Leslie Jones Reinvigorates 'Supermarket Sweep'

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

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A special bonus feed drop from the NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Our producer and game show geek Travis Larchuk joined NPR's daily culture show, Pop Culture Happy Hour host Stephen Thompson to talk about the 2020 reboot of Supermarket Sweep, starring Saturday Night Live alum Leslie Jones. Supermarket Sweep features contestants running through a fake supermarket, throwing hams and giant wheels of cheese into their shopping carts.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ophira Eisberg.
0:01.7	And Jonathan Colton here.
0:02.7	We want to share something a little different for you today from our friends over on another
0:06.0	NPR show, Pop Culture Happy Hour.
0:08.4	The show is hosted by Arts Journalist Linda Holmes, Glenn Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and
0:12.5	Aiyusha Harris plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture experts.
0:17.1	And recently in that rotating cast of pop culture experts was asked me another producer, Travis
0:21.4	Larchuk.
0:22.4	Maybe you've heard of us referencing during the show as producer Travis.
0:25.9	Turns out he's a real person with a real last name and not a character we made up.
0:29.9	And when Travis isn't working on this game show, he's watching hours and hours of other
0:34.5	game shows.
0:35.5	So in this episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour, you'll hear him and Stephen Thompson talk
0:39.2	about the new reboot of Supermarket Sweep hosted by Leslie Jones.
0:43.4	So enjoy and we'll have a new episode of Ask Me Another this Friday.
0:50.6	The game show Supermarket Sweep has run in the 60s, the 90s, and the Outs.
0:55.8	This fall it's been revived for a fourth iteration, this time in primetime on ABC.
1:01.6	And while the previous two versions of the show were hosted by the affable David Ruprecht,
1:06.8	the new Supermarket Sweep gives us the delightfully amped up Leslie Jones.
1:11.6	She is very excited to help a new generation of shoppers as they run around a fake grocery
1:16.5	store and attempt to fill their shopping carts with high priced hams, fancy olives, and
1:21.7	anything else that adds up to big money.
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