Line #14 Series/ShopTilYouDrop


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The wildest shopping game ever!]]
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4	Long-running GameShow franchise produced by Stone-Stanley Entertainment where two teams of two players competed for prizes by completing various stunt/trivia games, set inside the center court of a mall. Round 1 stunts were worth 100 points, and Round 2 was worth 200; winning a stunt also allowed the team to pick a prize from one of the mall's stores.
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6	The maingame ended with the Shopper's Challenge round, a 90-second rapid-fire Q&A with correct answers worth 50 points. After time expired, the team in the lead played the bonus round.
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8	The show is notable for having been UnCanceled ''twice'', with each uncancellation also involving a ChannelHop — it aired on Creator/{{Lifetime}} from 1991-94, [[Creator/{{Freeform}} The Family Channel]] from 1996-98 (officially titled ''The New Shop 'Til You Drop''), and [[Creator/IonTelevision PAX]] beginning in 2000. Pat Finn hosted until 2002, when the show went into repeats for a year; it returned in 2003 with JD Roberto as host, running until 2005. Creator/{{GSN}} has aired all of Finn's PAX era, the Family Channel era and even part of the Lifetime era, beginning in December 2013.
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10	Compare and contrast ''Series/SupermarketSweep'', which it was paired with during the Lifetime and PAX eras.
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12	!!This show provides examples of:
13	* TheAnnouncer: [[Series/RussianRoulette Mark L.]] [[Series/AntiquesRoadshow Walberg]] (1991-94), Jason Grant Smith (1996-97), Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (1997-2002), and Don Preiss (2003-05).
14	* BitingTheHandHumor: During a 2003 episode (Season 9), one category was "Shameless Plugs", to which JD chuckled a bit. When it came time to play said category, JD noted that it was sponsored by (reaches into his podium and pulls out...) [[SubvertedTrope nothing]], after which he silently mouthed a praise to the heavens. Even the host of the plugathon that was the show's final two seasons hated the endless plugs.
15	* BittersweetEnding: One episode from 2000 (Season 7) saw the winning couple run out of time in the bonus round before exchanging all six gifts, but still wound up winning the trip.
16	* BonusRound: Shop 'Til They Drop; the team was given a set of six [[MysteryBox "gifts"]] that one person opened; they could either keep the prize, or "take it back" to any store in the mall (all of which had gift boxes in front). In either case, the runner had to take the gift to a table on the other end of the stage and hit a bell sitting atop a podium before the opener could continue. After that, the gifts would be revealed; everything on the table was theirs, no matter what. If the team managed to get at least $2,500 in prizes ($1,000 during Seasons 1-2), they won a "dream vacation".
17	* BonusSpace: One store in each episode was the "Shopper's Special", which awarded a mini-trip. On some occasions, an additional bonus prize would be included.
18	* CatchPhrase: After Pat says that the couple will win a trip if they earn a certain amount in prizes, he and the audience would then shout along "To where, Mark/Jason/Dee?".
19	* CelebrityEdition: An hour-long [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] was done in December 1993 with four teams (including one team of three) playing for charity and a far larger budget than the norm. Cash was used instead of points (Shopper's Challenge awarded $500 per correct answer), and the bonus round target was increased to $5,000 with victory awarding a further $10,000.
20	* CreatorCameo: Sort of- the stores in the mall era tended to be named after crew members.
21	* GameShowHost: Scott Herriott hosted the pilot, but was replaced by [[Series/TheJokersWild Pat Finn]] for the series. Finn was replaced by JD Roberto for the final two seasons.
22	* HostileShowTakeover: Dee [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRk04ZAaSk once attempted]] this near the end of Season 8 by (apparently) knocking out Pat and tying him up; it was a joke, of course.
23	* MinigameGame: The show in a nutshell.
24	* MysteryBox: All the gifts in the BonusRound, both at the table and at the stores.
25	* PrecisionFStrike: [[https://youtu.be/1oAvF9yu3BU?t=1062 In this Season 7 episode]], one of the runners in the bonus round looks inside a box and utters "oh, shit" uncensored. Pat Finn then says the "beep you heard" was because of a "technical error"- but there isn't a bleep. And it evidently didn't get censored later, given how this video is from a GSN rerun.
26	* RecycledInSpace: ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'', another S&S show, albeit with Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, reused the "find and carry items through a mock-up of a location" concept and ''seriously'' amped it up.
27	* RecycledSoundtrack: The bonus round music and original theme song were recycled from ''[[Series/FunHouse1988 College Mad House]]'', a Stone-Stanley property that had aired in the 1989-90 season.
28	** One episode late in the Lifetime era (when they taped at Universal Studios Hollywood) reused the theme from ''Quicksilver'' (one of two game shows produced by Stone-Stanley for the Creator/USANetwork in 1994; the other, ''Free 4 All'', was hosted by Mark L. Walberg) as a stunt cue. It was also reused as a prize cue during the Roberto era.
29	* SpeedRound: Shopper's Challenge.
30	* TiebreakerRound: In the event of a tie score at the end of the Shopper's Challenge round, one final question was asked. If the team that rang in answered the question correctly, they would advance to the bonus round. If they answered incorrectly, their opponents automatically won (fellow Stone Stanley game show ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' also used this exact same tiebreaker format in its first season).
31	* TheUnintelligible: Grandpa Curmudgeon was a Scotsman who not even Pat could understand.
32	* VisualPun: The final two seasons ''loved'' to do this with the category titles. For instance, the aforementioned "Shameless Plugs" had a picture of a wall outlet.
33	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Dee frequently played women for various stunts, most famously Grandma Curmudgeon.
34	* {{Zonk}}:
35	** Gag prizes worth between 49 cents and $50 were among the gifts in the bonus round during Season 1. They were removed when the goal was increased to $2,500.
36	** One item that frequently came up in PAX era {{Bonus Round}}s was a "bed in a bag" worth $50. On one occasion where a team elected to keep that prize, Pat told them it was one of the least expensive prizes in the show's rotation.

Context Series / ShopTilYouDrop