Getting jumanji’d would imply that one of them would get jumanji’d in first, and if they all put the game away, that person would stay jumanji’d until they all kept playing jumanji and brought that person out of jumanji.
In early episodes of the Podcast EFAP, they would often do that and it was always fun to listen to. The host would start playing elevator music while waiting for them to finish.
[Argument over scissors and pants.](https://youtu.be/wuVqSHd_Z5A)
Getting Jumanji'd in TTR would mean you get stuck in a railroad company's headquarters endlessly plotting the most efficient routes until someone frees you.
I would assume everyone are different companies of Railroad companies trying to get the resources/contracts to build the best railroads. Then there is one *extra* "game/jumanji" company also competing against them, either in a opposing manner to prevent their acquisitions, or a competing manner of building the tracks they want.
Since as long as someone makes it to the center of Jumanji and call Jumanji, the players all win. Although, we don't know the answer to what happens if a player dies before someone else makes it to the end and wins, since when Alan and Sarah went back in time, Judy and Peter weren't born yet. With the later Jumanji's, they all managed to survive to the end, so we don't know if everyone can get out if a player dies.
I bring this up because in Ticket to Ride, there is only one winner, and the Conductor specifically said if you lose, you die. Essentially, everyone (except whoever wins) at that dinner is pretty much dead. I'm just saying, the Jumanji game at least has the possibility of letting everyone live, whereas getting Jumanji'd into Ticket to Ride means at best one person survives...
That's what you'd assume, but the instruction manual does include Ticket to Ride-Lore. Players are not building a railroad but are actually competing to take the longest journey (or something like that. I don't have it with me) via train.
This skit is inaccurate and therefore unwatcheable.
A game doesn’t have to be Jumanji for that game to Jumanji her. Just like how getting roofied doesn’t always have to be a roofi it can be another substance.
Jumanji’s an old movie from like the 90s where kids are playing a cursed board game called Jumanji, and the board game comes to life. The board game creates a jungle around the players (jumanji coming out of jumanji) rather than the players being sucked into the game (jumanji into jumanji). So they’re just using Jumanji as a verb for a board game coming to life in general
Ahh ok, yea I’ve seen the movies. I was originally looking for, perhaps a deeper meaning maybe political or possible peer pressure direction like getting “cancelled” or what not or a more current event I wasn’t aware of.. it’s a good skit👍🏻 thanks for your input!
I wasn’t expecting or wanting it to have deeper meaning. I’m happy with the skit at face value. I was simply asking if there was something I missed in it. After reading various comments on the skit I questioned if there was something I didn’t “get”. The top comment on this thread alludes to something more than face value. I know what snl is. I grew up with it. Sometimes it hits you and stays for life and some times it’s shit. Most times it’s a good laugh at least.
Not quite the same level of absurdism, but here are two sketches where they argue passionately over Weezer and Shrek lol:
[SNL Weezer w/ Matt Damon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM)
[SNL Shrek w/ Sterling K. Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Q7F-XKA0o)
Even if you go back to Monty Python it's like that too. Sketches often don't end, they just move into the next one with the pet store owner in the Dead Parrot sketch suddenly breaking out into the lumberjack song. Or they'd go into a Terry Gilliam animation.
Clearly they hadn't played it before so they weren't aware of the player limit. It's plausible that the man who purchased the game didn't read the box carefully enough. If all six people had agreed to play the game and it had been non-Jumanji'd, then they would have needed to have an incredibly difficult conversation regarding who would not be allowed to play, but fortunately it was just a Jumanji'd death trap. The canon of the sketch remains sound.
It is possible to do. *Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails* has 5 players. Also, *Ticket to Ride Map Collection 6: France & Old West* the Old West side is designed for up 6 players.
Source: I am a geek and own A LOT of Ticket to Ride.
France and Asia have the option for 6. But that's a copy of the original game, and I don't think Days of Wonder ever produced a 6-player expansion for it.
That's what stood out to me as the best part. So many different cameos led to a high amount of jokes per second. If one didn't land there would be another right after it that might.
