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SNL skit

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For those who missed it.
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I watched it when it was on and thought it did nothing more than prove that, minus Sarah Palin, SNL is dead. Implying that all home schoolers are Bible nuts and public schoolers idiots is pretty much the opposite of what actual quizbowl's proven. Brilliant job.
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Yeah, the spoof of religious home schooled kids wasn't really well done. I mean, gremlins? Come on.

Anyway, any representation of quizbowl on a TV show isn't ever going to be accurate. That episode of Boy Meets World comes to mind.

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rienzi0711 wrote:Anyway, any representation of quizbowl on a TV show isn't ever going to be accurate. That episode of Boy Meets World comes to mind.

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Eh, it was funny. Making fun of religion is pretty much always hilarious.
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Also, you "younguns" may not be aware that in the not too distant past, homeschooling was virtually the domain of religious fundamentalists, and the occasional Mensa-types who didn't want their children public schooled for opposite reasons.

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The show in the skit itself makes speed quizbowl look like it's made for geniuses. Not SNL's best.
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SNL's best was back like in the early 80s.
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David Riley wrote:Also, you "younguns" may not be aware that in the not too distant past, homeschooling was virtually the domain of religious fundamentalists, and the occasional Mensa-types who didn't want their children public schooled for opposite reasons.

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Eh? I thought this was still the stereotype.
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If somebody gave me two minutes to write a quizbowl skit, that's about what I would come up with.
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I thought it was surprisingly accurate...
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Surely this rule would be waived in special cases so that last season's Bible Bowl champions could get a free pass to the final four.
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Well, that's certainly an accurate depiction of local formats, and that's all most people have ever heard of. Also, it could be that the kid who negged with gremins had just misheard hemoglobin as that when he learned about the topic.
Not to mention that some of the questions were debatable, paticuarly the WWI one and the war on US soil one. Both answers given on those would have been negs, but there are several plausible correct answers to both.
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Anti-Climacus wrote:Not to mention that some of the questions were debatable, paticuarly the WWI one and the war on US soil one. Both answers given on those would have been negs, but there are several plausible correct answers to both.
We love questions starting with "why":

World War I started. Why?
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and she would have been rudely told that she had lost her privileges to protest at the right time.

I got really excited when the sketch started, but by the end of the player introductions I was repelled.
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uga_chris wrote:I watched it when it was on and thought it did nothing more than prove that, minus Sarah Palin, SNL is dead. Implying that all home schoolers are Bible nuts and public schoolers idiots is pretty much the opposite of what actual quizbowl's proven. Brilliant job.
Actually, after playing the Greater Sioux Falls Home School Association for a couple years, that assessment is pretty close.
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only neg 80? wow...

btw, has anyone seen the wizards of waverly place "quiz bowl" episode?

the girl uses MAGIC and any qb-er coulda beaten her xD
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Dude, that sketch was terrible. Who really cares about spelling anyway? Well, they can't all be gems...
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Homeschool kids.
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al3xWal3x wrote:btw, has anyone seen the wizards of waverly place "quiz bowl" episode?

the girl uses MAGIC and any qb-er coulda beaten her xD
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