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Aired November 06, 2003 - 13:46   ET

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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Did you figure it out? Who did the voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo? Well, Shaggy's voice was done by none other than Mr. Countdown himself, radio star Casey Kasem. Now under the heading pop culture, the inventors of Trival Pursuit were playing what popular board game when they decided to create decided to create a game of their own? Well, the answer is Scrabble. And that's not a question in the new DVD version of the game. Maybe it should be.
Radio and TV icon Casey Kasem and television star Cindy Williams are with us today from Arizona to explain more about this new edition of the classic game, two definite icons in pop culture.

Hi, you guys.

CASEY KASEM, POP CULTURE ICON: Hi, Kyra.

CINDY WILLIAMS, ACTRESS: Hi, Kyra. How are you?

KASEM: By the way, Kyra?

PHILLIPS: Yes.

KASEM: The two guys who were Canadian, one was a photographer, the other one was a sports announcer, and they were playing Scrabble and they came up with the idea of, you know, Trival Pursuit.

WILLIAMS: Trivial pursuit.

KASEM: Yes, they made them for $75 and they sold them for $15. So they went broke after a year...

WILLIAMS: They were not very good businesspeople.

KASEM: No, they weren't. But then when they did get connected, they sold about 2 1/2 million and then 20 million, and now it's in -- all over the world.

WILLIAMS: And the toy companies turned down the game at first. And they developed it on their own, and then, bingo, it just took off.

PHILLIPS: Look at you guys. You're just full of trivia.

WILLIAMS: 1984, we got to know our stuff. We're included in the board game.

PHILLIPS: Absolutely. All right, I got to ask you both how you got pulled into this. Cindy, let's start with you. Obviously, hey, you're one of our pop culture icons.

WILLIAMS: Why, thank you.

PHILLIPS: How did you get approached about this? How did you get involved?

WILLIAMS: Well, I'm a huge Trivial Pursuit fan and player, and back in the '80s when it first came out, I was playing it all the time. You know, On Friday nights, you have the guys against the gals, get into huge warfare really with the game. And Parker Brothers asked me to come to surprise Arizona and make it the pop culture capital of the world for a day.

KASEM: For a day.

WILLIAMS: And to unveil the new DVD pop culture Trivial Pursuit game.

KASEM: Right.

PHILLIPS: And of course it makes sense that Casey would join in, because in 1954, heck, he developed the Trivia teases, right, Casey?

KASEM: That's nice that you knew that. Going way back -- as a matter of fact, in the mid-'60s, I was doing teasers and bios and doing a lot of trivia, and that's really what my show was all about, and has been through the years, biographies and trivia and long- distance dedications, you're right.

PHILLIPS: All right. Hey, you know, I've been doing my research, I've been studying my trivia on both of you.

WILLIAMS: You could play this game.

PHILLIPS: Well, I was hoping that you wouldn't mind. I've got it set up here on the set. I'm going to roll the dice and throw a couple questions at you guys. Are you ready?

KASEM: Uh-oh. Yikes! Zoinks!

PHILLIPS: Shaggy! You get a Scooby Snack, Casey, if you get this, all right?

KASEM: Maybe two Scooby Snacks?

PHILLIPS: I'll give you two Scooby Snacks, darling. Here we go. I'm taking the lava lamp, I'm going one, two, three, four -- whoops, five. OK, we landed on music. Imagine that, Casey.

KASEM: Oh, great.

PHILLIPS: Here we go. What Duran Duran spin-off band was formed by members -- of course -- Simon, Nick and Roger.

KASEM: Cindy, you must know the answer.

WILLIAMS: No, I don't, I need my kids here.

KASEM: My writers aren't here, so I can't help you on that one.

PHILLIPS: Where's the cue card?

WILLIAMS: This is a trick question.

PHILLIPS: the teleprompter says Arcadia.

WILLIAMS: Arcadia?

KASEM: Arcadia?

PHILLIPS: OK, we're going to go to the next one. Here we go.

WILLIAMS: yes, go past this one.

KASEM: I hope this one's Cindy's.

PHILLIPS: OK, this one going to Cindy. Here we go. We're going two. I'm going to go back. You know what, I want a different color, so I'm going to sort of cheat here. We're going to go up to green, OK?

All right, movies. Here we go -- Cindy, what two Steven Spielberg films are named only with initials?

WILLIAMS: E.T. and -- oh -- I...

PHILLIPS: You're close.

WILLIAMS: IA?

PHILLIPS: "AI."

WILLIAMS: It's the dyslexia kicked in.

PHILLIPS: That's OK. You know, all right, I won't test you too hard. I just wanted to throw that out two there. But I like Cindy how you called not necessarily pop icon culture. It's comfort memories, right?

WILLIAMS: That's right, because when you go for the answers, you have to reach back into times that were really a lot more safe, and happy and comfortable, and it's pleasing, it's a pleasing comfort game.

KASEM: And now with the DVD, it's great.

WILLIAMS: So much fun.

KASEM: You know, it just opens it up to a wide category of things that you can see that are moving.

WILLIAMS: There's a gossip category, called "buzz" in this one, in the DVD. Isn't that fun? PHILLIPS: Oh, that does sound like fun. Well you know what, I would love to sit around and gossip with you two. Thank you so much for coming on and just taking us all back. This is fun.

WILLIAMS: Thank you, Kyra.

KASEM: Thanks, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, you guys. Hey, Casey, give us a little Shaggy at the break here.

KASEM: Scoob, ol' buddy, ol' friend, ol' pal, we did it, we interviewed with Kyra! We're No. 1. Zoinks!

PHILLIPS: I love you both.

