That Time A Dollar Store Made A Game Show

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  • In which we look at Family Dollar’s 2016 show Save to Win, an attempt to make a game show out of the dollar store experience.
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  • @daveraschke
    @daveraschke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1908

    WHAT THE FUCK IS BISEXUAL LIGHTING

    • @nebufabu
      @nebufabu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

      oops, it's a pin, so it's meant to be some meta joke, right? Below is the testament of me not getting it.
      Blue/red or blue/purple or any other multi-coloured lighting with contrasting and blending colours really. Named after blue, pink, and purple of bi pride flag and/or the fact the trend to use it in TH-cam video essays was started by some LGBT creators and it still has some of that association.

    • @dancecommando
      @dancecommando 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I thought that's what she said!

    • @ilonacoote3161
      @ilonacoote3161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I think it's all those bright pink/purple/blue Ombre, like a bi pride flag

    • @spell105
      @spell105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The things gamers have in their PC, RGB!

    • @mileidyclass
      @mileidyclass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Pink, purple and blue lighting.

  • @TheSecondVersion
    @TheSecondVersion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    Expectation: "The more you save, the more you win"
    Reality: "Stick your hand into the bowl of mystery meat"

    • @paulywoodtheprince
      @paulywoodtheprince 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Alternate Reality: Smell the Contents of the Cans till you pass out

  • @jayley3387
    @jayley3387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    Pat Neely saying “and now, I’m the Game Show King” with [citation needed] beneath him for 0.5 seconds got me good

  • @Goldenclap
    @Goldenclap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +919

    15:26 Winning a $500 "shopping spree" at Family Dollar is like winning an all expense paid vacation to a motel down the block, or an all you can eat buffet off of the Burger King dollar menu.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣😂

    • @ramdom_assortment
      @ramdom_assortment 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Id just buy a shit ton of duct tape lol

    • @nickyblue4866
      @nickyblue4866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ramdom_assortment duck tape*

    • @Bryan21381
      @Bryan21381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I would say.... just give me the cash.

    • @kenirainseeker539
      @kenirainseeker539 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But you could buy all the month old candy bags and bootleg action figures you want

  • @lucidhominid2190
    @lucidhominid2190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    I live near a Dollar Tree and frequently walk by their smoke break area and it seems like their employees are in a constant state of emotional meltdown.

    • @LadyEmilyPresents
      @LadyEmilyPresents  3 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Yeah that tracks

    • @WhaleManMan
      @WhaleManMan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Y'all really saw a video essay on Dollar Tree and suddenly viscerally hate Dollar Tree.

    • @beefyboy1574
      @beefyboy1574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@WhaleManMan Man(Man), I never thought the bisexual lighting would attract someone this much.
      Edit: Swapped a word for clarity's sake.

    • @DuckReconMajor
      @DuckReconMajor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@WhaleManMan well ive never liked dollar tree so take that

    • @Chromeberd
      @Chromeberd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I applied to one of these places and have never been more glad to instead be employed as a graveyard shift cleaner.

  • @RobertMungo
    @RobertMungo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +673

    Family Dollar was founded in my hometown and I’ve been in a lot of their stores because of that. So, the thing I find weirdest is the huge conveyor belt set piece. Family Dollar stores feature a counter more similar to a gas station convenience store than a traditional checkout... so there are no conveyor belts in stores.

    • @katatat2030
      @katatat2030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah it's probably for dramatic effect

    • @bethchapman5205
      @bethchapman5205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The only store in this dollar store grouping that uses a conveyor is dollar tree, the actual $1 store (I have all three very close together in my small town)

    • @erikapatton1242
      @erikapatton1242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is hilarious...Lol. The Family Dollar I shop at actually has a conveyor belt on one lane....

    • @RobertMungo
      @RobertMungo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@erikapatton1242 no we know where the one from the show went!

    • @qazmko22
      @qazmko22 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The ones in my town has conveyer belts

  • @schmiddi5768
    @schmiddi5768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    As someone who works in game dev, I think your conspiracy theory is 100% spot on. The weird dissonance between the shopping/saving focus and the total lack of those things in the game itself has the stink of "we had to completely retool the mechanics at the last minute based on decisions from above and now none of our aesthetic trappings make sense anymore buuut we don't have the resources or authority to fix that" all over it.

    • @jonathanlgill
      @jonathanlgill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      And why the actual mechanics feel so incredibly lazy and uninspired.

  • @SarahZ
    @SarahZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2455

    How could you expose my business practices like this

    • @truecenter9159
      @truecenter9159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      I can't believe you think coolsville sucks. Canceled.

