It’s hard to anticipate how fast the filming feels. :)īut then in July we heard back and they wanted us on! Woo! But of course my human side believed that they had ruled us out for being too weird. I had no idea what to expect - part of me reasonably thought they were clueless about what to do and had to wait for clearance. Then COVID happened and we didn’t hear a thing for a couple of months. At the end of this interview we were told we were strong contenders and just needed to be cleared by producers. He was a cheery guy and just wanted more information about the background we provided in the first vid. My teammate thinks he was an assistant producer.

so don’t be nervous about getting on haha.)įrom there, we had one zoom interview with a cool bald dude. (Also, to anyone considering doing something like this, I just reread the first email I sent and it sounds so goofy I can’t believe we got on. It was pretty dodgy at this point because it was Craigslist and they were asking for SS#s. We got a reply and filled out a bunch of forms. I sent a short email with contact info, quick write up, social media info. In March, I applied to the show on Craigslist (of all places). to me it was very transparent that they wanted a fair game.

Of course there were bonuses and golden items, but they point out EVERYTHING to you in the walkthrough - every weird little item that ended up being $100, the giant teddy bear, etc. I thought she had a strong, warm personality. But she was really high energy, and chatted with us a little bit between takes when she wasn’t talking to producers. We didn’t get much time to interact with her - we only saw her on set during filming. We tried to be very thorough with our strategy - the route Ian would take if we had the most time vs the least. The most prep we did was in that hour of time.

Then the day of we had a practice trivia round, a walkthrough of the set (which included five minutes to walk on our own), then an hour or so of holding before we filmed. The day before filming we had a zoom call where they gave us the rules and ran through some example puzzles. We didn’t have a clue as to how the format would differ from the show. The pair with the most expensive grocery haul (including bonuses) has a chance to win one more timed challenge and take home an extra $5000. Amazon Prime has more episodes of the show available, but Netflix currently has a random collection of 15 games available for streaming right now.Wasn’t much to do for prep besides watch the show. They go through small challenges and mini-sweeps in the first half of an episode to rack up time for their final sweep at the end. The basic format of the throwback show is simple: contestants in teams of two compete for the biggest sweep. RELATED: Gene Gene the Dancing Machine: Actors Who Got Their Starts on Game Shows According to Parade, the new series will be hosted by comedian and actress Leslie Jones. Some may not know that the show was first on in the 1960s (predating game show staples like Jeopardy) and was revived thirty years later. Fans should get excited because yet another revival is in the works right now. 'Next time you're at a checkout counter and you hear the beep, think of all the fun you could have on Supermarket Sweep.' Supermarket Sweep was a classic 90s/early-2000s game show hosted by David Ruprecht.

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