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Aired November 6, 2003 - 13:46   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Did you figure it out? Who did the voice of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo? Well, Shaggy's voice was done by none other than Mr. Countdown himself, radio star Casey Kasem. Now under the heading pop culture, the inventors of Trival Pursuit were playing what popular board game when they decided to create decided to create a game of their own? Well, the answer is Scrabble. And that's not a question in the new DVD version of the game. Maybe it should be.
Radio and TV icon Casey Kasem and television star Cindy Williams are with us today from Arizona to explain more about this new edition of the classic game, two definite icons in pop culture.

Hi, you guys.

CASEY KASEM, POP CULTURE ICON: Hi, Kyra.

CINDY WILLIAMS, ACTRESS: Hi, Kyra. How are you?

KASEM: By the way, Kyra?

PHILLIPS: Yes.

KASEM: The two guys who were Canadian, one was a photographer, the other one was a sports announcer, and they were playing Scrabble and they came up with the idea of, you know, Trival Pursuit.

WILLIAMS: Trivial pursuit.

KASEM: Yes, they made them for $75 and they sold them for $15. So they went broke after a year...

WILLIAMS: They were not very good businesspeople.

KASEM: No, they weren't. But then when they did get connected, they sold about 2 1/2 million and then 20 million, and now it's in -- all over the world.

WILLIAMS: And the toy companies turned down the game at first. And they developed it on their own, and then, bingo, it just took off.

PHILLIPS: Look at you guys. You're just full of trivia.

WILLIAMS: 1984, we got to know our stuff. We're included in the board game.

PHILLIPS: Absolutely. All right, I got to ask you both how you got pulled into this. Cindy, let's start with you. Obviously, hey, you're one of our pop culture icons.

WILLIAMS: Why, thank you.

PHILLIPS: How did you get approached about this? How did you get involved?

WILLIAMS: Well, I'm a huge Trivial Pursuit fan and player, and back in the '80s when it first came out, I was playing it all the time. You know, On Friday nights, you have the guys against the gals, get into huge warfare really with the game. And Parker Brothers asked me to come to surprise Arizona and make it the pop culture capital of the world for a day.

KASEM: For a day.

WILLIAMS: And to unveil the new DVD pop culture Trivial Pursuit game.

KASEM: Right.

PHILLIPS: And of course it makes sense that Casey would join in, because in 1954, heck, he developed the Trivia teases, right, Casey?

KASEM: That's nice that you knew that. Going way back -- as a matter of fact, in the mid-'60s, I was doing teasers and bios and doing a lot of trivia, and that's really what my show was all about, and has been through the years, biographies and trivia and long- distance dedications, you're right.

PHILLIPS: All right. Hey, you know, I've been doing my research, I've been studying my trivia on both of you.

WILLIAMS: You could play this game.

PHILLIPS: Well, I was hoping that you wouldn't mind. I've got it set up here on the set. I'm going to roll the dice and throw a couple questions at you guys. Are you ready?

KASEM: Uh-oh. Yikes! Zoinks!

PHILLIPS: Shaggy! You get a Scooby Snack, Casey, if you get this, all right?

KASEM: Maybe two Scooby Snacks?

PHILLIPS: I'll give you two Scooby Snacks, darling. Here we go. I'm taking the lava lamp, I'm going one, two, three, four -- whoops, five. OK, we landed on music. Imagine that, Casey.

KASEM: Oh, great.

PHILLIPS: Here we go. What Duran Duran spin-off band was formed by members -- of course -- Simon, Nick and Roger.

KASEM: Cindy, you must know the answer.

WILLIAMS: No, I don't, I need my kids here.

KASEM: My writers aren't here, so I can't help you on that one.

PHILLIPS: Where's the cue card?

WILLIAMS: This is a trick question.

PHILLIPS: the teleprompter says Arcadia.

WILLIAMS: Arcadia?

KASEM: Arcadia?

PHILLIPS: OK, we're going to go to the next one. Here we go.

WILLIAMS: yes, go past this one.

KASEM: I hope this one's Cindy's.

PHILLIPS: OK, this one going to Cindy. Here we go. We're going two. I'm going to go back. You know what, I want a different color, so I'm going to sort of cheat here. We're going to go up to green, OK?

All right, movies. Here we go -- Cindy, what two Steven Spielberg films are named only with initials?

WILLIAMS: E.T. and -- oh -- I...

PHILLIPS: You're close.

WILLIAMS: IA?

PHILLIPS: "AI."

WILLIAMS: It's the dyslexia kicked in.

PHILLIPS: That's OK. You know, all right, I won't test you too hard. I just wanted to throw that out two there. But I like Cindy how you called not necessarily pop icon culture. It's comfort memories, right?

WILLIAMS: That's right, because when you go for the answers, you have to reach back into times that were really a lot more safe, and happy and comfortable, and it's pleasing, it's a pleasing comfort game.

KASEM: And now with the DVD, it's great.

WILLIAMS: So much fun.

KASEM: You know, it just opens it up to a wide category of things that you can see that are moving.

WILLIAMS: There's a gossip category, called "buzz" in this one, in the DVD. Isn't that fun? PHILLIPS: Oh, that does sound like fun. Well you know what, I would love to sit around and gossip with you two. Thank you so much for coming on and just taking us all back. This is fun.

WILLIAMS: Thank you, Kyra.

KASEM: Thanks, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, you guys. Hey, Casey, give us a little Shaggy at the break here.

KASEM: Scoob, ol' buddy, ol' friend, ol' pal, we did it, we interviewed with Kyra! We're No. 1. Zoinks!

PHILLIPS: I love you both.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com