![]() It’s pure ’90s nostalgia, with the hairstyles and ridiculous fashion to match. Supermarket Sweep is delightfully deranged, especially 30 years removed from its Lifetime Channel debut. On July 8, though, Netflix added several episodes of the show to its streaming line-up, and hopefully this television classic will finally get the respect it deserves. In 2000, a reboot returned to the airwaves on the now-defunct network PAX for another two years, and then virtually disappeared from the pop culture conversation. The team that wins the “Major Sweep” gets a chance at the final round, a scavenger hunt of sorts that yields its winner a cash prize and eternal Supermarket Sweep glory.Īfter five years of Supermarket Sweep, the show was cancelled in 1995. For those who aren’t familiar, the concept of both iterations is simple: Teams of two contestants, usually friends or spouses or siblings, use their knowledge of grocery products and pop culture to accumulate time used in a “Major Sweep,” where contestants race around the store, filling their shopping carts with the priciest items in the supermarket, like baby formula and massive wheels of imported cheese. Technically, the ’90s version of Supermarket Sweep is a reboot of a show that aired for two years on ABC in the 1960s. He currently resides in Northern California with his wife.In the ongoing horror that is this global pandemic, a pure beacon of light shone down from the heavens onto my Netflix app in the form of several seasons of Supermarket Sweep, a 1990s game show that involves adult humans running around supermarkets like absolute maniacs. He is a practicing member of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. He married choreographer Patti Colombo in November 1988. His first marriage to actress Ann Wilkinson ended in divorce. He is a former Executive Director of the Libertarian Party of California and a long-time member of Rotary International. ![]() Ruprecht previously served on the board of directors for the Downsize DC Foundation. ![]() He grew up in Florida, and graduated from Northeast High School in St. He auditioned as announcer for the 2020 ABC revival with host Leslie Jones. In 1990, Ruprecht began hosting Supermarket Sweep and held the job until the show's cancellation in 2003. He co-starred in the Broadway and Showtime productions of Perfectly Frank and did voice-over work for the 1985 animated series Yogi's Treasure Hunt. From 1990 to 1992, he played Dan Ryan on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. Ruprecht guest-starred on more than 50 television shows, like Three's Company, on which his character married Janet Wood ( Joyce DeWitt) in the series finale, HBO's True Blood, and the 1981 TV-movie The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island as Thurston Howell IV, the son of Thurston Howell III. Ruprecht began acting in television commercials in the late 1970s. He currently is one of the hosts of The Price Is Right Live Stage Show at Bally's Las Vegas. Ruprecht has hosted the live stage show version of The Price Is Right at casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Mississippi and Connecticut. David Martin Ruprecht (born October 14, 1948) is an American television and stage actor and game show host, primarily known for his work as host of the Lifetime/ PAX game show Supermarket Sweep.
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