Trivial Pursuit Saturday Night Live Edition

by Hasbro

Product Features

• Game material drawn from 30 hilarious seasons of Saturday Night Live
• Interactive DVD will test your "SNL" knowledge
• Answer questions about sketches, impressions, memorable characters and more
• Recommended for adults
• For 2-4 players

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0001NE7F0
• Item model number: 42051
• Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,864 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Baby boomers and Gen Xers who are stumped by questions in the main edition of Trivial Pursuit may find this SNL Edition right up their alley. This edition follows the premise of the original game, where players roll the die and move around the board answering trivia questions to score a "wedge" of a pie. The object is to score a wedge from each of the six category areas to complete the pie and win the game. However, the less dry SNL Edition requires players to answer questions about the Emmy-award winning late-night show Saturday Night Live rather than testing their knowledge of random factoids. Players can choose from eight different playing pieces, which are cleverly shaped as some of the most recognizable comedic characters on the show, such as Molly Shannon playing Mary Katherine Gallagher, Dan Ackroyd as a Conehead, or John Belushi as the Samurai Deli owner. The game includes over 2,000 questions in six different category areas, which includes 450 interactive questions located on the accompanying DVD. This game makes for a hilarious night of reliving favorite sketches, impressions, and mock commercials from this 30-season show. --Cristina Vaamonde

Product Description

Live from your living room, it's Saturday Night! Celebrate 30 years of sketch comedy, political satire, celebrity impressions, and commercial parodies with this Saturday Night Live Edition of Trivial Pursuit. Choose a character token such as a Conehead, the Land Shark, Mary Katherine Gallagher, or Will Ferrell's Spartan Spirit, and move around the game board answering questions that test your SNL IQ. The categories are: Sketches, Impressions, Parodies, Characters, SNL Etc., and The Show. What sketch featured John Belushi's character strutting his stuff on the dance floor? Samurai Night Fever. What cast member recorded The Thanksgiving Song and Red Hooded Sweatshirt? Adam Sandler. When you land on a scoring wedge space, watch a DVD clip and answer the on-screen question. With over 2,000 questions including 450 on DVD, it's an informative, interactive, and hilarious walk down memory lane with all your favorite characters and clips from the classic comedy TV show! Comes with Game Board, 1 DVD, 8 Tokens, 24 Scoring Wedges, Question and Answer Cards, Die, and Game Instructions. For 2 - 4 Adult Players or Teams.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ok, but doesn't live up to expectations, December 26, 2004

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Eric Roufs "EJRoufs" (Lakeville, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Saturday Night Live Edition (Toy)

The game is good, as far as trivia pursuit games go. I mean, it's of course a trivia pursuit game centered around Saturday Night Live. We found it somewhat difficult, but then, while us players watch Saturday Night Live, none of us live and die by it.

The thing that we all found most disappointing was the DVD. Given that the game is centered around a TV show, and it comes with a DVD that you use to play the game, we all had VERY high expectations to be watching a lot of little scenes from the show, and to have to answer questions based on that. Or at the very least, little scenes showing parts of the skit once we GOT the answer. Boy were we mistaken. The DVD, although it does contain a few portions of skits, and a few sound bites here and there, is LARGELY just the questions being shown on TV, instead of being on a card. VERY disappointing there.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lot of Fun, November 7, 2004

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Joey (NY) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Saturday Night Live Edition (Toy)

Trivial Pursuit SNL Edition is fun. Thres over 2000 questions about Saturday Night Live. Dont buy it if you have been watching it for less than 10 years because most of the questions are about old sketches, cast members and characters. The DVD part is a lot of fun because you get clues to the questions, your timed and the game goes a lot faster. If you like Saturday Night Live and you have been watching it for a while you should buy this game.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great concept but not for the casual fan!, December 1, 2004

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Karen Phillips "KPiglet" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit Saturday Night Live Edition (Toy)

We played this game for the first time last night and here are the initial thoughts:
Game Pieces: The game pieces are ingenious! You can play as one of several classic SNL characters such as landshark, Conehead or the Ladies Man. The pie pieces slide into the base of each piece and stay put even when the piece is turned upside down! This is great for us since we sometimes like to stop a game and pick it up on another day.
Game Board: The creativity in the game pieces ended there. The board looks really dated with graphics that look like they fell out of the 80's. They had the opportunity to design a really cool bored and I thought it fell short.
DVD: I love the addition of the DVD for "pie" questions. The navigation is a little jerky and hard to scroll from category to category and at one point, I accidently pressed stop and we had to start over again (and got some repeat questions.) We both loved the feature that you can "steal pie" if the person on the pie space doesnt know the answer or guesses wrong. It makes the game go much faster.
Questions: My husband and I consider oursleves die-hard SNL fans but were really surprised at how difficult the questions were! The game focuses on really specific details, lines, etc. from characters that were not just the mainstream characters. We got a lot of laughs remembering the episodes, but were stumped on a lot of questions. Also, the game includes characters and sketches from the show's beginning all the way to the current season. We were surprised to get a question involving Fred Armisan since he is a fairly new cast member.
Overall: Entertaining but definitely for the true-blue fans. The very difficult questions got a little frustrating!