The Newlywed Game/TNG in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture
The Newlywed Game (which appropriately enough was also the name of the episode in general) was featured in a 1981 episode the short-lived sitcom The Brady Brides, a spin-off of The Brady Bunch. It all started when Bob Eubanks had car trouble and he ended up parking in front of Marcia, Jan and their husbands Phillip & Wally's house. He went in and asks them to use their phone. Pleased by their kindness and hospitality, Bob invited the couples to play The Newlywed Game; Phillip hoped to win a new aquarium for his guppies. But when they got to the show and played the game, things were unpleasant, unreliable & uneasy, not to mention embarrassing, but very hilarious. Both couples ended up losing the game but they did manage to make up when they returned home.

On a 1990 episode of the formerly popular FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color it also spoofed The Newlywed Game with Jim Carrey as Bob Eubanks.

The Newlywed Game was spoofed in the ABC sitcom, Full House, in 1993. The show was called "The Perfect Couple" and Joey "Joe Stone" Gladstone (played by Dave Coulier) was the host. Instead of their answers on cards, the couples' answers were shown via video screen which is kind of TattleTales-ish. And instead of 3 married couples, there was a dating couple (DJ (Candice Cameron-Bure) and Steve (Scott Weinger), an engaged couple (Danny and Vicki (Vicki was late, so some woman named Estelle took her place), and a married couple (Jesse and Becky). The game was kind of funny. DJ thought that Steve doesn't know anything about her. Danny knew that he would never get a match because he never even met Estelle. And Becky knows that she'll get a match because she thinks that Jesse's predictable, and when they learned a lesson, they kissed and left the stage. Danny and Estelle won the game and a trip to Cabo San Lucas. When Vicki finally came, she told Danny that she has a job as an anchor in New York. Danny thought the whole long distance relationship wouldn't work, so they broke up.

A Newlywed Game-like spoof appeared in a 1999 episode of the formerly popular Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel called "The Honeymoon's Over" (which in turn is also the name of the game show their spoofing) where Kenan Rockmore (played by Kenan Thompson) dances half-naked in his living room, and his mom's book club comes over. This prompts Kenan to try to get a bachelor pad for Kel Kimbel (played by Kel Mitchell) and himself. While Kel is watching the show on TV, Kenan gets the idea of going on the show by having Kel dressing up as his wife named Kellie Rockerferstein. However, they lost at the end of the episode.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Former Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks appears in the episode as the host of The Honeymoon's Over.

A 2002 episode of Family Guy called "Family Guy Viewer Mail No.1" featured a brief spoof of The Newlywed Game in the segment "No Bones About It" where the Griffins are watching the show on TV when host Bob Eubanks asks Carol to answer the question about one last thing her husband would give her as she responded with "Money", but her husband Nick reveals his actual response that was written on his card "The Antidote" causing Carol to start asking what does he mean before she collapses on the floor.

Other cast members in the film includes:

The Wives:

Penny Pax as Rebecca

Samantha Ryan as Ginny

Adrianna Luna as Meredith

Abby Cross as Lucy

The Husbands:

Prince Yahshua as Leon

Seth Gamble as Rico

Tyler Nixon as John

Danny Wylde as Adam