128 - Supermarket Sweep
Added 2024-03-06 08:40:01 +0000 UTCThe lads grab their carts and make straight for the turkeys as they cover four iterations of one of America’s favorite game shows: Supermarket Sweep. Topics include the history of supermarkets, the insidiousness of Whammies, and the difficulties of weaponizing 90s nostalgia in the turbulent world of the 2020s.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Supermarket Sweep
- January 17th, 1967
- October 4th, 1991
- Nancy & Kathy vs. Ron & Dru vs. Keah & Micki (1993)
- Marina & Tim vs Stephanie & Cyndee vs Vanessa & Dustin (2001)
- The New Supermarket Sweep 2020 (Season 2 Episode 7): Don't Be Twerking On My Show!
- Supermarket Sweep - SNL
- “An Oral History Of 'Supermarket Sweep' And Its Surprising Shelf Life” by Matthew Jacobs. Huffpost. July 31, 2020.
- “The Surprising Way a Supermarket Changed the World” by Ashley Ross. Time. September 9th, 2016.
- The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)
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Comments
Hearing Johnny Gilbert say my name was one of the highlights of my life so far. Also I got some other Jeopardy alums into this podcast
Stevie McFly
2025-05-26 19:33:44 +0000 UTCForgive me father for I have synod. Is this anything
Ms. Charlie
2024-09-17 03:37:35 +0000 UTCI work in retail, and today out of nowhere I was putting away a Supermarket Sweep board game. https://i.imgur.com/Hpz3642.jpeg
Camoose
2024-09-04 16:14:44 +0000 UTCThrox: Three. Clorox.
Ms. Charlie
2024-05-24 16:09:42 +0000 UTCThat ad break was *crushing*. Now I'm crying and missing my wife at work :( Very well done.
LucindaCordelia
2024-03-19 18:48:10 +0000 UTCIt was also pretty racist in its portrayal of non-American characters, for the record.
Langolier
2024-03-12 01:13:37 +0000 UTCIn regards to what you said about society seeming to feel something coming on the horizon. A few years back there was a show called 'The Last Ship', it was all about American exceptionalism and military propaganda, but it was about a global pandemic that killed millions and caused global society to screech to a halt.....it's last episode aired November 2018
Langolier
2024-03-12 01:11:38 +0000 UTChe sucks. rest in piss
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-03-11 23:29:08 +0000 UTCRIP Glorb 😢
Sergeant Hare Apollo
2024-03-11 20:12:59 +0000 UTCTruly, you are synods in the hands of an angry god.
Jordan Y Clementi
2024-03-11 07:06:29 +0000 UTCAround 40:30 I swear I met that exact guy in a bank once
Jonathan V. Cann
2024-03-10 18:02:46 +0000 UTCDog the bounty hunter
V Wells
2024-03-09 22:09:26 +0000 UTCThere was a place called Great Skates in Bangor,me that was basically one of three cool places to do a party in most of Northern Maine. They had a great arcade, lazertag and skating events all the time. Sadly they went out of business al most 10 years ago. Some of my best birthday parties were there.
Camoose
2024-03-08 07:42:31 +0000 UTCThe ad break was genuinely one of the most moving things I've heard on a podcast.
Mason Shrader
2024-03-08 02:32:54 +0000 UTCEarly contender for my favorite commercial break of the year
mclonergan
2024-03-07 22:18:20 +0000 UTCThe wife be gone ad...look, I just went through a breakup. It was felt. Also, theres a skate rink in Holt, MI call Edru Skate rink. it has statues of animals on the roof.
Uncle Jam Wants You
2024-03-07 02:20:06 +0000 UTCanything short of 24 hours is failure
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2024-03-07 02:09:59 +0000 UTCHello from the British quadrant of Patreons who are now thinking about inflatable bananas and Dale Winston’s loud suit jackets.
Amy Godliman
2024-03-07 01:50:35 +0000 UTCAJ there was literally a roller rink in your home town that opened 25 years before Iceoplex did. Ups N Downs was it's name, and yes Brian it very much fit that roller rink narrative: the building was put up before the street, and the buildings adjacent to it were built closer to the sidewalk. Were it not for the equally old and decrepit sign for Ups N Downs, it just looked like an extension of one of the other buildings. Parking lot was little more than an alleyway. Us normal protestant kids spent many a birthday party in both.
Nathan Woods
2024-03-06 23:34:15 +0000 UTCI loved playing with my Micro Machines and watching Supermarket Sweep (followed by Designing Women) when I was a kid. This definitely did not presage anything about my gender identity. At all.
Andrew T. Wilson
2024-03-06 23:21:49 +0000 UTCThere used to be a marine base in LA. EL Toro
Matt Colston
2024-03-06 20:04:54 +0000 UTCsomeone please tell Josh that the Meijer in west Ann Arbor stays open until midnight, he needs to know
TchankaSidecar
2024-03-06 18:35:11 +0000 UTCImagining a version of Ubik but it's Wifebegone
Grouchiest Marxiest
2024-03-06 17:54:25 +0000 UTCAs a former Missouri Synod Baptist, this episode is creating strange feelings.
Grouchiest Marxiest
2024-03-06 17:33:27 +0000 UTCwent to a roller rink in Rouzerville, PA in the late aughts - your description is fucking dead on :0
harper
2024-03-06 16:57:05 +0000 UTCThe Chlorox ad made my eyes bug out as if I were Bill Malone flashing back to watching his buddies' planes burst into flame over the Solomon Islands.
BarFly
2024-03-06 16:54:53 +0000 UTCJesus Christ even the aliens are Blue-pilled now! What, did John Scalzi write this bit?
Grouchiest Marxiest
2024-03-06 16:54:50 +0000 UTCPiggly Wiggly was first? The Hoggly Woggly guys won't like this!
Dergon
2024-03-06 15:14:32 +0000 UTCAs someone who watched the 90s version as a kid, hell yes! Thanks for making my Wednesdays always suck a little less.
Dergon
2024-03-06 12:55:54 +0000 UTCthe whammies are at home in the mirror; it is their address
Max Johansson
2024-03-06 11:26:41 +0000 UTCYou Can't Do That On Television wasn't a game show, it was a Canadian sketch show for young people (and I loved it!).
MuppetImp
2024-03-06 10:56:42 +0000 UTCI think the Legs tier on Patreon needs to get an additional "all of AJ's bits that Brian edited out of the episodes" episode every month. I would definitely up my subscription for this.
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2024-03-06 10:29:12 +0000 UTC