    • @tophtopherson8920
      @tophtopherson8920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Working for her is pay enough in and of itself !
      You should be grateful 🤨

    • @vincentroberts8327
      @vincentroberts8327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Hey look, the person who got me into this channel commenting on this channel. Wouldyalookitthat

    • @Jalushun
      @Jalushun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Sarah Z < Lady Emily.
      Most TH-camrs > Sarah Z

    • @dnd402
      @dnd402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      ​@@Jalushun i think your "" are the wrong way around lamo

  • @cadenmeyer414
    @cadenmeyer414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1349

    “You can’t excite people by giving them just $1400, that’s not enough” lmaooo I see what you did there

    • @lordoftherats8215
      @lordoftherats8215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Plz explain? Even if joke will be killed lol

    • @lordoftherats8215
      @lordoftherats8215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@UrsulaMajor OH oki lol thank you

    • @PersephoneDarling28
      @PersephoneDarling28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Yeah you need to include a shit ton of funding for stuff like childcare. Oh wait they did include that stuff

    • @lotusthemermaid
      @lotusthemermaid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SAME 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @cashnelson2306
      @cashnelson2306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@PersephoneDarling28 biden doesnt need simps i promise

  • @racheltalley4364
    @racheltalley4364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +498

    "Yeah CW wasn't putting this up against Supernatural, or even a good show."
    This slight against Unlikely Animal Friends will not be forgotten.

    • @maymorales8938
      @maymorales8938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Probably the only good show on the CW at the time tbf

    • @ChristieBrewster
      @ChristieBrewster 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think the slight was against Supernatural.

    • @nate567987
      @nate567987 หลายเดือนก่อน

      this was a e/i show

    • @ABCEasyas--
      @ABCEasyas-- 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      I guess it was supposed to paired up with the “educational” and human interest stuff that aired weekend mornings.

    • @PIXPromosMore
      @PIXPromosMore 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "Up against" would imply that it was the show's competitor, right? They both aired on the same network.

  • @041744
    @041744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +561

    There is a 0% chance this show had a live studio audience. Any cheap game show that doesn't show the audience is safe to assume its all sound effects.

    • @DragonNexus
      @DragonNexus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      And often canned laughter or applause was recorded in the 50s and 60s. So you're listening to the reactions of dead people.

    • @ChristieBrewster
      @ChristieBrewster 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DragonNexus Dead people with really shitty taste.

  • @thefamouscommenter
    @thefamouscommenter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    I was not expecting to feel THIS invested in a conspiracy about family dollar game show

  • @Lovelythecollector
    @Lovelythecollector 3 ปีที่แล้ว +887

    First she makes a video on a forgotten doug walker series, now its dollar tree game stores. What will she do next. I have no idea what the theme of this channel is and I love it

    • @mattiecastillo2683
      @mattiecastillo2683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I'm kind of assuming epicly bad media that absolutely no one remembers.

    • @Appletank8
      @Appletank8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      She remembers them so you don’t have to

    • @ClayDress
      @ClayDress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it a series starring Doug Walker or is it about Doug walkers?
      English is a confusing language.

    • @Virjunior01
      @Virjunior01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ClayDress starring and made by. It was his passion project, but Doug isn't really... particularly deep. Not on purpose, anyway.

    • @kostajovanovic3711
      @kostajovanovic3711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Virjunior01 chronically incurious

  • @rowanboleyn7383
    @rowanboleyn7383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    The lore between your and Sarah's videos is incredible
    I can't believe Sarah thinks Coolsville sucks

  • @dgj7533
    @dgj7533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    The conspiracy spiral over something incredibly niche and irrelevant hit me in my soul

    • @mitkitty
      @mitkitty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I had this a few months ago when playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and some comments made me obsess about lore

  • @emilycrow8278
    @emilycrow8278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    "Designed to feel compact and surrounded by stuff..."
    So that's why being inside a family dollar is anxiety inducing.

  • @fishwiki_
    @fishwiki_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    my favorite type of video essay are the ones based around topics literally nobody knows about hhghfkhsg amazing job

  • @aidanfleming7229
    @aidanfleming7229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    “You can’t excite people with $1,400” After the United States covid relief pittance, I felt that.

    • @makeitthrough_
      @makeitthrough_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Can't read the word "pittance" without thinking of Diesel tossing his tag champion belt in the trash. OSW has ruined me

    • @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick
      @theoneandonlymichaelmccormick ปีที่แล้ว

      @@makeitthrough_You sonuvabitch, you got to it first.

