Saturday Night Live

[WazzuRC]

re: Saturday Night Live

I thought the show last night was pretty terrible. Even Weekend Update/Seth Myers is really slipping lately. Although, I love the Miley Cyrus show. Her impression is spot on.

[Scottdau]

re: Saturday Night Live

I like Jeff as Dog and when he started crying that was classic Dog too. I thought some of the skits were very good.

[Scottdau]

re: Saturday Night Live

The Stephan character is that a real person? Nevermind

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

The Stephan character is that a real person? Nevermind

Kind of. :wink:

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[VanCitySportsGuy]

re: Saturday Night Live

The Digital Short was great. Not as good as Jizz In My Pants but pretty close.

I don't remember the last time SNL pushed a new cast member like Vanessa Bayer. She already has a recurring skit that airs early in the show.

Someone needs to tell Eminem to stop looking/acting "hard" all the time. Did he even smile when his daughter was born?

[~LiverpoolRed~]

re: Saturday Night Live

Kristen Wiig didn't have a huge role on Saturday night. I think she is great but it's a refreshing change not to see her having to be in every sketch.

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

So I received the SNL Game for Christmas. They've run commercials for it the past few weeks...don't know if anyone else paid attention or even cared.

http://saturdaynightlivethegame.com/

Haven't played it yet, but it looks fun. There's a bunch of "cue cards" for each decade, split among six categories. Of the six, the best look to be "Here Now, the News" and "Talk Show Showdown". The News is set up like a Mad Lib, where they give you a generic sentence that you fill in two of the blanks on to create a headline and get your partner to guess who you're referring to. Talk Show is a two-person game where each gets a choice of three people. The host chooses between three SNL characters and the guest chooses from three random celebrities. You then proceed to have a conversation as those characters. Whoever cracks first loses. Some of the host/guest combos are pretty weird so it should be fun.

I'll scan a couple of the cards to show some examples if people are interested in seeing them.

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

Tonight's a Jon Hamm/Rihanna rerun...next week is new with Jim Carrey!

And here's an example of a 90s card and a 2000s card from the SNL game.

[CMH]

re: Saturday Night Live

I don't understand the 1990s card you're showing.

"Pick someone on your team who can get you to guess the character by acting it out."

But, if you have the card, don't you already know who the character is? Why am I reading this wrong?

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

I don't understand the 1990s card you're showing.

"Pick someone on your team who can get you to guess the character by acting it out."

But, if you have the card, don't you already know who the character is? Why am I reading this wrong?

I'm confused by it too, and the vague instructions don't help. They explain the game play, but not individual categories. Everything else is pretty straight-forward, so no need for detailed instruction. The only things I can think of is that there's either a neutral person who passes out the cards or you'd have to trust people to see the category and not peek at the answer.

I think for playing I would just disregard that part and whoever draws the card has to play it. It doesn't seem to make sense any other way.

I actually sent an email to the company who made it to see if they can clarify. I feel like there's something obvious I'm missing.

[Scottdau]

re: Saturday Night Live

The other team reads the card then passes it to the person that is going to do the performance. At least that is what I think you would do.

[CMH]

re: Saturday Night Live

The only way it makes sense as read is if there's a neutral person (as SmashMan suggests) or if the other team is reading the card (as Scott suggests).

So neutral/other team member pick up the card for the playing team. Then read the card out loud to the person that needs to guess the performer. The guesser chooses someone on their team and then the neutral/other team member passes the card to the performer.

It makes sense now. But, it just seems weird to have a neutral person involved. I guess, though, it should be the opposing team reading the card because they should know who the performer is acting out to see if the playing team gets the answer right.

Anyway, I'm upset it was that difficult for me to figure out.

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

The only way it makes sense as read is if there's a neutral person (as SmashMan suggests) or if the other team is reading the card (as Scott suggests).

So neutral/other team member pick up the card for the playing team. Then read the card out loud to the person that needs to guess the performer. The guesser chooses someone on their team and then the neutral/other team member passes the card to the performer.

It makes sense now. But, it just seems weird to have a neutral person involved. I guess, though, it should be the opposing team reading the card because they should know who the performer is acting out to see if the playing team gets the answer right.

Anyway, I'm upset it was that difficult for me to figure out.

Scott is right, though as I said, the directions don't spell it out too clearly.

The email I just got back:

Throughout the duration of the game the opposing team picks out the card for the team whose turn it is.

So team A would read the card aloud to team B then hand the card over when necessary.

Hope this helps!! Enjoy the game

Joey

[Scottdau]

re: Saturday Night Live

Some games our like that. The you part could have been stated better. The modifiers could have been in better order. But in a way the you does make sense once you understand. Looks like a fun game. I love that game Craduim.

[SmashMan]

re: Saturday Night Live

Yeah, it made perfect sense once you said it; it just wasn't my initial thought process when reading the card.