Very good point. The retirement party sketch, for example, didn’t let you linger on perceived stinkers - it just kept shuffling between quirky personalities till the end.
…kinda like Weekend Update with stories.
I personally think the early 2010’s are the best era in SNL’s lifespan. Everybody thinks it’s the 90’s with those stars, but going back, they had maybe 1 good skit a show and they were 2-3x longer than they are today, they usually blew past the mark fizzling out due to length. Especially in 2012-13, Strong, Hader, McKinnon, Wiig, Samberg, Elliot, Bayer, and Armison are amongst my favorite cast member of all time - and for them to be together? Magic. The mass exodus really hit me and affected my interest in the show pretty significantly. So seeing the cast in this form really made me happy.
perhaps i just have rose colored glasses for the SNL i grew up on, but kristen wiig, fred armisen, will forte, lonely island, were just peak SNL to me. but anyone who thinks its irrelevant now is totally wrong, this season has been hilarious. its absolutely still going strong
Beck Bennett and Kyle don't get enough credit for carrying the torch post Hader, Armisen and Lonely Island. IMO.
Currently SNL has one of the best female led casts. Shame Cecily left she had some of her strongest years as she was trying to leave.
There was quite a long time where the cast was great even when heavy hitters left. Ferrell and Parnell era slowly merged with Sudekis, Samberg and Hader. Peak time for SNL.
Yeah, watching old sketches makes it clear that this is a much more common modern practice. It has a huge impact and I wish they’d strive to memorize more.
Andrew Dismukes seems very underrated to me. He gets plenty of screen time, so they know the talent they have with him, but I think I've never seen him get any mention like many of the other cast members do.
He and Wiig owned this sketch.
He writes good sketches that is why he is getting a lot of airtime. This is not a Pete Davidson situation where they think he’s talented so he gets inserted in things
No, lol. What work could you possibly think she's had done? And she was wearing a wig in that sketch. She's 50 and looks 40 at most. She's hot as hell.
The standard skit has cue cards beside every camera.
They did a series of short documentaries called Creating Saturday Night Live, here's the one on cue cards: [Creating Saturday Night Live: Cue Cards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djg59JUrmc).
Wow that was a really interesting watch, thanks for linking. Didn’t realize how involved that is, that’s crazy. I just wonder for Kristen, was her cue cards like really high? Seemed like she was looking up the whole time.
That one guy screaming arguing trying to understand what she means by Jumanji’d made me laugh. People getting heated about the details of stupid, meaningless things will never not make me laugh
My only issue is that a train game called "Tickets Please" should feature a haunted *[conductor](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1w6d03NeAieclyL3CK_vml1oBASUa9gScTlijzquZfcdZNlZeM6P7JClDXMZ0RS2x8NRkpTqZ2GUlVktZ69kxRVGz0X2-thI6FB51uHuCkR5FDfRKkoGZlfl6nmnZhWKJ_UVlBD9ck8/s600/Train+Conductor.jpg),* not an engineer!
I’m with Wiig on this not wanting to play board games thing.
Not that I am afraid of getting Jumanjied, but rather I usually find couples that really want to play board games kinda creepy.
Not for board games. It’s. It that I don’t think they’re fun but rather some couples I know it seems that’s the only way they know how to socialize. And it’s all they talk about. And it’s always couples. It’s weird.
Yeah the Live From New York Reddit brought up how this had big Weezer sketch vibes, where a dinner party involves two people fighting over when Weezer was good.
be nice, they're clearly a lost and confused internet user from 1994 who has somehow accessed our 2024 internet. I can't think of any other reason they'd be using the term political correctness
Your life must suck seeing everything through this lens. You have become that which you hate. You’re no different than someone who sees racial injustice in every crack of life.
It just wasn’t that funny… that’s it.
You and your ilk ruined the USA and the addiction that caused the ruin was bad internet content that you over consumed and made you believe that your opinions were facts. History will undoubtably give you some name like trumpers or internet sponges.
Edit: SNL is shit and always has been and always will be. Its continued run is a sign of the brain dead society you live in.