  • @НикитаРогожин-п3б
    @НикитаРогожин-п3б 3 ปีที่แล้ว +385

    I really didn't expect spending today learning about Pepsi Cherry Wild game show AND Family Dollar game show, but here we are

    • @Sonicsis
      @Sonicsis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You too!

    • @averyeml
      @averyeml 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Lol I think we all rode the same algorithm wave to this video 😂

    • @skelletonneofgecs631
      @skelletonneofgecs631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT OF

    • @Mikey-jv5fv
      @Mikey-jv5fv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lmao his video is in my watch next for me 💀

    • @Flowtail
      @Flowtail 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ooh i havent been recommended that one

  • @scarletnight1077
    @scarletnight1077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    Idk how to explain but Lady Emily's voice is so rich and pretty like how I imagine a countess to sound idk how to explain

    • @the_julia_fair
      @the_julia_fair 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      thats why “Lady” is in her name… it all makes sense now… she IS a countess!!

  • @cadenmeyer414
    @cadenmeyer414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    I can already tell this is going to be one of the best video essay channels. It feels like such a flex to be one of the first 20 patrons

  • @carlyjoy3623
    @carlyjoy3623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Everything they do on this show feels like something my church youth group would have had us do except it's a real game show that they actually put on television for some reason

  • @joshua7529
    @joshua7529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    This show just gives off the vibe that simply being there is one of the most depressing things ever. The bland wall colors that they used for the background of the show feels like being in the store itself (Which is one of sadness), and your earlier comment hit the nail on the head on how people are there for necessity and do not think it's a luxury.
    It's depressing watching the show, but I feel a sense of happiness knowing that no more episodes are being produced for it.

  • @electrictowers
    @electrictowers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    with this and drew gooden's video, i am learning a shocking amount about sponsored game shows i didn't know existed

    • @toomuchcontext
      @toomuchcontext 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      insert phineas & ferb nickel joke

  • @boochie37
    @boochie37 3 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    I don't understand why a game show that's supposed to be advertising a dollar store wouldn't have some sort of price guessing game. And/or some kind of challenge where you're given a budget and you have to make something with products bought at the dollar store.

    • @brandonporter8509
      @brandonporter8509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      If I had to guess most of the individual games that can be made out of those contests are ones that have already been done by the price is right, or supermarket sweep. And those shows owners have some form of legal claim to their individual games that makes it difficult for other game shows to create games with similar gimmicks. As a result the only way to create a price guessing game in a game show that another show can’t say you stole from us is to go with something as generic as guess the two matching prices.

    • @magegamer806
      @magegamer806 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Especially with a chef as the host

    • @Ephraim225
      @Ephraim225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      But every price is 99 cents 0_0

    • @mahiru20ten
      @mahiru20ten 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@brandonporter8509 I see why now they don't go with the idea of "Supermarket Sweep but set in a dollar store".

    • @kevinmartinez723
      @kevinmartinez723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      A dollar tree price guessing game would really suck

  • @gwynethh9524
    @gwynethh9524 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    secret good 18th Save to Win episode

    • @Malkmusianful
      @Malkmusianful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Apple Tree Supermarket

  • @lukedarling1922
    @lukedarling1922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    The last 10 minutes, especially when you show the clips at 34:01, feel like when the world starts falling apart in Coraline. Amazing video, thank you so much

  • @PNW_Marxist
    @PNW_Marxist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +517

    I work at a Dollar Tree, trust me when I say well over half of what they sell is absolute garbage. What isn't completely useless tends to be overpriced for how much you get. They prey on the poor, and it makes me sick. Unless it's the only job available (which was my case) I highly recommend staying the hell away.

    • @katevgrady
      @katevgrady 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Dollar stores and their deceptively small bags of chips (oooh but it's only $0.99! cheaper than the $3.49 ones at harris teeter!) prove the old adage "it takes a lot of money to be poor"

    • @snowbeast4463
      @snowbeast4463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      I worked in Poundland (the UK equivalent) and they're very much the same. I felt so bad for poor people being made to feel they were getting bargains when they were just being ripped off. Also they made us stand on the registers all he time because management claimed it 'projects energy'.

    • @rtemis-rho
      @rtemis-rho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@snowbeast4463 you mean as opposed to sitting down? If so, isn't that standard?

    • @Squirreltasticqueen
      @Squirreltasticqueen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@rtemis-rho I think at Kruger's? Some type of grocery store, they let the cashers sit because it's fucking stupid to stand and whoever started that mentality of standing all the time will catch my fists

    • @angelmarie2281
      @angelmarie2281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@snowbeast4463 Isn't sitting at the register standard in the UK? I live in the US and the only store the has seats at the register is Aldi.

