Television series

Supermarket Sweep

The 2020 reboot hands the classic dash-through-the-aisles format to Leslie Jones, whose commentary is louder and funnier than any trivia question the show asks. Three couples race supermarket carts through a maze of oversized product displays, chasing bonus seconds and a jackpot round that turns grocery shopping into an Olympic sport. It's pure comfort trash: loud, silly, and weirdly hypnotic to watch unfold.

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Guy's Grocery Games2013

Same battleground, different stakes: chefs sprint through a real supermarket set under absurd shopping restrictions while Guy Fieri hypes every aisle like it's a title fight.

But It's Food Network competition cooking, so the drama is measured in flavor profiles, not footraces.

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Ellen's Game of Games2017

Big dumb obstacle-course energy hosted by a comedian who clearly loves humiliating nice people for cash, with the same primary-color chaos and quick-round pacing.

But Leaned heavily on Ellen's now-tarnished brand, which colors the watch for some viewers.

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The Price is Right1972

The granddaddy of shopping-knowledge game shows, still running, still built on the same thrill of ordinary people guessing grocery prices for real money.

But Slower and more genteel; no sprinting, no carts crashing into cereal displays.

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Quiz Show1994

It's the serious mirror image: a genuine investigation into how game shows are actually produced, staged, and sold to an audience that wants to believe the drama is real.

Robert Redford's drama about the 1950s game-show scandals reveals how much of televised competition is engineered spectacle rather than honest contest, told with real moral weight.

But A slow, talky courtroom-adjacent drama, about as far from cart-racing chaos as it gets.

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Holey Moley2019

ABC's other reboot-adjacent physical game show, all giant obstacle courses and gleeful destruction, with commentary as unhinged as anything Leslie Jones throws out.

But It's mini-golf, not shopping, so the product-knowledge trivia angle disappears entirely.

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Legends of the Hidden Temple2021no page yet

A nostalgic kids'-show revival with the same sprint-and-grab structure, temple guards standing in for grocery clerks and jungle sets standing in for cereal aisles.

But Aimed squarely at families and kids; the humor is gentler and the stakes lower.

Minute to Win It2010no page yet

Contestants attempt ridiculous household-object challenges against a ticking clock, the same tension of watching someone's hands shake under pressure for cash.

But No shopping or product knowledge involved, just pure dexterity stunts.

Supermarket Woman1996no page yet

Same battlefield, wildly different genre: a feature film that treats the supermarket itself as the arena for comedy, competition, and community, decades before a game show turned it into a racetrack.

Juzo Itami's Japanese comedy follows a housewife who takes over a failing supermarket and wages guerrilla war on its rival across the street, aisle by aisle.

But Subtitled and culturally specific; the satire targets 1990s Japanese retail practices you'll need context for.

Extreme Couponing2011no page yet

Strips away the game-show artifice entirely: this is the actual human impulse behind Supermarket Sweep, unscripted and a little unsettling, playing out for real in real stores.

A reality series following real people who turn grocery shopping into an obsessive, competitive sport, walking out with carts of near-free goods through sheer strategic mania.

But The compulsive hoarding on display can feel uncomfortable rather than fun once the novelty wears off.

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The Price is Right, Ellen's Game of Games, Guy's Grocery Games