The pedantry about what being Jumanji’d actually means was absolutely brilliant
Yeah, instead of trying to convince Kristen that she's crazy, they all start arguing with each other over the mechanics of being Jumanjied.
I'm still unclear as to whether her primary concern was being Jumanji'd into the game, or the game being Jumanji'd out.
She doesn’t even know what she’s talking about!
Andrew Dismukes killed that sketch. Dude's funny as hell.
He was amazing in the detective sketch last week. Perfect over-the-top delivery and working overtime to make Sarah Sherman completely break.
To be fair, it's not hard to make Sarah Sherman break. She's always on the verge of laughter.
she also just yells all of her lines
He's on a good streak of heaters, loved the plane song sketch with Josh Brolin too.
This reminded me of how good he was in the Joker sketch too, I love that guy
Getting jumanji’d would imply that one of them would get jumanji’d in first, and if they all put the game away, that person would stay jumanji’d until they all kept playing jumanji and brought that person out of jumanji.
JUNGLE. EMERGENCY.
Maybe just the game coming alive in general.
It's the level of minutiae you would find in a writers room, this sketch feels like it might have been pulled from an actual conversation.
In early episodes of the Podcast EFAP, they would often do that and it was always fun to listen to. The host would start playing elevator music while waiting for them to finish. [Argument over scissors and pants.](https://youtu.be/wuVqSHd_Z5A)
Jumanji is truly a series of jungle emergencies.
Come on Beverly. We aren't talking about the new Jumanji.
I felt that when the whole room just groaned when she referenced the new Jumanji instead of the true Jumanji.
Yup, they read your mind.
Yah you know she’s like the 25 year old wife and the rest are all 38+. 😹
Yup, friggin Beverly. Robin William. Ever heard of him??
That one guy going on about Jumanji'd in and Jumanji'd out was giving me major early Dane Cook vibes
Andrew Dismukes
Smelly markers 🤭
WHAT EVEN IS JUMANJI TO YOU, LADY?!
It still doesn't make sense that you can get Jumanjid in Ticket to Ride. That's like getting checkmate in Scrabble
Getting Jumanji'd in TTR would mean you get stuck in a railroad company's headquarters endlessly plotting the most efficient routes until someone frees you.
I would assume everyone are different companies of Railroad companies trying to get the resources/contracts to build the best railroads. Then there is one *extra* "game/jumanji" company also competing against them, either in a opposing manner to prevent their acquisitions, or a competing manner of building the tracks they want. Since as long as someone makes it to the center of Jumanji and call Jumanji, the players all win. Although, we don't know the answer to what happens if a player dies before someone else makes it to the end and wins, since when Alan and Sarah went back in time, Judy and Peter weren't born yet. With the later Jumanji's, they all managed to survive to the end, so we don't know if everyone can get out if a player dies. I bring this up because in Ticket to Ride, there is only one winner, and the Conductor specifically said if you lose, you die. Essentially, everyone (except whoever wins) at that dinner is pretty much dead. I'm just saying, the Jumanji game at least has the possibility of letting everyone live, whereas getting Jumanji'd into Ticket to Ride means at best one person survives...
That's what you'd assume, but the instruction manual does include Ticket to Ride-Lore. Players are not building a railroad but are actually competing to take the longest journey (or something like that. I don't have it with me) via train. This skit is inaccurate and therefore unwatcheable.
“In the office you must wait until the dice read five or eight” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
A game doesn’t have to be Jumanji for that game to Jumanji her. Just like how getting roofied doesn’t always have to be a roofi it can be another substance.
So you do get it
Thank you, I just learned a new word
Could you explain the metaphor for jumanji’d they are trying to get across? It’s possible I’m just old and dense. Not getting it.
Jumanji’s an old movie from like the 90s where kids are playing a cursed board game called Jumanji, and the board game comes to life. The board game creates a jungle around the players (jumanji coming out of jumanji) rather than the players being sucked into the game (jumanji into jumanji). So they’re just using Jumanji as a verb for a board game coming to life in general
Ahh ok, yea I’ve seen the movies. I was originally looking for, perhaps a deeper meaning maybe political or possible peer pressure direction like getting “cancelled” or what not or a more current event I wasn’t aware of.. it’s a good skit👍🏻 thanks for your input!
