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Supermarket Sweep • Leslie Jones • Saturday Night Live • American Broadcasting Company

ABC's Supermarket Sweep Revival: Grade the Premiere ABC this Sunday night revived  Supermarket Sweep , hosted by  SNL  vet Leslie Jones. Did the latest version of the popular game show ring your register? In keeping with at least the most recent versions of the show (I don’t remember  that  far back, kids),  Supermarket Swayyyyyyyp!  takes three teams of two contestants, plies them with grocery-themed quizzes/challenges through which they can add seconds to their “clock,” and then sets them loose on a Big Sweep through a supermarket. (Based on the total seconds each team accumulated, their Big Sweep start times are staggered — meaning, among other things, the first pair out of the gate gets first crack at the priciest items.  If  they know what they are doing.) To refresh my memory of #BeforeTimes, after watching one episode of ABC’s revival I cued up a  1994 episode hosted by David Ruprecht  in one of his famously loud sweaters. An...

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