Supermarket Sweep

I thought the host was the guy who married Janet in the Three's Company finale?

When I was a kid I would judge the hell out of the idiot shoppers wasting space with cheap shit. Head to the meat department bitch!

This damn show is playing every time I turn on the TV to start up Netflix since we don't much watch live TV and its been on Buzzr forever. It's a bizarre show. The supermarket set is pretty elaborate as it is obviously not a real store and I used to wonder if the meats and cheese logs and whatnot were actually real. Did people eat those turkeys after they'd been tossed around and sitting under hot lights during filming. Seeing it now reminds me how hideous early 90s hair and fashion was. Somehow it's worse that the 80s. And God help me but I'd have done Dave Rupprecht back in the day. I had a thing for nerd dads and always wondered he had going on under those tacky sweaters and unflattering pleated 1992 trousers.

Weren't Laverne and Shirley on it once?

Sweetie, I remember the ORIGINAL (1960s) "Supermarket Sweep."

I loved Supermarket Sweep. I have watched the older episodes on some network. These old game shows are now described as ‘Vintage‘ Game Shows. Damn, do I feel old. Vintage really?

I think they were limited in the types of products they could grab. I know there were limits of 5 for each item and they always mentioned that during the commentary, but I think they were also told, "only 5 large meat items, only 5 baby products, etc.)

[quote]Weren't Laverne and Shirley on it once?

Yes. They got so weighed down with trying to get food that by the end they could only get two items across the finish line.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Olive oil, detergent, frozen turkeys - those were the trifecta to get your total up.

The Farmer John hams, "expensive eye care products".....and don't forget the cans of abalone!

I cannot stand the new version. Leslie Jones is talent-free and extremely annoying.

It's been rebooted? On which channel? I gave up cable, so I miss these things.

I'd head for skincare. I hadn't heard about the 5x limit, but had imagined myself sweeping armfuls of product off the shelves and into my cart. Still, skincare, razor blades, Crest whitestrips, steaks, hams, giant containers of cooking oil or detergent . . . not that I'm goling to try out for this.

[quote]I cannot stand the new version.

It's the exact same show. The only difference is, it's an hour and Leslie is hosting. I

[quote] "I thought the host was the guy who married Janet in the Three's Company finale?"

Yes. It's Dave Ruprecht, R1.