  • @lucasite
    @lucasite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    We just not gonna talk about the Facebook profile being used is Female Goku

  • @ekszentrik
    @ekszentrik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I am not an American, so it's very anthropologically interesting to gain insight into such an exotic culture.

  • @sharkofjoy
    @sharkofjoy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    That supercut of every time that tv chef said "coke" is the quality content I subscribed for.

  • @BeatRiceIsHere
    @BeatRiceIsHere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    From what I can gather, this show is basically just the bargain bin version of Guy's Grocery Games

    • @jonathanlgill
      @jonathanlgill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      If Emily's conspiracy is true.
      But yeah that was the show I was thinking of this whole time.

    • @Tazzie1312
      @Tazzie1312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nah, Guy's Grocery Games involves cooking. Set, though, is very similiar. It's the dollar store Supermarket Sweep, which did have a recent reboot.

    • @donaldpaluga
      @donaldpaluga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No need to insult Neely by comparing him to that Delta Bravo

  • @Liz_ArdE
    @Liz_ArdE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    As you were reading the facebook description my first thought was "they're reviving the show" but honestly it being a heinously bad concept that wasn't even made into fruition is somehow even better than the thought of family dollar having a second go at making a game show

  • @RedBardIsCool
    @RedBardIsCool 3 ปีที่แล้ว +651

    SARAH THINKS COOLSVILLE SUCKS
    (I don't know where I expected this video to go, but I dEFINITELY didn't expect it to take the turn it did; great job!)

    • @LadyEmilyPresents
      @LadyEmilyPresents  3 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Ahh thank you so much!! And yeah, it's such a shame that Sarah thinks Coolsville sucks

    • @coyoteartist
      @coyoteartist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@LadyEmilyPresents OK is this a running joke with this Sarah Z? Because it came up randomly in her video the other day.

    • @jennygholson33
      @jennygholson33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great comment ❤

    • @a1yssum
      @a1yssum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@coyoteartist Inside jokes I'm not a part of feels like people having fun without me.
      And that's not allowed >:(

    • @ariannadravis3934
      @ariannadravis3934 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@budsunny Emily or Red?

  • @ShadaOfAllThings
    @ShadaOfAllThings 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    "If other CW shows can have conspiracy theories after they finish why can't this?"
    I love it

  • @JudgeTyBurns
    @JudgeTyBurns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Hey, it’s where “Pop Quiz Hotshot” got its props!

  • @velvet3776
    @velvet3776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Seeing Marianna in her shitty replica Family Dollar uniform try to Vanna White-ify toilet paper or Froot Loops, complete with a delicate little pat when she puts them down, just...really embodies the problems with this game show's premise, doesn't it? Trying to apply the same sense of luxury afforded to massive cash prizes and new cars to a 12-pack of Charmin. I couldn't come up with a better image if I was trying to, it's perfect

  • @alexanderernst7126
    @alexanderernst7126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I went into this expecting humor and while that was there, what stuck with me is that this video is really an interesting dive into capitalism, media, and why this one small part of the world works the way it does. It reminded me of something a history professor of mine said--one of the most important historical questions you can ask is why? Why this, why here, why now, why? And this video does a really cool job of asking that question and walking through the answer in a compelling (and sometimes very hilarious) way. This feels like the encapsulation of everything I love about the video essay genre. I know more about save to win than I ever wanted to know, and that's making me think about how this show and how capitalism in general functions in the larger world. Also, this video made me laugh. Best of all worlds.

  • @lucasite
    @lucasite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    Dollar Store and Game Show crossover makes no sense but a lot at the same time

    • @katevgrady
      @katevgrady 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Literally my exact same thought. Makes way more sense at least than a game show where contestants pretend to spin a big slot machine in a prescripted sequence of events and it's hosted by Jason Biggs and made by Cherry Pepsi.

    • @lucasite
      @lucasite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      but maybe they might get the two cherries they need to win

    • @earthbound9999
      @earthbound9999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In the alternate timeline where this show made a marginal profit, you could say "it made no sense, but it definitely made cents."

  • @krasnodarling
    @krasnodarling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    That type of blindfold looks like a tiny little bra at the best of times, but the one they used looks the most like a tiny bra that a blindfold can possibly look.

