![]() So it makes it really fun for everyone to watch. Whether they can get to it or not in time is different. I think the thing we've talked about a lot, Alycia, and that I tell people when I tell them about the show, is if you don't know the answer to our question, and then we tell you the answer, and you go, "Oh, well, I've heard of Glad Cling Wrap," or "I've heard of Bounce." On other shows, if you don't know the answer, and then we say, "It's the Lighthouse at Alexandria," you're like, "What?" Every answer we have on our show, everyone's heard of it at some point. KAUBLE: That's one of the things that's really interesting when you go back and watch episodes that are on Netflix now, or whatever it is, those brands are still the brands we're using in our show. You have to have lived on Earth and have a big heart. You don't have to have exceptional trivia talent, or you don't have to have the best memory. The breadth of products that you have in a supermarket now are a little bit different than 20 years ago. When you see the cart totals over the course of the season, they've gone way up, because from 2000 to 2020, prices of things have gone up, and our supermarket has changed a lot. So to reflect what our supermarket looks like in 2020, there are some really crazy big ticket items. You have gigantic slabs of Tomahawk Wagyu ribs that are $300 a pop. But one of the things that we did to modernize our supermarket, and make it feel more 2020, is you've got things in ours like crockpots. I think our turkeys are in between $30 and $50. How often do people ask about what is the most lucrative thing to pull off the shelves? My mother is convinced that it's the turkeys. But I think it meant a little bit more this time around, when you saw someone make smart decisions, know their supermarket products, and thus win a big jackpot. Anyone winning $100,000 in any environment, it doesn't matter if there's a pandemic or not, would be excited. ![]() Our top prize on this show, it was $5,000 back in the '90s, but the top prize now is $100,000. ![]() I don't want to win money." So we give people that chance to fulfill a wish, to end the day with a heck of a lot more money than they started the day with. You can't really find somebody that would say, "No. Then the second wish is obviously everybody wants to win money. "Forget for 20 minutes about the fact that all of that is happening outside of our walls. I think no matter whether you win on Supermarket Sweep or you just participate, that wish is fulfilled, the reckless abandon, the notion of piling as much as you want into your cart. You can pull anything off any shelf, and stack it into your cart, and it will be yours. Or a grocery store where it doesn't matter how much money you have in your account to spend on groceries. There's an enormous familiarity with the environment of the grocery store.īut what we're not familiar with is the idea of a grocery store with no rules, a grocery store that your mom will let you, with reckless abandon, fly through and push that cart on wheels as fast as you can. One is that a supermarket is a place that we've all been to. ROSSITER: I think there are two wishes that are being fulfilled in the moment. I'm curious about the wish fulfillment aspect of the show - What is it about the idea of just being let loose inside a supermarket that fascinates you? ![]() Now, of course, it's significantly bigger. When the original Supermarket Sweep launched, it was in 1965 and the unemployment rate was around four percent. I will say we had long conversations about whether it would be okay to show the cameramen in masks, because like Wes said, we didn't want to make anyone sad, but obviously health is the most important thing, and so we had as few people as possible without a mask on. ![]() So the participants are looking like old-school television participants, and the crew behind the scenes reminds you that it was shot during a certain time in our history. So those camera people are running in the moment after their contestants. ALYCIA ROSSITER: When you watch it Sunday, you'll see that cameramen often make it into a shot in Supermarket Sweep, both back in the day and now, because it's live action, and no one knows whether that contestant's going to turn into the turkey aisle, or turn into the frying pan housewares aisle. ![]()
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