![]() They tried “Kabook?” “Kaboot?” Really?Īnd that’s a true shame because there is a redeeming factor–the host. On a recent episode, despite being told it’s a cleaning product, none of the three teams could guess k-a-b-o-o-? might be Kaboom. Some of the puzzles are like Wheel of Fortune where contestants stare blindly as letters are filled until they can shout out an answer. Apparently some unwritten rule of this game show is that despite having an entire store of items to select, you must always spend half your time throwing turkeys and a large wheel of cheese in a cart.īut the show feels old and dated. Yes turkeys weigh a lot, but shoveling several big turkeys into a cart has less of a value than a lot of the meat they pass up. While it is entertaining on some level to watch people fill their carts with diapers and turkeys, half the time I wonder if these contestants have ever been in a grocery store. Host Leslie Jones playfully gives these clues by shouting into the grocery story intercom and about half the time the contestants are successful and the other half they fail to solve a particular riddle or find the correct aisle and fail to reach their desired prize. The final sweep or “big sweep” involves only the winning team racing to answer clues and run to the appropriate product in an attempt to win up to $100,000. The team that gathers the highest grocery checkout total wins a trip to the final challenge. The more time you have to shop-presumably-the more time you have to fill your cart with expensive items. In the sweep round itself, all three teams race around throwing items in their carts (including bonus items worth extra points). The opening riddle involves the teams scrambling around the supermarket set to find the product (to get bonus points) before the show settles into a few rounds of puzzles to see who gets the most “time” in the sweep round. Three teams of two solve riddles and clues about name-brand products you’d find in a grocery store-and answer questions to accumulate “time” to shop. ![]() ![]() The basic premise hasn’t changed-and that’s the problem. It rides the coat-tails of game show revivals of the past few years but fails spectacularly. Then there are other game shows that don’t age well, like Supermarket Sweep. The show at least tried to update the original. There are some game shows that come back with new energy-like ABC’s Press Your Luck, which created a new “final” round where the show’s winner plays several rounds on her/his own to win specially catered prizes. Some people have been avoiding grocery stores because of Covid and relying on grocery delivery, but it seems there’s another type of grocery store we should avoid-the one on TV in the form of Supermarket Sweep (ABC, Sundays, 8pm EST).
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