    • @ellaisplotting
      @ellaisplotting 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is the best comment

    • @burymeinjhenny918
      @burymeinjhenny918 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmaoooo I thought the same thing too

    • @MatthewPrower
      @MatthewPrower ปีที่แล้ว

      the wall-e method of blindfoldings

  • @jakobrmh
    @jakobrmh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    Okay but an extremely bourgeois dollar store where you buy tiny quantities of like *really* high quality food sounds kinda neat.
    (Also i feel like such a fool for listening to the video at max volume from when you mentioned the show's inaudibly quiet background music.........)

    • @ta-ether
      @ta-ether 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      my mind went immediately to buying food at a marks & spencer’s in the uk

  • @JonesDylan874
    @JonesDylan874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Let's not forget the best part of the whole travesty... Pat's "OH, NOOOOO!"

  • @JacksonBockus
    @JacksonBockus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    "You can't excite people by just giving them $1400. That's not enough".

  • @MichaelStephenFreitag
    @MichaelStephenFreitag 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Every time Mariana lovingly caresses an item it makes me viscerally uncomfortable. I know it's not her fault (it's certainly just what she was directed to do), but it just feels so upsettingly fake, and boy do I hate it.

    • @viscountrainbows6452
      @viscountrainbows6452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Goddammit now I can't unsee it. Uncannily robotic like a literal animated character performing a regimented animation.

  • @NBvagabond
    @NBvagabond 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "if other cw shows can have wildass conspiracy theories after they ended, why can't this one?" yo a ti, family dollar

  • @spacepyrate1632
    @spacepyrate1632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I don't care in the slightest about Family Dollar or Save to Win, but I'm blown away by your talent for building a compelling narrative out of this bizarre, terrible show. Incredible work.

  • @ethanisfancy
    @ethanisfancy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Family Dollar became part of the Dollar Tree family. Consumerism is very healthy

  • @RetroDakota
    @RetroDakota 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Most broadcast networks like CW treat their Saturday Morning lineups as afterthoughts. They only run blocks like "One Magnificent Morning" to appease the FCC's Educational/Informational programming requirements, which mandates all broadcast TV stations air up to three hours of E/I programming each week. Rather than resort to running educational cartoons like PBS does, they just air repackaged live-action shows from other networks. These shows tend to have trivia blurbs appear during shows like Unlikely Animal Friends, and that is why this Family Dollar game show features said brand trivia so it can technically meet those E/I guidelines.

    • @wturner777
      @wturner777 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's the angry moms who pressured the FCC to pass the Children's Television Act in 1990. The early 90s was the beginning of the end of the golden Saturday Morning era.

  • @CBesRun
    @CBesRun หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    34:32 so, I was in the audience of a short lived Canadian game show. One of the episodes ended in a tie, but in a really weird way. And because it was never explained what happened in the case of a tie, the audience was SILENT. So they had to reshoot the entire ending, telling the audience to cheer really loudly, and the contestants to treat it like it just happened.
    So I’m sure “excitement” reshoots happened a lot on this show, and the producers used this excuse to film a winning b-roll for promotional purposes.

  • @nicolehinkle637
    @nicolehinkle637 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The funny thing is that there is a version of this show that actually works. It's Guy's Grocery Games. Contestants have to run around a grocery store and make a dish following a particular prompt which is often times a specific budget. Something playing off of that (like having the different rounds be different categories like cooking a dish, making something, fixing something) would have been both a more fun and exciting game show as well as better marketing for the dollar store.

  • @Strivez
    @Strivez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    “Bisexual lighting”
    Fucking got me

  • @WarriorZ676
    @WarriorZ676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I love how you jumped from Nostalgia Critic to a dollar store game show, and still made it super interesting. Hope you make many more!
    And I bet that Family Dollar DID try to make a Supermarket Sweep/Price is Right kind of game show, but it probably failed in internal testing because of just how dollar store work. You have no fruits, or vegetables, or fresh meat or produce or whatever. Everything is packaged. The closest thing to meat you can find is like, frozen meals. So no one will get super excited over a "all you can get in your cart is free" game. And then everything costs between a single dollar or a couple, so there's not enough play to guess numbers in a Price is Right kind of game.
    A game show based on a dollar store just isn't possible, because games and shows try to imagine something greater than life, while dollar stores are as realistic and dull as you can get, where you can't even fantasize about someday getting the expensive cuts of meat, or making a huge BBQ, because that's too expensive for a dollar store. You go to a dollar store because you have to, not because you want to.

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Why does the second half of this video feel like the start of a creepypasta? Things were starting to get real spooky there for a second, I thought you were gonna mention a cult was involved with the show or something.

