7/14/2023 0 Comments Video game game show 90s![]() ![]() “GO FOR THE BIG WHEEL OF CHEESE! GRAB THOSE COOKIES AT THE END OF THE AISLE! GO!” – Me, watching Supermarket Sweep as a child. You can almost feel the “UGH, MOM!!!” vibes. Check out the kid at the beginning of the embedded clip above – he is not happy to be there. There’s plenty of clips from the show available on YouTube, and in most of them the children are just not having a good time – from the looks of it. Tthe show revolved around figuring out which mother-contestant and child “knew each other” the best – achieved through both a quiz round, and a bake-off round where the children attempt to complete a recipe from the Robin Hood branded Just Like Mom Cookbook. Also, it totally brings to my mind the Motherboy episode of Arrested Development. Just Like Mom ran for five years on CTV – which seems like a long time for a game show that ultimately amounts to Moms embarrassing their children on television for everyone to see. ![]() Finally, the winner gets to play in the Pitfall round, answering questions and trying to avoid the titular pitfall.įun fact: the production company went bankrupt and none of the winners ended up receiving their pay-outs for their performances! To make matters worse, Trebek didn’t even get paid for his hosting duties – which lead him to call the show one of the “great tragedies of his life”.įortunately for him, he went on to host a little show called Jeopardy! shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, Trebek isn’t hopping around on crocodiles on this show, but instead the game involves contestants predicting how the audience answered a series of questions – so, actually it’s not unlike that one Timeplay game before movies that you control with a smartphone. Only airing for one year – September 1981 to September 1982 – Pitfall was a game show hosted by the one, the only, Alex Trebek! Was this short-lived show based off the video game of the same name? No. Me, I’m more interested in that overhead clapping thing – was it because they couldn’t fit their arms into the cars without bumping them around when they clapped, or what?! Pitfall This might lead you to think the show has something to do with sports, or racing around in those cars, but no – it’s basically The Newlywed Game but with children. The contestants on Kidstreet didn’t just sit behind podiums, no, they sat in replica race cars. Kidstreet aired from 1986 to 1992, and was produced in Calgary. Now here’s your coffee, please leave this Starbucks, sir. Well, that or they’ll say “Oh yeah, I remember that show. If you walk up to most people and say “Remember Kidstreet!?”, odds are they’ll look you straight in the eye, put their arms over their heads and do the iconic Kidstreet overhead-clap. Here’s a list of some of the more memorable shows, from the weird-elbow clapping of Kidstreet to Bumper Stumpers, check out these Canadian game shows you completely forgot that you loved to watch! Kidstreet I seem to recall them popping up a lot mid-day on Saturdays after the best shows were but an early-morning memory. Well, I was pretty much an indoor kid, so maybe that was just me.Īnyway, these shows were staples of network programming episodes would pop up here and there, seemingly in an attempt to stretch out and fill time. As a kid, there very well may have been nothing better than hiding out in your basement during the hot summer months and mainlining a few hours of cheesy, silly Canadian game shows. ![]()
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