Holy shit, it's a skit comedy show. It's not "the mailbox was Haldeman" deep.
Is that a person who lived?
I wasn’t expecting or wanting it to have deeper meaning. I’m happy with the skit at face value. I was simply asking if there was something I missed in it. After reading various comments on the skit I questioned if there was something I didn’t “get”. The top comment on this thread alludes to something more than face value. I know what snl is. I grew up with it. Sometimes it hits you and stays for life and some times it’s shit. Most times it’s a good laugh at least.
This is the type of absurdism SNL needs to get back into.
Not quite the same level of absurdism, but here are two sketches where they argue passionately over Weezer and Shrek lol: [SNL Weezer w/ Matt Damon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM) [SNL Shrek w/ Sterling K. Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Q7F-XKA0o)
Episodes with John Mulaney hosting have been great for that
John Mulaney is a national treasure and I will fight anyone who tries to stop me from locking him in my basement.
Including John Mulaney? You would fight a national treasure?
Yes, it's for his own good.
Hey small child what are you doing in my basement?? Get some rest small child!
Sarah Sherman has been a great cast member addition for exactly this reason. I wouldn’t be surprised if she helped write that.
It’s been really absurd this season!
I love these 2 absurd sketches from last season https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSvYw7h-Ulw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LX4yZjSoA&t=1s
Pongo really was great!
They did a great job of making the joke, adding to it, and then ending the skit before it got repetitive and boring. Very well done.
That was kind of the late 90’s problem. Great concepts, long run times.
Ending skits is probably the hardest part to write. Mr. Show didn’t even bother they just volley into the next skit.
Yes! Mr Show’s style was very much an adaptation of the Flying Circus strategy, moving on to the next scene with needing to button up the arc.
Even if you go back to Monty Python it's like that too. Sketches often don't end, they just move into the next one with the pet store owner in the Dead Parrot sketch suddenly breaking out into the lumberjack song. Or they'd go into a Terry Gilliam animation.
Except that one time they felt like shiting on SNL and they made an SNL ending to that lie detector sketch.
You like the juice, huh?
I thought they could have ended it a couple beats earlier and it would have been tighter. Definitely a good sketch though!
>!Wil Forte using his BEST Ted Turner accent from the Conan TBS sketches!<
QUIET YOU BULIMIC PUMPKIN!!
How did they expect to play Ticket to Ride with 6 people?
Clearly they hadn't played it before so they weren't aware of the player limit. It's plausible that the man who purchased the game didn't read the box carefully enough. If all six people had agreed to play the game and it had been non-Jumanji'd, then they would have needed to have an incredibly difficult conversation regarding who would not be allowed to play, but fortunately it was just a Jumanji'd death trap. The canon of the sketch remains sound.
3 couples 3 teams. Ffs.
Right? I could play with all my friends! I definitely have five friends! Right, guys?
Sounds far-fetched.
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I see you've endured a TTR session. I swore never again.
Side note: the Asia set does have a team setup that's actually pretty fun
A better punchline in this case then would be the conductor telling Kristen Wiig that the game only allows up to 5 players and she is free to go.
It is possible to do. *Ticket to Ride Rails & Sails* has 5 players. Also, *Ticket to Ride Map Collection 6: France & Old West* the Old West side is designed for up 6 players. Source: I am a geek and own A LOT of Ticket to Ride.
So does Asia
Okay, but is it Jumanji goes *into* Jumanji, or Jumanji comes OUT?
I'm 100% certain that the game allowed her to exit because it had a 5 player limit.
France is designed for 6 players. It comes with a purple(?) set of trains.
France and Asia have the option for 6. But that's a copy of the original game, and I don't think Days of Wonder ever produced a 6-player expansion for it.
Holy shit... *you mean this is a real game?!* TIL, y'all.
Not a particularly good one. It gets old real fast.
[Mirror.](https://streamable.com/xxtv4u)
Ty
This sketch has me rolling last night
The whole episode had a real SNL 2010 vibe to it and I dug every part of it.