  • @cashnelson2306
    @cashnelson2306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Loved this video, glad I stumbled on this channel and remembered your name from one of Sarah's videos! Immediate sub. One quick note on 32:49, and I cannot believe the paper I wrote once on game show prize law is actually going to serve me a purpose - the "meets eligibility requirements" is not as scummy as it seems, or at least it isn't inherently scummy (there are absolutely scummy things it could theoretically be hiding). That's standard legal boilerplate for game show credits and the requirements in question are typically things like:
    -no repeat contestants, you can't win if you've won before
    -no employees of the companies making the show, in this case probably both family dollar and the cw as well as any production companies that aren't part of the cw's parent company are mentioned in the contracts
    -exclusivity regarding other game shows - not actually sure what the reasoning is here but most game show contracts have a clause stating you can't go on or have been on another game show within a certain period of time
    It's mostly fraud prevention and cooperation with various federal/state/city laws regarding game prizes and television production, not the more nefarious "loophole to not actually give the prize money" it reads as to the layperson. Anyway, super excited to check out your other videos.

  • @a1yssum
    @a1yssum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My jaw literally dropped when you made the revelations about the Facebook description and the faked clips.
    I'm really getting a whole "conspiracy theory documentary" experience out of this "TH-cam video essay about a failed game show made by a dollar store" and I love it.

  • @NoraQRosa
    @NoraQRosa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My main theories on this show's Facebook description are:
    1) It was initially pitched as a Supermarket Sweep reboot but with new branding, but that deal fell through late in production.
    2) That was the initial concept for the show, but the budget was slashed to the point where it'd have been financially unfeasible to construct the kind of set they needed (that set in the behind-the-scenes footage looks like it doesn't have that high of a ceiling at all, which wouldn't exactly allow for fun game show cinematography). Thus, they had to scramble mid-production to retool and scale back.

  • @4thofEleven
    @4thofEleven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    The whole first half of the video, I was thinking "Huh, why didn't they just remake Supermarket Sweep?" I can buy it, that that was the original plan and it either didn't work or some genius decided to change everything at the last minute, and they had to retool everything into... this.

    • @brandonporter8509
      @brandonporter8509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I’m betting someone at another network still held the rights to supermarket sweep and wouldn’t let them make Family Gourmet supermarket sweep. Or they were in the process of considering a relaunch of supermarket sweep. And as a result family dollar didn’t get allowed to make dollar store brand supermarket sweep . Forcing a drastic retool of everything

  • @tehn00bdude
    @tehn00bdude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Pat in the Bisexual Dollar is my favorite Midwest emo album

  • @Tesseract_King
    @Tesseract_King 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This channel really feels like getting in on something awesome at the very beginning

  • @JacksonBockus
    @JacksonBockus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This feels like a vision from the end of the world.

  • @MahDryBread
    @MahDryBread 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I've never heard of Family Dollar and I'm fascinated!

    • @lilyy7318
      @lilyy7318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ahh, but can you beat Pokémon Emerald with only Pokémon you bought at Family Dollar?

    • @izukumidoriyaisssss3049
      @izukumidoriyaisssss3049 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lolo

  • @kerilynne128
    @kerilynne128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    And now Cherry Pepsi has it's own game show too with the guy from American Pie. The circle of life

  • @SolasLupum
    @SolasLupum หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When she says “what is it that people like about dollar stores” my immediate answer is “they don’t”. As she goes on to explain for most people they’re a necessity rather than a choice

  • @Boggythefroggy
    @Boggythefroggy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    What I find weird as a Canadian is that I find supposed dollar stores like Family Dollar and Dollar General weirdly expensive compared to other stores like Walmart and even Target when I’d visit the States - like we have Dollarama here that works a lot like these stores but it only goes up to 4 dollars in price is it’s really cheap. Dollar Tree also is very crappy looking both product and interior wise; I guess I mean to say it’s sad how stores like these are squeezing out smaller stores just to give low income people their not greatly priced crap.

    • @kieranhair8973
      @kieranhair8973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dollar General is a good example of the "lower some prices while jacking up the others" business model. Some things actually are much cheaper there than at Wal-Mart, but then things like coffee are far more expensive. And even the things that are cheaper, like certain brands of meat, can be found at similar prices at your average grocery store like Tom Thumb if you shop the same brands. Dollar Tree is cheaper, which is ironic because people also seem to steal from them a lot more. I've never gone to a Dollar Tree without finding an open bag of chips or candy.

  • @lizardjr.7826
    @lizardjr.7826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Your arcane knowledge of the dollar store is impressive.

