supermarket sweep

[sup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B345Oz63CSs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H7iBukuU8I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pxE-TVVMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Iqyk_peug

 

[Guest Billov]

 

this is soooo fucking ndc

 

Used to watch Dale's Super Market Sweep hungover in the mornings and it just made everything better :)

[encey]

watched the fuck out of this show as a kid

[elusive4]

watched the fuck out of this show as a kid

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

all kids would like to go buck wild in the grocery store.

[Hautlle]

Ya, this was a fun show to watch!

[pylonbitch]

dale winton is an extremely orange man.

[producer snafu]

watched the fuck out of this show as a Teenager

[Cryptowen]

I was watching it thinking it felt very 90s, but then I remembered the 2001 bit...2000/early 2001 had like a whole different vibe to it than the rest of the 2000s.

[chaosmachine]

used to watch the canadian version when i could... (1992-1995 according to wikipedia).

 

also, this is kind of interesting:

 

My appearance on the game show. Run, lardass, run!

 

Not to spoil the "secrets" of the sweep, but just some behind-the-scenes stuff for those that are interested:

 

As contestants, prior to the taping of your episode, they let you walk through the supermarket for 10 minutes, so you can get an idea of what things cost. That's one of the reasons you never saw people really looking closely at the prices of things while they were shopping. You had to have a game plan (and I did!)

 

The studio audience isn't nearly as big as they want you to believe. There are mirrors on both sides of the stage. With the exception of the contestants, the audience that is there are paid extras, which is why most of them are only slightly enthusiastic. They tape the inros of several episodes at once, so that once the game play begins, there is no audience. The rest of the game is done in an otherwise silent studio! So all of that extra clapping is added later. The store really was as big as a real grocery store (so to see it put together on a soundstage was pretty amazing). The food was expired, though. And some of them (like the meat) were, as you would expect, props.

 

The winners go home with a check in the amount of their sweep, but the 2nd and 3rd place contestants only got a sweatshirt! So it really was all or nothing, in terms of winning.

 

As for my own performance, as you could tell, at 200 pounds, I did not have the best cardio endurance of my life. In fact, prior to the sweep, I couldn't tell you the last time I'd run, let alone having to hustle for over 3 minutes! When the sweep was over, we were ushered backstage where they gave me a pitcher of water (I was clearly about to pass out from dehydration) and before you knew it we were back on the stage for the totals. Frankly, by the time the final dash came up I was still so out of it that I wasn't totally with it, otherwise I'd like to think I would have been quicker about that second clue.

 

All in all, it was a fun time, and I miss watching the show!

 

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[Bob Dylan]

LOL this is actually a funny thing me and my GF watch when it's on. It's every day on "GameTV", a Canadian channel. We zap to watch and see and laugh for 30 minutes.

 

 

Best thing : the diapers they wear

Second best thing : His ties! Always 90's ugly, like having a fucking Tweety Bird tie

[spratters]

Always gotta search for the Banana.

 

"And whats on the Banana?"

"One hundred and fisty pounds Dale!"

**Audience claps in merriment**

[Salvatorin]

I was watching it thinking it felt very 90s, but then I remembered the 2001 bit...2000/early 2001 had like a whole different vibe to it than the rest of the 2000s.

 

yeah,

'big beat' music was playing behind everything,

grafix looked like this:

[Guest umop_apisdn]

Damn, even though I questioned how much of my life was wasted watching this show as a teen, I still sat through a goddamn clip. sigh

[Bob Dylan]

holy shit I just found out that I never saw the US version of Supermarket sweep, just the Canadian one. WHICH. IS. A. THOUSAND. TIMES. FUNNIER!

 

 

YARLY!

 

 

Note: The fucking 10-second music loop is there for THIRTY STRAIGHT FUCKING MINUTES!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNFrYJ-brA4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gggWmpiEEkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UstoWAtG2gA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_tm-C7yfU **fucking lol at the end