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Boardgames cameos at Movies or TV Shows
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I was watching one of my favorites TV Comedy Shows when suddenly something very familiar appears for just a second. I playback the scene and there it is some well known boardgames. This list wants to received all the cameos that you know of boardgames on Movies or TV shows. I'm not talking about chess or monopoly, i want some eurogames, the ones that the geeks likes. Please add your own images.
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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 6:00 am
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This image was the inspiration to this list.
In the first chapter of the second season of The IT Crowd we discovered that the IT Geek likes to play some games: i recognize Ticket To Ride, Mistery of the Abbey and War on Terror.
I just don't know which games is on top.
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But it might be a bit far fetched to say that this game is a cameo 
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Harrison Ford plays Monopoly with his wife and daughter in a hotel room in the movie called "Patriot Games"!
 Be a PATRIOT and play this GAME!
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Board Game: Risk
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I happened to watch the first episode of "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour" the other day and noticed Mike and Carol playing a modified version of Risk and Monopoly. They kept making clever remarks about landing on East Germany with three hotels. ("That's two more than they really have.")
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The Final Countdown. Sailor's on the Nimitz are playing Squad leader in one scene.
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Frank Cross sees his brother James playing Trivial Pursuit, thanks to the Ghost of Christmas Present.
"What was the name of the ship that brought them all to the island in Gilligan's Island?"
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Was flipping channels the other day and ran across an older episode of "Intervention" with a guy who had a major gambling problem. (For the record, this guy was pretty pathetic and manipulative.)
Toward the end of the show when he was talking to his counselor, you could see his game shelf with this on it. He also had Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit 90's edition in the tin, and about 4-5 other games, one of which I was almost certain was Carcassonne, but I couldn't make out the title. The box was about the right size and was blue with a yellow game name across the side.
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(from HSers)
Heroscape has been on at least a couple shows:
Here's a screencap from the TV show Psych:
The guy who owned the figures was an internet blogger, portrayed as a anti-social internet geek, and a "CON" nerd.
And on Wife Swap, the so-called weird family had a Heroscape map set up on their coffee table. Later on, as the new wife "cleansed" the house, they showed them putting map pieces in the drawer of an end table.
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I add this Geeklist to mine so you can check out all the items there.
Thanks to SubtlyArtistic for the comment.
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The Lair Of The White Worm
Picture this: You're a Boy Scout, drenched to your skin, trying to hitch a ride in the middle of the cold, rainy, Scottish nowhere. At lenghth at hot sports car drives up. The door opens, revealing the even hotter Amanda Donaho at the height of her LA Law lusciousness(and evidently in a hurry; she seems to have forgotten her skirt this morning). She offers you a ride--
OF COURSE YOU ACCEPT!!
So she takes him home. "Get out of those wet clothes!" She dresses him in a nice warm robe and plays Snakes And Ladders with him in front of a roaring fire(not a suprising game selection given that she's the priestess of a cult that worships the title creature). Then she draws him a nice hot bath and--Well, let's just say he never lives to regret it.
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Rick Steve: Germany
Watching a DVD of Rick Steves travels...I believe it was 2000s "Best of Travels in Europe with Rick Steves: Germany, Austria & Switzerland". Rick is at an outdoor cafe of some sort, and the camera pans across a group of Germans. I see instantly that they are playing Carcassonne...which is when I realized I really was a gaming nerd. And that Germans really do play these games.
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The last episdoe of the Buffy series they are in the basement and while Buffy is speaking on the shelf behind her are 4-5 boardgames, one being Chutes and Ladders!
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Again, last episode, Season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While awaiting the end of the world, Giles, Zander, Dawn and the funny blonde kid are playing D and D and it is quite hilarious.
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I watched Zatoichi this Xmas season. They play an Odds Or Even gambling game with regular Chinese dice. Not sure about the actual name of it.
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I went to see Iron Man last night (which was a lot of fun by the way) and there was not one but 2 game references. The first was and game of Backgammon being played with nuts (as in nuts and bolts) instead of counters. See below for the second...
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The other gaming reference from Iron Man. Don't touch the sides! Lame game but I love seeing gaming refs in movies.
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Posted Fri Oct 5, 2007 5:58 am