  • @razzle8140
    @razzle8140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That poor game show hostess in a store uniform is the saddest thing ever.
    And I never thought of the sheer size of the studio Supermarket Sweep had to use!! Had to be a first and last for game shows.

  • @SiffusVera
    @SiffusVera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    7:30 Okay this is a really small thing but I am OBSESSED with the woman using the conveyer belt because after taking each item off the belt she proceeds to pat it once, gentle, on the top, every time. I wish I had someone in my life who cared about me as much as this woman does these products

  • @nathanfieldercoolguy4ever
    @nathanfieldercoolguy4ever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    this is one of my favorite videos. i watch it almost once a day and i’m so fascinated by it, i’m mad it doesn’t have more views.

  • @TheSuperNaruto96
    @TheSuperNaruto96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "And, like, you can't excite people by giving them just $1400. That's... not enough."
    *side eyes the entire US govt*

    • @GreatMewtwo
      @GreatMewtwo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Government: Hold my root beer.

    • @TheSuperNaruto96
      @TheSuperNaruto96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GreatMewtwo Edit: Republicans: Hold my unemployment

    • @kittykittybangbang9367
      @kittykittybangbang9367 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheSuperNaruto96 I don't get it

  • @ScrungleCat
    @ScrungleCat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The set looks like something from a bad dream where you know what a grocery store looks like, but in your dream it feels like a dark hell dungeon

  • @smallspidersad78
    @smallspidersad78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Paused to read your joke, then slowly realised I was watching a Lady Emily, Sarah Z cinematic universe

  • @personguy8485
    @personguy8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Another banger of a essay. The tiger mascot got a good laugh out of me so you aren't alone there.

  • @nathanwhy1955
    @nathanwhy1955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    shopped at a family dollar today and thought of this video

    • @LadyEmilyPresents
      @LadyEmilyPresents  3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Well I mean, where else are you going to get your favorite products at low prices.

    • @nathanwhy1955
      @nathanwhy1955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@LadyEmilyPresents As a loyal Family Dollar shopper, I’m also excited to showcase the incredible deals shoppers can find in every aisle at their local Family Dollar store! I know our viewers at home will have a blast watching and learning all the ways to save!

    • @GrizonII
      @GrizonII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were actually playing a long con when making this show, knowing that eventually a TH-cam video would be made about it and that thus they’d be able to subconsciously advertise to the viewers of said video.
      (Honestly though, brands probably would prefer for one to associate them with a good video essay than a bad game show...)

  • @tdp2612
    @tdp2612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:39 You don't understand how excited I am to see the old Coventry Poundland as an example there, that one actually shut a year or two ago while less people are in the city centre from current events, since there is already a bigger Poundland shop a 5 minute walk away. Anyway, still really cool to see it randomly.

  • @LoakaMossi111
    @LoakaMossi111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My new favorite game is trying to predict what the hell your third video essay could even be. Just making an absurd venn diagram between Demo Rell and Save to Win, and trying to figure out what *else* has all of those things. I'm sure it will be a great video essay on a topic that I have *never* considered watching a video essay on, at any rate.

  • @darkninjafirefox
    @darkninjafirefox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Once while on a road trip I needed to get gas, so I followed a sign directing me to a gas station, but it just led me to a dollar General in the middle of nowhere instead

  • @lollybowser
    @lollybowser 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Just discovered this channel and I'm loving it. It's so interesting and relaxing to listen to while I draw.

  • @summerdawn4060
    @summerdawn4060 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i found your channel tonight starting with the Nostalgia Critic review video, on the algorithms recommendation after watching Folding Ideas video on his review of The Wall. video essays on weird internet things are interesting to me so i checked out more of your content to see what else i could expect.
    The manic energy of exhaustively deep diving into the production of a niche game show based on a confusing and seemingly inconsequential facebook page update is exactly what i love about this genre of youtube videos. holy shit this was fun to watch.

  • @alexwenner5746
    @alexwenner5746 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    God this was so good wasn’t expecting the 11th hour shift thank u for your service

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I find it interesting that part of the argument against the old Saturday morning cartoon system was advertising within the programs, and here you have a show that is basically nothing but advertising.

    • @Astolfo2001
      @Astolfo2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No wonder why American television is dying....

    • @ThexDynastxQueen
      @ThexDynastxQueen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The trivia bits probably just barely cover the educational requirements that killed the Saturday morning cartoon block and thats just so upsetting. PBS has been showing how to educate kids via TV for 50+ years yet networks have been choosing the laziest option available while still somehow spending too much money/time which is the antithesis of why anyone goes to Dollar Stores.