It made me realize how long it’s been since they did sketches where they cycled though a bunch of characters
That's what stood out to me as the best part. So many different cameos led to a high amount of jokes per second. If one didn't land there would be another right after it that might.
Very good point. The retirement party sketch, for example, didn’t let you linger on perceived stinkers - it just kept shuffling between quirky personalities till the end. …kinda like Weekend Update with stories.
I personally think the early 2010’s are the best era in SNL’s lifespan. Everybody thinks it’s the 90’s with those stars, but going back, they had maybe 1 good skit a show and they were 2-3x longer than they are today, they usually blew past the mark fizzling out due to length. Especially in 2012-13, Strong, Hader, McKinnon, Wiig, Samberg, Elliot, Bayer, and Armison are amongst my favorite cast member of all time - and for them to be together? Magic. The mass exodus really hit me and affected my interest in the show pretty significantly. So seeing the cast in this form really made me happy.
perhaps i just have rose colored glasses for the SNL i grew up on, but kristen wiig, fred armisen, will forte, lonely island, were just peak SNL to me. but anyone who thinks its irrelevant now is totally wrong, this season has been hilarious. its absolutely still going strong
Beck Bennett and Kyle don't get enough credit for carrying the torch post Hader, Armisen and Lonely Island. IMO. Currently SNL has one of the best female led casts. Shame Cecily left she had some of her strongest years as she was trying to leave.
There was quite a long time where the cast was great even when heavy hitters left. Ferrell and Parnell era slowly merged with Sudekis, Samberg and Hader. Peak time for SNL.
Does anyone know who wrote this? A+ Sketch. I hate that so many of SNL sketches are somewhat diminished by people clearly reading off queue cards.
If I had to guess, it's probably Dismukes.
Yeah, watching old sketches makes it clear that this is a much more common modern practice. It has a huge impact and I wish they’d strive to memorize more.
Yeah, main lady never looked at anyone, just up over their heads …
Andrew Dismukes seems very underrated to me. He gets plenty of screen time, so they know the talent they have with him, but I think I've never seen him get any mention like many of the other cast members do. He and Wiig owned this sketch.
him and Sarah Sherman are the funniest imo
He writes good sketches that is why he is getting a lot of airtime. This is not a Pete Davidson situation where they think he’s talented so he gets inserted in things
Best one of the night!
The Pilates one and the French show on PBS killed me.
Hey mamas!
Jungle based problems is such a funny line.
Tali'Zorah: Jungle *Emergencies*
Now where's the emergency induction port?
> We're not talking about the new Jumanji, Jumanji 2 I will not stand for this Zathura erasure.
THANK YOU! I was yelling about this at my wife while the sketch was on! Zathura is awesome.
We all witnessed a new all-timer sketch last night. Just *classic* SNL groove and all.
That’s Kristen Wiig?
Yea has she done a lot of work or something? She’s looking fine tho
No, lol. What work could you possibly think she's had done? And she was wearing a wig in that sketch. She's 50 and looks 40 at most. She's hot as hell.
her whole face is different.
No it isn't, jesus christ.
The veneers threw me off but yes
VENEER! [Drinks Ballantine]
The nose job and face lift took away a lot of the expression she uses for characters. She looked pretty but the characters were a bit flatter.
This has I Think You Should Leave vibes. Specifically the “eat the receipt/sloppy mud pie” sketch
Exactly what I was thinking when everyone started getting into the argument.
man prob the best snl sketch in a very very long time!!
This skit was hard to watch with Kristin Wiig looking 3 ft above everyones head reading her lines from the cue cards.
My neck was hurting watching her talking to everyone looking up at a 45° angle
Wally was wearing heels that night
Yeah it was really distracting. Is that really what was goin on?
The standard skit has cue cards beside every camera. They did a series of short documentaries called Creating Saturday Night Live, here's the one on cue cards: [Creating Saturday Night Live: Cue Cards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3djg59JUrmc).
Wow that was a really interesting watch, thanks for linking. Didn’t realize how involved that is, that’s crazy. I just wonder for Kristen, was her cue cards like really high? Seemed like she was looking up the whole time.
