When it comes to giving audiences moments they won’t find anywhere else on TV, Celebrity Family Feud is known for featuring some shockingly terrible guesses and guessers — respectfully lookin’ at you, Boyz II Men during the Fast Money Round — as well as all manner of overtly sexual answers to overtly sexual questions. But with its Season 9 premiere, the show offered up something beyond the ordinary, as Steve Harvey welcomed the ensemble cast of Showtime’s timeline-twisting horror Yellowjackets. And despite not utilizing any cabin settings or edible body parts, the Feud gave fans something that the scripted series itself isn’t even able to pull off.
Namely, Yellowjackets fans were able to watch the differing generations of stars actually mixing it up and getting silly together on stage, which obviously isn’t something that can happen on the fly or with any regularity in Showtime’s series. Celebrity Family Feud split its teams up largely by age, with co-creator Ashley Lyle serving as the fifth team member for the “Teens,” which allowed for some glorious (if criminally short) moments between Misty portrayers Christina Ricci and Samantha Hanratty, Taissa actresses Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress, and Shauna stars Sophie Nélisse and Melanie Lynskey. Not to mention teen Lottie portrayer Courtney Eaton and adult Van actress Lauren Ambrose, as well as Warren Kole, who plays the man, the myth, the legend: Jeff.
