wow.
They picked the absolute best episode of Celeb J! to run, too.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'209833\' date=\'Mar 8 2009, 08:02 PM\']
It's a Match, Wheel of Fortune, and Celeb J! got laughs out of me. The rest...wow.
They picked the absolute best episode of Celeb J! to run, too.
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I'll agree with that, but I also got a laugh out of "Charades" and "Dry Eyes" wasn't too bad.
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Sadly Sabra Price is Right, Game Beaters and Bob Swerski's Quiz Masters are not on the Game Show Parodies episode of SNL.
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It's a Match, Wheel of Fortune, and Celeb J! got laughs out of me. The rest...wow.
They picked the absolute best episode of Celeb J! to run, too.
I'll agree with that, though I'll admit to getting laughs out of Charades...if only due to the irony of "Bert Convy" shutting celebrities up...;).
What's Your Situation was okay at first, but the running joke got stale quite quickly.
\really wished they showed that "Mr. Short-Term Memory" skit; always thought that was one of the funniest game show skits they did
Anthony
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I know that most of the audience wasn't even alive when SNL did "Jeopardy! 1999," but still ... kids these days, I tell ya.
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I have to admit I was a bit surprised. I figured that for a compilation they would do the funniest skits they had access to, not just the most recent. Is this how they've done it in the past?
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[quote name=\'CarShark\' post=\'209856\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 02:04 AM\']
I have to admit I was a bit surprised. I figured that for a compilation they would do the funniest skits they had access to, not just the most recent. Is this how they've done it in the past?
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Not at all...the one they did about 10 years ago featured stuff from the 70s (Jeopardy! 1999, Quien es Mas Macho, I *believe* Coneheads on Feud), 80s (Jackpot Wad, something with Tom Hanks w/short-term memory), and 90s (Food, Sex, or Cars, French Whore, Stand Up and Win, Celebrity J!).
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Jackie Rogers Jr. $100,000 Jackpot Wad. How the hell did I forget about that one. Classic.
But yeah, it seems like they only wanted current stuff + one Celeb J! run, then when they found it ran short, they found that Millionaire clip.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'209857\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 02:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'CarShark\' post=\'209856\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 02:04 AM\']
I have to admit I was a bit surprised. I figured that for a compilation they would do the funniest skits they had access to, not just the most recent. Is this how they've done it in the past?
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Not at all...the one they did about 10 years ago featured stuff from the 70s (Jeopardy! 1999, Quien es Mas Macho, I *believe* Coneheads on Feud), 80s (Jackpot Wad, something with Tom Hanks w/short-term memory), and 90s (Food, Sex, or Cars, French Whore, Stand Up and Win, Celebrity J!).
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And at least with this special, they aired all the skits in their entirety. The special 10 years ago aired some full length, while others were clipped to be grouped in medley form.
I still don't understand why they used fake celebrity names for It's A Match when most of us could tell who was who. Even my wife asked if the one celeb was trying to be Debralee Scott.
I know that some were disappointed with the selection of parodies in last nights show (or lack thereof), but with all the parodies they could choose from, SNL could easily create a 5 or 6 disc collection -- just as big as their "complete season" collections -- and still not have space for them all.
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I seem to remember another SNL game show parody special back in 2001-02 that also focused exclusively on recent clips. The only skits I remember were Millionaire (where Will Ferrell's character calls it quits after the $100 question), a Celebrity J! skit, a Weakest Link skit with Rachel Dratch as Anne Robinson, and something that spoofed the Rick Rockwell-Darva Conger debacle on Fox (think the spoof was "Who Wants to be Groped by an 11-Thousandaire?").
JD
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'209866\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 08:26 AM\']
I still don't understand why they used fake celebrity names for It's A Match when most of us could tell who was who. Even my wife asked if the one celeb was trying to be Debralee Scott.[/quote]
Let's see...Brett, Charles (closer to a Paul Lynde), Debralee, Marsha Wallace, Nipsey. I don't know who the sixth star would have been...probably just to fit into the spoof.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'209869\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 09:32 AM\']
[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'209866\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 08:26 AM\']
I still don't understand why they used fake celebrity names for It's A Match when most of us could tell who was who. Even my wife asked if the one celeb was trying to be Debralee Scott.[/quote]
Let's see...Brett, Charles (closer to a Paul Lynde), Debralee, Marsha Wallace, Nipsey. I don't know who the sixth star would have been...probably just to fit into the spoof.
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The 6th star would be magician Doug Henning. I don't recall him doing game shows, though. Chrysler commercials, however...
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'209866\' date=\'Mar 9 2009, 09:26 AM\']
I know that some were disappointed with the selection of parodies in last nights show (or lack thereof), but with all the parodies they could choose from, SNL could easily create a 5 or 6 disc collection -- just as big as their "complete season" collections -- and still not have space for them all.
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As someone who has every single parody from the start to about 2005, I would have to agree - there's about 9-10 hours worth kicking around.
Ryan
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Hell, if they put out just a single DVD of the Celebrity Jeopardy bits, I'd buy it.
/so would your mother, Trebek
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My all time favorite aired sometime in 1975-77. In a Weekend Update segment, Laraine Newman was reporting a story of an abduction. The kidnappers asked "famed game show announcer" Don Pardo to read the list of ransom demands, which he did a la Jeopardy, Jackpot, etc.. Absolutely hysterical!
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Thanks for reminding me of all the good ones. For some reason, my mind was stuck on "Wedgie Fever!"