  • @ComicDrake
    @ComicDrake 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man, I feel so bad about not checking out your channel sooner because by the end of a Sarah video, my attention span is shot so I forget to hop on over.
    This video came up organically in the algorithm for me, is exactly the kind of stuff I adore, and was great! Definitely binging the rest of your content!

  • @betsyfernYT
    @betsyfernYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This video is so scary in a very special way. I’ve seen it done before as a sort of horror trope. You’re somewhere familiar but you start realizing everything around you is fake? Maybe an entire wall is just a painted set piece? That fear of everything around you being an illusion or that something precious to you could be replaced with a copy that has none of the worth of the original. Anyway I have a conspiracy theory that the contestants aren’t actually real people and that the entire game is made up by the company THUS TWO copies of the game played by the women who WON in the clip in episode 16 but LOST in the original episode. They just aired footage from a different TAKE where the ACTORS acted out WINNING. Great video gave me chills very scary in a weird way

  • @michaelbee99
    @michaelbee99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Emily, this is such a great video!!!! Happy to see another video from you, it's like they get better every time! My local Family Dollar just finally got its redesign so this was very topical to me in a way. keep up the great work!

  • @oliviasmith9033
    @oliviasmith9033 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I only go in Poundland to buy craft supplies and Christmas decorations, because going in there makes me feel miserable! Nobody wants to watch a game show set there!
    But aside from that, the way the story unfolded in this video was mind-blowing. Great work, Emily!

  • @ce7.0
    @ce7.0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Without actually watching the show myself, my theory is that it was originally going to be an hour-long show with a Supermarket Sweep segment but were worried about the legal and PR ramifications of that (and/or realized the set was too small after trying to film the segment multiple times) and so they started filming a bunch of extra stuff to try and fill out the hour (maybe playing each episode to best-of-three? and that's where that alternate footage of that team winning comes from?) and then ended up editing it all down to a half hour anyway

  • @joeytansey8466
    @joeytansey8466 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    OH, OH, that's where I know your voice from, Sarah Zed's cowriter! XD You were a freaking riot in both of the home stuck video essay by the way, I'm so glad I was brought to this vid, it's good stuff

  • @Xondar11223344
    @Xondar11223344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "CW wasn't putting this up against Supernatural. Or a good show."
    Burn.

    • @donaldpaluga
      @donaldpaluga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It simply was to fulfill E/I requirements.
      Which was why it was shown alongside Cesar Milian:Family Edition

  • @OrgaNik_Music
    @OrgaNik_Music 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's the middle of the night, and I'm watching a video about an obscure game show that's a marketing vehicle for a store that doesn't even exist in my country.
    This is living.

  • @magicmike191v2
    @magicmike191v2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    15:18
    Coming from Sarah's video, I love this lore

  • @amberbaum4079
    @amberbaum4079 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really don't care about TV shows or trivia shows in any capacity, but this video was fun to watch.

  • @sage5530
    @sage5530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i can't wait until this channel blows up

  • @hvaleos666
    @hvaleos666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That one part where the guy can't pick up the pop tart around 5:46 seems to indicate that the editor of this show had no fucks left to give

  • @MatthewCobalt
    @MatthewCobalt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    After several videos talking about how Wikipedia didn't include a section that was obviously real and facually exist, I'm convinced that the Wikipedia community doesn't have as much dedication as the Lost Media Community.
    The History Guy would feel disappointed.

  • @sajunbecker3275
    @sajunbecker3275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm really enjoying this channel. Never did I think I'd see an almost Chinatown-like investigative analysis of a sleazy Family Dollar game show, but I love it.

  • @sholem_bond
    @sholem_bond 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The fact that the UK dollar store is called "Poundland" and not "Pound Town" seems like a missed opportunity

  • @caseymckenna7111
    @caseymckenna7111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Family Gourmet Frank & Beans” is now a phrase that’s gonna rattle around my skull until I’m a long forgotten ghost. Thanks.

  • @dracomittensman1319
    @dracomittensman1319 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Emily, this is a really kickass video, same with the Demo Reel one. Your editing is REALLY good and I love your organization. Can't wait to see where you go in the future because I'm certainly excited!

  • @MaddMoke
    @MaddMoke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think I watched half an episode of this once upon a time. Its clearly a memorable experience. But your video was really good! Light years more entertaining than the original product.

  • @danielac2285
    @danielac2285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    “Why do we like game shows”
    - well I don’t so, no idea 😂

  • @steviebea
    @steviebea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this video is SEVERELY underrated this was so fun to watch omg ! i wanna see what the host would say abt this