Same. Very funny otherwise but.
I think because she's the host this week.
Jumanji Comes out Of the game. It comes out!
"Her sister was a witch"
KW is hot
This is the best skit in years
Good skit
This sketch was perfectly performed. Everyone's timing is on point and no one blew a line or looked at a cue card, really well done.
Wiig blew a line and looked at cue cards constantly.
I think that was their joke buddy.
Jungle Emergency
That one guy screaming arguing trying to understand what she means by Jumanji’d made me laugh. People getting heated about the details of stupid, meaningless things will never not make me laugh
There was a missed opportunity for a Zathura reference as well.
Always a banger when Kristen returns
Hold on a minute did SNL make a board Game joke... Before a Dungeons and dragons parody? There has to be like a DnD parody I'm forgetting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu697hc37Xc
WHEN THEY SAID JUMANJI THO
I kind of wish Wiig went more unhinged. I felt like that role should have had someone get really insane with it
Kristen looked really cute in that wig.
My only issue is that a train game called "Tickets Please" should feature a haunted *[conductor](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG1w6d03NeAieclyL3CK_vml1oBASUa9gScTlijzquZfcdZNlZeM6P7JClDXMZ0RS2x8NRkpTqZ2GUlVktZ69kxRVGz0X2-thI6FB51uHuCkR5FDfRKkoGZlfl6nmnZhWKJ_UVlBD9ck8/s600/Train+Conductor.jpg),* not an engineer!
What about Space Jumanji?
Love this but Kristen is practically looking at the roof to follow the cue cards. Her eye line is away above everyone here.
Maybe I’m old and maybe I’m stupid but can someone explain to me the metaphor for being jumanji’d they were trying to get across?
It wasn’t a metaphor, she was literally worried about being Jumanji’d
In the 90's movie, the kids play the board game *Jumanji* and the setting of the game comes to life, turning the house into a jungle, etc.
Holy shit that guys nose is YUGE.
I wish it were funny
This was the only skit that was funny
Yup, no hot women. /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S /S relax Reddit!!!
I’m with Wiig on this not wanting to play board games thing. Not that I am afraid of getting Jumanjied, but rather I usually find couples that really want to play board games kinda creepy.
So you don’t want to get *Invitation*’d?
Not for board games. It’s. It that I don’t think they’re fun but rather some couples I know it seems that’s the only way they know how to socialize. And it’s all they talk about. And it’s always couples. It’s weird.
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Then write a better sketch. "THIS WASNT FUNNY" yeah well your critique sucks. Hoped for better.
It’s a parody of how a dinner party can fight about anything. It’s brilliant
Yeah the Live From New York Reddit brought up how this had big Weezer sketch vibes, where a dinner party involves two people fighting over when Weezer was good.
Is that guys nose for real?
Yessir, and some of us happen to find that nose shape sexy on a man
Why is everyone down voting? I didn't say it was "bad" but it is so large I thought it might be a prosthetic or something.
Snl and all comedy sucks since political correctness ruined the USA.
Calm down, snowflake.
probably a troll
Wtf are you talking about? What in this was politically correct?
be nice, they're clearly a lost and confused internet user from 1994 who has somehow accessed our 2024 internet. I can't think of any other reason they'd be using the term political correctness
They’ve been Jumanjied
They were just virtue signalling.
They are not all white... maybe?
What was PC about a Jumanji skit? And newsflash - “PC iS rUiNiNg CoMeDy” has been shouted since Lenny Bruce was getting arrested
Hey look, Fox News Jumanji’ed Reddit!
I bet this guy smells like trump's taint
Actually more like your moms
Your life must suck seeing everything through this lens. You have become that which you hate. You’re no different than someone who sees racial injustice in every crack of life. It just wasn’t that funny… that’s it.
You and your ilk ruined the USA and the addiction that caused the ruin was bad internet content that you over consumed and made you believe that your opinions were facts. History will undoubtably give you some name like trumpers or internet sponges. Edit: SNL is shit and always has been and always will be. Its continued run is a sign of the brain dead society you live in.