History Series / ShopTilYouDrop

** 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. Wahlberg) as a stunt cue. It was also reused as a prize cue during the Roberto era.

* ObviousBeta: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAqUdK0tGI The pilot]] suffered this severely- different logo, different host, a far more abstract mall set, a hostess- though some of the elements from this pilot besides the gameplay, including the shop names and Mark Wahlberg, were kept while everything else was changed and refined. Hell, one of the stores was a ''pizzeria''.

* 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 Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'' also used this exact same tiebreaker format in its first season).

* SuddenDeath: 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 Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'' also used this exact same tiebreaker format in its first season).

* CatchPhrase: After Pat says that the couple will win a trip if they win a certain amount of money, him and the audience would then shout along "To where, Mark/Jason/Dee?".

* SuddenDeath: 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 Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'' also used this exact same tiebreaker format in its' first season).

** Gag prizes worth between 49 cents and $50 were among the gifts in the bonus round during Seasons 1-2. They were removed when the goal was increased to $2,500.

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/{{Ion}} 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.

* {{Zonk}}: Gag prizes worth between 49 cents and $50 were among the gifts in the bonus round during Seasons 1-2. They were removed when the goal was increased to $2,500.

Long-running GameShow franchise created 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.

* RecycledSoundtrack: The bonus round music and original theme song were recycled from ''[[Series/FunHouse College Mad House]]'', a Stone-Stanley property that had aired in the 1989-90 season.

!!GameShowTropes in use:

* CelebrityEdition: An hour-long 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.

* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: [[Series/RussianRoulette Mark L.]] [[Series/AntiquesRoadshow Walberg]] (1991-94), Jason Grant Smith (1996-97), Creator/DeeBradleyBaker (1997-2002), and Don Preiss (2003-05).
** 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.

----
!!This show provides examples of:
* 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.''
* 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.
* ChristmasEpisode: The aforementioned 1993 special.
* CatchPhrase: After Pat says that the couple will win a trip if they win a certain amount of money, him and the audience would then shout along "To where, Mark/Jason/Dee?".
* CreatorCameo: Sort of- the stores in the mall era tended to be named after crew members.
* 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.
* MinigameGame: The show in a nutshell.
* ObviousBeta: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAqUdK0tGI The pilot]] suffered this severely- different logo, different host, a far more abstract mall set, a hostess- though some of the elements from this pilot besides the gameplay, including the shop names and Mark Wahlberg, were kept while everything else was changed and refined. Hell, one of the stores was a ''pizzeria''.
* 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.
* RecycledSoundtrack: The bonus round music and original theme song were recycled from ''[[Series/FunHouse College Mad House]]'', a Stone-Stanley property that had aired in the 1989-90 season.
** 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. Wahlberg) as a stunt cue. It was also reused as a prize cue during the Roberto era.
* PrecisionFStrike: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAvF9yu3BU In this Season 7 episode]], one of the runners in the bonus round looks inside a box and goes "Oh, shit." '''Uncensored.''' And apparently, the ''Family Channel'' censors somehow ''didn't notice''. (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.[[note]]This troper theorizes that since the Family Channel was in the process of being sold to UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch and being retooled into Fox Family, the censors were too distracted over potentially losing their jobs to either notice or worry about said S-bomb, and it went under the radar since the episode wasn't rerun until quite recently.[[/note]]
* TemptingFate: Until the 2003 overhaul, Shop 'Til They Drop used both floors of the two-story mall. As such, contestants typically had to run down a flight of stairs holding a very large, vision-obstructing box.
* TheUnintelligible: Grandpa Curmudgeon was a Scotsman who not even Pat could understand.
* 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.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Dee frequently played females for various stunts, most famously Grandma Curmudgeon.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAvF9yu3BU In this Season 7 episode]], one of the runners in the bonus round looks inside a box and goes "Oh, shit." '''Uncensored.''' And apparently, the ''Family Channel'' censors somehow ''didn't notice''. (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.[[note]]This troper theorizes that since the Family Channel was in the process of being sold to Creator/FoxKids / Saban, the censors were too distracted over potentially losing their jobs to either notice or worry about said S-bomb, and it went under the radar since the episode wasn't rerun until quite recently.[[/note]]

* PrecisionFStrike: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAvF9yu3BU In this Season 7 episode]], one of the runners in the bonus round looks inside a box and goes "Oh, shit." '''Uncensored.''' And apparently, the ''Family Channel'' censors somehow ''didn't notice''. (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.[[note]]This troper theorizes that since the Family Channel was about to get sold to Creator/FoxKids / Saban, the censors were too distracted by losing their jobs to either notice or worry about said S-bomb, and it went under the radar since the episode wasn't rerun until quite recently.[[/note]]

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/{{ABCFamily}} The Family Channel]] from 1996-98 (officially titled ''The New Shop 'Til You Drop''), and [[Creator/{{ION}} 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.

Long-running GameShow franchise created by Stone Stanley Entertainment where two teams of two players competed for prizes by completing various stunt/trivia games. 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.

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.

* XMeetsY: ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' meets ''Series/BeatTheClock'', to an extent.

* PrecisionFStrike: [[In this Season 7 episode]], one of the runners in the bonus round looks inside a box and goes "Oh, shit." '''Uncensored.''' And apparently, the ''Family Channel'' censors somehow ''didn't notice''. (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.[[note]]This troper theorizes that since the Family Channel was about to get sold to Creator/FoxKids / Saban, the censors were too distracted by losing their jobs to either notice or worry about said S-bomb, and it went under the radar since the episode wasn't rerun until quite recently.[[/note]]

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/{{ABCFamily}} The Family Channel]] from 1996-98 (officially titled ''The New Shop 'Til You Drop''), and [[Creator/{{ION}} 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 nearly all of Finn's PAX era, beginning in December 2013.

* BonusSpace: One store in each episode was the "Shopper's Special", which awarded a mini-trip.

* CreatorCameo: Kind of- one of the the stores in the Lifetime days was "S&S Clothiers"- presumably meaning ''Stone'' and ''Stanley''; many of the other stores were named after crew members.

** GameShowHost: Scott Herriott hosted the pilot, but was replaced by Pat Finn for the series. Finn was replaced by JD Roberto for the final two seasons.

** 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. Wahlberg) as a stunt cue.

* PropRecycling: The aforementioned pilot appeared to have recycled its' contestant podium from ''Series/FunHouse''- another Stone-Stanley production.