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

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."

Add to the wish they had included list:

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

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

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.

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.

(OT: WOO! 100 POSTS!)

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?

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

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

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

OKLAHOOOOMA!

"The Penis Mightier" was actually "I'll take "The Penis....MIGHTIER Than The Sword!"

I'd like to see "What's The Best Way?" simply because it began with actual footage of WSBK-38 in Boston's station ID which no one in the midwest ever saw before.

One other game show skit I'd like to see again is a Japanese game show parody from 10 years ago. Chris Farley played an American tourist who doesn't understand a word of Japanese. Wrong answers meant a contestant had to perform some sort of sacrifice, like cutting off a finger or harikiri. Good stuff, especially the final round.