Bring Back "Supermarket Sweep"!!!!

Yes. In yesterday's post, I mentioned Supermarket Sweep. It appears that Australia wasnt the only one to have been subjected to a show of this kind. As much as I joked about it yesterday as being "crap", the truth is, can you really have had a better concept for a game show? Isnt it art imitating life? Indeed. I cant think of a better way to earn money rather than spend it. Put me in a Coles shopping centre, with the aim being to race around, stuff your trolley as quickly as possible, and also find a blow up banana in the process.

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Supermarket_Sweep

In doing some research as to how many people care about Supermarket Sweep as much as Oreo and I, I stumbled across someone's own obituary about the great show:

Supermarket Sweep (1992-1994) 2nd best gameshow in Australian history. Ian ‘god’ Turpie was back (sadly without sparring partner John Deeks who was locked up in the Channel 7 basement somewhere) in this show where the entire premise was to pelt around a studio supermarket pouring goods of as much value as you possibly could into your trolley. There was a whole “pre-pelt” segment where you had to answer questions and shit to increase your time in the trolley frenzy portion of the program but that’s not where the charm lay. All the entertainment came from these ordinary people off the street hammering it around a supermarket, pouring bags of flour into their trolley, crashing into things and breaking jars of mustard. It was chaotic, it was anarchic AND it was hosted by Turps. Do YOU own a major supermarket chain? Will you sponsor me to bring it back? Please say you will.
It was originally set in a Coles supermarket but obviously when they yanked their sponsorship and nobody else would take over it became a generic store instead.

http://drivelwarehouse.com/tsp2/?p=1653

I couldnt have put it better myself. You simply cant get any better than people running around with a trolley, creating anarchy around a supermarket. It is almost like my mother racing around Woolworths on a Saturday afternoon, but with randomness (my mum does the shopping at the same speed, but in an orderly fashion which has only come from going to the same Woolworths for twenty-odd years).

There was a strategy to being successful at Supermarket Sweep, notwithstanding having it appear to be complete madness.

1. Its all about speed.

2. You do research before hand.

3. You pile in various types of items, however they MUST be of high value - do the research, know what expensive items there are in each area - eg. cans, baby items (Nappies were always the one that they all headed for), frozen goods etc.

4. Big bananas = good rewards.

Ahhh... the memories, the memories. I loved Supermarket Sweep. Sure, it was crappy television, but you just cant forget the 90's for its tacky but fun gameshows. Bring back Supermarket Sweep!